My character is an adventurer with the Echo, so she's already more powerful than most. But to get the title I wanted to use for her, I needed to level all of the combat classes to 50 and then complete the Relic quest with each and every one. While Jana is a very strong character, it'd be going way overboard (as well as WAY over the line for most, if not all, RPers) to say she's obtained the maximum amount of power possible for every combat discipline.
Most people have already said it in a better way, but I think you should be free to play your character's combat expertise however you want, no matter their level! It won't matter in some situations anyway; my 50-All character has been beaten at a dice-based combat tournament by someone who went and unlocked PGL at level 1 to be able to use the stances!
On the flip side, like some people have also already said, I'll approach a very low-level character as a "new adventurer" by default unless they tell me otherwise. Part of it comes from my approach to MMO RP: I rip through as much story as I can to take in the lore before I begin RPing, so seeing someone brand-new leads me to think they might not know much about the world around them just yet.
Most people have already said it in a better way, but I think you should be free to play your character's combat expertise however you want, no matter their level! It won't matter in some situations anyway; my 50-All character has been beaten at a dice-based combat tournament by someone who went and unlocked PGL at level 1 to be able to use the stances!
On the flip side, like some people have also already said, I'll approach a very low-level character as a "new adventurer" by default unless they tell me otherwise. Part of it comes from my approach to MMO RP: I rip through as much story as I can to take in the lore before I begin RPing, so seeing someone brand-new leads me to think they might not know much about the world around them just yet.
