Let Producer Matsui Know How He Should Catch Up on 2 Years!

Hi! I'll agree with the general "it's so nice to hear a personal message" feeling; it gives the sensation you actually care which seems to have been missing before- no offenses intended.

But, you asked for what we 'want'. Here's a few tweaks I'd love to see- some of which may have already been mentioned in the 330+ pages before me...

Red Mage
* Fencer: This is an almost daily complaint from myself and two other little Melee Red Mages... Why did you give it to Warrior, and Bard of all things, but not to Red Mages- who are designed after the art and even have the "Fencing Degen"? My request is simple. Give us the trait natively, second tier if you feel generous.
* Enfeebling: Masters of Enfeebling and Enhancing... Right~... (Yes, said with the DMC3 Vergil voice tone.) Can we make them noticeable, or make the things they would matter on not immune? Pretty please?
* Weaponskills: Requiescat was a blessing made epic in form, it's even given me a reason to use White Mage as a subjob now when going melee flavor in a small party! So this- rather old, stale, and growing in annoyance- complaint has been silenced. Thank you, from the bottom of my little kitty's booties.

Dragoon
* Breaths: I know you've heard this one 10 million and a half times already... But this is something that has been in need of being addressed for years. "EPS", or "Exploding Pet Syndrome", has been the bane of many pet classes long enough to obtain a notorious nickname. My Dragoon has perished many times over due to this. I've even felt this pain on my Summoner, poor little thing, who is constantly raging about lost Ward timers. Can you attempt to do something about this? For the sake of your pet class lovers' sanity?

Dancer
* Waltz Timers: This is, yet again, an over-preached topic... The only one I wish to see lowered- by gear or alternate JA- is V. It's saved my tanks many times over... only to loose the DD they were trying to save with :01 left. A JA to cancel the recast on this for one use, similar to Red Mage's Spontaneity, would be perfect in my opinion.

User Interface
* Spell Icons: ...Really, they were charming on SMN, BRD, and the JA menus. I'm honest, I actually like the new JA and WS icons. But the pain in my temples when I try to run my Red Mage is not going away with time, the icons are a horrible headache for the menu running Red Mage. Could you, perhaps, give us the option to use the old ones instead? The new ones, while detailed and pretty, are not as... definitive, if that word fits, as the old ones. My Dancer has felt similar pain, but that was only when breaking the normal pattern of taps- a hand full of us can run the menus blindfolded. Red Mage is not that way, and the new icons make it quite hard to work with the sheer number of spells a fully learned Red Mage possesses.

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Those are, really, my only large complaints. Sure, I'd love to see my Red Mage out-parse a well geared DD some day, but I'm willing to settle for a little less than world domination. ^^ Thanks for listening to us!

- Kia

I want to actually be able to communicate with the auto translate function.
I want to be able to do more detailed searches to find other players interested in the same content as myself.
Both of these requests would allow me to spend more time on the game playing instead of trying to find others to play with me.

*General Ideas*

Please make it that if a job ability's use is prevented by being paralyzed it is not reset to its full timer. A wait of 2-3 seconds (as with spells that are paralyzed) would be more than adequate.

Please give furnishings their own area for storage. Also, Please make the option for "Storage" (the inventory slots created by placing furnishings in you MogHouse via "Layout") accessible from Rent-a-Rooms.

Please add the items Heavy Metal Plate, Heavy Metal Pouch, Riftdross and Riftcinder to the potential spoils of more foes in Voidwatch and Provenance and increase the frequency at which these items appear in the Riftworn Pyxis.

Please raise the maximum levels of weapon proficiency attainable by certain jobs. (i.e. Marksmanship for Corsair, Polearm/Archery for Samurai, Archery/Marksmanship for Ranger.)

Please increase the maximum number of merit levels that may be assigned to the "Weaponskills" Merit Category.

*Personal Wants*

*Ranger*
Please add Recycle to the list of job traits that Ranger and Corsair acquire natively.

Please allow Weapon Skills accessed through ranged weaponry to be usable without having to initiate the auto-attack command.

Please adjust the effect of the trait "Dead Aim" to increase the damage of critical strikes on weaponskills that utilize ranged weaponry.

*Dancer*
Please reduce the recast timers for the abilities Curing Waltz IV, Curing Waltz V, Healing Waltz and Divine Waltz II.

Please separate the "Waltz" category into distinct Job Abilities that do not share recast timers.

Please add a Flourish that has an effect similar to that of Dispel and Finale.

EDIT: Clarified some bits to prevent possible translation errors.
EDIT2: Added Dispel Flourish for DNC

Just a thought that came to mind about mog house decorations. We have a way to display our favorite pieces of gear through mannequins, how about a way to display our most valuable and treasured weapons, such as weapon racks.

Hello~! I'm sure some/most of these have been mentioned in the oodles of pages before this one, but I'd like to mention 'em all the same! I returned to XI about two months ago after a hiatus, so I can't really say anything from the uber-endgamey angle. Plenty of far more qualified people can, and have, suggested stuff there.

So as far as personal wants/suggestions go~

*- Abyssea seal quests.
While nothing will beat the good ol' fashioned "make a group, kill the NM, get the seals" approach the Abyssea class armour, the Quests for the seals do feel like they're sadly too frustrating at the moment. Especially for people who can't be on often/consistent enough to form groups for obtaining every single armour piece via NM bopping. Perhaps keep the chance of obtaining a seal from the Abyssea quests the same (30~%), but make the seal that drops always one for the job you're doing the quest on?


*- Fields/Grounds of Valor page choices.
I love that the pages can now be set to auto-repeat and can be done multiple times a day (wonderful change from the 'can only do it once a day and have to set it manually each time' days), but most of the pages in the various FoV/GoV books seem rather disproportionate on the effort vs reward scale.

Some are spot-on, like Zeruhn Mines and the ol' Gusgen Mines/Crawler's Nest/Bostaunieux route, but many others require killing mobs that are too far away from each other, so you spend most of your time running to and from spawn points, rather than fighting. Changing the mobs required for some pages or changing the spawn placements of mobs could help open up a lot potential EXP spots, and let people get more use out of the many beautiful zones in FFXI~!


*- Fields/Grounds of Valor in Promathia/Aht Urhgan/WotG zones.
It'd help breathe some extra life into the once popular spots, and give people more options to choose from for getting some nice, solo/small group EXP. And with ToAU zones, help people raise their Imperial Standing points once again!


*- Dancer Waltz timers.
Mentioned by others a few times before, reducing the recast timers on a few of the Waltzes, or letting them have separate timers, would make a world of difference!


