Combat rebalance — magic, weapon skills and items

Combat on DriftwoodXI is snappier than retail without being a different game. Your character's base numbers are retail-accurate — the power you bring to a fight comes from your squad, your gear and your consumables.

Stats

• Player HP, MP, TP gain and base stats are retail-accurate.
• A sub job grants its full max MP instead of half — and remember, your sub job runs at your full main job level.
• The enmity cap is doubled, which makes tanking on a fast server actually possible.

Magic, weapon skills and items

• 1.5x power across the board — Cure, Elemental, Divine, Ninjutsu, Blue and Dark magic, and weapon skills. One number, every job, no favourites.
• 3x item power — deliberately the outlier. Potions, ethers and their cousins are meant to be a real combat consideration on this server, not vendor fodder. Stock up before the hard fight; it's a strategy here.
• 10x weaponskill and skillchain points for breaking latents.
• Stoneskin's cap is tripled.
• Blink grants five shadows.
• Spike effect duration is 4x; elemental debuff duration is 2x.
• Sneak and Invisible last 3x as long, and Aquaveil is improved.

Skills and utility

• Every swing rolls for a skill-up — hit or miss — and every roll under your cap lands. Tick sizes scale with how far behind you are, so a fresh weapon catches up in a session, not a saga. Magic skills climb the same way, every cast. Skill caps stay retail-accurate.
• Parry, Block and Guard skill up in regular combat, not just in the rare situations retail allowed.
• Every job can widescan.
• Level sync is enabled with gear scaling.
• Mission BCNMs have no level caps.