Thread: 8.0 Max Level?

With 8.0 looming (at a snails pace) ever so closer to us, I've been wondering about the level cap. YoshiP has expressed himself previously that he's somewhat unsure about going above 100.
I'm also of the opinion that going the WoW route (going to 120 in BFA and then resetting) is not really ideal.
I've also seen the idea of mastery being mentioned a few times by people!


What would you prefer happened to our levels in the upcoming expansion? Do you want a totally new leveling system like "Mastery", would you want it to simply go to 110 and stay consistent to how it is right now, or something completely different?

I think that we don't need to level. Proof of that can be seen in the fact we do MSQ during patches. We are doing the MSQ, yet we are not gaining levels and it's fine.

They've mentioned Skill Trees and Ability points as ideas they are thinking of, so they could do something like that where you just merely increase the power of your abilities themselves after beating certain duties.

I'm personally unbothered by the ever climbing level, but they could implement a expansion exclusive leveling system like we see in Eureka, Bozja, and the Occult Crescent if tgey wanted to try something different, or do another stat squish and retool the current levels. It feels odd that ARR has the first 50 levels while the standard in expansions is only raising it by ten levels.

I have a hunch they're going to be doing something different with levels in 8.0. Would not be surprised if we stay level 100, but we get some horizontal systems.

I'm sure it'll be the level cap to many players who are waiting for the promised 8.0 to deliver as Mr. Yoshida and Kiyru (The CEO of Square Enix) are heavily implying to the shareholders and customers both.
If it fails to deliver, then the current level cap will be the last for many.





More directly: Personally I'd like to stop leveling upward and instead keep the horizontal progression if we must and find ways to gain spells or earn rotations through another means.

Probably a level squish, since I can't see us going past 100 and they're not creative enough to create a horizontal system and/or any such system will be min-maxed day 1 and you'll have people catching flak for "picking wrong".

One part of me says to stop at 100 and focus on flushing out each job. I know others would be mad about not getting new skills and abilities on their favorite job.
Though I still feel like stopping at 100 to work on fixing and improving the current jobs so they're both fun and functional is a good idea on its own.