[Suggestion] Guildleve difficulty change.

[Reika]

I believe when a party is formed, the average rank of all the members should be recorded, and used to determine the difficulty of a guildleve. this number can then use to be used to determine what rank the enemy will be based on your star selection, and not to go below the rank of the camp +5, and not to go above 20 ranks higher than the camp.

So if you have everyone in your party that is rank 36, The average rank would be 36. When someone starts a guildleve and selects one star, Monsters would be set 5 ranks above the average rank. 2 stars, 8 ranks above, 3 stars 11 ranks above, 4 stars 15 ranks above, and 5 stars 20 ranks above. This way the difficulty of 5 star will truly be the difficulty of 5 star ALL the time, and there will be no guessing of what amount of stars to set based on your party strength. This will also help the person playing solo, as picking solo, monsters will always be 5 ranks above instead of possibly being many ranks below. so this group of R36 players will never see a monster below R41 if they pick one star, and rank 46 if they pick 3 stars.

At the same time, remove the cap of 10 ranks for SP/EXP bonus, so players can get rewarded for selecting the higher difficulties. Also at the same time, increase the end-of-leve reward for completing them at 4 or 5 stars, more-so at 5 stars, like an extra chest with some money and possible items next to the aether node.

[Lienn]

Good idea. I don't like receiving the same SP if i do something 3 or 5 stars because of SP cap. IMO, during guildleves, all caps should be removed. But it would require a thing...not allowing people to activate/share leves unless they have a minimal rank for it...like you not being able to activate or join a lightsome verdure at rank 19 (even if you have another class much higher) because the minimum rank for a r30 camp is r20. If you're in a leve, you not being able to change to a class that not fit the leve requeriments until its over, so the player wouldn't be able to start it with a higher rank class and then change back to low rank one.

[Reika]

In that case, have ranks start at the rank of the camp. so if a group of R19's is trying to do a r30 leve, the monsters will still be R35 at one star, only after their average goes above the camp rank, will one star go above 35. that way camps will keep their minimum starting rank of 7 or so ranks below for grouping.

[Lienn]

But the problem of allowing someone underranked to join a leve is the power leveling. If they remove sp caps, they would need to remove the issue who made the sp cap needed...or we would end like when sp changed to constant gain instead of random gain...who never PLed friends that time? I remember helping people like this...we all in party...i would kill billies with 3 swings and receive like 30 SP...but all low rank ppl in party was receiving 700~1k sp/kill because there were no rank-based cap.

The very same would happen in leves if they remove the caps during it.

[Reika]

Hrm that is true. I think the limit right now is more than 20 ranks below the highest person you wont get SP. Perhaps they should move that up to 10 ranks ^%^. It is pretty minor tho, because the higher rank guy is takin a big SP hit for the lower rank guy. Or even better, make it more than 20 ranks below the monster and your sp gets shot to 0. So say they do that in a rank 30 leve, most of the members are between 35 and 39, and theres this one straggler who is R19 trying to get powerleveled. Because it is at an average, the average rank will be around 34 or so, and 1 star will make the enemies 39, already too high for the R19, so he will get 0 sp, and the rest of the members would be fighting something only 4-0ranks above them, so their SP will be crap. so if the max rank you can get with someone were changed to like 15 ranks below, this wouldnt happen very often.