You asked for comments, and the comment is, this is not a good idea.
Players are rewarded for levelling up by gaining access to new buffs, and higher level buffs. Your suggestion would remove this and would leave very little rewards to levelling up.
Never mind the fact that as I said before, it would ruin the buff selling economy to a point where most players would stop selling buffs and it would become very hard to buy them.
This will never, ever happen.
probably wont - doesnt mean it shouldn't happen. people dont level because of buffs in my view and if they do, surely getting the new ones is more of an impetus than getting more of the same?
As for your Chicken Little impression that the buff sky would fall, you are simply mistaken in my view. I could have any buff I want at this point and yet I still buy buffs all the time. Of course I don't pay the extremely high prices that many people charge just because their buff is level 175, but that is just me.
It definately shouldn't happen either. Do we just want to take everything that can give 1 player an advantage over another out of the game?
Why don't we just get rid of Levels all together and we can all just run around in any random gear we want, with whatever buffs, at whatever level and slap each other a bit. That sounds like fun doesn't it???
NO - Higher level players deserve higher level buffs. Plus if you look at it from the whole Fantasy side of things, of course a higher level, more experienced players buffs are better. This is the same in any Fantasy/RPG type game ever created!
It certainly would hurt the buff selling market. A short while ago, players with level 175 buffs used to be able to all sell at stamina cost. The days of that are long gone, and now we have players giving 20 level 175 buffs for 2 or 3fsp. If every player could get level 175 buffs then the prices would plummet even further.
The way the system is now, there is a place for low level buffs at low costs, and a place for high level buffs with a high cost. I see nothing wrong with it at all, and yes, I did like to level up to the 50-level milestones so that all my buffs could go up another 5 levels.