A way for everyone to be happy with level cap?

[indira]

merits suck ass leveling up to get merits caused people to do that instead of playing the game, or you needed some merit ablitys/spells to do events.

please no merits SE!!

A better compromise is to increase the cap by smaller amounts, like 5 levels every year. That way new items and gear are upgrades from the previous tier, but the previous tier isn't completely obsolete and can be used as entry level or early-mid level gear for the new content.

i doubt we will have that problem, like ffxi some low level equipment was equal to better than high level equipment. ffxiv dosent work on massive damage multipliers like some other mmo's where you equip says how good you are.

[Wolfie]

i doubt we will have that problem, like ffxi some low level equipment was equal to better than high level equipment. ffxiv dosent work on massive damage multipliers like some other mmo's where you equip says how good you are.

Well... gear stats don't do much now anyways. And didn't Yoshi say we're due for a gear and stat redesign eventually?

Personally I'm not a fan of FFXI's OR WOW's gear progress model. In FFXI you got a lot of good gear early on, and at end game everything was a slight upgrade, a sidegrade, or a situational item (like Sea obis). In WOW, the current tier and/or expansion completely obliterates the previous tier and gear feels too fluid.

I'm kinda partial to Aion's gear model, where gear ~10 levels below you is still decent if it's enchanted and gemmed well, but a properly enchanted and gemmed item of your current level is a definite upgrade.