Originally Posted by Valjean
I think the only way this could work is if there was a way to get temporary gear. Say I took a L40 toon. He has the option to buy or rent T3.5 gear. If I went to SM I have the option to buy L30ish gear.
But then this gets really complex.
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Well, can we go with that idea and take some of the complexity out of it?
First of all, I don't think up-leveling folks will work -- I can't see Blizzard ever allowing people to skip past the progression that way. So I'm not going to think about taking undergeared or low-level people into BT for example.
So, just issue everyone random-suffix green gear of the right ilevel. I mean, is there any pre-endgame non-raid content that can't be beat in such gear?
Is it optimal? No. Would a real charcter of the appropriate level be able to gear themselves to be more powerful? Yes. So what? The point here is to
avoid dominating what goes on. If the downleveled character is a little
weaker than a real character of that level, that's actually fine!
Just give all warriors a pile of "of the bear" stuff. Give mages "of the eagle", et cetera. Maybe mix it up a bit, like, give priests a mix of "of the eagle" and "of the owl". We all know that Deadmines, Scarlet Monestary, BRD, all that stuff can be defeated in such gear.
Heck, maybe take
that even a step farther. Know how the public test realm sometimes has premade characters? What about letting us temporarily log in as a premade character of any class we currently play, at any level below our own which is a multiple of 10? Have a 20th level premade warrior that we could log in as if we have a 21st or higher level warrior, et cetera. Maybe have them completely reset upon logging out, so there's no way to gear them up or anything.