Multiplayer as it stands ruins the game experience.

Shared loot is so stupid. Its so 1990ish. Also leveling needs to be fixed. When you are in a party helping some one get caught up you can play the entire day and only maybe get one level up at the least and that bogus. Dropping down to help a friend should decrease exp earned down to 65% or 75% instead of the pennies they give you for exp when you are dropping down in levels to help a friend through their story. Also loot should be dropping at your level in their game which in turn gets rid of the shared loot crap all together. I like this game but its becoming not very fun to play with friends because the people who drop down to play with a friend thats left behind are now being held back and cannot pick rewards from bosses that have the option menu to choose rewards and the exp is horrible when dropped down in level and the share loot system is trash because nothing in their game with benefit you not one bit other than picking up gear with sockets to dismantle and thats it. Multiplayer as it currently stands ruins this game and multiplayer is the entire reason why i wanted to play this game.

wouldnt you be steamrolling everything in mere seconds with your stacked character so it wouldnt take long to get them caught up?

No. Im only a level 21 and everyone else is like 11 , 14 and 15. We all just started the game. Nobody is steam rolling anything or stacked at the beginning of the game. Im pointing out the disadvantages of helping friends. Regardless of how long or how many seconds it takes you to clear something it should be beneficial to everyone not just the persons game you are in. Isnt this a multiplayer game ?

Set loot allocation to permanent, and set level downscaling to disabled. Problem solved.

FYI, +- 6 or 7 levels at the range you mentioned is same xp near as damn it, at 80-90 it’s like +- 10 levels before penalty kicks in.

Im 41 now. Left everyone in the dust lol. The funny thing is i just seen that option to disable character downscaling about 15 minutes ago and came here and seen what you wrote lol. I was wondering why all my power went away when i dropped down to help them. It may be beneficial for boss fights but i dont mind having it on during story play since im about 20 levels higher. I dont know how i feel about that. I think i like diablos method better. Just let people play and have fun.