Rasczak wrote on Mar 19
th, 2014 at 2:54am:
Still not sure why they got rid of the underlevel bonus.
Because at that time the norm, once you were out of the lower harbor was to zerg Waterworks for market entrance, and then you joined the Redwillow, Gwylan, Stormcleave, Korromar, VON train.
( each done with 3/4 levels difference, so you ended in VON by LVL 5/6 )
They couldn't just let people do that, since it meant that ended farming Co6 and Southern to reach cap.
They hated the fact that we were doing quests way beyond our level, and the whiny mass hated those that could pull it out and wanted an easy button.
Thus the bravery bonus ( which is not brave at all ) and the retarded streak ( to compensate for the removal of the underlevel bonus... ). More people are able to pull the BB and the L33t streak than people were able to pull the full underlevel bonus.
But the sad part is that the stupid streak has 3 discrete level : No Streak, Hard Streak, l33t streak
and you have to keep it up, while the old underlevel bonus had 5 level : no bonus, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% and could be chosen for each and every quest.