Level Cap To Be Lifted To New Heights! (08/25/2010

Source: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/5757/detail.html

The impending version update will usher in the second stage of the level cap increase, bringing players' maximum attainable level from 80 to 85!

To provide a fitting challenge to players who achieve these newfound heights of power, we will be adjusting monster level and placement in certain Treasures of Aht Urhgan areas to create daunting new battlegrounds.

A host of new abilities, job traits, and spells will also be added for the newly-unlocked levels. Needless to say, these will be designed to provide players with exciting new possibilities while preserving game balance as they achieve even higher levels in the future.

New Job Abilities



- White Mage: An ability offering increased resistance against status ailments.
- Red Mage: An ability that enhances the potency of enfeebling magic.
- Bard: An ability that prevents songs cast on oneself from being overwritten.
- Beastmaster: A new pet command.
- Dragoon: A new jump.
- Summoner: New blood pacts.
- Corsair: New phantom rolls
- Dancer: A new step.

New Job Traits

- Monk: Skillchain Bonus
- White Mage: Shield Def. Bonus
- Red Mage: Mag. Burst Bonus
- Thief: Dual Wield
- Dark Knight: Crit. Atk. Bonus
- Bard: Fencer
- Ninja: Skillchain Bonus
- Corsair: True Shot
- Puppetmaster: Crit. Def. Bonus

New Spells



- Enhancement spells that increase the attributes of party members
- Magic spells to manage enmity levels
- A song that reduces damage taken by party members
- New ninjutsu
- New blue magic spells

These new abilities will be covered in further detail in future articles, so keep watching this space!

There are damselflies in Fort Karugo-Narugo ?

how incredibly vague


my favorite part is how theyre adding yet another jump to drg... where do they come up with this ***? lol

Thief Dual Wield

:o

There is a NM too. ^^ They are around G-5

Nothing usefull beside thf dual wield lol

I find it funny they give us this massive cure potency staff from magian trials, then insult us with this ***lol.

Theif dual wield <3

I lol'd

Exactly the picture I had in mind when I saw that:P

Why in the hell are MNK and NIN getting SC bonus too? It's bad enough *** DNC not only gets it before the supposed "SC master" SAM, but also gets a higher tier. Now they're giving it to even MORE jobs?

Oh, and inb4 butthurt SAM not being king of the DDs.

Meh. It's ok I suppose. It means that we can keep a CHR song on ourself permanently... but I don't really see the need :/ It's ok for keeping Ballad up /whm I suppose.
Whatever would BRD do without fencer?! >.>


Could be good depending on how much. I assume it will be a phalanx like song, so it could be very good, especially if it stacks with phalanx.

Well this is fairly exciting, and any enhancements are welcome. Although most of it is vague, so we'll have to see what it really is and how it plays out in game before we can*** in our pants or frown upon it.

SC bonus will change absolutely nothing.

Also lol @ level 85 in this update. Disappointing.

Seriously. I mean, I cure with Templar Mace + Muse Tariqah, but I still think that +Shield Defense is irrelevant to White Mage...

Meh, I kinda miss the days of SCing and MBing. Maybe someday SE will hit the right note and put people back on the good path~

eh most of my jobs arnt getting stuff dangit! Guess all my hope falls on blu and sch for me!

also inb4 where is lv 90 and wtf lv 85
edit: dam too slow lol

Now if they gave em some crazy ***to block physical and/or magic based AOEs with a shield, then it might be more appealing. Like a shield based full resistance or something.

Less enmity accumulation for RNG ranged attacks!<3

Oh :( Now Im sad

Don't get me wrong, it'll help, and I also like SCing and MBing, but this won't change the tiers of DD. and SAM's will still close all of the time due to a sam WS being generally more powerful.

True, but perhaps this trait will be adjusted in such a way that even openers have some sort of calculation factoring into overall SC dmg. But that's just wishful thinking, and this is SE ._.

This makes me wonder if there's going to be a part IV level cap raise, seeing as on the flow char SE had posted for ffxi updates was only level cap 1-3, if they keep raising by 5 lvls there's going to be more I think ... unless part 3 is lvl85-99...

It would be nice to see. The Phalanx song has got me excited, the level 85 in this update has got me unexcited.

Meh overall.

I guess we get 5 *** abyssea, I mad. Hey guys you gotta pay 10€ for each 5 levels from now on ! At this rate we can question if 99 will actually be the cap.

BORING

.......I'm sorry, what did you say?