Now that leves will be gone from our main exp function...

[AlexiaKidd]

Why remove the cap? It did away with a huge part of the problem that hit FFXI: people started overcamping everything they could for max exp/hour. This affected gearing trends and created asinine "expectations" of what people should have when grouping. It also created a stupid and pointless status quo while leveling. That's stress and pressure not needed during the leveling process.

The cap should be removed as it is one of the main reasons people do not group up and party. You can solo some mobs that are 10 ranks higher than yourself and certainly duo/trio them, this makes being in a large group kind of pointless and also makes fighting tougher Mobs that challenge the group pointless. Raptor Parties one of the best things to grind on currently in the game are pointless to fight in a 8 person party at R40 (they are R55-60) as you go through them so fast you will run out before they respawn so it is better to go in a smaller group get more SP per kill and not run out by taking longer to kill.

With the cap removed people could group up, fight Raptors in a small party then if a few more join the party, head off to fight something a bit more challenging and be rewarded accordingly for it. Full 8 person parties could take down some of the tougher mobs in the game and be rewarded for it, with the cap in place there is no point in killing these mobs as the time taken to SP given is not good enough. Kind of like when doing Leve's and selecting your Star rating, sure you could do them on 5 star and the mobs be 20 ranks above your own and it will be much tougher but why would you do that when you can breeze through it on 3 star and the mobs be 10 ranks above you so you will get the same SP/EXP.

People will always use the most effective method for gaining SP/EXP (currently it is Leve abandoning), that will never change and removing the cap will make no difference in that respect all it will do is allow people to have more options in gaining that best SP/EXP per hour and give people a reason to make full parties and go out and fight tougher Mobs.