People still don't get it, do they?
Make a YUL for farm & Adena income, gear to a sweet spot & transfer Adena for your main character that you wish to play.
Wait next XP event and make a new one just for farming purpose & lvl it only during XP events.
My highest character is indeed a YUL which I like to play, but it dies quickly in PVP without proper support behind you or if you do not have proper PVP items.
But it serves me mainly to support my other 2 DDs characters & support characters that I have, since I am able to gear them faster overtime since I invested heavenly for my Yul in the first place.
In comparison, if I put my gear to my other toons for the rest of the time, they are doing way better at lower lvls than my Yul used to do, I am able to do 105 dailies easy mode at 110 with the other DDs.
My Yul was lvl112-114 before doing the same speed the dailies.
I was unable to farm with the Yul on my own without ISS before I got 109 & invested huge to improve.
In comparison, my other DDs can solo some of those zones easier than my Yul used to do with equivalent gear at their lvl.
In Olympiad time, I often enjoy more PVP with another toon than on my Yul. I am able to kill people whom I cannot kill so easily due to survivability. Example: Feoh, I need to boost up like a truck to win against equivalent geared Feoh and do correct order of skills.
Against a lvl114 Feoh on my Yul I struggle more. I had a fight against the same Feoh on another toon, and I killed him easy mode with the Yul gear.
At any Ketra party, you always have 1 Yul which pushes the rest of the group, if the gear follows a minimum.
My whole CP members got massive lvl boost during last XP event, because I could carry them as a Yul, and today the single target DDs became as strong as the Yul with less gear.
The Yul is simply known to farm faster, but remains a glass canon at the end of the day.
I take the CD increase of AOE skills with pleasure, it will slightly backfire on group XP.