It's time to redesign Level Sync

[Squintina]

Bingo!

This is the problem and why I'm trying to address it.

WoW (yeah yeah, just hear me out) has done an excellent job with Timewalking (their version of level sync) where a max level character is synced down but keep all their abilities, they are HEAVILY nerfed to ensure they don't pull from the tank or cause major dps differences.

Yes in theory if they figured out how to sync the abilities in such a way that there is no major dps/aggro/heal difference between the full version of the rotation in the higher level player and the incomplete version in the lower level version, it'd work.

But I just don't think many of us have faith they'll be able to get the new syncing algorithm right if they tried to do this.

This literally doesn't happen in other MMOs...

Maybe I'm jaded from having played with a lot of jerks in other MMOs (from both PUGs and guildies. The amount of drama on raidcall in WoW was just as bad, so many people just suddenly forgot what it was like to be someone newer), maybe I'm unlucky to have been in such servers with so many jerks, but it's definitely something I've witnessed in other games, not usually directed at me but I still have to witness it. Admittedly the FF14 community is one of the nicest I've seen, maybe I should have more faith.