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

A few things that would be nice.

Translated words.
All spells and job abilities are in auto translate. Nothing like farming a blue spell and you can't translate it.

Monster drops.
As it stands, if I killa monster in aby I get three things.
1. Exp
2. Treasure off monsters.
3. Crour

Outside aby
1. Exp
2. treasure

Crour or equivalent
My point all monsters in game should drop gil or some new item that players can use. Their is little point to exp or to some extent skill up outside aby if I get very little for my effort. Can you make "crour" or some item like it drop off all monsters in game?

Fire weather
Make a new zone that always have fire weather. This could be a new area.

Jobs:

Give every job one unique weapon skill beyond emp. When one leveled up Puppet master, Blue mage, Scholar, Dancer, Cor, people leveled these jobs 1-70 and they had no unique weaponskill. Everything was recycled. Now think of white mage.

Whm = hexa strike
Pld, swift blade.
BsL calamity
Drk Shadow of Death.

My point is the first five jobs had no unique weapon skill 1-70. Rune fencer and geomancer should have a unique weaponskill. So should all jobs who don't have one.

If you gave hexa strike to pld, whms would fume as an example. So the five jobs I mentioned get no relic weaponskill and they get no unique leveling weapon skill. So this is not balanced.

Bring scholar with option to melee better. More club and staff weapon skills.

@Nezea. I guess you didn't see the comment about not writing a book. The bigger your post, the more likely it won't get translated.

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Originally Posted by Kimjongil

A few things that would be nice.
Crour or equivalent
My point all monsters in game should drop gil or some new item that players can use. Their is little point to exp or to some extent skill up outside aby if I get very little for my effort. Can you make "crour" or some item like it drop off all monsters in game?

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We already have this. It's called conquest points and imperial standing. However, there's not many nice things to buy with these anymore. It would be better if they just added more items to buy with these points. The rate at which we gain CP and IS could be looked into too, I guess.

I would love to see more FFXI FFXIV cross linking at least on a website. There are several websites like guildwork and others that track your characters stats etc. and you can have characters on each game there

why can't we have a site that has full FFXI-XIV cross talk some sort of LS site that uses your SE account to access LS info and maybe even the ability to chat WITH LS's in both games even if your not logged in to both games or ether game and maybe you could add a message system into this website as well and maybee even an Iphone/android app that allows you to see LS chat on the go, and chat back using your phone or tablet

second if it is not possible to add more lines to a macro then make a new command that would allow you to activate anothe macro from a macro {e.g /activate macrobook2,page 3,macro 4} something like that would at least be easy to do if its a "PS2 can't handle more lines in a macro" issue for only having 6 lines

I would love to have some sort of craft book that has lists of things you have crafted and what ingredients they require

and last I have to agree with STORAGE space it has become a great issue with seal collection and different items for trials staking up i have no room to synth. anymore and more gear from VW or some other event i can get it I have no room I have 80x4 and I have full inventory most of the time. Mulling is not fun to do JUST to change jobs its slow and annoying and I have to do this with ONLY 8 pieces at a time and then log back and forth like 4 times. Wouldn't bigger storage be easier ?

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Originally Posted by Trisscar
Access to the Near East.

Umm... We already have that. I'm not sure if you noticed, but there's an entire expansion set in the Near East. (Hint: It's called Treasures of Aht Urhgan.)

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no triss said FAR EAST not Near East we want to go to the land east of aht Urhgan the part that's past the palace to the east. the country that's at war with the empire (mentioned in the first mission) and where tensen comes from ^^

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Happy Friday!

Thank you for the large amount of responses thus far! We are doing our best to compile them all, translate them to Japanese, and have Producer Matsui read over each and every request.
After reviewing some suggestions that have been provided so far, we would like to once again make a request. We have been coming across feedback suggesting to “revamp it!” or “fix it!”, etc. In order for us to properly communicate your ideas, we need specific information, such as how we should fix it and what we should do.
There is no need to write a book either. Brevity is just fine, so please try your best to be as concrete as possible. Please refer to the requests Producer Matsui made and again, thank you for all of your feedback!

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So you want suggestions on how to fix certain things?

Well I'll start with Bullet Prices:
Possible fixes:
1) NPC sells high end bullets at a reasonable price (10-15k/stack), just like COR cards
2) NPC sells crafting mats for high end bullets at a reasonable price
3) Reduce the crafting requirement to make bullets, which will help get more HQ's which should drop prices
4) Make a trade-in NPC that allows you to trade certain amounts of lower ammo for higher level ammo
5) escalate the effects of recycle and give COR native recycle (this won't lower prices but will lower ranged attacker costs)
6) combo 2&3

Anyway that's 6 ideas for lowering ranged attacker costs.