Those are the main suggestions I could think of; after racking my brain for a bit. They're not as endgame/content focused as many of the great suggestions others have brought up in this thread, but they might help out us more casual players of FFXI a little bit. Thanks for listening/reading to us all!

MNK

New equipment classified as Rosary only able to equip with Hand-to-hand as a Sub weapon.

GAME PLAY

Expand Inventory or allow changing of equipment through satchel/sack. Let's be honest, if you can't equip the gear for every situation you cannot be prepared for every situation.

Revitalize the Wings of the Goddess content. The entire expansion pack as a whole was really nice imo, it is a shame to see soooo much of the content collecting dust now. The reasons why WOTG was popular is now 75era, and as outdated as a dead fish inside a waterfilled pair of platform disco shoes . I see a big push in toau and cop related content, i would love to see wotg get more of this type of treatment. Campaign is like a playground where you can enjoy your job stress free and work towards a goal ie. AN gear and territorial takeovers that will enable you to battlefield gear. Update these elements of this content to appeal to a lv 99 player the way it use to for a lv75 and hopefully this can help with the lifespan of FFXI. Major content like this should have never been left to collect dust for this long.

Another issue that bothers me is the prevalence on Refresh equipment. Melees have available overwhelming amounts of Haste, Double Attack, and Triple Attack to increase their attack speed, but Refresh items for casters remains a cheap trickle.

I would like to see more Refresh (+3, +6, +9, etc.) retroactively added to current equipment, as well as introduced in future equipment.

I would like perhaps a "Dispel" Flourish for DNC.

A minimum of FOUR jumps when going up a ??? floor in the new Nyzul.

If not that, then maybe one monster to drop a 5 minute time extension chest - it's all we need.

More AH selling slots, seven isn't enough.

Allow us to have another magic skill fully merited.

Allow some of the crafting materials for 110 content to be easier to get.

Increase the distance one can Deploy their Automaton.

More inventory space or another "Mog Sack" kind of thing.

Group the new Nyzul gear into the Storage Slip 01.

The real Gilgamesh to make an appearance in SoA.

Give BRDs Massacre Elegy.

Regarding the new magic/ws/ja icons...I love the WS ones, I feel meehhh about the magic ones, and I really really don't like the JA icons :x Please give them a transparent background, default white looks gross.

Make bows visable on the back, like in FFXIV.

Reduce the downtime when swapping BLU spells around. Like maybe 30 seconds.

Unbridled Learning should allow you to use any BLU spell regardless of it being set or not.

Make the Harlequin Frame better, like maybe a very fast hitter. It is such a shame that we never see it after Level 10.

Add Lutes for BRD, makes string skill feel better about itself.

Have better drops in Legion, so far it hasn't been worthwhile.

Thanks~

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Melees have available overwhelming amounts of Haste, Double Attack, and Triple Attack to increase their attack speed, but Refresh items for casters remains a cheap trickle.

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How does Double Attack, Haste, Triple Attack translate into Refresh for mages? Since CoP, mages have been getting incredible amounts of "Fast Cast" "Conserve MP" "Quick Magic" and MAB gear such that almost every mage can get capped casting speed, which further makes RDM less special(RDM's special trait is Fast Cast but many mage classes can cap Fast Cast too).

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Originally Posted by Sapphires

Additional Dynamis Zones Added
This is a request for the sake of variety, having exhaustively farmed and cleared the same zones repeatedly, i would welcome some new places to do this event.

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I like this idea, and to add onto it, I would love to see the new 2-hours used by the mobs inside of the zones. It would add more diversity to the areas, and a somewhat new feel I think. Also they could add in some of the newer mob types or NMs to make it more fun, so that people arnt fighting the same old crabs and such we have for a long time. Not to mention use some of the other Beastmen races we never saw in Dyna, such as Anticans, Gigas, or maybe even Tonberrys.

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*General Ideas*

Please make it that if a job ability's use is prevented by being paralyzed it is not reset to its full timer. A wait of 2-3 seconds (as with spells that are paralyzed) would be more than adequate.

Please give furnishings their own area for storage. Also, Please make the option for "Storage" (the inventory slots created by placing furnishings in you MogHouse via "Layout") accessible from Rent-a-Rooms.

Please add the items Heavy Metal Plate, Heavy Metal Pouch, Riftdross and Riftcinder to the potential spoils of more foes in Voidwatch and Provenance and increase the frequency at which these items appear in the Riftworn Pyxis.

Please raise the maximum levels of weapon proficiency attainable by certain jobs. (i.e. Marksmanship for Corsair, Polearm/Archery for Samurai, Archery/Marksmanship for Ranger.)

Please increase the maximum number of merit levels that may be assigned to the "Weaponskills" Merit Category.

*Personal Wants*

*Ranger*
Please add Recycle to the list of job traits that Ranger and Corsair acquire natively.

Please allow Weapon Skills accessed through ranged weaponry to be usable without having to initiate the auto-attack command.

Please adjust the effect of the trait "Dead Aim" to increase the damage of critical strikes on weaponskills that utilize ranged weaponry.

*Dancer*
Please reduce the recast timers for the abilities Curing Waltz IV, Curing Waltz V, Healing Waltz and Divine Waltz II.

Please separate the "Waltz" category into distinct Job Abilities that do not share recast timers.

Please add a Flourish that gives a "Dispel" effect.

EDIT: Clarified some bits to prevent possible translation errors.
EDIT2: Added Dispel Flourish for DNC

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Wanted to elaborate on the problem with shared timer's and the current high recast values, if you want to approach DNC from a balance stand point, separating the timer's and even lowering the recast timers would not break the job because the TP costs of these healing abilities are still very high and as such the larger limiting factor.

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Originally Posted by Ophannus

How does Double Attack, Haste, Triple Attack translate into Refresh for mages? Since CoP, mages have been getting incredible amounts of "Fast Cast" "Conserve MP" "Quick Magic" and MAB gear such that almost every mage can get capped casting speed, which further makes RDM less special(RDM's special trait is Fast Cast but many mage classes can cap Fast Cast too).

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You're right, attack speed and MP aren't exactly equal, if melees had to worry about fatigue, the comparison would be easier to see. The melee may keep attacking so long as he isn't dead, but a caster can stack all the Fast Cast he likes and will still need to take a knee without the aid of special items or atmas.

The point here is staying power, and while melees have ample equipment to support their specialty (combat), casters don't really get a whole lot keeping them up and casting.

