Job points = another form of merit points?

[Eldrin]

i really really hope that this is restricted from abyssea.

i would really hate this if we were able to just spam exp/points in abyssea pts.

i would really like to have 6man parties around vanadiel. we would put up /seacoms and turn on our party flags again.

oh how i would love to pull a 500 limit chain again, so sososososososo badly.

the playerbase would be shocked, all the hovering players who wasnt sure about returning and left because of abyssea xp would rise from the dead. it would be a whole new game.

I very much agree with this. Specifically the Abyssea restriction, party, and chains. I have played off and on since launch, and have heard multiple people, friends and strangers, make the comment that "Abyssea Killed FFXI". I thought that they were making reference to the 99 level limit. I recently reached 99 on my third job, and this time, for the first time, I did a Abyssea grind from 75 - 99. I now see what they were referring too. I will only be doing that on jobs I don't like much lol. It is a fast way to level, but not much fun...at all...like 0...feels dirty...like cheating lol.

My fear being that 30,000 points will just not take a lot of time to grind out. My small 5 man party hit 180k/hr with just one BLM in sparks gear doing the nuking. I can only imagine what a full party/alliance would be making per hour.

(30,000 x 30 = 900,000)/180,000 = 6 hours. That is a time frame that I personally think is too short. But, hey, some people just want to customize, some want to just min/max, and some like to gind. I like all three. But, I'm pretty sure I am not the norm.

[MDenham]

I very much agree with this. Specifically the Abyssea restriction, party, and chains. I have played off and on since launch, and have heard multiple people, friends and strangers, make the comment that "Abyssea Killed FFXI". I thought that they were making reference to the 99 level limit. I recently reached 99 on my third job, and this time, for the first time, I did a Abyssea grind from 75 - 99. I now see what they were referring too. I will only be doing that on jobs I don't like much lol. It is a fast way to level, but not much fun...at all...like 0...feels dirty...like cheating lol.

My fear being that 30,000 points will just not take a lot of time to grind out. My small 5 man party hit 180k/hr with just one BLM in sparks gear doing the nuking. I can only imagine what a full party/alliance would be making per hour.

(30,000 x 30 = 900,000)/180,000 = 6 hours. That is a time frame that I personally think is too short. But, hey, some people just want to customize, some want to just min/max, and some like to gind. I like all three. But, I'm pretty sure I am not the norm.

I will direct you to the image in the first post.

You can hold up to two hundred job points on any given job at a time based on that image. So that's 6,000,000 capacity points needed before you have to go dump job points.

As far as chains... Uh. Solo chain 300+ (or, rather, "solo" because I'm pretty sure it was done with Trust NPCs) in Rala Waterways is a thing. The problem with taking a full EXP party at this point is slowing down kills to avoid getting slapped down by the respawn rate, which is admittedly very fast in Seekers areas, but it's still possible to run into it repeatedly.