Job points = another form of merit points?

[Camate]

Greetings!

We’re happy to see many of you are looking forward to this new system.

i really really hope that this is restricted from abyssea.

As some have already mentioned, it will not be possible to earn capacity points in Abyssea.
In the March version update it will not be possible to earn capacity points from Records of Eminence; however, we will be looking into addressing this in the future.

Please also keep in mind that the screenshot that was released for this content is still in development, and it’s possible that changes are made. According to the latest information we’ve received, it will be possible to upgrade each category up to 10 times initially for the March version update, not 30 as shown in the screenshot. Moving forward we will be increasing the cap on each category as well adding new categories.

it sounds like you won't accrue the new points while under Level Sync.

As capacity points can only be earned while on a job that is level 99 and through defeating monsters that are level 96 and above, capacity points cannot be earned while level synced.

[Feary]

Except very rarely are people even leveling on things where status removal is an issue. But that's beside the point: I play WHM to do that stuff when it matters, not when I'm leveling (where it doesn't, because leveling should not be the majority of what you're doing).

And as far as worm parties in particular: no, I'm the guy who's like "oh, Mikey's up, time to get rid of him so that he's not getting in the way" and proceeds to engage, CFH, and destroy Mikey in relatively short order, without help from everyone else usually. If I notice someone needs healing, and they're not mindlessly running around like a bozo being impossible to find, I'll heal them... but anymore, worms in Aby don't function like an actual alliance, they function like a pair of keyers supporting a mix of sixteen soloers and AFK idiots. It used to be different. (Not a lot different, but having one or two roaming healers and not splitting everyone up one person to a worm did make a small difference.)

yes, leveling in abyssea on worm are a different function than an actual alliance. however. your job role is not.

your priority is to save players and enhance them with haste and in this case removing rasp. people are doing well and topped off and you want to engage. sure why not. once in a while wont hurt anyone.

just dont sit there and tell me having a different leveling method that requires attention and use of job skill is a bad thing.

[Feary]

Sadly that is what the dev have been hearing since aby came out is "Bring back 6 man grind parties" so can you really blame them for giving people what they want. It's utter BS but when the morons are load enough this is what you get.

i can say the same about 95% percent of content. there are many different types and in some cases,useless content based on half thought out idea posted by casual players.

For example Delve. 70k plasm per win with unlimited amount of times you can enter created and magnified the huge player skill gap. where anyone who was remotely decent earned wins and won a regular basis. vs those who werent and never got any of the content done. when the players winning finished, they moved on and no longer could/would carry and show those newer player how its done. which lead to the many posts in this forum.

its now scaled, yet the same issues that those players have still apply. if you couldnt win it in alliance you still cant win. in fact the to "easing" content doesnt do any thing for casual who dont put in the time to gear appropriately. they complain and whine about its difficult and time and time again the only player benefiting are the players who already got off their laziness and put time in their job. basically you all complained about the difficulty of delve for months and they ease the content which lead you to find out you still still dont make the cut. (like most alliance leader were saying). Ironically, that update only benefited decent players who no longder to wait on players to form an alliance or have subpar players who dont "get it" try to join and mess stuff up.


tldr learn the play the game, enjoy it for what it is and stop trying to take hte easy way out through adjustments.

[Feary]

Greetings!

We’re happy to see many of you are looking forward to this new system.



As some have already mentioned, it will not be possible to earn capacity points in Abyssea.
In the March version update it will not be possible to earn capacity points from Records of Eminence; however, we will be looking into addressing this in the future.

Please also keep in mind that the screenshot that was released for this content is still in development, and it’s possible that changes are made. According to the latest information we’ve received, it will be possible to upgrade each category up to 10 times initially for the March version update, not 30 as shown in the screenshot. Moving forward we will be increasing the cap on each category as well adding new categories.




As capacity points can only be earned while on a job that is level 99 and through defeating monsters that are level 96 and above, capacity points cannot be earned while level synced.

Excellent, thank you for clearing this up Camate. i look forward to the change of pace.

[Camiie]

Greetings!

We’re happy to see many of you are looking forward to this new system.

As some have already mentioned, it will not be possible to earn capacity points in Abyssea.

Can you tell us what the reasoning is for this? I mean, I and others can speculate but it'd be nice to know where the devs are actually coming from.

[Olor]

Can you tell us what the reasoning is for this? I mean, I and others can speculate but it'd be nice to know where the devs are actually coming from.

I am assuming that it has to do with the level restriction of mobs. Are any mobs in abyssea over level 95?

[Camiie]

I am assuming that it has to do with the level restriction of mobs. Are any mobs in abyssea over level 95?

I meant why the whole idea of not letting any and all forms of XP count.

[leorez]

I meant why the whole idea of not letting any and all forms of XP count.

probably because they knew it would just be another thing everyone plowed through it all in a day because abysea XP is broken.

[Olor]

I meant why the whole idea of not letting any and all forms of XP count.

Ah, sorry. I'm assuming it's because they want to encourage a certain form of play. Would love to hear the rationale straight from the Behemoth's mouth, of course.

I personally think it is smart of them to restrict it, as it will create a specific kind of party outside of the ones we see currently...

[Feary]

I meant why the whole idea of not letting any and all forms of XP count.

Logically, not matter how convenient all other forms of XP are, there must be progression. Leveling on level 80 worms or any content similar to that shouldn't be continued for content created for progression above 99.