Please get rid of surplus SP

[Exevier]

Nice! Every bit of news we hear seems to be great news lately!

[Shikaree]

Excellent. *rubs hands together*

[zaviermhigo]

What does he mean "decide on the play style", is this a balance into hardcore vs casual, or something else like pigeon holing(i'm not that opposed actually at this point). Not too worried about it, just curious.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Was kinda wondering why this wasn't removed sooner, but I suppose it makes sense since that's when the bulk of the battle changes will be coming in and the ranking or leveling system will take a different route.

[Peregrine]

What does he mean "decide on the play style", is this a balance into hardcore vs casual, or something else like pigeon holing(i'm not that opposed actually at this point). Not too worried about it, just curious.

Probably just means that Square Enix will no longer hint, suggest, or straight tell you you've played enough X for now.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

im all for this, im a casual player (have two jobs so not a lot of time) and I never cared for system glad see they will remove it in time

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Probably just means that Square Enix will no longer hint, suggest, or straight tell you you've played enough X for now.

Especially when it doesn't stop the hardcore from being hardcore. It would have been just grinded through anyway.

[SilvertearRen]

I have just one question. I have been led to believe that the Surplus system would give us a pool of points similar to what Merits are used for in XI. If we simply do away with Surplus, we lose what we earned in that unseen pool of points. If we're eliminating Surplus, I would hope that the SP that was lost to Surplus when we were Fatigued, would be reinstated back to our usual SP tally.

Example: You're rank 30. You spent 10 ranks in Surplus, so you earned X amount of Surplus points. Surplus system goes away, X points of SP is restored to your rank progression.

That's what I expect, because I don't want my "unseen" earnings dashed to oblivion.

So, will we get our surplus points back in the form of regular SP?

[Naylia]

My guess is no. Just because we leveled while a system was in place doesn't mean we get compensated when it goes away.

This is just SE saying look, if all you want to do is be a Lancer...then be a Lancer.

[Sojiro]

Hello fellow adventurers! We have some comments for you regarding surplus from FFXIV Producer/Director Yoshida himself!

I really want to run up to yoshida and give him a jumping highfive, thank you SE.