My idea: level the playing field. Either raise the required mob strength at lvl15 or lower the required strength at lvl51. Ideally it would be a linear change so there aren't "sweet spots" where people would be motivated to stop and practice. If the strength were dropped down one level from "easy kill" at lvl51 we'd be talking about things like arial prisoners. That doesn't seem so unreasonable.

This seems reasonable. I can think of an easy way to make the relative-level scale slide so that it's more 'friendly' at higher ranks and less 'friendly' at lower ones in a continuous manner. I'll discuss it with the appropriate people.

Part of the design you're seeing is that ranking intentionally becomes tougher as you gain levels. It's why solo-ranking is easy for an experienced player in the 1-20 range, and very difficult in the 42-51 range. Incorporating this fact into the practice end of things could even this out some without touching ranking, which is balanced more iteratively, and hard to do straight off the numbers.

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