Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Amaya]

@Alkaiser completely and totally agree with every single thing you wrote. Makes me feel good to see people still believing in what we have and not praising what were getting now.

[Bahn]

Something nice I've noticed with this "Big bad powerleveling" is although there is no level sync, a lower level player (say Level 34) can tag along with some friends doing leves or just exping (say rank 44+) and get good exp and have fun with them. Mind you, it hurts the exp of the higher level players and the low level can die much easier but they get the advantage of bringing their lower level friend along and helping him out.

Additionally, so far at least, I've noticed a high volume of exp party shouts. Maybe this will decline as time goes on, (or improve once we get a better partying UI?) it's hard to say. But so far, the powerleveling pros seem to outweigh the cons, lease from my perspective.

Yeah, this is what Yoshi-P intended for people to do, to use their high level characters with their friends and to get some exp while the lower players try to participate (but stay wary of things that may kill them). That is the only good thing that came out of this change, but at the same time it's being exploited at the cost of the MMO's eventual longevity, which is the issue here.

[Neptune]

Statements like this are a poor excuse for systems like the one currently in place. When this is available most people do not do it because its easier. Most people get sucked into these PLs because one member of a party inevitably pulls in a PL. You cant just leave a party every time a PL shows up or you would never have a party.

The fact is, that in a Game where PLing is such a massive advantage over standard leveling people then become required to participate. You have to have so many max characters or you have to have all the best abilities. LS will not accept any reason for you not to because you can "just get a PL". When you make the difference between PL and not PL so drastic it becomes the norm and people who refuse to participate get left behind. They HAVE to conform or they will be rejected.

That's simply not true. You could PL all day every day in XI but parties I ever had there with a PL were like 1% of the time. This goes for any MMO. The vast majority of people in a successful MMO are not high level. You yourself are already at max length so you're just speculating because you haven't experienced it yourself. No, I have a better clue as to why you feel so strongly.. you feel ripped off. You don't feel better than someone who got PLed. Your confidence is threatened.

In a game.

[GreatLeviathan]

well thats what you do in a party.. It's all about easy exp.

[Issac]

There seems to be a handful of people here that refuse to see the truth of the damage this could do to the game. It's like ignorance, the folly of man.

It's not about jealousy from veterans from launch.
It's not about pride, or gloating from the top of the mountain.
It's not about greed, it's not like anyone wants to have a "special class" by being 50. (That notion already doesn't exist.)
It's not about the lack of content, that is being fixed every patch.

It. Simply. Breaks. The. Game.
I don't know how this couldn't be any more clear, any more true, any more resoundingly correct.

[Halvaard_Vidan]

It doesn't "break" the game if it's an intended mechanic.

Yes it potentially hurts longevity, but so does every day that goes by without a new patch or the PS3 release.

[Chain]

There seems to be a handful of people here that refuse to see the truth of the damage this could do to the game. It's like ignorance, the folly of man.

It's not about jealousy from veterans from launch.
It's not about pride, or gloating from the top of the mountain.
It's not about greed, it's not like anyone wants to have a "special class" by being 50. (That notion already doesn't exist.)
It's not about the lack of content, that is being fixed every patch.

It. Simply. Breaks. The. Game.
I don't know how this couldn't be any more clear, any more true, any more resoundingly correct.

Maybe if it concerned DoH but it doesn't so you're wrong. How do you break a broken game anyways?

You're so wrong you'll probably never be right on anything for the rest of your life.

[Issac]

We need 6 more thumbs on the OP for an even 100. I hope we can get this by Monday.

And god do I hope this is fixed.

You're so wrong you'll probably never be right on anything for the rest of your life.

I'm not even going to...
Just, lol. Weak.

[Gulkeeva]

Wonder if they will do a rollback from all the people going from Lv 1-10ish to Lv40 within a day... (I'd love to be doing that for my crafting) O_o

... I should do that for my cnj/thm hmmm...

I've seen people run around just equip every aoe and plow through the mass groups of low lvl stuff with 2-3+ following them around, kind of funny to watch.

[Zenaku]

It doesn't "break" the game if it's an intended mechanic.

Yes it potentially hurts longevity, but so does every day that goes by without a new patch or the PS3 release.

Maybe you don't read or maybe you don't understand it broken due to the fact that you get the full amoumt of exp for someone killing a high level mob for you. Listen to my words "YOSHI-P SAID YOU WONT GET THAT MUCH EXP IF SOMEONE KILL A HIGHER MOB FOR YOU!!!!!!!!"

Also we asking them to take it off because it not right.