lv99 bitch/speculation/etc thread

[Gokulo]

There's no way around that no matter what they do, so people should just start getting used to the idea. They add this stuff so people play the game longer and give them money, so why would they care about it being hard to exp fast (or at all? )

[Gwynplaine]

I mentioned this elsewhere but, if they decide to leave the cap at 80 for the length of one update Octave Klub will be a full on KC. If it matters at that stage is another issue though.

[Lovex]

As a 7 year ffxi player,
This is so fresh and new.

Daak/Aksannyi, i respect your opinions, i know you two been playing
a very long time but the game is/was dying.

You guys were heads in your hnm shells right? Its easier to look down on this update
when you have everything and can get everything. Especially in shells
like excellence. Of course their base is happy. Even if you have members
who are bored to death, they can just do a relic/mythic. When you're in a shell
that can really help each and every hard working member with shit like that, it makes
up for the same old boring thing.

But just as question to all of you people who have been doing the same king shit
all these years since smns using aerial armor to shield PLDs in aery.

Are you seriously not feeling just a little refreshed? I enjoy killing hnm too but
the mechanics of the jobs got boring after playing them for so many years
doing the same stuff. Killing hnm is fun but most of the excitment for me came
from competing, racing to claim (NON botted ones..) and trying different
things with my jobs.

This update could and might make alot of our efforts for current HNM a little
obselete but is that a really a bad thing?

If they add new gear, new mobs, new areas, I say
lets move on and start having fun again cause after my first 2 years of doing kings,
i started to hate it.

I am hoping they allow lvl99 in most if not all areas because that would
mean a complete change in the way we can potentially play. It also
means 7 years worth of content could be too easy. Which could
be a bad thing... Very bad thing if they dont add alot of new monsters
and bcs etc. Alot of new challenging BCs and or HNM can make up for that.

Its something that can and will really spice up the game again.

As the game stands now, shit is pretty boring. This could hurt the game in the long
run but for at least another year and a half (?) things will change alot and the game
will be refreshing again. Endgame anyway.

A year and a half of refreshing fun new content is better than the same
old shit we've had for all these years.

[Destinye]

Think it'll be more than 1000... Asura already has 1.5k people on at all times (I was flabberghasted to see it was being merged with another server). Another 1k addition to people online at all times is like 2.5k on during NA weekdays at every hour... That is an abhorrent amount of people, the game is currently not designed to handle that, in my opinion. Not when people have the expectations from the current best EXP camps, etc. How on earth can you possibly hope to EXP in Bhaflau or Wajaom on a job like THF (or at all) when 50-100 other people in your level range are LFP?

FFXI wasn't designed to handle the 3-8k people who used to be on some servers yet still managed lol, sure there won't be enough pink birds but people will finally move elsewhere >.>

[Kipling]

Wonder if Apathy will be able to take down AV at level 80.

I'm wondering if AV is going to level 24 levels the first time we engage him as level 99's.

[drwaffles]

You guys were heads in your hnm shells right?

Lol. Aks started doing endgame like a year ago at most and wasn't anything particularly special by all accounts, she just likes to give the impression on here that she's big-time. And I don't know why Daak is whining when his gaming experience is more like EGS Fantasy XI than Final Fantasy XI.

[Drakath]

FFXI wasn't designed to handle the 3-8k people who used to be on some servers yet still managed lol, sure there won't be enough pink birds but people will finally move elsewhere >.>

There won't be any choice, I'm aware... But all the people who moved to EXP in obscure areas will be aware of the significantly lower EXP rates they have to endure because there are 10 parties already in generic places like Wajaom and Bhaflau... That kind of EXP is not enjoyable EXP to me, not in theory.

[Aksannyi]

Lol. Aks started doing endgame like a year ago at most and wasn't anything particularly special by all accounts, she just likes to give the impression on here that she's big-time. And I don't know why Daak is whining when his gaming experience is more like EGS Fantasy XI than Final Fantasy XI.

I was in Excellence, I never gave anyone the impression that I was a leader or a "head" of the shell, at most I was very lucky and thankful to be given the chance to join the shell. It was fun while it lasted but the game got stale. And as it stands now, I still have no interest in playing, not even with new content being added and the already overwhelming thought of attaining 24 more levels on four jobs.

