Eureka Suggestion: Some sort of level sync. Or de-level (other than repeat death)

[kykmorph]

So I finished the Eureka grind to 20. On the whole, I have only good things to say about the balancing/mechanics of it. (I know plenty of people disagree, and that's fair, but I had fun.)

My main complaint right now is that there's no meaningful way that I can go back and party with friends of mine who either didn't have the time to put in that this week or aren't as enthusiastic with it as I was. I know I could go and spawn NMs for them, but that feels like I'm playing Eureka FOR them, and not WITH them at that point.

[kykmorph]

What I would like to see is some ability to either level sync myself down to them or some implementation of a de-level mechanic, but with a reward (since I know I could repeatedly die and respawn to de-level myself). This could be like the Call of Duty prestige system where we fully drop to level 1, but get some cosmetic reward like a title or achievement (can do multiple times for achievements and longevity of the zone). Or could be an npc in town that lets me de-level one level at a time. One thought with the second option was that that could give rewards like protean crystals or something zone related.

I think something like this would help keep the players who enjoyed Eureka have incentive to actually stay around and help other people who are late to the party.

Thoughts?

[Zaene]

Actually that prestige idea sounds wonderful! It fits with what folks have been saying about how it's "totally a korean grinder", Ragnarok Online had multiple levels of "prestige classes", hey they could just throw an aura on you for the 2nd prestige level or something. Or ideally provide you with some kind of damage or defense boost for starting over.

[ChocoFeru]

Never heard about prestige system o,o it sounds cool!

Either de-level or level-sync would be cool, I'd like to party with low level people and help D: I feel like I'm wasting time when I help them with NMs.

[Iscah]

Palace of the Dead has the option to effectively ‘spend’ levels to acquire the special weapons, so there would be a precedent for doing something similar here. Convert your built-up elemental change into... something.

[ruskie]

I'd like to just have a party sync - either down sync all to lowest+2 or sync all to an average level of the party.

[Bellsong]

we should just be able to edit our level at the magia thingy. Reset our points spent when we change level so you can't have all your elemental points at lower levels. I really wouldn't even care if they didn't add rewards for being under level I just wanna be able to go back and do the content with people who will be late to it

[MuseTraveller]

Oooh, I love this prestige system.
This way the zones won't flood with lvl 20 folks who rush to NMs and the lowbies have hard time following either due to lack of mount access or cause they can't pass higher level mobs!

[Tridus]

Yup. Tried to group with friends last night who actually like Eureka (since it's more tolerable with lots of friends) and I can't play with them now on anything outside NMs because I get zero XP due to the level disparity on every normal mob in the zone.

How did SE not think of this? level sync is only a thing that features prominently in the rest of the game....

[Zojha]

Thoughts?

Knowing SE, they'll "address" this issue with a Eureka Jump Potion on the Mog Shop instead >.>