My reference to 'couldn't die, couldn't lose' was about being at skeggs with 140k hp, 190 aspd, insta no cooldown. A level 1 novice at that point would not have died. The reason we died in abyss was because the party was entirely sloppy, unorganized and running all over the place with little regard to strategy, since a 4 person party can easily control abyss 3 with careful forethought and execution. Also, in abyss we were 'only' getting 190 aspd, zero delay instacasts and 31k~ish hp, at skeggs it bumped up to about 140k~ hp and spammed on and off apple to throw 14.8k~ heals.
No one learns anything about how to party by having GM powered buffs - I already know you can kill the majority of the game with an instacast wizard with no cooldown. This is why a difficult mvp like gloom could be overpowered by a (probably poorly geared) level 65-75 party, who have no business touching him.
Anyway, regardless of how well everyone did it's still wrong, since people's inability to perform in a party is not their fault. In the end, I made about 40% faster than I could usually get it. If I'd made one percent, I'd still say the same thing -- I got it for free, without effort, unfairly. My homunc also got a level or two, but there ya go. Then there's the drops, we coulda get what was essentially hax'd odin's blessings.
So yeah, I can see the place for having a GM casting priest buffs and regular heals with usual restrictions or adding songs or dances to a party to help it go smoothly and be the stabilisers until the party can ride on its own. Running around with buffs that legit players cannot have is unfair to legit players, period. It's an advantage given to one player over another via GM powers that no one else can access. I fail to see how it would've been any different to just manually @level my character with the exp we received from skeggs, as there was the same amount of risk reward, strategy, and GM involvement in either case.
