up of level cap and last live letter.

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Q12: Will we be able to obtain a new egi after defeating Leviathan?

A12: We feel it’s unfair to add new abilities just for summoners, so we would like to add new abilities for all jobs at the same time. Therefore, it will happen when we raise the level cap.

We’re currently working on the expansion pack and thinking of raising the level cap at that time. We will most likely implement a new egi at that time. Please stay tuned!

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we know that the expansion will be around 2 years after the release of ARR, do that means some legacy player must stay 50 for more of 5 years? seriously?

i means a lot of possibility of the armory system are blocked because the jobs have only 5 skill, how you want to make a real difference between jobs and class with only 5 skill.

some of us are waiting for the raise of level cap for see how the armory system will evolve... and did you just say that we need to wait 2 more years?

i hope, seriously, that was an error... because gosh... wait 2 more years for be finally out of this 50... and i don't talk of the ilevel stuff that will be around 200 at this pace.

2 years before first expansion? wow I hope this isn't true.

I feel the expansion will be release this year or at the start of next year.

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Yoshida: For our current update schedule, we’re aiming for large updates every two and a half to three months. We pretty much already have our schedule solidified up to 2.3, and then if everything goes well we hope to have an expansion at around a year and a half after the original launch. That’s what we’re looking at, but then again you know how things change. We’re going to have a big launch and a lot of content at launch, and a lot of people on the team are working on this as well. So, we’ll have to see how things go with the launch but that’s what we’re looking at.

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from:
http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/0...per-interview/

Personally I'm fine without an expansion as long as the big patches keep bringing new content.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

from:
http://www.novacrystallis.com/2013/0...per-interview/

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This would indicate that we can expect the 1st expansion 1 1/2 year from its initial release in August/September 2013, which would be around March/April 2015. Sounds reasonable, considering that we should get about 5 more major content patch till then (2.2 included and if they release a major content patch every 3 months).

the trouble is not when we will get the expansion, but why they have change them idea to raise the level cap before it. i will look around for find it, but i clearly remember yoshida saying that the level cap raise will come before the expansion, mostly because a lot of legacy player was 50 for age.

and now we see that the level cap raise will come at the first expansion pack...
i feel perplexe by this choice, i can understand that new player just did begin the game and that they want to forget the v1, mostly because it was a catastrophe, but legacy/v1 player are still there... we are into this game (for some) for more of 3 years now...come on! is not a new game!

If I'm not mistaken, the fact that legacy players are 50 in almost every job is the reason they plan on releasing more Jobs/Classes (I believe it was 2 jobs per class and 1 maybe 2 additional classes) before the first expansion. I don't have a quote handy and I am too tired to look for one, but I recall reading that somewhere.

Yoshida says a lot of things. If he doesn't promise it and the older it is it will likely change due to certain circumstances.

the trouble to add 2 jobs from the same class is the 5 skill of difference, if you look the scholar and the summoner it's a perfect example of the limitation of the actual armory system the difference between the two are not that big. with a bigger level we will have more skill and it will be more clear the difference between the jobs from the same class.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

the trouble is not when we will get the expansion, but why they have change them idea to raise the level cap before it. i will look around for find it, but i clearly remember yoshida saying that the level cap raise will come before the expansion, mostly because a lot of legacy player was 50 for age.

and now we see that the level cap raise will come at the first expansion pack...
i feel perplexe by this choice, i can understand that new player just did begin the game and that they want to forget the v1, mostly because it was a catastrophe, but legacy/v1 player are still there... we are into this game (for some) for more of 3 years now...come on! is not a new game!

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I know where you are coming from. I’m a Legacy player myself. I’ve only leveled half of my classes to 50 (i’m including the DoH and DoL too), but almost all of my Battle Classes are 50. However, with my current in-game “schedule” i’m too busy to level up the remainder of my classes. At least for the upcoming months.

But, think of it this way. Right now, each major Content Update will either give us access to new Crystal Tower or Coil “Turns”. If SE would, for instance raise the Level Cap to 60 with 2.3 around June/July, would you have enough content to comfortably level up your class(es) to 60, without getting the grind of doing the same Dungeons/FATE’s/Dailies over and over again?

Wouldn’t it be better if the game would have a “Massive” amount of new content in a new region of Eorzea, were you can Level from 50 to 60 with new Classes & Jobs, New Main Story Line Quests, New Side Quests, New FATEs, several new Dungeons, a new Raid (like Coil) and several new “floors” of CT? That’s what usually happens with an Expansion Pack.

I don’t think they will be able to generate enough content to keep players satisfied in the level range of 50 to 60, if they were to raise the Level Cap before the 1st Expansion.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

the trouble to add 2 jobs from the same class is the 5 skill of difference, if you look the scholar and the summoner it's a perfect example of the limitation of the actual armory system the difference between the two are not that big. with a bigger level we will have more skill and it will be more clear the difference between the jobs from the same class.

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That is why the other classes don't have 2 jobs right now. But they have said they have been working on the job system so equipping the job will change the Base classes skills and we would get them as soon as they work out all the bugs of doing so.
The example they game was gladiator 2nd job would be Dark Knight as a DD and that equipping DK would remove all the increased enmity portions of gladiator's attacks and replace them with something appropriate for a DD like a damage buff.

if you cant tell the difference between SCH and SMN you are playing the wrong game.

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Originally Posted by FritoBandito

Personally I'm fine without an expansion as long as the big patches keep bringing new content.

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You hate content that much? They can only do so much with the vanilla areas...lol. Then again since the world is meaningless and everything is in an instance...yeah we don't really need expansion packs.