Do you respect or awed by level 50? No?

[Hycinthus]

Neither do I.
Bring back the respect from new players to players at max levels by these easy steps:

1. When level cap is increased, bring back Maat fight system.
This means putting each player in a solo battle against Maat. Make this fight super hard, only 50% of players succeeds. This way, not everyone will be level 60 & you know those who made it are high in skills.

2. Introduce hard monsters in low level areas.
This way, sometimes low level players will require the help of high level to clear the way. For example suddenly an NM attacks a town. This will bring awe to high level players.
Remember bogy in qufim in FFXI.

3. Introduce unique skills like Raise 3 for those high levels.
Although not applicable in FF14, something unique or cool looking magic will inspire awe to the low level ppl.

4. Make high levels glow with useful auras.
Level 60 can walk around with a shiny aura that will dispel certain effects, or increased protection by administering Protect 5.

[kristerrr86]

2nd thread today about the exact same thing :P

Only difference is you actually had some good ideas

[synaesthetic]

No.

If this is what you want, this game is clearly not designed for you.

Go to Kickstarter and find a niche sandbox 1998-era MMO to grind away your life on.

[Vantol]

Hycinthus, you just described MMO of my dream. If something like that would ever be developed, I would worship to it.

[SpookyGhost]

I'd like to recommend you buy FF11.

Edit: Oh, seems you've played it. Alright then. Well I'll just throw this out there: FF14 is currently attempting to stray very, very far away from FF11. FF14 is essentially WoW for the Japanese - which means, eventually, we'll be getting all sorts of glowing useless particle effects on everything. Just look at +1 relics. However, that also means along with that we're getting the uber casualness of WoW - straight vertical progression, deaths dont take away exp, bosses are on a set rotation, etc. Hopefully we won't be stuck in this eternally and maybe the Japanese will realize that the FF11 system works better, but for now this is what we're stuck with.

[Thorauku]

What exactly is this "Maat"?

[Umo]

Bring back the respect from new players to players at max levels

What!? I mean, why do new players have to respect players at max levels?

[Hocchi]

This thread screams "I want to be unique and special, I want people to worship my e-existence".

[Sotek]

As a Lv.50, I don't particularly care for the respect of lesser peoples. I'm more incline to think gear should be a sign of respect, anyway.

[WellFooled]

What exactly is this "Maat"?

Maat was a character in FFXI. Starting at level 50 you would hit a level cap and couldn't level further until you completed a quest for Maat. This would happen every five levels, but at level 70 (the last quest, at least when I was still playing) you would have to fight Maat in a 1v1 battle where he used abilities from your class. It was a very difficult fight and lots of people beat their heads against it for quite awhile before succeeding.

I wouldn't be against this returning, in fact I think I'm all for the OP's suggestions #1 and #2, however #3 I think is already in the game. Higher level players already have very cool, very flashy skills. And #4 to me just sounds...tacky? I'm an adventurer, not a god.