The official site doesn't have any info yet, only a teaser/trailer.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/altana/index.html

Time mage was one of the jobs ppl were guessing we would get in ToAU too. The reason for these speculations, is of course that Time mage is one of the "old" FF jobs.

But, what this game really needs, is another tank job + another healer job (which can main heal, not only support). I'm a lvl 75 WHM and when I wanna merit and put up my lfg flag, I rarely wait more than a few minutes, since the demand is so high. It was like that most of the time during the lvling process too. My RDM also usually ends up as a main healer because of the lack of WHMs.

If we see any Old Vana'diel in this exp pack, I guess it will be an end-game instanced area, like ie Dynamis is today. This will be stealing ideas from WoW (Caverns of Time), so I'm not sure if that will happen at all. Of course I could be wrong, since this exp pack will focus on the war 20 years earlier, and what happened back then.

I'm also curious about the lvl cap - will they increase it? Not a very important issue for me in a game like this, but I'm still curious.

There were some reasons they won't raise the cap.. I can't quite remember them, there's a few. It has something to do with overpowering or something. Anyway, personally I would like to see some of the newer jobs get some lovin'. Where's the love for endgame Pup?

Originally posted by Rinic
You can't raise the cap.
It's already bad enough every melee class is /nin.
Raise it any higher and every mage will be subbing /rdm for refresh.

This makes sense. Still I know SE was considering a cap raise for ToAU, so who knows?

Jackitup32, a few comments to your posts:

Puppetmaster isn't a popular job. Not to play and not to party with. I don't know why - I have it unlocked, but I've only lvld it to 5 or so, so I don't know the job very well. Corsair was very popular for a while, but unfortunately that seems to have changed. I like to party with corairs, but that doesn't happen often now. It seems like Blue Mage is still quite popular.

New starting nation will probably never happen. That would have a huge impact on lore and lots of other features in the game. You have seen the stories told when doing the missions, right? Then you understand why.

Same with new playable races. Also, hardly anyone (except newcomers) would play it. This is because most of us who already play wouldn't roll a new char from scratch. Exceptions could be mules (storage chars) and maybe crafters, since some players use separate chars for this.

New areas WILL come, there's no doubt in my mind about that.

I doubt PvP will be a great feature in FFXI. It's not that kind of game. Just look at what we have. It isn't much.

Jumping will NEVER happen. They would have to redesign the whole game and/or only allow it in specific, new areas. This really isn't a feature we need.