[Suggestion Bandwagon] Transcending our characters

[Arcon]

I find it amusing you don't wish to grind in a game all about grinding :x

Which is why everyone hates this game.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Good, because no thanks, I do not want to reset my character on X amount of jobs and start exping from scratch to make it slightly better. I'll do what I have to to make my character/my favourite jobs as good as they can be, but that there is a terrible idea, sorry.

Are you kidding me? The majority of players would reset a job in a heartbeat to get better stats in the end. You can litteraly be 99 again by the next day if XP stays the same.

[Tamoa]

Are you kidding me? The majority of players would reset a job in a heartbeat to get better stats in the end. You can litteraly be 99 again by the next day if XP stays the same.

An idea (almost) straight from Ragnarok Online; allow us to "transcend" jobs. By this, I mean you level to 99, beat a solo bcnm of some sort like the old Maat fight, then you are level 1 again on that job. EXP requirements double or triple to level, and the final outcome is slightly better combat/magic skill and slightly higher base stats. To make it slightly more appealing, add a special job trait/ability/spell the second time you reach 99.

Transcending can only happen once per job (i.e. you cannot level to 99, transcend, level to 99, transcend, etc), maybe capping the amount of jobs you can transcend at 2-3.

On the same note, perhaps nerf Abyssea exp for transcended characters until ~90 so it forces people to repopulate a lot of the older zones to do fields/grounds of valor.

Again, no thanks to this suggestion.

[Zerich]

Inc. dev. response!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xantavia]

I kinda like this idea, but I'd like to see it be applicable to a single job only. Not a major gain, but let people use it for what they consider their main job.

[AyinDygra]

I kinda like this idea, but I'd like to see it be applicable to a single job only. Not a major gain, but let people use it for what they consider their main job.

This is exactly why I wouldn't want to see this limited to a single job... and why merit limits and selection of storyline rewards are so frustrating in a game designed to let a single character play all jobs and switch between them and all nations and see all the storylines. These methods of forcing one to focus on a single job go against the core game design seen throughout the rest of the game.

[Duelle]

This is exactly why I wouldn't want to see this limited to a single job... and why merit limits and selection of storyline rewards are so frustrating in a game designed to let a single character play all jobs and switch between them and all nations and see all the storylines. These methods of forcing one to focus on a single job go against the core game design seen throughout the rest of the game.

See, some people aren't about having it all. In a way, it seems to be suited for those of us who identify more with one job than the others. Some like RDM, others like PLD, others like BLU, others like WHM and so on. Switching hats is a nice game mechanic and all, but at the end of the day I think of my taru as "Duelle the Red Mage", not "Duelle the guy with a bunch of under-levelled jobs and RDM and DRK at 99".

[Arcon]

See, some people aren't about having it all. In a way, it seems to be suited for those of us who identify more with one job than the others.

Almost everything in this game is done under the premise that people nothing you do on one job excludes something from another. Very few examples to that are certain rewards (CoP, RotZ, AN, ToAU rewards) and merit points (as in, if you merit STR for your melee, you cannot fully merit INT for your nukers). And this also bothers the shit out of me, because my entire philosophy is to be the best at everything I play.

The problem with your approach is, it would change a core concept of FFXI (the non-trade-off policy between jobs), something that many people appreciate and thus would upset many players. If it was for all jobs, you could still be special, because you can focus more on your job and get new/better gear faster and use your inventory and storage more efficiently, and it would allow us to still be able to do it for every job we want to. So if it was for all jobs, no one would get hurt, if it was restricted to a few, a lot of people would be upset.

Having said that, I'm still against it completely. Guess it's personal preference but I think it's been well-established that a majority of players hates EXP and wouldn't wanna go through this again.

[Rezeak]

An idea (almost) straight from Ragnarok Online; allow us to "transcend" jobs. By this, I mean you level to 99, beat a solo bcnm of some sort like the old Maat fight, then you are level 1 again on that job. EXP requirements double or triple to level, and the final outcome is slightly better combat/magic skill and slightly higher base stats. To make it slightly more appealing, add a special job trait/ability/spell the second time you reach 99

So to become the best DRK i'd have to do a BCNM then get 30 then afk in abyssea for a day .... yea, no thx.

Group 3/4 merits that cost alot of merits are a much better idea.

[Cowardlybabooon]

Cool idea, but yeah not gonna happen.