Since the game's release, Refresh has been treated like delicate glass, and the developers are only just deciding to offer it on more than a few high-end armors. I want to see more equipment that brings in as much MP on a regular basis as is spent.

Change the Octave Club and make it exactly like the Kraken Club and get rid of this crap;
Hidden Effect
Occasionally attacks two to eight times if your Main Job level is divisible by 8 (level 64, 72, 80, 88, 96).
Occasionally attacks twice if your Main Job level is divisible by 2 (66, 68, 70, 74, 76, 78, 82, 84, 86 90, 92, 94, and 98 excluding 64, 72, 80, 88, and 96).

We earned it the same way as the Kraken Club before it was changed, so why should it be inferior?

Because you could dual wield it with regular Kclub and pretty much always hit the 8attacks cap each round. Both are pretty irrelevant nowadays anyway with MINOR exception.

White Mage melee is in a bad spot (similar to Red Mage melee, both need more boosts) compared to the position it had at 75 cap.

In a party, if you're dropping your healing to take a different role, there is no good reason why you shouldn't be compensated equally to the amount of healing you're not doing to do that role, and White Mage has a lot of healing power to trade.

White Mage is no longer the undisputed best job at dealing damage with a club. While Hexa Strike has been our go to for years, Realmrazer now does more damage then Hexa Strike does in stable conditions, particularly against higher level mobs, and this is after Realmrazer was nerfed in order to encourage White Mages to use Hexa Strike. This means jobs with better gear options like Warrior or Paladin (which has a higher club skill) can more reliably do damage with a club.

I'm not really asking for Hexa Strike to be buffed or for Realmrazer to be nerfed - although a new White Mage exclusive damaging weapon skill would be nice - but instead, I ask that White Mage once again is the best job at dealing damage with a club again. Whether this is done with direct adjustments to White Mage such as raising our club skill, adding a new weapon skill, or fixing Afflatus Misery, or with gear options, or in some other way is up to you, but I ask that White Mage is one again the best with the club.

Can we learn why the magian trial clubs were regulated to wands instead of higher damage hammers? Was this for when Geomancer is added at least?

White Mage armors aren't being kept up as well as they were at previous levels, and White Mage is left to try to equip for melee setups with the oddball mage pieces, bad sidegrades, or to try to make do with the armor that was amazing at 75 cap. Some of the mage pieces are useful, but there is need for better pieces if the frontline is to even be an occasional option.

Please keep in mind that double attack rate items might not be the best idea for White Mage either - we wouldn't get enough to have immediate usage, and due to where White Mage is today, White Mage pretty much always does damage better with a multihitter in the offhand, whether it is the poorman's OA2-4 (and other Magian based multihitters), or the ever rare Kraken Club (a replacement for the Kraken Club for White Mages would be nice). This means that while having more melee stats as an option on gear, like haste, attack, accuracy, store TP, critical hit rate, and whatever else will always help our damage, double attack might not always do that.

Afflatus Misery isn't very useful. This is because White Mage doesn't have the entire Banish line of spells (need higher tier Banish and Banishga spells), the Cura line sucks (Curaga spells are just as cheap and quick to cast, and will always heal a large amount), Auspice got nerfed (the accuracy it gives now isn't even worthy of casting the spell, and the enspell damage not only never was, it interferes with additional effects such as from Mjollnir), and Esuna just feels like a spell gimped to give Afflatus Misery a reason to exist.

Any time where a White Mage would be served by standing close to the mobs, Solace is the better choice, since you get barspell magic defense bonus boosted, cureskin on yourself if you need a quick HP boost, and Curaga spells are very good.

Currently, even losing a Holy laser charge from a couple of cures feels worse then getting any of the "benefits" from Afflatus Misery. I ask that either SE fixes Afflatus Misery, or merges all its functions in Afflatus Solace. I've heard a few suggestions about this, such as making the charge from Afflatus Misery build up based on damage taken rather then the last hit, or giving a sizable amount of job ability haste to the ability (like 10%), having it be augmented with gear much like Afflatus Solace is (such as gear that reduces the damage a White Mage takes from AoE attacks under Misery), or other more extreme measures. Whatever is done, I'd like to see Afflatus Misery match up to Solace in the future.

I would love to be able to decorate my mog house without having the items clogging up my already tight storage space. As it stands, I have to choose between a beautiful mog house or being able to store gear for one of my jobs, and its not a nice decision to make.

I posted an idea about making another storage space specifically for furnishings here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...pace-trade-off

The thread received several positive comments as feedback

Please allow players to beautify their moghouses more freely. I believe it would also help encourage people craft many furnishings that are not commonly made.

As balance, you could make it be a reward from a quest, and make it so that the new storage category is only accessible from the home nation (no need to make it available outside really, as the only place you can decorate your MH is from your home nation anyway)

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I would like to also ask if it is possible to add wallpaper/wall paint and carpet/tiles? Could potentially lead to some really amazing customisation and individualisation of mog houses!

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Because you could dual wield it with regular Kclub and pretty much always hit the 8attacks cap each round. Both are pretty irrelevant nowadays anyway with MINOR exception.

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Even so, not everyone has both. One of the main uses for a K club was for DRK zergs, which is probably obsolete by now due to Embrava/PD zergs. I just thought it would be nice to get some real use out of it, be it skill ups, procs in VW, on RNG or even just using it for fun.

Make Avatar Mini-Trial Fork quest no longer PENALIZE Summoners for completion.
Problem: Last time I checked, a summoner can teleport (via NPC) to the appropriate elemental Cloister only if he has NOT completed the mini-trial fork quest. Once he completes the mini-trial fork quest, he no longer gets free teleports to the cloister. Therefore, he is actually *penalized* for completing the quest.
Solution: At the very least, make it so that a summoner who has completed the quest can still get a free teleport to the Cloister by trading the mini-fork to the NPC. Better yet, make it so that a summoner who has completed a mini-trial fork quest gains access to the relevant "Cloister" spell, teleporting the Summoner and his party to the appropriate Cloister. (For example, beating the Mini-Trial By Fire quest lets the summoner cast "Cloister-Fire" at, say, level 40)

Enable cosmetic display of ranged weapons.
Suggestion: Introduce a text command, such as "/showrange", which will hide the character's melee weapons/shield and instead display his ranged weapon, if the weapon in question has an actual damage and delay (bows display; animators do not). While idling out of combat, the ranged weapon appears on the character's back. While in combat, the character idles with the ranged weapon drawn whenever he is out of melee range, and idles with his melee weapons whenever he is within melee range.
The three settings for /showrange would be:
/showrange off - hides ranged weapons for all jobs (identical to what we have now).
/showrange on - shows ranged weapons for all jobs.
/showrange ws - shows ranged weapons for jobs which have a weaponskill available for the currently equipped ranged weapon (ie. RNG, COR, & SAM with Namas Arrow or Apex Arrow).

