FFXI: A New Hope (editorial discussion thread)

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#77 Mar 21 2010 at 4:28 AM Rating: Decent

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I'm not seeing how a being lv99 is going to help you clear capped missions easier? If anything it will be harder to get done because experienced people are grinding to get 99/49, less pressured for story mission gear, or quitting because they've run out of appropriately leveled content.

They're removing the level caps on CoP. I'm convinced that means the burning circles too.

A) Half the missions aren't even in burning circles. Pretty dumb to make the tonberries, aquaducts, chasm, pso x'ja, sea, sacrarium, and other assorted missions easier, but not the other ones.

B) Easier end game is worthless if it's still just as hard to get to as it used to be. The level cap raises made sky easier to get to, why would sea be the same?

Seems to me, at 99, you should be able to at least trio through to your rajas ring.

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Maybe if we wait long enough, he'll tell us about how he walked barefoot uphill through snow both ways in Uleregand and defeated the evil Snoll Tzar with nothing but a stack of pebbles. Men were men back then. Mithra were men, too, but they don't talk about that.

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#78 Mar 21 2010 at 4:53 AM Rating: Decent

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They're removing the level caps on CoP. I'm convinced that means the burning circles too.

Actually, they said "CoP zones" if I'm not mistaken; not "CoP"

So yeah, I wouldn't be 100% certain yet that the BCNMs will be uncapped.

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#79 Mar 21 2010 at 4:06 PM Rating: Excellent

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Dandruffshampoo the Eccentric wrote:

Hmmmx wrote:

The full expansion should be about the Far East that we've heard for many years. A war with Aht Urhgan versus Far East country story. They should also expand the past quest to involve the present by time travel. The WoTG expansion was pretty bleh with no time travel stories.

Dandruffshampoo plays Valor Minuet IV.
Audience : ...
Dandruffshampoo : I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.

Oh god lmao

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#80 Mar 22 2010 at 7:24 PM Rating: Excellent

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I'm looking forward to the level cap for a number of reasons but mainly because when I (presumably) hit 99 i'll be able to solo or low man a lot of the things that require alliances or just bigger groups today. And this allows for casual players to get access to good gear.

Sure there will be some gear I will never have a chance at and that's fine but, when my available time dictates the gear i can get rather than any skill or tactical talent I possess it makes the game undesirable for me. As has been said many times on the forums, a time sink does not equal challenge.

I think current content will still have a challenge, just without the time sink. For some people even just a few hours once a week is a big commitment for a video game, while i do manage a good chunk of time per week I don't want to be tied to the game. I want the game to work around my schedule, not the other way around, level increase makes for more freedom in that my reliance on others goes down.

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