Was it boring when you first hit 20 as a newbie, when knowing your abilities and functioning in a group setting was uncertain?

The sync down is not meant to service established players by feeding us tomes, etc. Yeah it's a bunch of incentives for sure, but ultimately it all boils down to helping out the up and comers. All inconveniences are shared equally among the new and the experienced.

If we retained all of our skills like we do unsynced, then all it would do is overwhelm the new guys and create unnecessary confusion.