Should I Liquidate My Gear? (Another LV99 Thread)

This is me. I have NIN SCH BLU SAM BLM and was leveling SMN and THF occasionally. This made me turn around and sell off all gear which isn't used by one of my 'Big 3' (BLU SAM BLM). Hell BLU is just for me, SAM and BLM for events. As such I won't have time to level up all my jobs to 99. I will however try to make time to get all of my jobs I like to play up to par.

During Vanafest, on the live feed.

Do you know of a site that has recordings of the live feed info? Normally wiki does but can't find it

Ideally if you plan on still playing, hang onto your gear. What's good now I am more than sure will still be good in the future until we physically see some new pieces that even remotely compare to what we have now.

Remember, newer does not always equal better.

HQ staves will never be replaced. I mean seriously the staff for PW is still not as good for just dmg forget macc. The gear haste cap wont be lifted so the haste gear will still be good. You still use af peieces those +skill or jt and still will same with relic.

Though I think I will stop wasting time on augmenting over and over now in the hopes of finally getting a better weskit lol

Aye, HQ staves give a direct percentage increase meaning its effectiveness will remain steadfast regardless what you fight.

Unlike those staves/clubs from ZNM.

Not as of yet, but i expect the vanafest twitter will have something sooner or later.

It's not so much what you fight as what your are casting with. Specifically MAB.

For the +25MAB to be better than +15% you'd need to be casting in less than 66. A merited blm cast in 44 on the meritted elements nekkid no buffs... not to mention the loss of macc which makes it hard for the jobs with less MAB to actually use it. Hell blm mythics 20 is beaten with like 33 MAB I think and even on offspells nekkid blm has 32 lol.

The 10MAB/macc one with 5mab shield would only win if you had -MAB... don't think any job can do that.

I wouldn't be suprised if by lvl 99 my blm is in over 100MAB. Which means to beat HQ staff they'd need over +30MAB in the weapon slot in just terms of dmg forget the 30macc.

if they plan for you to mix old gear with new gear, i'd call that a pretty strong implication that there is new gear to mix it with

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20039015&postcount=651

Guys stop making Lv.99 Threads >_> Jesus seriously.... It's the umteenth hundread one?
No one here is going to Tell,
A and B are coming out with this gear, for this level, with these stats......
So No one knows you have to wait and see fot yourself.
And I highly Doubt that they're gonna cap Vana'diel Areas at 75, thats simply HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE, you have any clue how many zones that is to have em all capped?
Not to mention they're removing cap from CoP zones, obviously is ubserd and has no purpose but to frustrate.... ok sooo SHUT UP D=
(QQ If you dont wanna see the thread dont click into it QQ)

Well yea I would find antoher thread if this wasnt the only crap popping up on main page -_-

Ok anywho, take care, and stfu =D!

GUCCI MANE!

It's hilarious how badly people overreact to the simplest things, everyone selling ALL their high-priced items(Haguns, cuchulains, novio etc) and trying to get rid of them because they think they're going to be useless, lol.

Sorry, but this isn't WOW, they don't make all gear useless when they up the level cap/introduce new gear, they usually keep most of the gear GREAT/amazing, why else would zilart gear still be the best pants in the game for most jobs?

Attn to everyone on Shiva quitting due to level 99 cap.

Give me all items.

aww shucks. you're about a week too late...

Curses...

Someone from my friends egls quit half way through fafnir due to this, apparently it was lulzy.

i quit before i heard all this. and thankfully im glad i did. 24 level increase, whole new end game garbage. im having an enjoyable time playing other games that are much easier to just put down. and i know the wife's gonna hate me when i pick up 14 haha. I hope this new stuff turns out well, it'd be a shame for SE to come up with this enormous update and have half the population quit. but then again, wouldn't shock me at all.

I've got respect for people who quit before this was announced simply because they've had enough, that's fair enough. People throwing all the toys out of the pram because they simply announced a level cap increase are the silly ones. chances are 95% of them will return when this ***is actually released.

I've quit for a short time before also, but I always end up feeling like playing it. And I always get all giddy when updates are announced =P

Let the people sell all their gear. Im just gonna laugh at everyone of them when SE doesnt release any new gear and makes it only upgradable old stuff. Poor fools begging to get their stuff back.

