Advanced Traditional Classes with a new twist ^^

[Rentahamster]

I have often complained about the fact that my MRD is now pretty much retired now it has hit R50 ; ; I would love to be able to help people who are close to Rank 50 grind those last few levels and still be rewarded for the time I put in, and a system like the Merit Point system would do that.

Yes, I agree. I would like some way to be able to feel like helping my friends grind SP when I'm already rank 50 is not a waste of time. I think this could be accomplished in 3 ways:

1. Merit Points.

2. Let your SP bar fill up to 99,999/100,000

3. My adjustments to how the death penalty is implemented.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ll=1#post33989

New Take on Death Penalty:

All SP that you gain as a battle class also contributes to fill up a separate rank up bar that has 5 tiers: rank 1 - 5.

Each rank takes 20,000 SP to reach, so to reach Rank 5, you'd need to accumulate 100,000 SP as any combination of battle classes without dying.

There are six bonus buffs that you can choose from: +5% atk, +5% def, +5% m.atk, +5% m.def, +5% eva, +5% acc, -10%MP cost, +10%TP gain, +2%SP gain

At Rank 4, you can choose one. At Rank 5, you can choose two, and you also get some sort of visual enhancement to your character to indicate your lack of dying. You can change your buffs around at anytime, but there is a 30 min cooldown.

If you die:
You lose 2 ranks
You lose 3 anima
You are inflicted with Weakness

If you die and get Raised:
You lose 1 rank
You are inflicted with Weakness

Again, I want the number of Rank 5 status people to be rare, and to actually be an indicator of skill, because it's hard to earn, and takes the same amount of effort to reach as going from class rank 49 to 50. That way, losing your rank 5 status is also a bit of a sting.