5k pow at that instance is INSANLYE underpowered. Did you join a group and get group skills, enhance/upgrade your equipment and such? You should have far more pow than 5k by that instance.

I never have enough gold to enhance my equipment fully, but its upgraded and I have group skills. But, thanks for telling me its not enough. How high should it be?

A normal free player should be around 6-7k pow at this point. You must be missing something major if you are only at 5k.

Geez, that sounhds incredibly hard to get to. Thank you for your help though.

Ppl in the game shouldn't rush to lvl up after 50. You should work on ur power otherwise it gets tough to do instances and trials. You can increase your power by getting better ninja tools through team instances and group study skills. You don't have to always strengthen ur equipment after it gets costly... at a certain time you'll have to pretty much stop strengthening ur equipments. Upgrade all ur equipments and sweep through ninja exams to get magatamas. Cultivate ur ninjas and you have to get ur ninjas to atleast 3 stars!

Except in the case where there are sage bracketing, there is nothing wrong with leveling up when able. Now, I'm not saying you should spend extra resource for the sake of level up (granted, there aren't exactly a lot of way to do that, or significantly) but you certainly shouldn't purposely slow down.

Fact of the matter is that a player who is lv 65 stuck at lv 56 instance is STILL better off than a lv 55 who can clear all his instance.

Again, this is aside from sage bracketing, it is a valid reason to want to stay in the lower bracket and thus hold your level below the cutoff.

Wow then it's gonna take me a few days before i reach that power then,probably even weeks since im often busy ;-;

Happy gravedigging btw.

But yeah, this is a high maintenence game (unless you're like me and only do it for the sweet sweet let's play views).