Job Trials 91-99

[Akujima]

Eh? High level /= skilled; never has, nor should it. The game is little about skill anyway.

This more sounds like "SE give me a meters tick by which to discriminate against other players" Also, "Lock HLN players out of new/interesting content"
This isn't school, its not a job, we are not competing in the game of life. Its just a game. Some people will enjoy it because they have to figure out challenging battles, some will because they don't want to think about it and just goof around.
Every Single player has gotten thru the Maat fight once, I don't see how this would accomplish what you want. Let social responses handle social problems.

Well... I don't know where all that came from... But, Okay... I guess.

I was simply just saying that "Job Trials" would be fun and dynamic. I don't really agree about having 1 job trial per level, but still something like this would be welcome I would think. Fighting Maat back in the day was pretty special, I don't see how having something EPIC as the final Limit Break would hurt anyone...

[Ravenmore]

Needless time sink. Pluse wouldn't do crap for weeding out the so called unskilled. After the strat is posted on wiki everyone will blow rite though it.

[Akujima]

Needless time sink. Pluse wouldn't do crap for weeding out the so called unskilled. After the strat is posted on wiki everyone will blow rite though it.

Seems like everything is a Time Sink for people nowadays.

[Ravenmore]

In FF11 there have been enough time sinks. Time sink does not = content. Also lol saying maat fight was any thing speical or epic. Sleep TP pop JAs depending on job WS pop wing WS use healing meds win. Only job that had a hard time with maat was rdm, every other job it was a cake walk. I went 1/1 on drg with forgeting half my meds.

[Jalonis]

I suppose you want us to spend hours farming testimony like items every time we fail too?

[Amanie]

i like the idea, but oppose its use for leveling. perhaps this system can be used for empyrean +3 or AF4(why not)

noobs have always been around, they have always been able to get the good gear. it just so happens that the current system has made them easier to create. half the HLN would be less noobs if they actually lvl'd the old way. so blame the ppl who cleave/edge for gil, or the friends "helping" friends.

prohibition is not the solution, and no one likes stricter laws

[Kaiichi]

I like the idea, but then I don't. What I do like is more AF/ job spasific quest story line. Then again I was both releaved and disapointed when I found out I only had to get a cupple of merit points to break 75.

[Wenceslao]

Theres been a LOT of noise about the easy exp and increase in HLNs (high level noobs, need to impose the acronym) So I was thinking (not so hard) a way of getting to the middle point of no grind but CHALLENGE.... thats where it hit me...

What if... you dont level trough EXP from 91 to 99 but earn each level with a quest/mission/solo battlefield designed specifically for your job and forcing you to learn how to play it, being in a party, solo, support etc.

I wont post the details, just the idea.

Kinda like the Maat fights, or the avatar mini trials

Those kind of battle fields teach you a lot of your job, or at leas make you look for a guide or advice, so, by the time everyone is 99 they really know their job

Content outside Abyssea is pretty much an easy ride for 90s, no point in being 99 just so you dont get aggro, so, being 90 would be enough to enjoy old content lowmaning the missions and stuff, but lvl 99 woulb be something just the ones really dedicated to their job can achieve.

Discuss...

Well, after re-reading this posts and reading your idea, what if we had to fight a NPC representative from the job in question, as an example: If Im a BLM 90 and i want to unlock further levels, fight against Poseaulloie (in her shadowhand version) or Arijo-Marujido and then Shanttoto to unlock further levels, or if im a PLD a battlefield against Trion and then Curilla, and so on, for each job, that would be fun and challenging.

[Akujima]

Well, after re-reading this posts and reading your idea, what if we had to fight a NPC representative from the job in question, as an example: If Im a BLM 90 and i want to unlock further levels, fight against Poseaulloie (in her shadowhand version) or Arijo-Marujido and then Shanttoto to unlock further levels, or if im a PLD a battlefield against Trion and then Curilla, and so on, for each job, that would be fun and challenging.

Yea this is a good idea. Like having "The Best of" BLM arena matches or something. What's the problem with that? Why so much opposition to something that sounds like so much fun?

[MarkovChain]

Sounds fun but would completely kick casual players because xp is the only thing they can do. The idea is good for gear grinding, but not all the gear obviously. You could imagine a weekly bcnm against a pretty hard mob then the person that kills the most of him or kills it the fastest would earn a defending ring or another great item (or just a chance at it). At least it would give a reason to farm good gear.