Q: Level Cap Raised and iLevels.

[Amused]

Is there anyone else here who doesn't necessarily want a level cap increase? I'd rather our characters grow more horizontally in the future, at least for a while before they do increase the level cap. It would be a shame and a waste to release an expansion, raise the level cap, and immediately trivialize the old level 50 content. All for what, bigger numbers? Who cares about that?

[Nephera]

Is there anyone else here who doesn't necessarily want a level cap increase? I'd rather our characters grow more horizontally in the future, at least for a while before they do increase the level cap. It would be a shame and a waste to release an expansion, raise the level cap, and immediately trivialize the old level 50 content. All for what, bigger numbers? Who cares about that?

the case for lateral progression has been made in the past but it's mostly been drowned out by "I want to level more,because bigger numbers"

[Ultimatecalibur]

I suspect that there will be:

• Two new tiers of white crafted with level requirements between level 51 to 55 and 56 and 60 made with mats from level 50 and 60 gathering nodes found in new areas.
• New level 55 and 60 1 Star and 2 Star greens with ilevels of i90 and higher.
• One or two new blue gear tiers with level requirements of 60 and the highest ilevel until the expansion's first patch.

[LineageRazor]

Is there anyone else here who doesn't necessarily want a level cap increase? I'd rather our characters grow more horizontally in the future, at least for a while before they do increase the level cap. It would be a shame and a waste to release an expansion, raise the level cap, and immediately trivialize the old level 50 content. All for what, bigger numbers? Who cares about that?

For me, the idea of a level cap increase is interesting not because it comes with better stats, but because it comes with new class and/or job abilities. It will be interesting to see if the new tools we get will have a significant effect on our current DPS and enmity ability rotations.

As for trivializing old level 50 content, that boat has already sailed. Such old content is ALREADY trivialized by the very fact that we can wear ilvl 100+ gear at level 50. Run Amdapor Keep with a team wearing no equipment higher than ilvl 55, then do it again with your pimped-out ilvl 100+ gear. Needless to say, the difference is significant.

If it's still a problem, they can always add a level 50 level cap to the old stuff. Wouldn't stop folks from overpowering it with high ilvl gear, though.

[Myrhn]

I think when lvl cap is increase the ilvl will reset. Example if lvl50 gear max ilvl is 130 then the lvl 60 gear will be more powerfull than the lvl50 ilvl130 gear. And then the ilvl will start from 60+ for the lvl60 gear.