Quote Originally Posted by kuma_aus View Post
What's wrong if you're over-leveled to your friends? There isn't penalty from what I've seen when in teams with higher levels. You do get less EXP the more people that are in your party (To encourage you to fight higher level mobs as a bigger team). But it doesn't matter if the people in your party are higher level or not I think, the penalty is the same for all cases.
Well mostly it's that it's a waste of time.

Like yesterday I was in a party with friends who were 1-3 while I was 5. Because we had a level 1, we went after lvl 3-4 monsters first.
Thing is, attacking lower level monsters = no chain. So while some of them (level 1 and 2) were getting chains, a level 5 like me gets no chain. So it's little experience, no crystals. I was lucky that a NM spawned, because that actually does give something and it leveled our lowest person faster.

I didn't mind it because I knew he'd catch up eventually and once he got a second magicite we'd go a bit higher, but that's when I was only initially 4 levels higher.

If I could still get some crystals and little to no exp helping lower level people, that'd be nice.

If I were level 17 and a friend/FC mate was just starting out at level 1, that'd be a whole lotta hours of no rewards helping them.