I do see the merits to both arguments here. To assist lower level friends in beginners lobbies is a nice idea, but realistically you're going to need much stronger debuffs to even the playing field, otherwise you'll still just end up wiping a good portion of the lobby and it isn't fair on the rest of the newbies out there, they already have smurfs to contend with.
Honestly i would go as far as a 50% damage output reduction, even then you'll probably beat the average newb...but at it least gives them a much better chance of defending themselves.
