Thread: Patch 2.57 please?

Not removing the poetics cap is idiotic. Like, I have 4 classes I'd like to be great at and much of [insert class] needs Poetics gear. (DRG chest in particular)

Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

Not removing the poetics cap is idiotic. Like, I have 4 classes I'd like to be great at and much of [insert class] needs Poetics gear. (DRG chest in particular)

Its to curb the player base's overall ilvl. People would just farm and farm and farm till all their jobs were i130 in preparation for Heavenward where i130 will last several levels. Understandable why players would want to do this, but also understandable why SE would want to avoid players doing it.

Originally Posted by SDaemon

Its to curb the player base's overall ilvl. People would just farm and farm and farm till all their jobs were i130 in preparation for Heavenward where i130 will last several levels. Understandable why players would want to do this, but also understandable why SE would want to avoid players doing it.

I'd say that would easily keep me subscribed while I work towards i130 on every class for the next two months. I'd love to have all my classes at the highest ilvl they could be.

Originally Posted by Teppie

I'd love to have all my classes at the highest ilvl they could be.

Which is why the cap is staying.

Originally Posted by SDaemon

Which is why the cap is staying.

I have all my battle classes to 50, it's gonna take a while to cap... probably somewhere around 2 months casually. And it'll get me hyped to relevel all to 60 on expansion.

Originally Posted by Teppie

I have all my battle classes to 50, it's gonna take a while to cap... probably somewhere around 2 months casually. And it'll get me hyped to relevel all to 60 on expansion.

Would you mind elaborating? I can't make heads or tails of your post in regards to the poetic cap.

Originally Posted by SDaemon

Its to curb the player base's overall ilvl. People would just farm and farm and farm till all their jobs were i130 in preparation for Heavenward where i130 will last several levels. Understandable why players would want to do this, but also understandable why SE would want to avoid players doing it.

You can do that with Final Coil, which is why it's a bit... weird. But, that said, I understand why they're keeping the cap on Poetics - some people won't have bought 3.0 and they need a tomestone to keep capped that's on the same tier as that expansion's current raid content. Just unfortunate for those of us around before 3.0 starts and still need the Poetics to get pieces for our alt jobs.

Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

You can do that with Final Coil, which is why it's a bit... weird. But, that said, I understand why they're keeping the cap on Poetics - some people won't have bought 3.0 and they need a tomestone to keep capped that's on the same tier as that expansion's current raid content. Just unfortunate for those of us around before 3.0 starts and still need the Poetics to get pieces for our alt jobs.

Except the amount of players who are actively in Final Coil is a LOT smaller than the overall player base that would benefit from uncapped Poetics.

Originally Posted by SDaemon

People would just farm and farm and farm till all their jobs were i130 in preparation for Heavenward where i130 will last several levels. Understandable why players would want to do this, but also understandable why SE would want to avoid players doing it.

I keep seeing this argument, and I can't quite get my head around it.

I would think that anyone who's clamoring to have the cap removed almost certainly has at least one job already in full i130, possibly two or more (depending on how much, if any, Coil they do). They're likely to pick one of those jobs to take to 60 by completing the story in Heavensward, and level the others later (through dungeons, FATEs, leves, whatever).

Given that they can already be full i120 left-side from World of Darkness already, what difference does it really make if, instead of only going to, say, level 53 before quest rewards start being useful, they have to go to level 55?

Originally Posted by Ibi

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Because the farther the gear lasts you the less important that 50-55 gear becomes. Its a waste of development. And shortens the 50-55 experience when you overgear it, just to list off a few reasons off the top of my head. Like I said, as players its understandable to want to be i130 in all jobs in preparation for the expansion, but its also understandable why SE wouldn't want it.