[Sindalf]

There won't be any choice, I'm aware... But all the people who moved to EXP in obscure areas will be aware of the significantly lower EXP rates they have to endure because there are 10 parties already in generic places like Wajaom and Bhaflau... That kind of EXP is not enjoyable EXP to me, not in theory.

Remember the days pre TOAU?

[drwaffles]

I was in Excellence, I never gave anyone the impression that I was a leader or a "head" of the shell, at most I was very lucky and thankful to be given the chance to join the shell. It was fun while it lasted but the game got stale. And as it stands now, I still have no interest in playing, not even with new content being added and the already overwhelming thought of attaining 24 more levels on four jobs.

Then why on earth are you posting here?

[Aksannyi]

Then why on earth are you posting here?

It's a forum. I am allowed to have and express an opinion. If I were still playing, I would feel the exact same way as I do now. I suppose it hardly matters what my opinion is but there are plenty of other quit people posting here and they're just as entitled to state their opinions.

[drwaffles]

It's a forum. I am allowed to have and express an opinion. If I were still playing, I would feel the exact same way as I do now. I suppose it hardly matters what my opinion is but there are plenty of other quit people posting here and they're just as entitled to state their opinions.

Being entitled to do something dumb doesn't make it any less dumb.

[Antithesis]

Grinding wasn't exactly a fun part of the game, nor was farming for days on end until I could afford Leet Piece of Gear I'm Gimp Without. Yeah, that's great they're gonna add new stuff but for people who (like me) were very happy with their character's progress and all of the work they'd put into it, this will rub them the wrong way.

Count me in the "Glad I Quit" club.

Baby, come downtown and we can cruise around in my Neon with Kaparu while blasting A whole new world down Lincoln Avenue.

[Hookah]

I wonder if they're going to make us do new genkai quests...

[Sho]

I noted there would be new zones. But after 80 those will be the only areas you can xp in because of the way Experience Points work. Level 75 Syncs will only last for 44k xp.

You're looking at 1000 people trying to simultaneously level up in (optimistically) 4 new zones? Even assuming everything in there is a killable chainable xp mob, shit will be wiped clean for a month. And if you doubt me about 1k people, keep in mind that almost everyone has a 75 and we're merging servers.

If you're interested in getting to cap asap, your best bet is going to be to blitz it right at the cap update and keep grabbing new 75 Syncs until you're 80, etc.

Also, idk about anyone else but Odin's 2-hour instantly killing all mobs in an area kinda sounds a little too good to be true as far as Astral Flowing goes. It's either going to not give xp or I'd bet they start banning for that.

Actually tbh, I'll probably get 80 (or w/e cap they plan on) faster by picking up any level sync party, while the idiots camp exp PTs and lfg for hours on end.

[Aksannyi]

Being entitled to do something dumb doesn't make it any less dumb.

And if I was considering coming back to the game, but now, because of these new developments, decided I wouldn't? Would that make expressing my opinion less dumb? I get the fact that you dislike me, that's perfectly fine. Put me on ignore then.

[Ohaigaiz]

History is about to be made with the increase of the level cap in the March version update and beyond! The increase will take place in stages until the new maximum, level 99, has been reached.

seriously no one caught this? 75-80,80-85,85-90,90-95,95-99

or however they'll do it

[Aro]

Just when I thought I got out, they kept pulling me back in. I don't think they could have done anything better to make people come back.

Obviously if you liked the gear you have/stuff you have earned up to date this might be frustrating, but I think new maps/enemies/gear/content beats having the same old stuff.

[Kyreth]

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? :/

On the other hand, we're going to see 24 levels more of spells, JA's, etc.

Refresh fucking II finally and/or Refreshga?

Logically speaking, the "core" of RDM will be getting a significant update with this change.

What stares me in the face though is what this is going to do with Ninjas and/or /NIN.

[amentis]

Just when I thought I got out, they kept pulling me back in. I don't think they could have done anything better to make people come back.

Obviously if you liked the gear you have/stuff you have earned up to date this might be frustrating, but I think new maps/reskinned enemies/reskinned gear/content beats having the same old stuff.

FTFY