Level Cap Increase

[Lexia]

I would like to see some type of quest to unlock the higher level cap besides just buying the expansion.

[Conradus]

I would like to see some type of quest to unlock the higher level cap besides just buying the expansion.

Gee, Maat, fancy seeing you here...

[Firepower]

Considering how FFXIV is built and using Maat's trials from FFXI as an example it could certainly be some very similar tasks. I for one think it would be a very nice throwback idea to have Maat return and offer almost identical quests it would be rather nostalgic.

The 50-60 quest would simply be to just again collect the bomb coal, exoray mold and ancient papyrus again. It wouldn't be too hard to just have them drop from ??? pop enemies that are soloable at a reasonable ilvl maybe similar to the boarskin or alexandrite maps but would require a few people at fresh ilv50, thus allowing the majority to continue at a reasonable pace and giving the newbies a decently challengable quest that would require some working together.

[Firepower]

They already added ifrit/garuda/titan HM to the mainstory in the last patch I think they were a pre-requisite for one of the more recent parts of the questline. Mog/levi/ramuh/shiva are already in main story so they will all have to be done to progress to heavensward anyway. You also have the fact that currently the later parts of the main story require increasing levels of ilv to progress, if square wished for people to complete a decent amount of 50 content they could gate the 50 cap quest (if there is one) requiring completion to the current point in the main story.

Thus new players would HAVE to complete: castrum, praetorium ifrit, garuda, titan, mog, levi, ramuh, shiva, snowcloak and steps of faith, whilst raising their item level to 90 to get access to steps (which would likely require grinding a few dungeons for drops) We already know this will be the case to get access to the newer areas but wether they gate the level cap behind this too is unknown. Following on from this they could add a "story mode" roulette which would have all of the above trials included with reasonable rewards much like they have done so far in the past.

The EX primals and pretty much ALL of bahamuts coil is likely to be completely ignored though since they would no longer provide anywhere near a level of risk/reward worth doing anymore. Maybe if they upped the pony drop rates to over 50% and forced more materials (allagan silk etc..) to drop from the trials to make the newest crafted gear, otherwise interest is likely to get very thin. I can see the crystal tower questline getting abandoned too since they require even more people to do with even less incentive.

[Skullmaker]

Ishgard:The home city of the Brown Mage Guild...(oh my colon!)