Ability to self-exemplar

As the title says - it'd be nice to have the means to lower your level on demand; it would help players with the "neighborhood protector" concept characters, where rewards of experience are desired {powers and enhancement slots} but the actual level increase isn't {outleveling the zone critters}.

It could work by talking to either the trainer or the recon officer for the zone, who would present you with the option of exemplaring to one of the levels within the zone's range. The zone range limitation is mostly for the sake of UI, as it would use the usual dialogue interface, rather than something more fancy, and thus harder to code for.

Suggestions for exiting the self-exemplar mode would be either a} talking to the trainer/recon again, b} a slash command or c} a dialogue box activated by clicking on the XP-circle.

And finally, the reason for the need to talk to the NPC to activate the exemplar would be to prevent exploiting via rapid level scaling - for example, hit a lower-level NPC with a DoT or a pseudopet, then scale down before they die, making them above, your level, and reap XP from a purple foe.

Any thoughts on this?

An open letter to NCsoft

That'd be pretty cool. I'm in favor of it.

bad idea. /jranger.

Can you clarify the XP gain?

Now that we can exemplar and not only gain XP but access to powers up to 5 levels more, there could be a sweet spot (like around 32 and controller/dom pets) where toons can self-exemplar down and just rake in XP because the mobs are not properly balanced to them and gain levels but never change level since they are auto-exemplared. This is different from Oro/TFs because they are finite arcs and once done, you are back to your old level.

This may not be a direct exploit or used often by players, but asking the question.

I already sort of do this.

When midrange salvage prices get stupid, go to ouro, exemp to 29, go to DA.

Go hunt - kill zombies.

I can imagine people forcing themselves to 49 to get just a slightly bigger boost of rewards vs 54 enemies... In fact, that seems like it'll happen a lot.

Hmmm....
I see the ability to do outleveled Mayhem/Safeguards that way.
I like it for that reason.

The part I like about this.

Any NPCs that are not properly balanced would be farmed and then fixed and the game would be a smoother ride.

Unless I'm wrong Currently killing people while exempted gives you the exp as if you were fighting someone with the same level spread at your level i.e. kill level 35 while exempted down to 34 from 40 would give the same exp as fighting level 41 normal.

Having more powers would give you an edge over a normal level 34 not not an unacceptable one unless the NPCs were already not balanced.

I see no down side to this idea especially if it gives you access to contacts you haven't finished (for those non Oro arcs) and safegaurds and the like. The M/S mission rewards could even be put to Oro rules so if you are re earning a temp power it's at a reduced power.

there is already afeature that prevents you from out leveling safegaurd/mayhems. turn off the xp. you know when they are. and honestly, it isn't that hard to find a team who is running the safegaurd/mayhem missions. same thing goes for regular contact missions. don't want to out level them, turn off the xp. if you don't, you will continue to gain xp and level and pass the new contacts.