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Originally Posted by Prrsha

An ingame mission or quest board would help A LOT. The #1 frustration with many people in FFXI over the years is finding people who are looking to do a quest, mission, crafing, w/e etc. The problem is not the lack of people willing to do so, it's the lack of an interface allowing players to find one another. In the past LSes were used to help people, but that is not the case anymore for the most part. Many players just shout in jeuno all day hoping someone that needs x,y,z done enters the city and decides to join in. The person that this player needs (for the above reasons) might be somewhere else passing time... farming, leveling, or even fishing in another city. Those people will never see those jeuno shouts. Some form of bulletin board is needed with an announcement system that "speaks" to players not just in jeuno, but everywhere. There should be a way to turn off the announcements too, or narrow them down with some sort of filter.

For example: I need help finishing a Rank 4 windurst mission. I post a request on the in game board for help for that specific mission and that I need 6 people. Later while I am fishing, someone in jeuno sees my post and needs the same mission done. They add themselves to the board and a message then appears in my text log: "(2/6) Playerxyz wishes to join you and assist you in your quest!". As more people post, the number rises until the predetermined number is reached, in this case 6.

If people can find people quickly and easy it will go a long way to bring the community together again and breathe life back into the game.

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I think this is a good idea however to streamline it perhaps you could just look at your mission log and have a button to search for people currently on the same mission as you this would be easy to do as you already have an active mission SE just has to add in a search by mission filter OR you could /yellmission or /yellquest and only people on that mission or quest could see it. then you could add a way to let each person pick to see /yells for missions 2-3 above or below them or JUST the one there on, because many people will help with one or 2 to get someone up to where they are

too many book posts >.< i am not reading it if its more than 1 screen long :p

Update chocobo digging so that you can dig up newer stuff. Most of the stuff that was rare before abyssea that you could dig up is now common. Adjust the rarity of many of the items you dig up so that it's easier to get the currently rare items.

The following JA's should be adjusted to a maximum of 5 minutes recast (3 minutes preferred):

Sacrosanctity
Mana Well
Spontaneity

A lot of the new 2-hours such as RDM's would be much better of on a 2~20 minute timer instead of being a 2-hour.

To break-up the rampant suggesting of suggestions, I'm going to talk a little bit about something that I really like.

I love the current equipment compared to the old stuff.

From the Abyssea-era onward, there has been equipment for everything. I can make my cures cure for way more, I can make almost any job ability better, I can make my pets better, I can take less damage from physical or magical AoE attacks; I can do just about anything.

There was a dark time when there were three pieces that made Cure spells better, and two of them occupied the same slot. Only a few job abilities were enhanced by equipment, and those were usually enhanced in esoteric and pointless ways. As far as directly enhancing pets, there was near-nothing.

Speaking of esoteric and pointless, that's how the bonuses on a lot of older equipment could be described. There were a lot of good pieces, but there were far more completely pointless ones. This is no longer the case. It feels like almost every single thing my little taru-broro can wear has an actual purpose, even if some things are better for that purpose than others. This gives me joy.

This gives me great joy.

So, I'd like as much inventory space as possible and the ability to change much more equipment with one button-press to make using more of this awesome stuff as easy as possible for as many folks as possible.

It made me so happy to hear the Development Team was looking into increasing usable inventory space as part of Seekers of Adoulin's development, so please do all you can to make that possible.

More inventory may seem like a odd thing to focus on adding compared to "a big monster that eats people" or "the subligar of the gods" or "a monstrous subligar that eats people", but for a lot of folks, more usable inventory space would have a huge impact.

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Originally Posted by tia

second if it is not possible to add more lines to a macro then make a new command that would allow you to activate anothe macro from a macro {e.g /activate macrobook2,page 3,macro 4} something like that would at least be easy to do if its a "PS2 can't handle more lines in a macro" issue for only having 6 lines

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there already is a command like this, or at least links you to other macro books and sets. In fact, I wrote a whole guide about it here: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Th...ide_by_Sekhmet

I want Paladin to have proper enmity control.

Instead of getting granular about the mechanics of it all, simply put: paladin needs a way to maintain the attention of the attacker(s) reliably and without annoying cooldowns. I'm not saying Paladin doesn't have to work for or obtain the gear/ki/traits/unlockables etc to achieve this or get better at it - but right now it isn't possible to compete with enmity at all. Of course, there may be monsters who make exceptions (there are always exceptions, i.e. a NM being immune to a certain effect or element).

Moreover, I got the attention with PLD - but recognize (like many others) the enmity system is useless across the board, and needs to be fixed for all jobs, gear, trait, abilities, etc.

I've got a million other wants and suggestions, but I'm going to hold off on that long list in hopes of reinforcing the importance of my one most important want above.

As a crafter, I would like the ability to break elemental clusters inside my MH.... instead of having to go outside the MH, break the cluster, then go back inside to craft.

