Issue with Blue Mage: Open World Farming Needs LEVEL SYNC

[Delmontyb]

The more I think about and get excited to hunt monsters and farm Blue Mage Magic, I have to default back to this game needs a party level sync feature outside of Fates and Dungeons. If someone wants to play a blue mage and is level 10, and I want to learn a blue mage spell and I'm level 30, it would be nice if I can team up with my friend and level sync to his 10, thus allowing me to party without hurting their XP.

Yoshi-P said this wasn't hard to implement in the current system at FanFest 2016, so it would be great if we could get this sooner rather then later.

[Updated]
Despite how fast leveling can be with this job... it's clear that Level Sync for Open world Parties would be a huge help... Yoshi-P said this wouldn't be that hard to do several years ago, can we get an update on if this is still coming?

[Deucalion_Dator]

I think this would be a awesome extension to this game. The thing is I would suggest being similar to how Final Fantasy 11 handles this, which is Level sync can only be active if the lowest player is X level. This will allow the lower level character to be able to experience the starting content as it is meant to be experienced. Another thing they can implement while doing this is maybe a bonus experience or something else with Mentors if they sync down to a lower level character. This will give added benefit to the mentoring system other then just running dungeons and trying to cut through through the spam that can happen on that channel.

[LucianGrim]

Party sync would be a boon overall throughout the game - not just Blue Mage, but Eureka or playing with friends new to the game.

[Mibgestalt]

Party sync would be a boon overall throughout the game - not just Blue Mage, but Eureka or playing with friends new to the game.

Freely altering your level in Eureka should have been in from the get-go. Especially with how logograms drop in Pyros...

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I'm curious if we'll be able to do something like make a party of 8 BLU, pull a bunch of monsters, wait for them all to use a spell, and then kill them all at once to mass RNG roll.

[Deucalion_Dator]

I'm curious if we'll be able to do something like make a party of 8 BLU, pull a bunch of monsters, wait for them all to use a spell, and then kill them all at once to mass RNG roll.

Most likely as long as the skill has been seen, yes based on what they have said about how the job acquires the skills.

[odintius]

They also need to add more to the open world itself imo besides the needed level sycn to just grind exp. Having it's own reward structure would be also welcome if they are determine to add more limited job. This could be a good time for them to warm up to adding open world content beside having everything instanced. /Shrugs

[Shougun]

I think it would be nice if they added more/better down syncing, and even adjust the exp formula when you're synced down (so you can get exp of value). Although probably a bit lower than the considered optimal path of your own level. So unsynced would be a bit better but not by too much so maybe if you don't like that new zone or you really want to help your friend and it's still quite helpful to yourself.

I'd like to also see sync let players keep their current skills at least in dungeons, and give tanks an enmity buff if they're not down synced too (to help out with the output of the level-synced players).

[Dhaid]

and give tanks an enmity buff if they're not down synced too (to help out with the output of the level-synced players

((PLEASE JUST DO THIS IN GENERAL BEING A LOW LEVEL TANK IS SO FRUSTRATING WHEN THE BARD/REDMAGE WANTS TO SHOW OFF))

[Delmontyb]

I think this would be a awesome extension to this game. The thing is I would suggest being similar to how Final Fantasy 11 handles this, which is Level sync can only be active if the lowest player is X level. This will allow the lower level character to be able to experience the starting content as it is meant to be experienced. Another thing they can implement while doing this is maybe a bonus experience or something else with Mentors if they sync down to a lower level character. This will give added benefit to the mentoring system other then just running dungeons and trying to cut through through the spam that can happen on that channel.

Agreed. I think in XI you had to be at least level 10...