Keep our skills when Level syncing in dungeons

[Jaquan]

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Right... Let's get from the start. People ignore and break the rules all the time. Actually giving them extra reasons for elitism or discrimination against others is a bad idea. And the disparity between naturally low level players and "scaled down" ones will be huge. If there's one thing constant about MMO players is that they tend to hold meta in way too high of regard.

The other thing you bring is well... Yeah there are gaps in low level combat although as a low end BLM I actually enjoy my kit even though I'm definitely not having Umbral Soul yet. The thing you bring is about progression and sorry to say that but you can't front load the class too much or else the later levels won't feel as good. They need to fill the later levels somehow.

[Packetdancer]

Right... Let's get from the start. People ignore and break the rules all the time. Actually giving them extra reasons for elitism or discrimination against others is a bad idea. And the disparity between naturally low level players and "scaled down" ones will be huge. If there's one thing constant about MMO players is that they tend to hold meta in way too high of regard.

To add to this...

We are, collectively, a playerbase who are extremely impatient. Witness the number of threads about how it's a Crime Against Humanity for a tank to single pull in higher-end content because it makes the dungeon take like, 8-10 minutes more. (To be fair, I find it excruciatingly dull when a tank single-pulls. I'm not going to yell at them for it, but I could still be considered part of the problem there.)

Witness that, rules or no, no one ever waited for sprouts to watch the cutscenes in the old MSQ duties, to the point that SQEX just threw in the towel and made the cutscenes unskippable. And then we had dozens upon dozens of threads about how the cutscenes should be skippable if no one in the instance was a first timer... in which people outright admitted they would leave an instance that did have a first-timer when it meant they would not be able to skip the cutscenes.

If you think that the power differential between an on-level sprout and someone with their full kit would not have people kicking sprouts (or leaving instances immediately), you have not been paying close attention to this community's behavior, historically speaking.

As I've put it before in discussing various things: sometimes players are going to throw spitballs, but that doesn't mean SQEX needs to hand them the paper to do it.