Producer Letter XLVIII (July 25, 2013)

[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.