I absolutely love this game, and am quite addicted right now. I was able to get several of my friends into the game as well, which is super awesome! I was so excited to be able to play and party up with all of my friends. However, naturally we all have different schedules and play times so we began to spread apart in level. When we are all on, we have tried partying up and going to the quests of the lowest level party member to help with the grind, but it just ends up ruining the EXP gain.
Our party consisted of a level 20+, two 30+, and one 70+ character. Every time the 70+ character was in range, the low level characters would get basically 0% EXP gain. We tried testing it with all 3 EXP settings, and the only way we could actually get decent EXP is through the “Individual EXP” setting. However, this is not very optimal for those who don’t get many kills.
So, are we using the wrong EXP setting? Is it just impossible to play with higher level people? I’m not looking to get “rushed” through the game by higher level people. I just want to play with my friends.
I would suggest a “Mentor” style feature in this game so that higher level people can play with their low level friends. Just equalize the levels to the lowest party member, and make the EXP distribution equal across all parties. This way the high level character isn’t just destroying and one-shotting all monsters and bosses, and EXP isn’t gimped for all party members.
I just want to easily play with my friends without getting screwed out of EXP because of a level difference. Thoughts?
EDIT: Based on discussion below.
The level syncing is only while in a party, you can only sync down, and the person syncing down gains no EXP benefits. They would still get drops, so you still earn money through items. This would apply to people who are already outside say 15-20 levels? Whatever seems appropriately “too high.” If you happened to have missed an NPC, you can still earn the EXP/cards from any missed quests. Otherwise, no EXP gain.
This would be no problem for the people who are way higher level if they want to play with their friends because they will obviously be playing more alone anyways. Then everything is not being one-shot and you can’t hide in the corner of a high level map. The incentive is simply to be able to play with your friends. Not to be able to rush your friends, or gain some other bonus/incentive for yourself.