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edit: Furthermore, theres actually less risk then hunting normally. Sure you get debt as normal but you also get xp as normal. The game is supposed to get harder with advanced levels so your hunting at an easier level, and also while it lowers your powerset to what you had at that level(not a penalty, thats what you would have had anyway) it doesnt take away slots. It reduces them in power but its still the equivelent of having 6 SOs at whatever level you would have been even if you couldnt use SOs or didnt have that many slots at that point.
Exemplaring is fine how it is
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1) Are you sure that you are getting the benefits of your slots while exemplaring? Mind you, my time doing this was short, but the amount of damage I was putting out being exemplared down to 18 seemed to be as if I did not have anything in the slots, not just 'cut down' to dual origin-level.
2) You get 0 influence or enhancements (even training ones at the level you are going down to) until you are out of debt, then you get influence, never enhancements. Whether this is double the xp you would gain, or not, I do not know. Even if it is double - Is 400xp and therefore 800 influence in the end more than 200 xp, 200 debt reduction, 650 influence, and a training enhancement per 3 mobs that sells at minimum for 1000 influence equal? That's very, very debatable and the point people are trying to make in this discussion.
My point is if influence is gained along with the debt reduction, then exemplaring becomes worth the time to do. Yes, I do realize the idea is to help low characters through their missions, but there has to be incentive to do it, otherwise it is more advantageous for both parties to sidekick and skip the low missions altogether, because both gain enhancements, the sidekick's powers are still modified by their slot allocation, and both gain influence.
With this change, I would feel better about risking getting whacked and taking 13k more in debt, since I have less versatility and alpha strike power than I do against an equivalent level of mob non-exemplared.