Let Enmity merits be temporarily disabled.
Problem: Enmity merits are largely useless now, but if they were to have a significant impact would make it hard to change from a tank role to a non-tank role or vice-versa.
Suggestion 1: Introduce a text command, such as "/enmity", which will selectively enable or disable Enmity merits:
/enmity up - applies any Enmity Increase merits, and disables any Enmity Decrease merits.
/enmity down - applies any Enmity Decrease merits, and disables any Enmity Increase merits.
/enmity off - disables all Enmity merits.
This would let a character change the use of his Enmity merits mid-fight via text command (such as via a line in a macro), and would make it worthwhile to have both Enmity Increase and Enmity Decrease merits.
Suggestion 2: Tally up all of the characters equipment that adds or subtracts Enmity. If the total is neutral or negative (net is 0 adjustment to Enmity, or reduces Enmity) then temporarily disable all Enmity Increase and only apply Enmity Decrease merits. If the total is greater than 0 (net is at least +1 Enmity) then temporarily disable all Enmity Decrease merits and only apply Enmity Increase merits.
This would let a character change the use of his Enmity merits mid-fight via changing equipment (such as via lines in a macro), and would make it worthwhile to have both Enmity Increase and Enmity Decrease merits.

Let Enmity merits affect enmity cap and enmity resets. Increase Enmity decay.
Problem: Enmity merits are largely useless now because everyone hits the Enmity cap so quickly.
Suggestion: Let Enmity merits actually have a significant effect on the enmity cap; for example, each Enmity merit could have a 5% or 10% effect on the enmity cap, so someone with full Enmity Increase merits would have an enmity cap equal to 125% or 150% of someone with no Enmity merits, while someone with full Enmity Decrease merits would have an enmity cap equal to 75% or 50% of someone with no Enmity merits. Whenever a character with (active) Enmity Increase merits is hit by an enmity reset move, the character still retains a portion of his enmity based on his enmity merits (so someone with full Enmity Decrease merits would retain, say, 25% or 50% of his previous enmity). Introduce moderate automatic enmity decay for CE (to a certain minimum; won't cause someone to drop off the hate list) and rapid enmity decay for VE, so that constant action must be taken to maintain enmity level. Perhaps only introduce CE enmity decay for characters with active Enmity Decrease merits.

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Better yet, make it so that a summoner who has completed a mini-trial fork quest gains access to the relevant "Cloister" spell, teleporting the Summoner and his party to the appropriate Cloister. (For example, beating the Mini-Trial By Fire quest lets the summoner cast "Cloister-Fire" at, say, level 40)

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Make them BP: Ward abilities for the appropriate avatars! I mean, it makes absolutely no difference really, but it just goes in line with summoners doing almost everything via their avatars. Should probably require people to manually accept it, seeing as you can't cancel a BP that is being readied in case of accidental usage.

A linkshell member brought up a very cool idea over the weekend that I wanted to share...

Monk: Stances

As we are all well aware, Monk's attacks are all considered "Blunt" type damage. However, what if SE introduced three new "Stances" for Monk that would change their damage type?

For the sake of argument, lets call the standard Monk we have as the "Normal Stance." All damage is "blunt" damage, no other effects.

"Tiger Stance" - Changes attack type to "Slashing" damage. Must have Claw or Baghnakh type weapon equipped. Also increases STR and Attack Power.
"Mantis Stance" - Changes attack type to "Piercing" damage. Must have Knuckle or Claw type weapon equipped. Also increases DEX and Accuracy.
"Monkey Stance" - Changes attack type to "Blunt" damage. Must have Cesti or Sainti type weapon equipped. Also increases AGI and Evasion.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Make them BP: Ward abilities for the appropriate avatars! I mean, it makes absolutely no difference really, but it just goes in line with summoners doing almost everything via their avatars. Should probably require people to manually accept it, seeing as you can't cancel a BP that is being readied in case of accidental usage.

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Technically does makes a difference - imagine if Teleport spells were instant-cast /ja instead of long cast-time spells. Could be abused for griefing - or even accidentally mis-clicked in the heat of battle, with no way to interrupt via sitting or running.

Thank you in advance for reading and considering this post.

While most of my suggestions are already covered and recieved their likes on different posts i havent found the one concerning SMN yet. Hence i decided to voice it here as well.

First of all. I love SMN. this job is awesome, however it has some issues that need resolving. For those unfamiliar here the link to the collected issues of us fellow summoners http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...ner-Job-Issues

Most jobs have a decent or great damage output but since the levelcap rise summoner lacks this. Even its brother job the Beastmaster is way more efficient in damage dealt and damage taken. Pets can even be healed and enmity transferred. I ask that you look into the following:

- Dmg output on regular attacks and Blood pact: Rage ( for instance. Faithful falcor hits easy prey mobs for 300-500 dmg depending on criticals while avatars hit for a general 200~ . His TP moves can even deal up to 1,8k dmg when using Boost. a typical Predator claws usually does around 2k damage depending on many factors every 45 sec. which leads to my next point

-lower Recast timers for Bloodpacts in general. Using either gear or abilities. a promised 10 min ability converted in a 2h ability that lasts 30 seconds wont cover it and feels like an insult ( no offense).

-Allow us to heal our pets with an ability using either our own HP or MP

-Allow us to control our spirits like our avatars. it would make them less useless other than for elemental siphon


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And i cant stress this enough. give us more and easier marketflood of Alexandrites. current prices mean around 720Million gil for 1 mystic weapon while relics or empyrean float around 100-150Million.

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Technically does makes a difference - imagine if Teleport spells were instant-cast /ja instead of long cast-time spells. Could be abused for griefing - or even accidentally mis-clicked in the heat of battle, with no way to interrupt via sitting or running.

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Already covered that with requiring people to accept it :p.

I would like a storage slip from the Porter Moogle for VoidWatch gear.

Don't just pay attention to the number of likes of posts, but the redundancy of certain requests among several posts.

Did anyone mention RDM enhancing, enfeebling and melee boosts?

