As someone who 90% of the time has to do a mission at least 10 levels over my own level that double punishment feels horrible.
Not only you are to die fast because you receive a huge amount of damage but also you get less EXP. This is totally bullshit!
Instead of less EXP give those with lower levels more EXP so they get at least rewarded for doing a mission in hard mode.
your suggestion is way to abusiveā¦
they just need to remove bonus dmg from higher levelsā¦thats it.
They can make it stop giving EXP if you are more than 15 levels under the mission. 15 is the most you can get with party queue.
And premades give less EXP anyways so it should be fine.
Or they could just adjust the level gaps when doing que.
Lowering the level difference is a bad idea. Too long queues.
Easiest solution would be to remove damage increase and XP penalty inside missions.
Or just make monster level depend on [lowest level+5] instead of highest level.