Limit Breaks...what do you think?

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Originally Posted by Spy

Your idea's boring ;p
I like more content...and I don't mind receiving a challenge once in a while.

Besides...don't you think leveling is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too easy now? It's not like it's a huge hindrance to add a challenging single-player fight to raise cap on jobs you can max out in 2 weeks.

I have 3 jobs maxed already and another one coming close...it took me FOUR YEARS to get ONE job to lvl 75 in FFXI! (I change jobs a lot >.>...and fool around even more...leveling has never really been my top priority) And I only returned and made this character a few months ago.

Besides, considering so many people are complaining about players not knowing how to play their jobs correctly, this might be a good challenge that could help improve their ability. So yeah, I think they should be held at a certain level until they can get past a fight.

I'm not saying make the fights IMPOSSIBLE, but at least challenging. It would also hold people a little lower for a bit longer to help out with lower level content getting a boost in quality in my opinion. There's too much end-game content and not enough lower level content...which atm is understandable because, as I said, people are maxing out their characters way too fast.

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There's more endgame content right now because SE is working to cater towards the players that have been here the longest, which is perfectly fine by me.

Also, back in the day, you remember parchments in Eldieme, as well as the other stupid items you were required to find before breaking that genkai? Way back in the day, the droprate on that **** was so bad it took me a week of shouting for help, getting down in there, and spending 4-5 hours a day killing skeletons for that stupid piece of paper. That wasn't a challenge - it was ridiculous, and stupid quests like that shouldn't be there to inhibit people's pace of leveling, especially if that's what they enjoy.

Granted, the other quests weren't as ridiculous (Maat is up for debate, because I killed him in record time on my SAM and held that record for several months on Bahamut, and he was anything from easy to impossible-to-gauge, depending on job and gear), but as long as they're nothing like that, it could be alright. If it's something relatively simple, but challenging in size and scope - like defeating an NM - that's perfectly alright. But nothing based on droprates that aren't going to be anything more than plain ****ty.

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Originally Posted by Yucie

If it's something relatively simple, but challenging in size and scope - like defeating an NM - that's perfectly alright. But nothing based on droprates that aren't going to be anything more than plain ****ty.

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Amen, I'm all for throwing down with an NM or a NPC required to continue leveling. Please please no stupid farming for items in an area that is insanely difficult to navigate as a lower level class. I spent days getting the scroll to beat maat my first try.

We already have Quests at given intervals, only problem is this game was made to solo so they're too easy and they're not mandatory to level.

I do not mind level cap quests, but one thing I want to happen that I really diddn't see in FFXI was have such limit break quests be tied to the game's lore. Something that makes the breach of self limits really feel like it was something of signifigance to yourself and the world around you.

For the classes in the game outside Blue Mage, Puppetmaster, Corsair, Dancer, and Scholar, there did not feel any significance, you beat up an old man and watched him reminisce about the growing of Jeuno. It didn't matter what job you did it on, which kinda make those core jobs feel flat and uniform.

If I'm going to break level cap on my lancer, I want that quest to be significant to my Lancer, like the Guild Leader taking me out for a trip to tell me I've hit a roadblock in my training, and assuring me through some sort of trial (perhaps involving Greenwrath, that I seem to be able to brazenly ignore) that I can go higher.

Or for my Gladiator, I get pitted in the Arena to press my skills, where I meet some rival that hands me my but, only to pick me up off my rump later on to tell me to keep at it cause I have potential.

I want the entirety of my level cap breaking experience to feel like it belongs to me as the classes I chose to bring up, not some silly generic fetch quest.

Anyways, those are my thoughts on it.

I do agree there should be limit break quests.

And i agree with the fact it should be a solo quest with your job, like the Maat fight. (or something different, but still solo).

Something that you can do that requires using the abilities of your job to succeed.

Although it's a party based game, it is nice to have some milestones that you have face alone to prove your worth.

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Originally Posted by Churchill

I've never once thought someone was badass for holding an achievement in a video game of which the entire premise is predicated by time spent playing the game.

Spoilers: Maat's cap, fucking lol.

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Holy eff!! Churchill plays this game?!

I decided I had too many relics in XI and that the game provided zero challenge.

So, I'm waiting for 2.0 and getting my character pimped. I don't think I'll keep playing if they turn it into an XI grindfest, keep the RNG type drop system with no progression aspects, or slow down content release if it actually does succeed.

Until then, yes