New FFXI Expansion

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Only on the side of the reader.

That was a little better, but not quite.

[Aeolus]

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Yea, it does.

[Murphie]

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Only on the side of the reader.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Man, no one understands sarcasm around here.

Casual sarcasm fails on the internet.

[Murphie]

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Man, no one understands sarcasm around here.

[Kailea]

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Not to mention we gotta send angry letters to SE for making those fights impossible to beat unless you have 18 of the same burn job.
I'm still struggling to get my Enthunder burn going to beat DM.

*blink* lol you are going to kill it that way? just get a good balanced group and *gasp* omg use a strategy.

[Aeolus]

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People manaburn/TP burn DM still?

[Raydeus]

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If the FFXIO LS ever happens we will sooo do it.

[Mhurron]

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I'm still struggling to get my Enthunder burn going to beat DM.

I'd actually like to try that

[Raydeus]

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You're right, its 18 WAR/NIN's or that mission doesn't get done.

Not to mention we gotta send angry letters to SE for making those fights impossible to beat unless you have 18 of the same burn job.

I'm still struggling to get my Enthunder burn going to beat DM.

[Mhurron]

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When do people ever throw 18 Lv75 blms at anything anymore?

You're right, its 18 WAR/NIN's or that mission doesn't get done.

[Raydeus]

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Anyway, as long as the level capped event is planned a few days in advance, muling isn't that much of a hardship. It's only when someone logs on and says "who wants to help me with PM3-5 right now, with no warning?" that you have a problem - so don't do that. (Unplanned uncapped events will have some of the same problems anyway - "I just joined this merit pt" or something similar.) Do yourself and your linkshell a favor and plan it for next Tuesday (or whichever day works for you), or join/form a static that does PMs on a regular schedule.

And until SE agrees with *you* and removes level caps from everything, some missions can't be made a joke just by throwing 75s at them. Do you really think that there would be any challenge to Ouryu or even Omega & Ultima without level caps on them? They'd be as easy as ZM4-6, or even easier.

If you can't live to part with some of your gear from level 75, maybe avoiding challenging capped fights is a good idea.

You can hate capped areas, but to say they are any less of a challenge because they cap you is ridiculous. For one, the game is most balanced at level 60... any PvPer can tell you this.

And they are quite necessary too. There is no other way to make a progressing storyline aimed for players of multiple level ranges without players just using high-level help to go through them.

I don't think you are understanding my point, I have nothing against level caps (save for all the freaking muling involved in the process of getting ready for it), if it was planned beforehand or not is irrelevant since you gotta waste time muling regardless.

My problem is with all the "level caps made fights more challenging" nonsense. There's overpowering food and gear at all level ranges and I gotta say in all my time playing level caps have done nothing to up the challenge. Any capable party can win any fight fairly easy, it all comes down to having a good strategy and capable players to execute it.

So using caps as a cheap excuse to justify why a BC is difficult doesn't work for me.

Please define the difference. Do you really think CoP wasn't designed for non-75s to be able to participate in it? (before the last couple chapters, at least) And how are you going to arrange that without level caps or ZM-style blowouts?

As others have said, level caps make it possible for players who haven't reached higher levels to enjoy the content with what they have in terms of gear and job levels, that's the point of level caps, to make it accesible for lower level players to participate.

It also gives people some room to play with job options in cases like Promies, since you can level any job to 30 fairly easy if you need to fill a role your main job can't fill.

But, adding level caps just to gimp players by not allowing them to use whatever gear is that they have is what doesn't make any sense to me.

The full sets of most gear are made to work together, so having the full set for a capped fight, is not "gimping" you all that much, it is why the sets where made to begin with.

It is gimping you though, and it's an unnecessary waste of gil and room (once you take the set out of storage), I'd rather have better options to manage and store gear than doing something as pointless as it is buying full sets of armor just for the sake of storage.

[Aeolus]

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When do people ever throw 18 Lv75 blms at anything anymore?

[Kailea]

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I agree, CoP could not be as challenging or fun with uncapped everything. It would be just like most everything else.

"Hey lets just throw 18 lv75 BLM at it" This is not fun, funny but not fun at all.

[Karinya]

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I already told you that doesnt work for me, you gotta try harder to solve my inventory space situation.

Why? Maybe *you* should be the one to solve your inventory space situation.

You can "store" some gear on the AH, too. Especially during deflation.

Anyway, as long as the level capped event is planned a few days in advance, muling isn't that much of a hardship. It's only when someone logs on and says "who wants to help me with PM3-5 right now, with no warning?" that you have a problem - so don't do that. (Unplanned uncapped events will have some of the same problems anyway - "I just joined this merit pt" or something similar.) Do yourself and your linkshell a favor and plan it for next Tuesday (or whichever day works for you), or join/form a static that does PMs on a regular schedule.

There's a difference between specific level aimed content and level caps nerf style.

Please define the difference. Do you really think CoP wasn't designed for non-75s to be able to participate in it? (before the last couple chapters, at least) And how are you going to arrange that without level caps or ZM-style blowouts?

If what you really care about is challenge for yourself, and not about telling other people they gotta play your way, then yes. At least until SE agrees with you (and adds lvl caps to everything) it's the player's choice whether they want to fight at full capacity or handicap themselves for the sake of challenge.

And until SE agrees with *you* and removes level caps from everything, some missions can't be made a joke just by throwing 75s at them. Do you really think that there would be any challenge to Ouryu or even Omega & Ultima without level caps on them? They'd be as easy as ZM4-6, or even easier.