(timetravelling) Re:Auto-mentoring - Contested Bosses

[Official Forums]

Currently when mentored there is a 95% XP penalty to prevent players from levelling too quickly by mentoring extremely low level friends.

Our plan right now is make this penalty dynamic and based on how far you have mentored (whether normally, or through auto-mentoring). For example:

If you're level 80 and mentor down to 70, the penalty will be very small because 70 is so close to 80. However, if you mentor all the way down to level 10, or even 5--the penalty will be very severe because of the extremely low target level.

Hopefully that's not too confusing =) The goal is to have XP gain be noticeable and useful, but not exploitative. The hard cap of 95% made it almost unnoticeable.



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[Deson]

Yet another step toward making the entire game count at any level. I like it.

Wonder how it will affect AP gain?

[ZaiTh]

The game is almost 5 years old, I don't see why it matters if low levels gain levels quickly. Even if the mentoring if harder for people to level, there are many other avenues for leveling quickly.

[Deson]

Originally Posted by ZaiTh

The game is almost 5 years old, I don't see why it matters if low levels gain levels quickly. Even if the mentoring if harder for people to level, there are many other avenues for leveling quickly.

It's not low levels he's talking about, it's higher level characters mentoring down then tearing through content for xp. When they added mentoring it's main purpose was the ability to group with lower level friends, not what we see today or what they plan on adding. Back then, they didn't want you exploiting the level mechanic or apparently playing too much out of tier.

[Crabbok]

Considering they are bringing back XP group-grinding next expansion, I see no problem at all with allowing you to grind some XP on lower level content.

[Deson]

Originally Posted by Crabbok

Considering they are bringing back XP group-grinding next expansion, I see no problem at all with allowing you to grind some XP on lower level content.

Same and if it works I'll probably never touch RoK+ TSO.