Quote Originally Posted by Estellios View Post
Long thread so I only skimmed but I don't think anyone brought up the fact that stats in old games capped at 255 because hexadecimal values only go up to that (er.. its either 255 or 256)
its 256 numbers, but 0 is one of them so it goes to 255 or 2^8.


As far as "nakid" ifrits, I don't believe anyone has beat it fully nakid with L1 weapons... everyone just uses top end weapons which are worth ~85% of the damage you output since 1 DMG on the weapon is worth some ridiculous amount of atk.

Also FFXI was also a gradual increase per gear item, it never felt like you were oh so much better with one of the uber gear items; but rather just marginally better.

TBH gear upgrades in FFXIV feel like more of a "jump" in damage than FFXI's ever did. Also if you want to feel like you jump up in damage with every upgrade we'll be doing 20,000 damage a hit in a year or so like WoW which isn't exactly what you want I think I got out of the thread?