Maat's Item Level Cap Quest

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For those of you who do not know who Maat is, I will give you a brief summary.

Maat is an elderly NPC from FFXI who resides in Ru'Lude Gardens in the City if Jeuno.
His sole purpose was to limit your level cap, starting at 50 and then every 5 levels afterwards. In order to break this cap, you would have to fight him in a solo fight.
Winning granted you a higher level cap, 50 to 55, and so on.

Technically, you only ever had to fight him once. which was to get level 75 unlocked. Otherwise it was fetch quests. Anyway, I'm not really sure I'd want to see anything akin to Maat again tbh, at least, not for a level cap quest. It would be cool to get a bad-ass Old Man Adventuring trainer guy or something similar to maat, but... I don't wanna see a level cap *quest* per se, be it for character or item levels.

(Louisoix almost kinda fills that roll, but not quite, and I prolly misspelled his name all to hell ><) Anyway, item level cap just seems arbitrary to me, in all honesty, I just replied in another thread, similar to this topic. They need to make Darklight gear/i70 gear have a higher drop rate in the expert dungeons, and maybe give new quests for the old areas, Amdapor Keep for example, it'll always have relevance, especially if new players (or alts) wanna get Relic weapons, considering you HAVE to do AK for the relic quest line.

I'm not really sure what they could do for WP though. I kinda like the idea though of a questlike system that you were going with about how you'd have to do all the lower tier dungeons for the "Cap" but instead of it being an item level lock out, why not a dungeon lock out?

for example, you'd have to do all the i50-55 dungeons in order to properly unlock the i60-70 ones, something like that. Main scenario dungeons aside. Iunno, I'm not a game designer so I can't really say. Personally though, I wouldn't really worry about it