Reintroduce Maat in 2.0

[Yucie]

It was a sign of skill. If you sucked at your job you will not beat Maat. The only exceptions would be THF which is purely luck based and WHM due to SE forgetting about Repose being low level rather than high.

Let's get this straight; Al is right. Beating Maat isn't a sign of skill. Beating Maat means you got over the speedbump in order to progress to level cap. And as far as I know, the only jobs that need 'skill' to beat Maat might be WHM, BLM, and RDM.
Maat was nothing more than an obstacle in your way towards grinding to cap and it meant going out of your way to farm a testimony for days, THEN probably borrowing millions of gil to buy pots, scrolls, and anything else that might help you beat him. And easily enough, it was a simple task for anyone with a decently-geared DD job to run him the hell over.

I beat Maat on my SAM, as SAM was my first 75 job. What happened?
Meditate to full. Eat a mithkabob. Enter.
Hit Meikyo Shisui, and kill him with WS before even completing a skillchain.
Is that a test of skill? No, it was a waste of several days of farming and preparation, and a waste of gil.

Just because FFXIV is going to pull from other FF titles as inspiration doesn't mean that people will be able to suggest ANYTHING be put into it from any other title. We should be pulling the best aspects of FFXI, if any at all - especially in terms of actual content, and things like armor or weapon upgrades. Maat doesn't count.

You can sugarcoat it all you like, Elexia, but you're probably the only one willing to say Maat was 'fun.'
He was nothing more than a timesink, and a gilsink. Oh, you didn't beat Maat? Time to recruit your level 75 friends to go farm more items and a testimony for 3 more days! /cheer

Don't get me wrong; I'm not against level cap quests entirely. But it should be fun things, like going to kill an NM or do a small quest that actually matters. Maat doesn't count.

tl;dr Maat was stupid, and OP's reasoning is laughable

[Payadopa]

Let's get this straight; Al is right. Beating Maat isn't a sign of skill.

That's subjective. For me (BLM) it was.

[Zantetsuken]

That's subjective. For me (BLM) it was.

Even more skill to beat him with RDM (pre-CoP as I said)

I had friends who fought him as BRD, PLD, and SAM... none of them ever thought it was much of a fight. So it's really a matter of perspective.

Also, SE really should have better balanced those battles out.

[Eekiki]

That's subjective. For me (BLM) it was.

THF was my first 75. No skill required. ^_^ b