Quote Originally Posted by Genaxx View Post
Why do you have to drop the party?
I believe that to prevent power levelling (ie a party of lvl5 & lvl60 players where the lower level players just stand around at a safe distance whilst the lvl60 are killing lvl60 mobs, giving insanely high EXP) they made it so that if there's a wide level gap in a party the lower players get no EXP in unsynced situations, like killing open world mobs.