Preparing For 99 (Progress Report: Part-1)

Level-99: .................When SE first anounced At Vanefest a few weeks ago that they were increasing the Level Cap from 75 to 99, it reinvigorated me. It gave me a new drive and purpose. SE was right. FFXI had reached the point where COP Areas no longer needed being Level Cap'd and seeing a Maat's Cap become a pretty common event. FFXI was becoming stagnant. There's a reason animals have an instictive behavior to drink running water rather then sitting water. Stagnancy equals death. SE knew this and they delivered with a steroid shot right in the ass.. .................So...after carefull thought and revaluation.... I have simplified the preperation for the up and coming Level Cap Increase into 4 simple catagories. 1)Subs 2)Buffers 3)Merits 4)Old Content 1)Sub Jobs For Level-99: .................For the next few weeks I will be investing some time on prevoisly Level'd old 37 Subs and make them Level-99 ready. Last week saw me take THF, DNC, and NIN from 37 to 49. This week I will be working on SCH which I left at the dismal Level of 29 a long ass time ago. Maybe in the next few weeks I'll hit up COR-37, BLU 37, and PLD 39. Subs that are ready now for 99: A) /Drk B) /Sam C) /War D) /Drg E) /Thf F) /Dnc G) /NIN 2)Buffers For Level-99: DRK @ 20,000 DRG @ 42,000 SAM @ 43,000 WAR @ 43,999 3)Merits For Level-99: ..................SE also said We will be getting a Merit Cap Increase as well as a possible new type of Level-99 Merit in the near future. My friend Ravax had this good idea of a so called "Super Merit". His idea was you can trad in 10 regular Merits for 1 "super Merit". Then use 10 "Super Merits" to Augment your character's SubJob so that it can reach Level-50 instead of 49! ..................That's a cool idea but first I need to finish the regular Merits! My Merits are currently 14 from total Cap on my 4 75's. You bet your ass that I will complete that and be ready with 10 extra Merits before we get that Increase. 4)Old Content: ...................Lets face it. It is inevatable that the EndGame player somewhere down the line has to part with Older Content to make way for New Content. It is now vertually impossible to do everything in FFXI all of the time! FFXI has a shit load of Content with more on the way. Just look at FFXI's freak'n Title Screen. They are gonna have to shrinky-dink all those 8 Expansion Titles to make room for the next Three! ....................Here's where I stand on all the old and upcoming future content... A) Salvage w/RemnantBrave (Still need Usu Body 35+15) B) Einherjar w/Obsidian (Still need a shit-ton of stuff) C) Sky (Fin.) D) Sea w/Obsidian (Still need Torques) E) ZNM's w/Obsidian (Still need a shit-ton of stuff) F) HNM's (Fin.)(F-U HNMS!) G) Other Pop NM's (Fin.)(except those MAB Gnat Hands) H) Dynamis w/Obsidian (Still need AF and AF+1) I) Abyssea w/Obsidian (Need AF3) F) Nyzul Isle (Still need Askar Head and Legs) G) Walk Of Echoes w/Obsidian (No clue what Drops here) H) Expansion Stories/Missions/Quests (Still need WotG and original Sandy/Windy Nation Missions) I) Limbus w/OpenDoor2 (Still need 2 SAM AF+1 and 1 DRG AF+1)