Level squish?

[bubblesbutternut]

WHM with a single ogcd heal at level 50 on a 3 minute cooldown looking like an absolute fool.

Like good lord, at least move Tetragrammaton down to level 30. You know, the same level as AST's Essential Dignity which not only increases in potency the lower the target's health is but also has a lower cooldown? Someone please make this make sense.

sorry but wrong but i get were you are coming from
lets say for example
the level cap is 30
the your item level is 40 at this point and your main hand does 50 damage
mob health is 500

move to 5 expansions later the

the level cap is still 30
the your item level is 400 at this point and your main hand does 500 damage
mob health is 5000

the number crunch squish they did in everything was due to a server issue struggling to keep up with the amount of data being passed

[Supersnow845]

sorry but wrong but i get were you are coming from
lets say for example
the level cap is 30
the your item level is 40 at this point and your main hand does 50 damage
mob health is 500

move to 5 expansions later the

the level cap is still 30
the your item level is 400 at this point and your main hand does 500 damage
mob health is 5000

the number crunch squish they did in everything was due to a server issue struggling to keep up with the amount of data being passed

How does that have anything to do with WHM’s atrocious levelling curve

[bubblesbutternut]

How does that have anything to do with WHM’s atrocious levelling curve

because it is on topic changing skills to be lower level has nothing to do with the topic at hand
main topic of op is will they reduce the level cap

my first post in the forum explained why there would be a level cap or an item cap
and the second post was explaining in further detail that even changing the level cap would not in the grand scheme of things change much other than making easier for devs to have cleaner code and be faster for them to add new gear

lower skill levels to adjust for oh i dont have this skill compared to another class has nothing to do with the actual topic at hand

[Limecat]

I feel like the Lv99 thing is far too baked into SE's image for them to ever consider changing that. I won't say further upgrades will take the exact same form as XI's, but I do expect similar design philosophies to come into play.

[Zsolen]

How did this play out in XI over the years?

[Jojoya]

They must have some sort of plan in the works since they've strongly hinted that their goal for the future is for new players to jump directly into the new story arc being developed for 7.0 instead of being forced to go through the 1-90 MSQ first (though that would remain an option).

It might be a secondary leveling path. 2.0 to 6.0 (or 6.55) would be its own leveling path with 7.0 (or 6.1) onward a second leveling path.

I expect they'll have some sort of announcement at the next FanFests for how things will work in 7.0.

[Tiramu]

I'd prefer them to just keep going past lv99 so we end up with a lv150 cap or something. But as has been pointed out, depends what the mechanics can do and what affects adjusting the stat curve would have on other content.

[AnnaUK]

Do you really think a new player will want to get through 150 levels not only on one job but many?

It's even worse being stuck in story and being max level way before the main msq is over... just feels bad.

[Iscah]

Do you really think a new player will want to get through 150 levels not only on one job but many?

It's even worse being stuck in story and being max level way before the main msq is over... just feels bad.

Levelling on "many jobs" can be improved by increasing the armoury bonus so you get more EXP per job, and particularly shoot up through the low levels quicker so you have accesss to more variety of content sooner per job.

On the other hand, being max level before the MSQ is over is prevented by levelling a second job as you go, so you can spread EXP. You're in control of that.

[Tiramu]

Do you really think a new player will want to get through 150 levels not only on one job but many?

It's even worse being stuck in story and being max level way before the main msq is over... just feels bad.

That really depends on how they handle level progression as the cap increases, like any game provided your main jobs level progresses alongside the main story and there are enough levelling speed increases to speed up additional jobs, then it shouldnt be an issue.

Also, already they encourage new players on to preferential servers where you level so fast on the MSQ that many players are levelling 3+ mains at once and are still flying past the MSQ level.

So, I dont think that has to be a problem.