I'd like to see tighter, more noticeable distinctions in job/role usage in parties. There are really only 3 core roles in any group. The obvious ones are the Tank and the Damage-Dealer, but the more amorphous one is the Support. Problem is, Support by itself is too broad, so it often gets relabeled as a "healer". With the flipside of it being chopped up and split between all. Support shouldn't be broken up. All support jobs should have a mostly even mix of ally support and enemy hinderance...with a slight favoring toward hindering enemies. Healers are still most often a "I guess if I have to" role among a player base that almost exclusively wants to be the one to lay the smack down.

The trick of course is to give them what they want without neglecting the need of the party to have someone to patch them up during and after the fight. I understand that's not easy, but sufficient hinderance of the enemy's ability to harm allies is the same as being able to heal them of that same amount of harm. And it's much more exciting for the players. There are still a wide variety of ways to have any particular support job accomplish this, and thematic diversity in that regard is a good thing.

Frankly...I think it would take just too much effort to revamp the jobs as much as I think they should be, but I'm going to suggest it anyway. Final Fantasy XIV is getting a near total remake, after all. It may be worth the investment to give XI a serious facelift too. This is how I think the jobs should be organized.

Tanks
Monk
Warrior
Beastmaster
Blue Mage
Dragoon
Paladin
Rune Fencer
Samurai

Damage-dealers
Black Mage
Red Mage
Dark Knight
Corsair
Puppetmaster
Ranger
Summoner

Support
Thief
White Mage
Bard
Dancer
Ninja
Scholar
Geomancer

Note that many jobs remain in their previous categories or are in categories not far outside their original design; but that a few, such as Ninja, would be drastically altered. While I know there are common ideas of what the purpose of each role is, I'd like to take a moment to explain my own opinions on each.

Tanks -
All share one trait in common, that being the generation (or acquisition) of a particular enemy's attention. A tank is always supposed to make sure to remain the focus of the enemy's assault, in order to preserve the rest of the group.
There are many ways a Tank job can accomplish this, up to and including abilities typically intended for support jobs, though more tightly specialized. A Tank might avoid taking damage by using spells or abilities that make them harder to hit. They might rely on abilities or spells that increase the defensive effectiveness of their equipment or themselves in general. They might just be a health Tank, with so much health that it takes an enemy forever to hack through. The possibilities are really almost endless.
Whatever the method a Tank uses to cope with the attacks it draws, one thing must always be true of all of it's abilities at all times; that they not interfere with the acquisition and maintenance of the enemy's focus on them.

Damage-dealers -
Damage-dealers are all relatively straightforward. Their entire purpose is to do exactly as their name implies, deal damage to an enemy. Not to debuff or hinder them, not to help or bolster one's allies, but to simply to remove as much health from an enemy as possible, in as short a time as possible. If Tanks are the noble companions who lay down their lives for their fellows, then the Damage-dealers are the action stars who jump in to land the deathblow to avenge the Tank's sacrifice.
Ironically, simple as Damage-dealers are, they actually have the greatest variety of potential. You can do anything you want with them so long as all their potential is ultimately channeled solely into making the enemy's health bar drop like a stone.
Two things must always be true of a decent Damage-dealer job though. That their auto-attacks are always tertiary in power compared to their abilities, and that they be designed so that they can never simply "nuke" an enemy of appropriate level. Even the best Tank should lose control of an enemy if the Damage-dealer throws everything at once at the wrong time. Damage-dealers should have to think tactically and strategically to make the most of their capabilities, and they should always do so in the context of cooperation with their group. They're already the rock stars of the game, they don't need to steal the entire show.

Supporters -
These jobs, as I mentioned before, are extremely broad in capability. This actually makes them the most powerful in terms of versatility, and is why they often get deeply restricted to being only healers and such. They can literally be made to do nearly anything, and do it better than either of the other two roles. But again, restricting someone to only buffing the party is something that only a few are willing, let alone eager, to cope with.
A proper supporter should be able to lend the party that helping, healing hand when it's necessary, but more importantly they should be the ones to provide that critical window of opportunity for the Damage-dealer to strike a punishing blow. The Supporter should be the one who really whittles down the enemy by weakening and hampering it down to something more manageable for the party. All to be followed up with an attack that leaves the enemy almost helpless against the coming onslaught of the Damage-dealer.
The most important truth of a Supporter is that a party without one should be effectively doomed in an appropriate level battle.

I'd also like to call your attention to the fact that three roles in a system where a party contains up to 6 players, means a proper team can be anywhere from 3 to 6 players and be nearly equally effective at the right levels. This also makes party formation a much smoother endeavor, overall. If you can get as much action out of a proper 3-person party as you can out of a 6-person party, that's three people you can do without in a pinch, but can still add later on if things go well.

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Now, onto items. There are too many, and too many copies. When I say copies, I don't mean that there should only be 100 of something in the world. I mean there are too many other items which do nearly or exactly the same thing. For instance, I understand the reasoning behind creating duplicate versions of the original Leaping Boots that are obtainable two different ways and one of the two is sellable. But I think it would've been better to have simply made the original not sellable and left it at that. Certain loot should absolutely be sellable. But things that one has to go out of their way to get? Absolutely not. If someone wants Parl Adrigor's Plate Armor of Pure Awesomness +3, they should have to quest like a madman, defeat a ludicrously powerful enemy, and then not be able to sell or trade it...ever. Upgrade it, sure...sell it, no. If someone else wants to get their hands on it, they can go through the quest like everyone else. Much of the congestion at spawn camps for Notorious Monsters and the like is due to the fact that they have rotten drop rates and their items can be sold for a mint (or just given to friends who don't have the time, patience, or levels to fight the thing over and over for hours on end). Improving drop rates drastically and eliminating their capacity to be sold, will do much more to alleviate congestion at those points than creating the duplicate items, granting more people the opportunity to get those items without having to tediously "farm", or worse, to get the Gil to buy the thing.

Also, non-player character Shop items need to be improved. These are supposed to be the backbone of player's equipment. The very foundation of an adventurer's life. At all times they should have access at any level to equipment that will serve them as needed against enemies of that level. Crafted equipment and quested equipment should be much more difficult to obtain, and therefore somewhat better than what can be purchased in a shop. But shop equipment should be available and effective throughout the game. Additionally, quested equipment should always be somewhat better than crafted equipment, except perhaps for specific items that require specific and unique quested materials to craft. Like quested equipment, crafted equipment should not be sellable. This is supposed to be an adventure game, not a marketing one. Consumables can still be crafted and sold, and that's good enough. Having said all that, it should be noted that normal enemies should still drop certain pieces of equipment that are better than shop equipment (though worse than crafted equipment), but can still be sold. If all there is in an Auction House or Bazaar is mostly consumables that can usually be purchased in shops, there's little incentive to use those two facilities.

