lv99 bitch/speculation/etc thread

[Aevis]

raising lvl cap and raising existing mobs doesn't make any sense. either they put a lvl cap on certain events (dyna, limbus etc.) or not. people were crying years for a kings fix, here it is: make them obsolete, add new content. who cares if tiamat becomes the new roc, if you can get gaiters+2 from a lvl 99 instance.

[Avarice]

Unless it specifically says that Lv99 will be exclusive to new areas, get ready for it to be allowed everywhere.

[Sindalf]

To me this means new content and all around new challenges. Think about it. There is only so much you can do with the variety of mobs at level 75 that it just starts to become repetitive.

This is a second beginning for ffxi imo. Everyone is getting another chance to play this game. Think about it in a few months everyone will be max level again going against brand new content that none of us know anything about. That journey is what I think SE wanted to regive to the players of ffxi. Remember the feeling when your LS was the only LS to ever kill xxxxx mob. Well think of that feeling all over again. I don't think things will be push over easy for much longer.

[BardonGaruda]

As I've been saying to people since I woke up, despite my scepticism of the FFXI developers I really can't see them having decided to up the level cap by 24 levels on a total whim. This game has had a level cap of 75 for, what, more than six years? Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I really can't imagine the devs making that huge a decision without thinking it through very carefully indeed. Maybe it won't be handled particularly well, but I very much doubt they'd intentionally warp the game they've spent almost a decade developing beyond all recognition in a single patch.

The few people I've spoken to, and evidently a number of people on here, are acting like this is the FFXI apocalypse, and I don't understand why. Sure, maybe the 99 cap will turn the game on its head, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Personally I'd rather see the game shaken up and altered drastically for the last year or so of its life than watch it continue to stagnate and thin out as it has been for the past couple of years. Even if game balance is irreparably fucked up, at least it means we're not just going to be sitting in a collective stupor doing the same shit we've all been doing for the past however many years until XIV finally goes live. This, to me, is exciting.

Completely agree. The idea of possibly leaving old content behind and moving on to new stuff with friends is something I'm really looking forward to.

[Corrderio]

raising lvl cap and raising existing mobs doesn't make any sense. either they put a lvl cap on certain events (dyna, limbus etc.) or not. people were crying years for a kings fix, here it is: make them obsolete, add new content. who cares if tiamat becomes the new roc, if you can get gaiters+2 from a lvl 99 instance.

From the site:

New camping grounds are scheduled to be added to cater to the anticipated rise in demand for experience parties. Furthermore, the redistribution of monsters in existing areas is also under consideration.

Some things might, however the bold could only mean for shit like AV/PW for all we know. Either way I'm going to wait and see what happens.

[Avarice]

So who else is hyped for Meteor? =D

[Hookah]

So who else is hyped for Meteor? =D

Considering how useful AoE spells are in this game, not very.

[Altanass]

Its come too late, all my friends quit because WOTG has trickled out too slow for their liking

[Auspice]

Wow, as a Red Mage it seems like SE is destroying my job. They want to add enfeebling abilities to other jobs and raising the level cap is going to give any job Refresh and Convert. Good thing they already made Scholar what Red Mage should have been as far as a caster goes, what are they going to do to balance that? :/

[DeathbySnoosnoo]

Every update I see from SE pisses me off more than the last, they are slowly becoming blizzard, which was a great company till WoW came around. While FFXI hasn't had quite the success as WoW(monetarily speaking) it was a big success for the company and it has gone to their heads. While the level 99 decision was most likely not a whim, it was still a bad decision. They are tweaking new content instead of fixing all the problems with old content and it saddens me.
Its like saying I'm going to make the pain in your foot go away by hitting you in the head.

[Souj]

wait.. so this is actual factual truth? theyre really raising the cap to 99?

[Corrderio]

I just realized COR/BLM will be a thing of the past since 80 COR/RDM will get MAB 2. Win!

[drwaffles]

Wow, as a Red Mage it seems like SE is destroying my job. They want to add enfeebling abilities to other jobs and raising the level cap is going to give any job Refresh and Convert. Good thing they already made Scholar what Red Mage should have been as far as a caster goes, what are they going to do to balance that? :/

From what they said I assume they're going to alter abilities and spells such as Convert and Refresh such that they don't completely break job balance. Perhaps they'll make Convert a 2:1 HP:MP ratio when subbing RDM or something similar.

[Kayatani]

Wow, as a Red Mage it seems like SE is destroying my job. They want to add enfeebling abilities to other jobs and raising the level cap is going to give any job Refresh and Convert. Good thing they already made Scholar what Red Mage should have been as far as a caster goes, what are they going to do to balance that? :/

Don't feel too bad, assuming they raise the cap to 80 > 90 > 99 in each update, we still get to refresh people until September. At which point SCH will make RDM obsolete as backline party support, PUP will be given more potent debuffs to make it useful at endgame, and RDM will get a new sword and Enlight to fill the void PUP left.

[Hookah]

Just had a thought, what will happen to merits?

Do they take effect at lvl 75? or are they stripped till you reach cap again?

[Nishida]

Wow, as a Red Mage it seems like SE is destroying my job. They want to add enfeebling abilities to other jobs and raising the level cap is going to give any job Refresh and Convert. Good thing they already made Scholar what Red Mage should have been as far as a caster goes, what are they going to do to balance that? :/

Refresh II, Haste II, Para III, Slow III, Dia IV, Bio IV, Phalanx III, T4 Nukes, Fast Cast IV, MAB3, Cure V...not to mention new spells, abilities, and merits.

Far from broken I'd imagine.

[RPGTyrant]

Seems like they are kept in place, with a possibility of current merit caps being reconsidered, and a new merit system, according to this:

An increase in maximum upgrades is being considered for existing merit point skills and attributes. Preparations are also under way for the introduction of a new type of merit point for players who have reached the new level 99 summit.

[fosgate]

Inb4 everyone levels DD jobs to 99 and leaves their mage jobs at 75 so they dont have to be mage.

And ill kill a basket full of kittens if i see BLM level 82-99 by subbing RDM and being a refresher/healer.

[Isiolia]

I just don't see how they expect merits to factor into this. Especially given that so many of them are logical extensions of the job by that level. Are we going to earn both limit and XP points? More likely, have to do both?

They'll have to do an awful lot to actually differentiate mage jobs when everyone can get Cure IV, Refresh, Haste, Convert, etc from subjob.

Also seems like it's only asking for double trouble with current not-so-instanced content like Dynamis. They're merging servers, -then- basically making that into mass-killing Too Weak mobs? Good luck getting in.

It really seems like this creates more issues to be solved than SE has been addressing in the game period in the last year or so.

[Cream Soda]

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