Talk:Platinum Dragon Lord/@comment-34139326-20180219214435/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180704144526

Maruyama posted some info about combat matchups one time.

Here's the thing, while a difference of more than ten levels might be considered decisive, even that can be overcome with equipment (say a total of ten levels variation either way for wildly over-equipped against woefully under-equipped, for a total of twenty levels).

DDDL has a World Item, moreover it's one of the Twenty. We don't know what other equipment DDDL might have, but dragons like hoarding stuff.

There are also circumstances, surprise, home-turf, planning, etc.

What this means is that combat rankings aren't absolute. They can reflect level differences, but they aren't similarly hard numbers.

Also, New World level system is not identical with Yggdrasil. It is clearly established that there are jobs and races in the New World that are not from Yggdrasil. It is also apparent that some jobs otherwise identical to Yggdrasil classes have different requirements. This means that a character with low levels might still have access to some imbalanced job which should only be available to a high-level character. Conversely, there are lots of crap jobs in the New World which you could take 100 levels of them and still be worthless in combat (not that anyone would actually do that).