The only way I could see it working well with equipment and stuff is for the magians quest to add some kind of scaling bonuses to your armour, similar to the COP rings where they went from their 75 stats to 99 ones. Otherwise - people are going to be thinking what's the point to salvage etc (my salvage group's actually broken over this very reason - yet another reason I'm pretty annoyed about the whole update) if their 14 million body pieces are suddenly rendered as nothing more than a mid-level exp gear. The problem with just upgrading armour is that people won't have all their jobs at 99 all of a sudden - if you allow people to create haidate +1s for their 99WAR, what are they going to wear exping their 75BST up to the new cap? Hence my theory for the scaling armour - which would no doubt be tied to some horrifically arkward quest requiring an arm, leg and freshly boiled tarutaru.
I'm not quite a Maat's Cap case... I've got 11 jobs at 75, some of which are retired and I won't be bringing out to get to 99 (long story but my mage gear was on an alt character I inherited which has been hacked recently and I've got no way of getting retrieved), but the thought of taking even the 4 jobs I play to 99 is kind of cringe-making... and the thought of enduring DNC and THF to 49 is horrific (it's taken me 6 years to drag my THF to 1k to 37 kicking and screaming). To be honest though - the Maat's Cap players are the ones sitting pretty in terms of subjobs with all of this.
The only future I'm committed to is seeing out March (and hopefully the newly release batch of WOTG missions), if I'm still feeling as meeehhhhh about the game by then as I do with all this update news - I'm finally gone. Already know of a fair few people saying the same - cumulative effect of being on one of the destroyed servers and the thought of a bajillion more colibri to slaughter.
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Had to chop this into 2 as LJ thought I was talking too much - pssh
I'm not quite a Maat's Cap case... I've got 11 jobs at 75, some of which are retired and I won't be bringing out to get to 99 (long story but my mage gear was on an alt character I inherited which has been hacked recently and I've got no way of getting retrieved), but the thought of taking even the 4 jobs I play to 99 is kind of cringe-making... and the thought of enduring DNC and THF to 49 is horrific (it's taken me 6 years to drag my THF to 1k to 37 kicking and screaming). To be honest though - the Maat's Cap players are the ones sitting pretty in terms of subjobs with all of this.
The only future I'm committed to is seeing out March (and hopefully the newly release batch of WOTG missions), if I'm still feeling as meeehhhhh about the game by then as I do with all this update news - I'm finally gone. Already know of a fair few people saying the same - cumulative effect of being on one of the destroyed servers and the thought of a bajillion more colibri to slaughter.
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Had to chop this into 2 as LJ thought I was talking too much - pssh
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