Producer Letter XLVIII (July 25, 2013)

[Notredamefan23]

anyone else notice in the screeshots it shows lvl 50 but 14020/562000 towards next level

[Alerith]

This:

anyone else notice in the screeshots it shows lvl 50 but 14020/562000 towards next level

Combined with this:

So even if you reach the level cap shortly after release, there's no reason to think you've hit the top.

Now... I'm not totally willing to jump on the speculation bandwagon but.... How long did it take for XI and WoW to have their first level cap increase? >.>

[Robobandit]

No harm in speculation, but they generally take the screenshots on an internal development server.. so the exp numbers might not be accurate. I don't think we'll see a cap increase until sometime in 2014 at the earliest possible time.

For WoW, they didn't raise the level cap until the first expansion, I don't think.. which was over 2 years after release.

[ArkhamNative]

Now... I'm not totally willing to jump on the speculation bandwagon but.... How long did it take for XI and WoW to have their first level cap increase? >.>

FFXI launch level cap was Lv50 with no merit points. Apparently XPing ended in Garlaige Citadel basement. Rise of Zilart raised the cap to Lv75. It was released 11 months after launch (5 months after PC version release). (This was 6 months before FFXI's NA release, and over a year before the game's EU release.)

If nothing else, the recent dev screens give us an idea how much XP is required to get to Lv51. It may be that ARR has adopted the FFXI model, letting you gain XP towards the next level even if the next level is not attainable. So, in effect, ARR's max level could now be Lv50.99999 based on XP, compared with only Lv50.0 in v1.

[JillyBean]

Now... I'm not totally willing to jump on the speculation bandwagon but.... How long did it take for XI and WoW to have their first level cap increase? >.>

OMG I LOVE SPECULATION BANDWAGONS! LET ME ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If nothing else, the recent dev screens give us an idea how much XP is required to get to Lv51. It may be that ARR has adopted the FFXI model, letting you gain XP towards the next level even if the next level is not attainable. So, in effect, ARR's max level could now be Lv50.99999 based on XP, compared with only Lv50.0 in v1.

This alone would be awesome. It was what I fully expected when I hit 50 in 1.0 and was like "whut?" when the bar just stayed at 0. Would make hopping into dungeons on all our 50's even more enticing!

PS: THANK THE TWELVE there are no posting limits in Lodestone like on Beta. Gawd.