The community is about to rip me a new one thread.

[Zack98]

Bring back Maat with current fight mechanics for level cap increase. There...I said it. *ducks*

They brought back Lightning, Why not Maat? *Sprint and runs away*

[File2ish]

As long as he is hard this time!

Haaaaaaaa... Maybe for WAR, PLD, DRK, RNG, and some other jobs.

Red Mage, on the other hand, I never beat (he can heal, enfeeble, sleep, and nuke you, as well as punch you. Pretty much have to sleep, gravity, nuke with Aero III with the wind elemental staff on windsday, kite, repeat in order to win, and you need very high magic skills for that. RDM was usually delegated to be the refresh mage/haste/off heals/debuffs in parties or be kicked from the group. Capping magic other than healing and enhancing took forever because of it).

Luckily I leveled DNC before I got RDM up, Layla was a pushover in comparison to RDM Maat, even before DNC got native dual wield. And she could heal herself.

[File2ish]

I don't know...I think there's still some Red Mages in counseling thanks to that old fart.

*RAISES HAND AS HIGH AS POSSIBLE*

I never beat him on my RDM. If I didn't decide to switch to main DNC before I got RDM to 50 I probably would have quit FFXI because of RDM Maat. I beat Layla (Aht Urghan and WotG jobs don't fight Maat, but it's still a "Maat fight" as in limit break quest) on my second attempt. I tried fighting Maat after I got 75 RDM, I failed miserably. Old coot is a pain for RDM.

[Warlyx]

the problem with maat is that he was mnk+yourjob , what killed most mages wasnt the nukes, was the WS that hitlike a truck (taru HP )

took me like 5 tries to finish Rdm maat >< , the hardest no doubt , is one of that things u still remember years later , because it was challenging ^^

[Orophin]

I kinda hope there's some system in place to break the level cap from 50 > 51, but that might go against the casual grain of this game. It doesn't need to be anything time consuming like Atma or anything (looking at you papyrus) but something in a group environment would be nice. Either a full party or full alliance (since we should have the ability to preform these by 3.0) would be cool. Either that or a very challenging solo fight.

[Ecks007]

As long as he is hard this time!

Originally he was hard, for the large majority of Jobs in XI.

I remember the first time I did mine as a Dark Knight. I read up on what I needed to do, the strategy used for beating him and did it as best I could. I beat him, but it was still a close fight. I was so happy that I did it my hands were actually shaking as I proclaimed in /tell to another Drk friend I had asked for info from about the fight. That was a good memory, so thanks for reminding me of it. Good times!

[Amberion]

Originally he was hard, for the large majority of Jobs in XI.

I remember the first time I did mine as a Dark Knight. I read up on what I needed to do, the strategy used for beating him and did it as best I could. I beat him, but it was still a close fight. I was so happy that I did it my hands were actually shaking as I proclaimed in /tell to another Drk friend I had asked for info from about the fight. That was a good memory, so thanks for reminding me of it. Good times!

Lol, I was so nervous/existed that I forgot to pop my Icarus Wing/Barrage my first fight. Had to go farm another testament after that. And had no problem grinding another.

Was a freakishly good feeling after you had beaten him.

[Eekiki]

Bring back Maat with current fight mechanics for level cap increase. There...I said it. *ducks*

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I think that'd be sweet. Infuriating, but totally awesome.

[Raenryong]

Haaaaaaaa... Maybe for WAR, PLD, DRK, RNG, and some other jobs.

Red Mage, on the other hand, I never beat (he can heal, enfeeble, sleep, and nuke you, as well as punch you. Pretty much have to sleep, gravity, nuke with Aero III with the wind elemental staff on windsday, kite, repeat in order to win, and you need very high magic skills for that. RDM was usually delegated to be the refresh mage/haste/off heals/debuffs in parties or be kicked from the group. Capping magic other than healing and enhancing took forever because of it).

Luckily I leveled DNC before I got RDM up, Layla was a pushover in comparison to RDM Maat, even before DNC got native dual wield. And she could heal herself.

RDM was hard because of the need to learn a different skill-set; RDM Maat was actually a very straightforward solo opponent compared to many. Granted I did him after a long time soloing on RDM for the fun of it.

[DragonFlyy]

I hope they never increase the level cap.

Yoshi-P already confirmed that we would have a level cap increase. Probably on the expansion.