Thread: Bring back deleveling in 2.0

Originally Posted by Neomarl

The only reason I can think you or anyone would hate that is because you/they haven't played FFXI.

It was awesome. Not having it is moving backwards.

I played XI for years. Owned an Aegis too if that speaks to my playtime. Led one of the most successful linkshells on Titan server too. Bad assumption is bad.

No! You want hardcore!? how about this, when you die your character dies for good! Or your account gets deleted!! That will make you not want to die!!!
Joke aside.. I would not like this at all, dying is a part of learning the game.. you find out what should not be done, punishing people to re level is dumb. Do not add it or add it to a 'Hardcore' server, where exp gains are lower and Xp loss and de level on death. Having that will show you just how many like it, and maybe show you how many more hate it.

Originally Posted by Yves

Ok, here's a solution: you can only repair your own gear.

That's not what I'd call a great idea especially because it helps alienate crafters even more.

It doesn't have to be tied to exp loss, I suggested it could be tied to a number of things.

Anima loss for one, hell make it something instead of a penalty for death give a reward for living. Give us a signet style buff so we can attain company seals while we gain exp only obtainable in town. It's a permanent buff and doesn't wear off UNLESS you die.

Obviously it's not a crippling effect and wont stop death in instanced content from being a laughable hinderance, perhaps your death could be tied into adding a few minutes to your entrance timer? Maybe if nobody dies during a run they could shave a few minutes off your total run time making speed-runs easier to accomplish (Although not getting killed is kind of part in parcel with speed runs)

There needs to be some way that me or anyone else might want to double check what we are doing before we get ourselves killed. If it's not exp it could be any number of things, just leaving it as a minor hinderance just encourages people to ram through everything without a care in the world.

Originally Posted by Jynx

There needs to be some way that me or anyone else might want to double check what we are doing before we get ourselves killed. If it's not exp it could be any number of things, just leaving it as a minor hinderance just encourages people to ram through everything without a care in the world.

The point of any game is to not get killed. And in addition we already have a penalty regardless if you die or not.

Perhaps they should boost the damage rate on gears.

No please. Hated that in XI

Originally Posted by GreyJorildyn

I played XI for years. Owned an Aegis too if that speaks to my playtime. Led one of the most successful linkshells on Titan server too. Bad assumption is bad.

Cool story, brah.

Originally Posted by Neomarl

The only reason I can think you or anyone would hate that is because you/they haven't played FFXI.

It was awesome. Not having it is moving backwards.

I played FFXI for 9 years as well as other MMOs and I agree with Grey Jorildyn. Honestly, the xp loss wasn't as punishing as anyone here seems to think it was or remembers.

Saying not having it is moving backwards, please provide evidence of this? Tangible, empirical evidence as well. More than, "I felt that" or "Well from my experience". Making bold sweeping statements like "Not having it is moving backwards" w/o data to back it up is fairly hollow.