Ammo, ninja tools, and spells. There's a vast gulf between the power of the three things. Ninja tools are expensive and difficult to obtain, requiring extreme investments of time or simply a character who's already acquired so much of everything so as to have no challenge anymore, anyway. This isn't necessarily entirely bad, since power should be difficult to obtain and use. It makes it meaningful and encourages responsible use of it. But it may go too far with the Ninjas. Ammo is about at the right spot for that, I think. Ninja tools that are more on par with ammo, regarding expense and difficulty might be better. Either that, or their power should be increased. Since Ninjas would get a redesign if I had my way, anyway, it wouldn't cause the issue of their supplanting other tanks as in previous iterations.
And mages should have to use tools of some type also then. Collections of little spell "recipes" crafted by the player or purchased in a store prior to adventuring, which are necessary to power the spells mages use to bend the universe to their will. It will help further keep their spell spamming in check, making them think more cooperatively with greater tactical and strategic creativity regarding spell use.

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On a final note, don't be afraid to remove things. If certain jobs just aren't working...take them out entirely. If there are too many items (which there are), remove those which are entirely superfluous. If a certain ability is causing more problems than the fun it was supposed to add to the game, take it out; put in something else instead, perhaps. Let the players know beforehand that you'll do it, and let them know it's to make way for something better. Offer them some form of in-game compensation for their character if you feel it necessary. Some will get very loudly upset anyway, but that's unavoidable. Shikata ga nai. Accept it and move on. Nothing should ever be off the table to be removed if it's dragging the quality of the game down.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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I do believe that's all for now, if anything else comes to mind, I'll be sure to lay it out here. Good luck in your endeavors, sir. I'm sure you'll do very well no matter what course you take.

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A linkshell member brought up a very cool idea over the weekend that I wanted to share...

Monk: Stances

As we are all well aware, Monk's attacks are all considered "Blunt" type damage. However, what if SE introduced three new "Stances" for Monk that would change their damage type?

For the sake of argument, lets call the standard Monk we have as the "Normal Stance." All damage is "blunt" damage, no other effects.

"Tiger Stance" - Changes attack type to "Slashing" damage. Must have Claw or Baghnakh type weapon equipped. Also increases STR and Attack Power.
"Mantis Stance" - Changes attack type to "Piercing" damage. Must have Knuckle or Claw type weapon equipped. Also increases DEX and Accuracy.
"Monkey Stance" - Changes attack type to "Blunt" damage. Must have Cesti or Sainti type weapon equipped. Also increases AGI and Evasion.

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And then MNK won't be a DD anymore. I don't think it's a good idea even if it looks fun.

I haven't been a DRG main in a long time... but I recall always being frustrated with losing my wyvern due to MY dying, and the wyvern just flying away. That never really made any sense to me.

I always thought it would be cool if your wyvern curled around your corpse in a sort of 'guard' stance to protect you while you're down (purely aesthetic) The upside being, that upon being revived, your wyvern would still be there and would not need resummoned.

Lower the 1500 heavy metal plate trials to something more acceptable, also lower the amount of Riftdross needed for their respective trials. Spending over a billion gil is absolutely absurd for something as small as a sidegrade and graphical effects!

Blms would very much like to be able to force critical elemental magic damage on a 20-30 minute timer. Thank you.

Please do something about the difficulty of obtaining a WOE oriented weapon..... Which this won't happen untill you take a very close look into WOE itself. I understand the ongoing debate about the difficulty of getting a Empy/Relic/Mythic, but WOE weapons should not take longer to make than their Empy counterparts.

Magic Critical Hits should not just add MAB. They should give +10% magic damage base and the additional +MCrit damage should add on to it.

Also, if you are going to keep them as they are then you should remove the 40 MAB cap.

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Allow other dragon species to aid if wyvern is KO'd.

This trait may be unlocked through a quest or job merit category 3.

When your wyvern is KO'd in battle, a random dragon species will come to your aid. The amount of merits spent raises the chance for higher quality dragon species. For example: Wyrm > Wyvern > Puk. 5/5 Merits prioritizes a wyrm comes to your aid while 1/5 would see more Puks to your aid with Wyverns being middle tier.

The dragon leaves after 20 minutes or shortly after your Call Wyvern timer is back up. The purpose of this job trait is to keep the dragoon from being handicap while the pet wyvern is down. To prevent abuse of this trait, a cool-down timer is associated with it.

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*Note: The wyvern and wyrm would be scaled down in size and not cause the ground to tremble.
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Add Elemental Breath II for Dragoon's wyvern

Give dragoons Tier II elemental breaths for their pet wyverns. These Tier II breaths shall be stronger damage-wise. Make this available through a quest or merit points.

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*Hydro Breath II
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Add Removal Breath

You have already given us "Smiting Breath" and "Restoring Breath" under Pet Commands. "Removal Breath" can further a dragoon's utility by not having to have a mage sub job in order to remove status ailments with their wyvern. Like Smiting Breath and Restoring Breath, Removal Breath would also be on a one-minute timer.
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Add a pet status screen for Dragoon, Summoner and Beastmaster.

As with Puppetmaster, allow DRG, SMN, and BST to view their pet's status such as attributes, HP/MP, job traits, skills, attack, accuracy, critical hit rate, etc. With the upcoming UI update this would seem like the perfect time to implement this.
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That is all I have for now. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

THAT should have been drg's new 2hr :/
edit: or atleast be like Areuhat and transform into a dragon

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Maybe this new guy actually wants to know what to change, though!



What is Binder?

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What is binder? I'm not talking about binding G keys, you can write macros to have those fire without any other software. I'm talking about displaying character status, spell recast timers, map position, and other good things that with a little love from the developers they could let us access. I'd love to turn that beautiful 800x600 touch pad on the Switchblade UI into a display that shows where you are on the map at all times.

First I'd like to respond to Akihiko Matsui comment regarding this:

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Instead of saying what you "don’t want," tell me what you "want."

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The problem with telling you what I want often is relates to things your doing that I don't want.

for one regarding this post:
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/32...-job-abilities

A majority of them seem like they are very good. All though I still have a few suggestions for them.

For one the Thief 2 hour is suppose to be a super trick attack, and all 2 hours thus far have been able to be used solo and in groups and can be fairly useful in either situation. So the problem I have with the Thief 2 hour is the possibility of not being able to use it solo when a huge amount of Thieves game play comes from playing with few numbers or alone. What I suggest to fix it is to make the ability a boosted Sneak attack and trick attack ability in one, (two in one), so it could be useful and be used paired with bully or it could be used as a preemptive strike alone if needed and thus still be useful.

