New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

[Aksannyi]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

I miss crabs.

I'm sure there's some women downtown who can hook you up.

[KingOfZeal]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Incredible news, even if I'm late reading it.

Personally, I see this as nothing but good with regards to PUPs. I know when I went through the dunes, I could pop out my Valor frame and it was actually a halfway decent tank, with incredibly high HP and halfway decent defense with attachments. Now in my late 60s, nobody wants me, and I couldn't pay a party to have me (as if I could afford it anyway).

Plus, working backward, having full access to frames (all of which are actually very very nice in the low levels) is not something that can be taken lightly.

I suppose my only question, assuming it wasn't brought up, is how skills would work. I do remember hearing of a group of people who decided to get to 75 fighting mobs in the promys, on the last two floors. Exp is actually halfway decent, and it's never camped (in fact, I'd be willing to be many groups would love you for clearing the way to the battlefield). But, when they did finally hit 75 they couldn't hit anything worth anything because their skills were so horribly under the cap. If this works like that, it may not be as much of a blessing as some might think (unless your meriting, which is something I'm not getting into in this post).

But I can see a system which caps your 'usable' skills at whatever level you're capped at, but still allows for increases in your skill...

[bookwyrm]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

So, what does happen with weapon skills and magic skills? If you're lvl40 and get a lvl30 party, but your skills are all capped for lvl30, but not 40, do you still get skill ups, they just don't show up until you revert?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

"As mentioned above, equipment will also be temporarily powered down to match the player's reduced level. Attributes that will be affected include: DMG, DEF, HP, MP, Status Effects, Accuracy+, Attack+, Ranged Accuracy+, Ranged Attack+, Magic Accuracy+, and Magic Attack+.
* The current plan is for other special properties (including Evasion, Enmity, enchantments and ability bonuses) to be negated entirely."

I would assume that if they've adjusted other issues, they'll adjust ws's also. You'll probably get all the weapon skills appropriate to the level you are capped at.

[Aksannyi]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Good point brought up on BG:

If someone has a level cap status effect on, you cannot target them with spells unless you have the same level cap status effect. Synced parties will not be plevel-able, I'm sure of it.

O_o

The end of PL as we know it?

[Mhurron]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

So, what does happen with weapon skills and magic skills? If you're lvl40 and get a lvl30 party, but your skills are all capped for lvl30, but not 40, do you still get skill ups, they just don't show up until you revert?

If you're lvl 40 and go into a lvl30 capped area I'm pretty sure you don't get skillups on skills that are above the level for the level capped area so I would expect this to work the same way.
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Good point brought up on BG:



O_o

The end of PL as we know it?

Only if I'm wrong and a whole lot of people do this.

[Belcrono]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Belcrono!! I'll have fun partying with you :D

Yeah, I can't wait. It sucks to have to start all over..... AGAIN, but with this new system I think it'll be worth it. Now all they have to do is make it possible to play any job as a starter job and I would be in heaven.

[Phanex]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Good point brought up on BG:



O_o

The end of PL as we know it?

I dunno about that, I mean I know for things like the Enviremental battel thingy you can't cure someone while they are on that mission, but for example of PL someone who is on a buddy pass and use that hat to limit there max lvl to that of their friends, they were still able to be PL...if I remeber correctly. So if they were on a mission, i can see that, but in Parties.....i dunno..

[TheGrandMom]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

O_o

The end of PL as we know it?

This would be AWESOME!!

[Aksannyi]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Well think about it, ever done Garrison? I've tried curing people who were doing Garrison, but the game won't let me. (Would be an easy way to cheat.) SE very easily COULD implement the same "You do not meet the level cap requirements to perform that action" thing with this level sync, which would effectively do away with outside healing entirely.

No more shitty dual-boxers! Rejoice! LOL.

[Luna]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

:D This was totally out of nowhere on SE's part, Just makes the game SO much better imo.

Now I dont have to solo blm at 73-75 I can just group up with my husband and eventually lvl it that way lol.

[Phanex]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

Well think about it, ever done Garrison? I've tried curing people who were doing Garrison, but the game won't let me. (Would be an easy way to cheat.) SE very easily COULD implement the same "You do not meet the level cap requirements to perform that action" thing with this level sync, which would effectively do away with outside healing entirely.

No more shitty dual-boxers! Rejoice! LOL.

LOL Funny, and true. But again, it's a mission/BCNM type deal, not a "Party". But we'll see soon enough.

Also wasn't that problem brought up to SE before about ppl using PLs? and SE said it's not breaking the rules? So I can't imgaine they'd do it this way to just please a hundered or so Elites vs. thousands of lazies wanting PLs. /shrug

And if they do have it where outside help can't be used, what to do when your whm dies and no one can Raise unless they are inside party? It'd cause more trouble than it's worth. Unless they can keep cures out, but allow rasies..

[Luna]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

LOL Funny, and true. But again, it's a mission/BCNM type deal, not a "Party". But we'll see soon enough.

Also wasn't that problem brought up to SE before about ppl using PLs? and SE said it's not breaking the rules? So I can't imgaine they'd do it this way to just please a hundered or so Elites vs. thousands of lazies wanting PLs. /shrug

I refuse party's that have PL's (the dunes is an exception) just makes the game so BORING! when lvling. I really hope they do implement this idea, I mean it would eliminate the n00b asses in higher lvls.

[Ziero]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

As was pointed out, it's not the lvl cap itself that prevents outside healing. You can still heal someone under the affect of a Sprout's Cap. But with Garrisons and Eco Warriors, SE wanted the people doing fight (the ones who are capped) to be entirely self sufficiant. Not only can you not cure someone in a Garrison party, regardless of cap (even the uncapped ones block outside healers) but you can't affect the mobs either.

But then again, they also made specific note of how they wanted this to not assist RMT and paid levelers, so it is still possible.

[MrMageo]

Re: New Level Sync Feature to Change the Way You Party! (08/25/2008)

HOLY BUM SECHS this is the best thing SE ever implemented. I mean seriously it is almost enough to have me not retire, almost but not quite.