Level 99 - Trial of the Citadel

[Brentt]

I also am gonna go ahead and vote for level 100!

[Aver]

Let's get it over with and go 100.

[Perfectus]

My vote is for 100 because it would be stupid not to accept an extra level if it's being offered. There are no good reasons to vote for 99.

"Level 5 petrify" How often does anyone ever really fight ahrimans?

"Balance" It's not our job to worry about this. Even if they take away all the spells, JT's, and JA's you get from a lvl 50 sub we would still get an extra lvl's worth of hp/mp stats and lvl correction. It's a free, albeit small, buff for every job.

Instead of whining about whether or not X job will get to sub your jobs special abilities and make you less special, whine about getting new special job-defining abilities, that way you can still feel special and we can still get a use out of being able to sub other jobs. I mean that's the point to being able to isn't it? Or maybe SE should just get rid of subjobs altogether and everyone loses?

Oh yea... "Tradition" I don't even know what to say about this. It's not even worth arguing.

[Hannah]

100 (Yes, please.)

[brayen]

"Level 5 petrify" How often does anyone ever really fight ahrimans?

*lvl 100 update arrives*
"...ahrimans...ahrimans EVERYWHERE~"

[Arcon]

Oh yea... "Tradition" I don't even know what to say about this. It's not even worth arguing.

Neither is anything of what you said. There's no good reason to do it, just as there's no reason not to do it. It's just a matter of personal preference.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

While I still vote 99, imbalance is not an argument against 100. I find it odd to even mention balance with the current standing of the game. Making Convert and Refresh subbable was the biggest imbalance I could imagine. The only thing that could come even halfway close is /SCH getting 40% higher stratagem efficiency, with higher stratagem count to boot. Apart from that, nothing about this is a major increase, not even Composure.

Basically every one of RDM's JA's being sub-jobable is a massive imbalance. Sorry but it is, they were quick enough to block NIN's and WHM's JA's.

[Troupe]

I like the idea of seeing my jobs as 100 rather than 99. Although other FF cap at 99 I always had a feeling of being incomplete once I had everyone 99. Plus level 100 would bring extra stat boost which I'm not going to complain about!

I vote 100!

[Sotek]

I'd rather SE spend time at Lv.99 working on new abilities for each job, rather than spending all their time at Lv.100 balancing the massive amount of spells and abilities that will suddenly become accessible, considering they barely managed at Lv.80 (see: Red Mage).

Like it or not Lv.100 is going to take a great deal of time to balance and implement; unless they just cap subs at Lv.49, but then Lv.100 is worthless, they have to adjust Lv.50 abilities for Lv.100 to be worthwhile and that's going to take time. Considering they have a much smaller team these days, the cap rise would without a doubt be pushed back an update if they decide to do Lv.100. That means new merits are pushed back an update and new endgame is pushed back an update. Not worth it for one levels worth of stats and maybe some new toys from subjob.

Lv.100 adds little to nothing to the game, its potentially crippling for some jobs and certainly going to push back new content if they decide to seriously balance it. Lv.99 has none of those problems, they've been planning it for about a year now and it should already be set in stone. There's no reason for them to change that now.

[Amador]

Sotek that post is completely speculation.

It's basically a preference, how can you say that 100 is going to squander potential releases, and other abilities. Completely silly. You can't sit there and say that 99, or 100 has any issues. You simply do not know. They have restricted certain abilities from certain jobs more than once. There's no issues with this being implemented in the future.

Regardless of what balancing they do for 100. It still comes down to them ACTUALLY balancing EVERYTHING at 100 ANYWAYS. It's work that will need to be done regardless. So don't say anything gets pushed back simply because of *insert reason here* simply because you feel like it. The post is what would you like to see, 99 or 100? Simple.

It's not for you to sit there and attempt to fathom the capability of the people who actually get paid to balance, create, and continue to COMPETE in the MMO world to continue profiting off of this little money maker. They get paid for a reason, and their main concern right now is appeasing the community on a majority scale. Which right now, in this thread seems to be heavily towards 100.