Sidekicks and Exemplars in WoW

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You know what would be cool? Bringing the City of Heroes notion of Sidekicks and Exemplars into World of Warcraft. It could work like this: A person sidekicks (or squires) to a higher lvl char. Their stats are modified to a level approx 1-2 lower than the character they squired to. The experience gained is scaled down to that appropriate for their real level. This would allow people to take lower lvl chars into fun areas usually reserved for upper lvl chars, and to help out their upper lvl char friends. For exemplars (I dunno what it should be called), the stats are reduced to right about equal with the lower lvl char, and instead of experience, I can see to ideas - 1) experience is converted into money (the more problematic idea), or 2) That person is treated as though in an inn, and their xp rest goes up as they are exemplarred (sp?). That way, they could help their lower lvl friends and still get some benefit. I love XP Rest, that'd be more than enough for me! I play with friends who are much higher lvl than me. I have difficulty forming parties with strangers a lot of the time, probably due to the off hours I play or my server. I would love to play with my higher lvl friends, but they don't want to start another low lvl char. This would allow me to play with them, or vice versa. What do you guys think?