Think I voiced my opinion on this a while back for a similar topic. I believe there should be a separation of OOC level from IC skill. ICly I play a 32 year old Ala Mhigan who has been a sword fighter for almost twenty years. She's been a Coliseum Gladiator, Resistance fighter, then later Knight of the Baracuda in Limsa. OOCly, however, I only have a 26 GLA on Balmung. Why? Because my main PVE character is on Hyperion. She's 50 all classes, 60 WAR, final coil beat, and super high achievement rating. But I also work full time and generally don't have the desire to try to repeat all that work on another character just to have my RP "taken seriously."
The problem with the level approach is that I could feasibly push Souns to be a lv50-60 GLA on Balmung, which might illustrate her having IC experience, but another RPer who is also 60 PLD could be RPing a sixteen year old master swordsman with no backstory and because of level the two characters would be on equal footing per level. Which, to me, makes no sense. Backstory and/or RP should dictate the skill level of a character, not what class/level they are.
Souns won 4 Grindstones. That rp gave her IC reputation for being fairly badass. I don't consider my character to be super strong, fantastical, or warrior of light status. She's just a good soldier. And my personal hope is that no one would look down on my alt or my rp, which I've put a lot of thought into, just because I'm too busy to level her to cap. If you feel its unfair to face my low level, you can always pair off against my dreadwyrm fighter and see how your item level 80 sixteen year old fairs there?
The problem with the level approach is that I could feasibly push Souns to be a lv50-60 GLA on Balmung, which might illustrate her having IC experience, but another RPer who is also 60 PLD could be RPing a sixteen year old master swordsman with no backstory and because of level the two characters would be on equal footing per level. Which, to me, makes no sense. Backstory and/or RP should dictate the skill level of a character, not what class/level they are.
Souns won 4 Grindstones. That rp gave her IC reputation for being fairly badass. I don't consider my character to be super strong, fantastical, or warrior of light status. She's just a good soldier. And my personal hope is that no one would look down on my alt or my rp, which I've put a lot of thought into, just because I'm too busy to level her to cap. If you feel its unfair to face my low level, you can always pair off against my dreadwyrm fighter and see how your item level 80 sixteen year old fairs there?
