New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

[RPGTyrant]

The fact merit point accumulation wasn't mentioned has me a bit skeptical. They were careful to go into detail about this system... so why leave out something as important as merits? I would assume we can still merit while under "sync" since you can merit in lv capped areas, but will have to wait and find out...

I also wonder how exactly the gear will scale & if this scaling will make it better/worse then some of the lv specific gear. For ex: Osode is a good RNG WS piece at 75, but if that scales to lv 30 - will +2~3 stats be better than the JSE? There are other pieces of gear I question also... and it has the potential to be a great system... but I just wonder if it's gonna be implemented a most of us are expecting.

Gaining Experience
When Level Sync is in effect, players will gain 100% of the experience and limit points possible to gain at their reduced level.

Reading strikes again.

[Xno Kappa]

This...this is just...dotdotdot

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s...st-not-fap.jpg

[Xanthe]

So delay is unaffected, huh?

http://images.wikia.com/ffxi/images/...e_Crossbow.png

The f*ck do I care if they make it D1? The bolts I fire are still the same.

Nerf RNG! (again)

[Khamsin]

If so, that would stink if something KO's the player in question mid-fight.

SyncPlayer has been defeated.

*exp chain goes poof for party*

That happens normally, in a regular lowbie PT when someone dies. The chain goes poof, and people wait 5 min for raise/rest.

At least in this case, if shit hits the fan, you can bust out of your level cap and lay the smackdown so you're only out of it for only a minute rather than 5.

Is the 30 second buffer period from the time you initially cap yourself to when you can choose to break it, or from when you request to de-sync to when you actually get your full level back? I just hope its not like the logoff countdown, where it takes time to get your level back.

[Kyreth]

So delay is unaffected, huh?

http://images.wikia.com/ffxi/images/...e_Crossbow.png

The f*ck do I care if they make it D1 @ LV30? The bolts I fire are still the same.

Nice.

[Amele]

Even is the level cap sync is at level 10, there is still room for this abuse. Is that like a R3?

raise 3 is all of 240xp lost at level 75. if you want to call saving a whole 110xp/death at the cost of running some level 10 mule to the ass-end of nowhere so you can party up with them just so you can sync up before you die "abuse"; be my guest.

[Cream Soda]

I wonder how Shura Togi will be scaled down at lets say, lv 40. Cause if its like 5 acc 5 attack, /goodbye jujitsu gi (as a matter of fact, i'm going to sell mine now and if it doesn't turn out that way, I'll just buy another later).
As for like 60 cap, I'm wondering how they'll do AF+1. They said they'd take off special shit, but like I see no point in AF+1 body not enhancing chakra on my mnk at lv 60 and being weaker in usefulness than my regular AF. (Because I want to be able to not have to take AF out of storage anymore, lol)

[Priran]

Any word on whether the gear will be scaled down based on the player's level, or the gear's level? I.e. will a 75 player with a Haubergeon in a 30-capped party get a 30/75 or a 30/59 penalty on the Hauby's stats? My guess would be the latter, but I didn't see it stated clearly by SE.

if a player's level is reduced below the item's minimum level, the attributes of high-level equipment will be scaled down proportionally to the reduced level.

hurrrrrrrrr

[Cutriss]

The only thing about this update that disappoints me is that it will break FFXIStyle, but then that's nothing really new anyway.

[Jazelon]

Very nice update...I'm curious to see how items with Refresh will be treated at lower levels

[JpegAsura]

I dun have a problem with the new system. I mean, some of us have all jobs at 75 and therefore can't always pt with friends... What are ppl like us to do!?!? I'm curious to see how multi-hit weapons are affected.

[nekura]

Fuck yes, no more of this shit:
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/ff...ElvaanMale.png
(replace with orange-haired Elvaan)

in level capped stuff.

[Edrick]

This news alone may get me to come back to the game. o.o Totally unexpected that something like this would happen. Not to mention the added AF2 for BLU and whatnot... It seems like FFXI is getting a bit more exciting lately.

Then again, I just really miss it a lot. >.>

[Kylen]

So delay is unaffected, huh?

http://images.wikia.com/ffxi/images/...e_Crossbow.png

The f*ck do I care if they make it D1 @ LV30? The bolts I fire are still the same.

I thought the same thing about Peacemaker on COR, but that's even more awesome.

[Ophannus]

Uh... I highly doubt that any relics will be able to use the WS. You probably need a high dagger level to have the WS even when being 75(anyone know?).

I'm pretty sure a SAM with 0 Archery can still use Namas Arrow with a Yoichinoyumi on.

[Saithorx]

I like it in many ways, but there is one thing I am worried about.

If the party is in level-sync mode, and a member has a 75BRD PL to sing songs in the party between battles... you fill in the rest, it's obvious.

[Kyreth]

Very nice update...I'm curious to see how items with Refresh will be treated at lower levels

Refresh is a special ability, it's wiped off the item if your synced level > it's level.

(Seriously, how many failures in reading are there on this one thread?)

[Severance]

Cute

[Ashira]

HEY GUYS! I HAD THE BEST IDEA EVER!

What if! you are leveling in a regular party, right? And someone levels up and it kills EXP, and it sucks cuz the PT is good??

YOU CAN LEVEL SYNC! YAY EXP!

-.-

:D

I love you, TBR.

[Kyreth]

I dun have a problem with the new system. I mean, some of us have all jobs at 75 and therefore can't always pt with friends... What are ppl like us to do!?!? I'm curious to see how multi-hit weapons are affected.

Attributes that will be affected include: DMG, DEF, HP, MP, Status Effects, Accuracy+, Attack+, Ranged Accuracy+, Ranged Attack+, Magic Accuracy+, and Magic Attack+.

If it's not one of those, you lose it completely. Period. "Occasionally attacks twice" falls under that, so does Refresh, Haste, Fast Cast, and "Strangely aroused by Galka.".