Rank cap increase every 1-2 years discussion thread

[Sol_Aureus]

game definately needs a level cap increase soon, and if its 1-2 years between, id ere to 1 year, and 10 levels at a time. just speaking about now.

The endgame model of MMOs in general is a bad idea. sure you should probably minimize early levels, but later on, you should have interesting gear options while you play and enjoy content. Id give better upgrade options for hard to obtain gears, and honestly you do want progression.
Take a look at ffxiii, all gear could be upgraded to an ultimate level, with different status spreads, some gear needed more upgrades than others, but some you only got later in the game. none of your gear was really worthless, except the pieces you didnt want or need.

the idea should be progression. as in, the stuff you do as you level matters for the next progression. So gear wise you would have the new gear, that looks new and exciting, has a slightly different stat spread, or special effects on it, and the old gear which you could update to be competive with the new gear, but offering different stat spreads special traits, or even just a different look.

by having that type of model, your mid level acquisitions matter more, thus making the game less endgame heavy, and making it so content of various levels matter, over all i think it makes the whole game better at all levels.

This is also something I've seen brought up a few times, and I completely agree with.

The level cap raise in and of itself I don't really have a problem with, it's the rendering old events and gear useless that I am very strongly against.

If they were to go with something like this with constantly upgradable gear, to me it'd be almost as good as keeping the cap the same. While the prospect of being able to have almost complete gear customization is awesome to me, the old content would become laughably easy to do (since it would be built for lower levels). While people might still run through it for the gear, there would be no challenge, unless they upgraded the dungeon as well. And over time, upgrading ALL endgame events EVERY level cap raise is a lot of work.