Increasing stats and ilevels

[KogaDrake]

block % is not simply based on your stats, it is also about the mobs level and stats. If it is not done this way it will need to be adjusted this way in the future. It can have a cap, and the number you need to reach capped percent (say 50%) will be much higher for new content past level increase than it is for our current content, thus we do not simply keep getting better and better.

[TurboSol]

...........um........... wtf is a maat?

[Ghishlain]

...........um........... wtf is a maat?

In Final Fantasy XI, you needed to do a series of quests to break your level cap. The level cap started at level 50 and you had to do a quest to raise the level cap to the next five levels. The level 70 cap was broken by doing a solo fight against Maat, an old (but very talented) man who mimic'd your class (but used hand-to-hand instead of your normal weapon). Depending on your class at the time, this could be an extremely difficult fight or an extremely easy fight.

[Lord_Zlatan]

In Final Fantasy XI, you needed to do a series of quests to break your level cap. The level cap started at level 50 and you had to do a quest to raise the level cap to the next five levels. The level 70 cap was broken by doing a solo fight against Maat, an old (but very talented) man who mimic'd your class (but used hand-to-hand instead of your normal weapon). Depending on your class at the time, this could be an extremely difficult fight or an extremely easy fight.

Paladin was insanely easy. Warrior was easy, and WHM was easy. RDM was insane, BLU and DRK could be difficult too.

On topic, I really hope that they do add something like this... there needs to be some kind of gating that keeps older stuff relevant while also allowing access to new content.

[indira]

not with gearscore, your gear is garbage in 3-6 months so theres no need when the game is so simplified. old content will be useless to do at cap when you could equip your ilv130 gear and do that updates content.

i see alot of content becoming ghost towns soon already having signs of that, and if SE waste dev time on adjusting old stuff you get less new stuff.

[Fuddy]

not with gearscore, your gear is garbage in 3-6 months so theres no need when the game is so simplified. old content will be useless to do at cap when you could equip your ilv130 gear and do that updates content.

i see alot of content becoming ghost towns soon already having signs of that, and if SE waste dev time on adjusting old stuff you get less new stuff.

This is why I think when the level cap is raised there should be some kind of gate (a la FFXI style Limit Breaks) to keep players from skipping certain content. There is some content that I'm sure will become like this but it should be prevented in as many areas make sense. The level cap limit breaks don't need to be super hard. Just require a mediocre iLevel to show that you participated to a degree in the LvL 50 content up to that point.

edit: sorry double post...

[Lord_Zlatan]

Not sure if there's been a post/official reply on this yet. But I wanted to know if anyone/rep could tell us what SE plans to do with stats and ilevel increases in upcoming patches and level cap increase.

It seems like some of the stats that are %-based like Block Strength, Defiance, and crit rate are eventually going to get to a point where it needs to be capped.

For example, how much mitigation will an ilevel 150 shield block? 45-50%? Right now with the Noct Hoplon and higher strength is it around 30-35% block? That seems like it would be hard to balance with boss fights unless we eventually get special stats on items. (will we? I hope so.)

Weathered Noct Shield mitigates 38% damage. Friend tells me non-weathered is 40% on the nose.

[Saziel]

Ugh, please no Maat. Took me 4 tries on Dragoon -_-

[Galactimus]

For example, how much mitigation will an ilevel 150 shield block? 45-50%? Right now with the Noct Hoplon and higher strength is it around 30-35% block?

Right now it's blocking 40%. (i110 version.)

[mindful]

Nothing holding this game back to add the Ilevel or stats back like the old FFXI. Like the ps2 version was holding it back. You Seen that maxed stats from the brews for that client on aby it was like a test for them. To see the maxed damage they could allow and not crash the client. On this game nothing holding them back when the time comes to increase the maxed stuff to 999%+ caps. So they do got a lot of leverage now and hopefully they learn there lessons and as time go on. The old content will be one shot kills down the road in a few years , and the new stuff will just grow.

So in the long run , they will not need to spend a year or two on old content to get the players to play the game again if they have been afk for years or months , and just keep adding the newer stuff.