Secondly, the Dragoon 2 hour ability to me it seems like it couldn't even be used realistically. Being as anything that's higher level[110+] anything a dragoon fights with his wyvern will probably die due to area effect damage, so this ability will realistically keep it alive for another 10 seconds maybe?

So, that's why I think that this should be reconsidered making the dragoons 2 hour ability into a pet invincibility and magic based invulnerability because a Dragoon's wyvern dying is it's biggest problem and the ability your suggesting to help it seems ineffective.

Maybe instead you could have the dragoon's two hour ability grant his wyvern a high potency regen, in addition to the other effects you have listed plus, have all the other dragoon abilities timers reset. Thus you could keep it alive a bit longer and you would have more use with the ability but, ultimately I think it needs to be a invincibility for the wyvern.

Okay, so the next suggestion I want to tackle has to do with some of the latest information Camate and Okipuit provided, which I read here:
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/32...pyrean-weapons

Basically they stated that if we wanted to add more jobs to relics then, the relic weapons themselves would have to be adjusted for balance, and the same goes for empyrean weapons. Also, I think it was stated that you wouldn't want Runic Fencer or Geomancer to be on any empyrean weapon as it would seem having players on these jobs at release with a super powered weapon like Calabolg, would be bad for the game.

I think simply allowing Geomancer and Runic Fencer to use empyrean weapons will get more players interested in playing the jobs, and who really cares if these two jobs are effective at release. Who in there right mind would want to play these jobs unless they were moderately effective. Also I must ask the question, are you planning on releasing Empyrean, Relic and Artifact armor for the 2 new jobs? Because every other job in the game has sets of armor from these different areas to give the player options. For example, I don't necessary have to go to abyssea to get some good level 90 armor. As I can get some in dynamis currently for any job.

So, I think it would be better to have Runic Fencer be allowed to use Calabolg, and Geomancer should be allowed to use Hvergelmir and possibly you should make a Empyrean Bell for Geomancer inside abyysea,(it would probably be the a similar quest line as Ochain), Also I am assuming bells for Geomancer's will be simular to a Bard's Instruments, Or a Puppet Master's controlling device.

The reason why I think both jobs should be added to empyrean weapons, is because currently each job has a magian trial weapon they can make, and denying them of that quest line is the same of denying them in any other content of the game and this to me says you want the game to be more like World of Warcraft and that you want all the players to play the latest expansion. I can understand the second part, but I like how Final Fantasy XI has almost never outdated its old content and even then it has constantly updated it and that is a part of what I love about the game. If you take that away your making the game more similar to world of Warcraft.

Also, Magian trial weapons is essentially a free weapon for a lv75+ player that would want to dedicate time into a given job, and they share the same quest line as empyrean weapons so, if your denying the latest jobs a empyrean weapon then you'll also be denying them access to trial of magians weapons.

In conclusion, I can agree with not having Runic Knight and Geomancer on relic weapons however; I think they should be placed on a empyrean weapon each and, they should be given their own line of Relic, Empyrean and Artifact armor and their +1 and +2 equivalents.

Anyways the game seems to be in perfect condition currently. I love how it currently is, so I would just like to ask for things to continue to be good.
Thank you.

One thing I'd like to see with SoA storyline is for the ability to complete a majority of the main missions solo or duo. Before anyone says anything, yes I do realize this is a social game. Reason being is that there has always been a mad rush for everyone to finish story content within days of its release (case in point: the first wave of add-ons back in '09). Those who may not have had the time within that first week or so or those who took an extended break from the game may find themselves hard-pressed to find others in order to tackle some of the tougher fights.

Perhaps there could be rewards for taking on some of the battlefields in a party and having the enemies within scale in proportion to the number of people. What you could do is award a key item (of varying tiers depending on the number of people that participated) to the victor(s) of the fight that could be traded in for an item with a better quality item for the higher tier KI's.

In short, make it so people don't have to tear their hair out finding help for mission content while giving people incentive to party up for it at the same time.

I would love to have the workings of treasure hunter explained once and for all so that THFs can stop pulling their hair out in frustration from not knowing.

Edit: others have pointed out that this post is too long so I've condensed it here. But I do think it's worth looking at the reasons why I've brought these things up, especially for point #1.

Hi Mr. Matsui,

For starters let me just say that I think it's great of you to come out and ask this of the player community. There will certainly be a mountain of replies to go through so I hope that each individual's response gets an appropriate amount of attention and review.

I have three points that I would like to address. The first of these is something I have brought up on these forums once before and it seems to have gone largely unnoticed. However, I feel that it is a very serious problem with the game's interface so I will repeat it here in hopes of reaching some more ears.

#1. Some of the chat filters are badly in need of refining. Specifically, we need to have separate chat filters for actions performed BY a group and for actions performed ON a group (of course, by "a group" I mean one of the following: you, party, allies, foes, others, and NPCs). As it stands now, the chat filters are only for "actions performed on/by (a group)." My perspective on this issue is that of someone who frequently (almost always) plays WHM, but I expect the chat filters cause similar problems for some other jobs as well. Here is why this is a huge problem:

In circumstances where you are playing with an alliance (or even potentially more than one alliance, as in Einherjar) there is an absolutely absurd amount of spam generated by everyone else's actions. However, if I want to see all the actions of whatever happens to be the mutual target of these alliances, I have no choice but to see all of this spam.

For example, suppose my alliance consists of three parties fighting Monster X. If I turn off the chat filter "actions started on/by party" I am able to see the actions of Monster X on my party (party 1, say), with the trade off that I have to see all the actions (spam) of everyone else in my party. If Monster X instead uses a special action on party 2 or party 3 I cannot see it. However, even though the action is not directly on my party, I still have an interest in seeing what it is. This last statement is, I think, obvious, since I am certainly (at least as a WHM) interested in seeing if Monster X is using any actions with an area of effect; indeed, these moves will still hit members of my party, but it will not show in my chat log since the action was started on a member of a different party. There is also the point to make that, even if the action does not affect any members of my party, as someone who takes WHM seriously I still want to help members of other parties whenever my own party isn't in need of help.

The only way to get around this problem is to turn off the chat filter "actions started on/by alliance" (and also "actions started on/by others," in events where more than one alliance is present). This forces me to see the actions of up to 36 other people if I want to be aware of what the monsters are doing at all times. This makes it virtually impossible to even see anything in your chat log since a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff just covers it up, and this completely defeats the purpose of utilizing the chat filters in the first place.

