For the love of god - give us Level Sync

[viion]

I really want level sync!! Must be added!!!

[Suneater]

These are two seperate problems. SE needs to do something about the power leveling, I agree. However one thing people seem to forget is that server merges are happening soon. Once everyone's server population is doubled and you still can't find a party, then you can complain about "low level" exp parties. I have a hard time believing that PL will be more popular than exp parties for much longer.

[Jinko]

Wow has recruit a friend with 100% exp boost, scroll of ressurection now gives the returning player an instant 80. Aion has exp amulets and double exp weekends. TERA idk, only played to 40.

Lol.

Those are incentives not power-levelling.. well the auto level 80 is stupid but that something entirely different.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

The correct action, if anything, would be to address the PL problem and put a stop to it so that at some point in the (near?) future lower-level party grinding will be a possibility. It's absolutely unacceptable that players be made to resort to not playing the game just to progress.

My wife recently volunteered complaints after being Powerleveled: "This is boring; I want to play the game but this is all anyone's doing".

UNACCEPTABLE.

PL isn't a problem and it is intended and it works beautifully. You problem is lack of players in the game so obviously all people do is PL each other. Though majority of the times than not on Wutai I see EXP parties shouting and using the awesome search feature majority of the parties are normal no PL parties. Low levels is kind of meant to solo or small party play. No one is making you PL. I personally think it is UNACCEPTABLE that you are complaining about it and cannot play the game the way you want to when the option is right there in your face. If you wife wants to play the game then don't join a PL party, DUH.

[Jinko]

I personally think it is UNACCEPTABLE that you are complaining about it and cannot play the game the way you want to when the option is right there in your face. If you wife wants to play the game then don't join a PL party, DUH.

I can't play the way I want to play, which is why I started this thread, I want to play with 8 other people, not solo.. not duo... not a PL party, a real XP party of 8 people.

Show me where the option is to get a fast XP party at level 10-40 because I sure as hell can't find one., regardless of if I shout or use the search feature.

[viion]

I can't play the way I want to play, which is why I started this thread, I want to play with 8 other people, not solo.. not duo... not a PL party, a real XP party of 8 people.

Show me where the option is to get a fast XP party at level 10-40 because I sure as hell can't find one., regardless of if I shout or use the search feature.

I would like the answer too!

With being almost full 40 on dow, when my lv 20-30 friends ask if i wanna level, im forced to not help or play with them because im just too high =)

Be worse for those at full 50 can never exp with low lv friends.

And you know what this promotes? Power Levelling

LOLSOSLSOLSOSL so ironic XD

[Phobos]

A few of my thoughts:

I despised Level Sync in FFXI. The system was poorly thought out, and resulted in a problem of people level syncing parties to the lowest level, regardless of the level difference of players. You could have people 5 levels apart and everyone would want to sync. The other issue I had with it, was the bonuses from gear being reduced way too much. Why should you need a set of lvl 20 gear, lvl 30 gear, etc when you're level 50 but just happened to get a qufim party because they couldn't fill up without you. Yes, the system worked in it's intention: allowing people to party regardless of level, resulting in everyone being able to level easier.

That being said, it would not be too difficult to resolve the above issues in a manner that does not break gameplay. Level sync could work in FFXIV in a couple of ways that would truly revitalize low level parties.

The optimal level for gear would work, I suppose, so that players would not be overpowered at lower levels. Materia could just give boosts similar to what it would give at the lower level - ex. you have EVA+20 materia x2 on your feet, when the gear is synced down to 21~40 it becomes eva+10x2. Don't remove all of the boosts gear gives, scale them properly.

One thing that could be done that would truly revitalize low level parties, and even if gear did not work well when synced down so higher level players would feel the need to get level appropriate gear. The singular thing that could make level sync work in this game:

Boost spiritbond rate based on how much lower you're syncing than your actual level, but only with a full party.

Higher level players need a reason to join up with lower levels. This mechanic would need to have a maximum to it, so that there's no abuse with lower level characters. If spiritbonding is faster by joining a lower level party (and in this case, the lowest level party you can find) people will actually do it. This rewards players looking to help their friends or randoms out, and gives the low level parties a larger player pool to search from.

[Xoo]

PL isn't a problem and it is intended and it works beautifully. You problem is lack of players in the game so obviously all people do is PL each other. Though majority of the times than not on Wutai I see EXP parties shouting and using the awesome search feature majority of the parties are normal no PL parties. Low levels is kind of meant to solo or small party play. No one is making you PL. I personally think it is UNACCEPTABLE that you are complaining about it and cannot play the game the way you want to when the option is right there in your face. If you wife wants to play the game then don't join a PL party, DUH.

My wife recently volunteered complaints after being Powerleveled: "This is boring; I want to play the game but this is all anyone's doing".

Duh!

If you're going to attack a post, at least have the balls to attack the whole thing.

[Kyri]

I see many many parties going on in besaid but people see them and instead of taking them repeatedly ask over my linkshells for a pl instead. I will admit to contributing a small amount of time on my alt to pling but I do not recommend it. Because in the end what I see is a whole lot of people who are lv 50 all dow/m and complaining of boredom. Had they played during the time I think they would still have things to do. Truly it -is- boring and leaves you with little to do.
I would like very much to see a level sync added so I may go party with my friends. I keep getting friends to come play from 11 but I am 50 all dow/m from not taking any breaks the last two years and it means I cannot pt with these friends. Instead I can only invite them to the game and have them stand around while I Pl them. This bores them and they don't tend to stick around because of it Level sync was a wonderful idea in xi and would be a great idea here as long as people don't go to the habit of using only specific camps (EX: Colibri in ronfarue_S)

On a side note a bit off topic for people all fighting for the diremite camp in nophicas, there is three identical camps of birds just by cedarwood of three sets of levels that you can camp as well. These camps are almost always empty(at least in besaid) as no one seems to know of them. the highest level of them allows you to go between birds and yarzons and has by far become my favorite camp of those levels compared to fighting both pts and pl pts in nophicas.

[Dragon]

I'll use the same argument the pro-PL group like using: "don't like Level Sync? Don't use it."

Between the two evils, Lv.Sync is quite obviously the lesser of two evils as it has proven to save an entire game from its grave, Lv.Sync is actually useful and allows veterans to play with newbies in ways that PLing doesn't.