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-title: "FFXIV - Frontline PVP Losing Bonus"
-description: "Some documentation about how the Frontline losing bonus actually works"
+title: "FFXIV - Quirks of the PVP System"
+description: "Some Quriks of FFXIV's PVP System"
 pubDate: "2024-09-12"
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+# Series Level
+One of the more recent additions to the game is PVP Series Malmstone. This was added back when the Feast was removed and changed into Crystalline Conflict. 
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+This feature is basically a battlepass that features some exclusive rewards. This in itself isn't very interesting, but what is interesting is what happens when you surpass Series Level 30.
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+Let's call the levels above 30, the "Extra Levels" since they technically surpass the scope of the battlepass. It would be a fair assumption to say that once you surpass level 30, your Series Level should roll over to 31. However, this was not the way the developers had designed this system.
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+In actuality, Series Level only goes up to 30. Once you surpass it (reaching 20 000 Series EXP), you'll find that you roll over to Series Level 30 with 0/20000 EXP again. However, this time you have the option to claim the Extra Level, along with a small symbol to denote how many times you can claim it.
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+Interestingly, even though this data isn't shown on the in-game UI, reading the number from memory (using FFXIV Client Structs) shows that the game does set your Series Level as 31.
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+If you don't claim this reward, this will continue until you reach Extra Level 100, which then the game stop rewarding you any additional Series EXP.
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+However, if you claim the Extra Level reward at any point. Your internal Series Level will roll back to 30, meaning that the game essentially erases any indiciation that you had reached X Extra Level.
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+The server may have this information stored somewhere, but its weird that this is how they chose to implement an infinite battlepass feature.
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+I can't think of many good reasons for why the UI doesn't count these Extra Levels as apart of normal Series Levels either, since its practically impossible for any player to reach an unsigned integer overflow during the time of 1 Series Malmstone season.
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+# Frontline Losing Streak Bonus
 I'd like to document exactly how the Frontline PVP losing bonus works in Final Fantasy XIV. There's a vast amount of uncertainity online about how
 rewards are handed out in Frontline. I believe that a vast majority of players don't even know such a bonus exists, the remaining people who know about the bonus aren't exactly able to explain it or chalk it up to seemingly random things (such as how long the PVP match takes).