On the other hand, there are situations when I would like to also see the actions started by my party. One natural reason I would want to see them is because, if I know what everyone else is doing, then I can minimize the redundancy in my own actions (such as curing someone who somebody else has already started curing). But if the group you are playing with is too big, there is far too much spam to try to worry about such a thing, and I would therefore, if it were possible, turn ON the filter "actions started by the group" and turn OFF the filter "actions started on the group." The only solution can I see to this problem is to separate these things into different filters. I suppose another (less satisfactory, in some regards) solution to this could be to at least allow us to put them into different chat windows with the launch of the new interface.

Another chat filter which could use some refining is "damage taken by party." As a WHM, I always keep this filter off because there are some status inflicting moves, such as Bio and Dia, which inflict damage but do not provide a message such as "Player X has been afflicted with Bio (Dia)." The only way to see which character is in need of a such a status cure is to either observe which character takes damage, or to look and see which person the action's animation happens on (obviously not always possible, and for that matter many people play with spell/action effects turned off to reduce lag, not to mention that the character may have shadows or dodge the move entirely so that no action is required, but you can't tell whether or not this is the case by only looking at the animations).

The main issue here is the fact that some monsters have spikes. Every single time someone in my party swings their weapon at such a monster, I will get a message for it - another mechanic which generates an even more absurd amount of irrelevant spam. Therefore, it would be great also if it were possible to make separate filters for damage taken by spikes and damage taken by other sources. Otherwise, it would be nice in the first place if all status inflicting moves said they inflicted the status as long as the filter "effects received by the group" is off, so that I would not necessarily have to even bother with trying to see the damage taken by my party (it would also be very beneficial to healers who do not have memorized all of the various statuses inflicting capabilities of every monster's TP moves), but this is not the case as things are now.

If for whatever reason we can't make it so all status inflicting abilities provide a message for what they've inflicted, I would love to at least be able to tell when Ice Spikes inflicts paralyze. As of right now there is absolutely no way to tell except for guessing, waiting for someone to tell me, or just waiting to see if someone's action gets interrupted. As a healer who tries hard to nip problems in the bud, this doesn't sit well with me. And to other players, it might appear that I'm slacking off if they've had paralyze for a while and I haven't removed it because I simply don't (yet can't) know about it.

#2. While on the topic of status affliction, I would like to say that it would be awesome if, in the new interface, it were possible to view all the status effects which are currently affecting other players. I would say that this might not normally be necessary for experienced healers who are familiar with monsters' capabilities, provided they are paying enough attention (let's face it, not a lot of healers have enough experience anyway to have all the necessary information memorized). In any case, no matter how good the healer is, some things are bound to slip through the cracks; nobody is perfect. There is also the fact that some monsters inflict so many status effects at once that it can be hard to keep track of which ones you've removed and on which people. To be able to simply view the status effects would be tremendously helpful in situations like this.

A similar system might be helpful for buffs, such as for monsters with mass dispel where it can be difficult to keep track of who has lost which buffs.

#3. I would like to bring to attention Bayohne's post in the following thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post215640

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In regards to the availability of alexandrite, we do believe that alexandrite will be easier to obtain after our renewal of Salvage, but we also understand that something needs to be done regarding alexandrite before that happens. Thus we plan on adjusting the drop rates of alexandrite in Salvage...

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I realize I am beating a dead horse here, but please do bear with me, as I believe I have some points to make that have not been adequately presented by the others speaking on this issue. With Neo-Salvage allegedly just around the corner, why have we not seen these adjusted drop rates happen yet? To be honest this adjustment is already almost two years overdue and I can't imagine why it should be all that hard to implement. When I saw this post I was given a bit of hope, but it's just turned into more and more disappointment with every single update that has failed to mention anything about alexandrite whatsoever. Instead, with the introduction of Neo Nyzul Isle, the situation has been made even worse than it already was, spiking the prices of alexandrite by a very significant amount.

Neo-Salvage will certainly rectify, at least to a certain extent, the problem that finding people who actually want to do Salvage in the first place is almost impossible (Salvage gear as it is being nearly useless, providing absolutely no incentive for anyone to spend any amount of time in Salvage). However, I do not feel that this is in itself an adequate solution to this problem. I suppose it would depend on how much alexandrite is available in Neo-Salvage, and how accessible the new content is. The developers should consider the fact that even if one can find help with Salvage, it's not all that likely that these helpers will take kindly to the idea of giving up their share of alexandrite to help someone with their mythic. If memory serves me, it was stated recently that Neo-Salvage will be designed to be cleared with 6 (or so) players. So I think we can reasonably proceed based on the assumption that whatever alexandrite is dropped will typically be divided evenly among 6 players. Therefore, even if the amount of alexandrite in Neo-Salvage is 6x the amount per run as one can aquire in regular Salvage, we can expect that someone doing Neo-Salvage every single day will take about a year to get 30,000 alexandrite.

Now, I'm not a developer so I can't say with certainty whether or not the amount of alexandrite yielded by Neo-Salvage will not be at least 6x that of regular salvage, but I can say that I seriously doubt it will be anything even close to that. I suppose the prices could go down with more supply, but I imagine there will be a proportional amount of increased demand with Neo-Salvage, at least if Neo Nyzul Isle is any indication, and I'm not convinced that we can reliably expect the prices to drop to a reasonable level. I think this is a good illustration of the magnitude of the alexandrite problem, and I think it is a problem that SE has seriously underestimated. I think, given the amount of alexandrite that is required, it would do well to give serious consideration to the possibility of creating a means of getting alexandrite by oneself, without having to be at the mercy of everyone else.

We should also keep in mind that alexandrite is only one aspect of creating a mythic, of which there are many others which are also tedious, incredibly time consuming, and require a lot of help from other people which gain nothing in return for their assistance. I understand if SE wants to maintain the exclusivity of mythics, but what it is now is far too much for just that, and I suspect that it still will be with the introduction of Neo-Salvage. If nothing else, please don't make us force other people to suffer so much if we want to make a mythic. And if we must force others to suffer with us, it would do wonders to simply allow for the bosses of Salvage to drop a linen purse 100% of the time. I don't think this would be too much; it would still be incredibly difficult to acquire a mythic with this small adjustment, but at least it would allow us to keep some of our sanity.

The entire situation is just incredibly absurd considering many of the relic and empyrean weapons are as good or better than their mythic counterparts.

Thanks for your consideration of all these matters. I think they are all serious issues with the game but I would be very happy to see even one of them addressed.