City of Heroes:-
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Leveling up is fairly quick with solo play being perfectly viable though somewhat slower for advancement than grouping. Nearly all missions can be completed solo as well. If you prefer to group weather for faster experience gain or just to be social the missions will automatically scale up the number and level of enemies inside the private instance used to match your team composition. If your friends are much higher or lower level than you there is a sidekick/mentor system that will let you play side by side at relatively equal levels. it is up to you weather to raise the level of the lowbie through sidekicking or reduce the level of the higher character by mentoring. Either way both players will be able to gain experience and prestige for enemies defeated.
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I think its difficult to compare how it works in City of Heroes to World Of Warcraft as the play style of the game is vastly different. From what I have read there is no gear as such but power enhancers, which I think would be a lot easier to scale in the mentor/sidekick system that it would with the complex variety of gear in world of warcraft.