Fix For Corruption "cheasing/ gaming the system"

You still suffer death penalties if your friends kill you, so you're not really "gaming" the system.

But yes, I completely support the suggestion of your friends/party/guild/alliance/raid-mates not being able to even attack you when you're red. This would also match the flagging rules for that kind of interaction

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You still go down in your effectiveness and suffer lower mob drop rates. And I could even see them having lvl 50 adding a fair bit of stats and not having an overflow of XP on it (i.e. you can't go to lvl50 100% XP). So if you die at lvl50 - you lose a fair bit of stats. And leveling at that stage should still take a few hours for those % that you'll lose as a red.

In other words, if you have a group of friends - make them help you remove your corruption through mob grind rather than just kill you.

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I mean, gaining XP is the other way to remove your corruption. Doing quests, farming mobs, gaining XP in any other possible ways will remove some part of your corruption. Which is why I said you should ask your friends to protect you while you get that XP.

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I mean, I'm a hardcore maniac who'd just see that as a challenge I've deleveled below gear grades in L2 couuuuntless times and had to use my previous stuff just to get back up. To me that was fun and was the main challenge

And as I see it, it would also work well as a "world boss contestant filter". Say you have a super strong boss and several guilds who want to farm it. And those guilds decide not to partake in wars against each other. Outside of the obvious "fuck up their farm by just being present to trigger the anti-zerg mechanics" action, the first farmers wiping and "deleveling" would give some time to the other groups to attempt the boss, while the og raid levels back up. And those who manage to farm the boss first would really deserve the loot.

Alternatively you could have a religious buff that gives you a "buffer" of some %s when you go out farming shit. And if you go corrupt - the buff goes away, which would lead to you immediately deleveling in case of death. And this kind of mechanic would be reminiscent of holy crusades (well, outside of the obvious slaughtering of countless peoples during said crusades ).