Weekly Cap Token

[Nexxus]

Hi,

After a long break i'm coming back to see what's new and i'm still surprised that weekly token cap system hasn't changed.

So here's my question to the community: would you like to see a system like others games has, that push the cap by 450 more each week ?

An concret example;
Week 1: Cap at 450
Week 2: Cap at 900
Week 3: Cap at 1350
etc...
Until a new season comes up.

That way, anyone that did a break could come back and catch up their mate.

What are you thought about this ?

*Invoke the Dev. Team*

Edit for clarification:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5510694

[MPK]

No it makes raiding too easy.

[DrWho2010]

nope. system works fine as is.

[Ilenya]

Considering this is something that has come up again and again (and again and again...), I don't really foresee it being changed anytime soon, if at all.

[ItMe]

That way, anyone that did a break could come back and catch up their mate.

What are you thought about this ?

What would you need to "catch up" for?

If you're gonna run EXes your old gear will probably do (assuming your break wasn't too long).
If you're going into Savage you can do that with a crafted set.
If your iLVL is a little too low still, you can run some eden normal and get a quick boost.
If you're trying to gear up for Ultimate you should be playing and practicing with your team instead of taking an extended break.

So aside from the fact that you don't really need to catch up on Tome Gear, they can't make it too easy for people to catch up or why would people play through the segments when the cap is lower? If they can just take a break for a month and come back and be in the same place as the people who were playing, SQEX would be losing / risking a lot of sub money so they're really not gonna be all that compelled to do this.
Like... maybe raising the cap after the 7 week mark when people can get their tome weapon with tokens might make more sense, but not by the large increments you suggested.

Week 1: Cap at 450
Week 2: Cap at 900
Week 3: Cap at 1350

I also wonder what something like this would do to the amount of tomes each piece would cost. Some level of inflation would be involved, and that would lead to other issues.

[ForteNightshade]

Considering the cap exists to both encourage monthly subbing and discourage players from feeling a need to grind too heavily, it's incredibly unlikely they will ever change it.

[technole]

Considering the cap exists to both encourage monthly subbing and discourage players from feeling a need to grind too heavily, it's incredibly unlikely they will ever change it.

Ding ding we have a winner.

You can't have people move up in ilevel too fast. It's bad for for allowing savage progression too fast, and more importantly bad for sub revenue. People get bored, and their only 2 jobs got geared so they stop playing or doing weeklies for stuff.

[Jade3173]

You can't have people move up in ilevel too fast. It's bad for for allowing savage progression too fast, and more importantly bad for sub revenue. People get bored, and their only 2 jobs got geared so they stop playing or doing weeklies for stuff.

at the increase the OP suggested, yes, this would be a big problem. As you point out, a lot of people only have 1 or 2 jobs that they play, others such as myself though play a lot of things. Melee classes are pretty much the only thing I don't really play beyond leveling.

While I 100% don't expect them to, I don't think it would hit the sub count to hard if after 4 months, which I think is around the same time the Alliance Raids hit after a new Weekly Tome is introduced, they upped the cap like they do in X.5 timeframe. 4 months would be long enough to get everything, including both rings, for your main job so it wouldn't increase the ilvl of anyone doing Savage.

Do people need that ilvl increase for their off jobs, well no, but it does feel good to not gimp yourself by playing those off jobs simply cause weekly tomes say so. My i513 on DNC is more than enough to do the content I run so I've been just buying rings for every armor type to inflate the ilvl of my off jobs. Would just be nice to know that if I wanted to, I could outfit my DNC main and then 4 months later work on getting something like SCH or GNB up in a relatively faster time

[Jeeqbit]

It's just not necessary. Return to the game, get HQ crafted gear, start raiding and doing all the content in the entire game.

All tomestone and raid gear does, most of the time, is act as a thing you can boast about because you have more HP and higher damage.

Occasionally you need it for an ultimate but these are pretty rare and that's assuming you even do those when they release.

You can't have people move up in ilevel too fast. It's bad for for allowing savage progression too fast, and more importantly bad for sub revenue. People get bored, and their only 2 jobs got geared so they stop playing or doing weeklies for stuff.

Yoshi-P said he could write a book about how important the weekly cap and tomestone limits are.

[Vidact]

If anything, let me hold more then 2k poetics at one time.