Ever since the SoA the updates have been nothing but screwing up what kept the game alive 10+ years. The first mistake was making ITEM level and growth. What this SOA expansion It seems this was is a way to CURVE the players from burning through content to fast. If they kept everything 99 then players wouldn't need the LEVELED based gear to beat it. So they throw in this item based level system as a stop gap to slow the content consumption. Unfortunitly, it also separated the player base. If you can't get that gear you'll never amount to anything.

They might as well of just UPPED the EXP level caps and added some seriously hardcore long limit breakers quest where you had to do them for every JOB. Seriously, I'm sick o the direction I'm seeing this game head. Everyone I know personally RL who plays or played agrees. Maybe it's time people need to start canceling. It's just that F'n bad.

It broke the game and they're adding this when other aspects could be fixed /improved. Sorry, developers this game is going down hill so bad that even if you tried to save it you couldn't.