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Originally Posted by Enig
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This hits the nail on the head... Roll up a bard/sk/paladin... try to keep the same group of friends together for more than a week. I was grouped with a rogue/druid 3 nights in a row... I started as a paladin at level 11, they were level 10... by the 3rd night i was level 14 (almost 15) and they were levels 17 and 18. Now I get to find another group to do this with... rinse repeat untill your getting tells from people who are level 22 sending you tells of congrats for getting 16. Oh what fun (sarcasm).
You want 1999, that is fine... but right now unless your twinked to hell, getting power leveled, or just like beating your head against a wall, there is no reason to be a hybrid. One of the great things about eq is finding "friends" and being able to play together. Your exp penalty takes away from that community experience. Just do a /who sometime. The reason bards/rangers are the least played classes in the game is not due to bugs/suck factor... its cause of the bugs/suck factor plus penalties that people just say "no way in hell". Take a poll, I bet there have been 100 plus bards leveled to 10-15 that then quit due to the penalty.
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You don't know that. Rangers have been called gimps since day 1. I played a ranger on day 1 and I enjoyed it. It's all about outloook. If you go into this thinking it'll suck and that it sucks not to keep up with your close friends, then you'll set yourself up for a self-fulfilling prophecy. All you'll see are the negatives, and frustration will fill your life. Better to live within your means. Things go smoother.
If anything, there should be an option in the client:
1) "Share experience with group: [X]"
If you turn it on, you share the penalty with your group and everyone suffers. If you turn it off, the penalty stays with you and you level slower than the others in your group. For those with close friends, suffering the penalty together is preferable because their goal is to stick together. For others, who often get random groups and adventure all over the place with different people, they might not want the whole group to suffer the penalty. I can imagine groups not wanting to invite you because of the penalty, as well. So out of respect for the group, or yourself (you just want a group and you don't want to give them a reason to not invite you), you turn it off.
Having it as an option would be the best possible outcome. I wouldn't want it forced on me (or the group).