A little confuzzled....

[Tyler]

Lev70 raid gear has lev70 restriction to use tho.

[Lillu]

they can use it tho until (if at all) they remove it..

[Jeido]

They will still have it equipped if they delevel yes, but they do not gain the stats from it. What people used to do I guess is have separate sets of gear to use for when they would delevel and farm AA. The biggest problem was that someone who was already 70 could farm good gear that had a lvl 50 level req on it (or lower), and be a very beefy lvl 51 once delevel'd.

I noticed everyone who delevel'd to 51 went to Sanctus Seru, and I believe it was in the arena of Sanctus Seru that the AA were farmed. If one of the reasons the delevel npc was removed was due to the AA farming, then maybe you could just lock that zone to solve the problem.

[Lillu]

Sanctus is one place, yeah, but there are many other ones. Need a better solution really than locking zones.

[Koeril]

If you limit deleveling so that you will be lower than 50 the aa problem goes away. Once players are 47 they can group with a level 70 character and get xp anyways. I'm pretty sure that 75% of the people that deleveled did so to earn faster aa's

I think this was glossed over, but really it is a great idea. I know there was Emu servers that had level limits in place for certain conditions. Perhaps you can add a level limit if a person has a global flag (ie. they are in de-level mode)?

[Killeverything]

well set the De level to 1-50 nothing higher, then no one can do aa's grinding and ppl are able to help others

Then set a few 55-60 pop zone like poj and pod for aa's grinding. you have to be 70 to zone in and you can only DE level to 55 and when you zone out you go back to your level that way the only one the AA's grinder are messing with are other aa's grinders

[Valsavis]

If the coding in emu allows it get the shroud guys up and running. With those you don't take ANY gear with you and you go from a buffed up lvl 70 to a very fragile lvl whatever.
Also probably due to the xp used for the shroud progression, the AA xp wouldn't be all that great but still give the higher lvls a chance to help out their lower lvl friends.

[TheBloodmoon]

I think you guys are missing some of the point the dev's are trying to make. They don't want anyone to be able to have an easy time "grinding" AA's more so than it already is. They want those aa's to be earned with a little more expense.