Sitting Around the Mog House, Looking For Party

"{Party} {Join up?} {please}" is something I want to hear the real world equivalent right about now. Even "{Experience points} {Party} {level} {Up}?" is something I wouldn't mind. Just ... SOMETHING. Life is incredibly boring right now in the lame duck period in my college life, waiting for summer. People are too busy because they omitted their finals earlier, and school club activities get in the way of hanging out with people constantly. It sucks having to have to wait around for things to happen, when you know exactly what it is you want. The problem is that nobody else wants to do the quest you want to do.

Way before the present, you could only gain levels with people one or two levels away from yourself, or by killing monsters by yourself. It made things very difficult, because if you want to group up with other people, you had to have people almost the same level as you, and the jobs to go with it. You couldn't have six WARs gather together and expect an efficient leveling party. You needed a tank, a healer, support, damage dealers, etc, not six jobs that are the same. In the present, there's a system called "level sync" which scales down higher level players to a chosen member of the party. It scales equipment, stats, job abilities, traits, everything you have to that of the average leveled person of the chosen level.

You could have this at level 15! Too bad you'd only get about 8 defense from it.

It's very handy for being able to do a lot of things with lower level strangers and friends. Perhaps too easily. You get jaded and bored of it after awhile, since you have to lower your standards and your power. It would be handy in real life to occasionally lower your standards, but that makes what you do just ... empty.