Level Syncing is Becoming an Increasing Problem

[Acidblood]

All actions remain usable. Actions that are not level appropriate are reduced in power.

Reduced by how much though? I mean, reduce abilities too far and you may as well not use them (why go to the effort for such a small gain?), but not far enough and high-level characters will still be too powerful.

And then you have different types of abilities... reducing BLM Flare / Foul by only 50% would probably still leave them with insane AoE compared to what is normally available at low levels, but reduce BLM Fire IV by the same 50% and it becomes objectively worse than Fire I (i.e. it would be a 30 potency DPS loss and it doesn't refresh stacks)… and is DRG Doom Spike @ 140 AoE potency, which they don't normally get until level 40, too powerful at low levels when BLM has Fire II @ 80+AF AoE pontency and BRD has Quick Nock @ 110 AoE potency (plus a DoT) at level 18?

As I said, it would take a lot of work, and add a lot of complexity, to ‘balance’ level sync properly if high level characters 'simply' kept their abilities... it would be much better to put that effort into re-working the abilities jobs get a low-to-mid-levels, which would also benefit low-to-mid-level characters (for both new players and alt-jobs).