Everyone in here talks so smarty but no one knows what's gonna happen. We talking about *** level 99, no one of you know what will happen[2].

i havnt read all three pages and if this was said already my bad... but hmmm are people aware that the Lv cap increase is in phase of 3? that being said i would "imagine" that the thrid phase (which is sometime in the winter months, nov-dec) is when the Full cap of 99 will be introduced. phase one may be something like 75-85 and its not even this coming update... so why are people thinking about liqudating items soooo eailer? obviously your going to have to buy them back for your job to work properly unless you want to be gimper (if thats a word) then u was before for 6+ months >.>;

To be fair a lot of the people who are selling gear have been around through the inflation where HQ staves went from being 10m a pop to less than 1m in a little over a year, with most of the major price changes happening in the last ~6 months. We've all seen how SE has handled level syncing down, and they were worried about what syncing it up meant. Reading the interview below

-- It's been six and a half years since the last increase to level cap. Are you planning more "Limit Break" quests (quests which increase the level cap)?

Matsui: We don't plan on having quests like the previous ones. I guess we do need to continue them somehow, but we plan on lowering the difficulty. Raising the level cap changes up the balance and is tough on the adventurers. Thus if they can just go and release it--. It's not like we do it to be mean (laugh).

-- You say you'll be raising the level cap step by step. What will the next cap be?

Matsui: We'll start with 80. It's been a long time since we set the cap to 75, so we want to make lots of changes level by level on the way to 80. We haven't decided whether to raise by 5s or 10s after that.

-- Once the level cap is removed, will the current HNM (an abbreviation for "high-level notorious monster", monsters designed to be fought by many players at once) be adjusted?

Matsui: We're considering not making major changes. We don't think it's bad that the fierce enemies and endgame content up to now can be taken on with fewer players. Instead, we plan to add new enemies to fit the new level cap.

-- With the increase in level cap comes an increase in support job level cap. Powerful magics and abilities like Refresh and Convert will become usable without having to be one's specialties. Are you planning to adjust their effect when used as a support job?

Matsui: Personally, I like the idea of getting Refresh from a support job. I'd like to see Red Mage gain an even stronger Refresh, making battles even more flashy as he tells everyone to "Go for it! Spam your magic!".

-- With how long the level cap has been 75, I think there have been a lot of people who worked hard to get "ultimate gear". How do you plan to follow this up?

Matsui: Using the "Magian's Trials" system we plan to implement, we believe they will continue to be useful at higher levels. We'd like to see them mixed with new equipment.

You can tell that because of the ~80 augments per piece of armor, which I personally can't wait to see what the text will read like, all gear will still be useful.

Now on the topic of high endgame weapons, someone said it before, unless the base damage on the GKT far out DDs the TP multiplier on WS from its 1.5 to 1.8, yielding a 12.5% damage increase, selling a Hagun would be stupid. Hagun is currently best, behind only Amano. A Blau is also still an amazing dagger only behind /ex Daggers like P harpe and X's knife (and obviously Mandau).

For the server transfers, imagine this, you're taking demand, and supply, and adding those two factors of each server together, so a working model would be, 1.8 pcc + 1.7 pc yielding 1.75 pcc with the same number of buyers and sellers as the two servers had individually, but added together in this case. You're not changing supply or demand because you're doing the same thing to both sides of the function.

Long explanation aside, if you plan on staying through the level cap nonsense, don't sell the gear you worked years for. Just augment it and rub it into others faces.

In the Vanafest video (Part 3 on Youtube), you will see that all the equipment they pointed to shows "Lv75~". Going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing the "~" means the higher the level, the more attributes to the weapon/armor modification system can be applied to that equipment piece....much like how merited stats are scaled if you aren't 75.

Savain, while I agree with most of what you're saying, your supply and demand logic might not be very accurate. While it might apply to items that drops from BCs, the same can't be said for items that drops from NMs. They will always have the same conditions as before for pop whether it's lottery or timed. Except now there's more people competing for it.

I still think its amusing to see 10 haguns on AH now. Cheap haguns for everyone soon ;P

Well, remember that we're all just assuming that there will be new lvl 99 gear that will replace what we have now. That may or may not be the case.

Just because we're lvl 99 doesn't guarantee there will also be superior lvl99 gear to go along with it for all categories. Hagun may very well still be very much tops for GKT, etc.

Granted, they're nearly guaranteed to make other lvl 99 items. But I'm not convinced every current awesome piece is going to have a direct (easy/cheap) replacement at 99.