Guild Wars 2: What is Effective Level?

If you've noticed green effective levels in parentheses in your UI and wondered what is going on, this is GW2's dynamic level adjustment system.  Any higher level character in a lower level area will have their level reduced to a more appropriate level.  No high level ganking of lower level characters, in other words.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_level_adjustment

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