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Originally Posted by xbobx

@Nezea. I guess you didn't see the comment about not writing a book. The bigger your post, the more likely it won't get translated.

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Sure, then. The tl;dr version is:

1. Separate the "actions started on/by a group" chat filter into the distinct chat filters "actions started on a group" and "actions started by a group."

2.Give us separate chat filters for damage taken by spikes and for damage taken by other sources.

3. Make it so that any status inflicting ability provides a message when status is inflicted (this is not currently the case, such as for Bio and Dia, especially for Ice Spikes).

4. Allow a way to view status effects currently afflicting other players, and similarly a way to view their buffs.

5. Follow up on what Bayohne said about adjusted drop rates in Salvage; make linen purses drop 100% of the time from bosses because it's unlikely that Neo-Salvage will do enough to fix the current problem, being of such a high magnitude. Create a way of gathering alexandrite solo so that people who want mythics don't have to force other people to help them so much.

I don't feel that some of these points will get emphasized as much as they deserve without the novel I wrote previously, but oh well.

I just want to fight a giant mandragora. One bigger than Fafnir.

Someone make this happen.

When I am on DRG, and I use Restoring Breath, if the monster dies before the ability goes off, then the ability doesn't activate and the timer is down as if it went off. From what I understand, the same thing occurs when using a SMN blood pact.

Example:

Player1 uses Restoring Breath.
Wyvern1 readies Curing Breath IV.
Player1 defeats Monster1.
(No curing breath)

Then I am forced to wait until the timer resets to use the ability.

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Originally Posted by Supahkronic

When I am on DRG, and I use Restoring Breath, if the monster dies before the ability goes off, then the ability doesn't activate and the timer is down as if it went off. From what I understand, the same thing occurs when using a SMN blood pact.

Example:

Player1 uses Restoring Breath.
Wyvern1 readies Curing Breath IV.
Player1 defeats Monster1.
(No curing breath)

Then I am forced to wait until the timer resets to use the ability.

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Happens with every pet job.

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Originally Posted by Sekhmet

there already is a command like this, or at least links you to other macro books and sets. In fact, I wrote a whole guide about it here: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Th...ide_by_Sekhmet

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but it dosen't actually activate it it just sends you to that page in that book if you could actually activate a macro then 1 macro could in turn activate another and another and another thus giving you 1 press unlimited macro lines (sorta) for all your gear and maybe some ability

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Originally Posted by Nezea

Sure, then. The tl;dr version is:

1. Separate the "actions started on/by a group" chat filter into the distinct chat filters "actions started on a group" and "actions started by a group."

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I would even go a step further and say: Please give us 3 separate windows.

1) a chat window for conversations - Allow us to set different colors for ls / shout / yell / talk etc. complete with filters.

2) a log window for damage dealt / taken - different font colors for damage taken / dealt / party / alliance / outside alliance complete with filters.

3) a log window for actions / status effects / game messages. - again, different colors to differentiate between party / alliance / outside party / alliance.

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Originally Posted by tia

but it dosen't actually activate it it just sends you to that page in that book if you could actually activate a macro then 1 macro could in turn activate another and another and another thus giving you 1 press unlimited macro lines (sorta) for all your gear and maybe some ability

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That is true, and I see what you are saying. However, the devs have said that reworking the whole macro system would be a major undertaking, and while they still support the ps2, it simply isn't doable at the current time. The new expansion is dropping support for ps2 in NA, which suggests they may drop support for ps2 totally in the future. Until that happens, the /macro book # and /macro set # commands are the best we're going to get. In fact, I wrote that guide because a lot of people I talked to didn't even know those commands existed. While It may not be the best possible fix to the equipment switch macro woes, it's at least a workable solution until another potential answer comes along.

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Originally Posted by Sekhmet

That is true, and I see what you are saying. However, the devs have said that reworking the whole macro system would be a major undertaking, and while they still support the ps2, it simply isn't doable at the current time. The new expansion is dropping support for ps2 in NA, which suggests they may drop support for ps2 totally in the future. Until that happens, the /macro book # and /macro set # commands are the best we're going to get. In fact, I wrote that guide because a lot of people I talked to didn't even know those commands existed. While It may not be the best possible fix to the equipment switch macro woes, it's at least a workable solution until another potential answer comes along.

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They said no to this because it could be used as a type of botting.

For example.

<macro1>
/ma "Haste" <name> <wait 60>
/call macro2

<macro2>
/ma "Haste" <name> <wait 60>
/call macro1

Done infinite loop.

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Personally I'd prefer something like:

Equip gear you want
type command: /gearset create before_Cast
Recieve message: Gearset before_Cast created

Then in the macro

/gearset equip before_Cast
/ma "Stoneskin" <me> <wait 1>
/gearset equip Default

This way when you create the gearset it in turn creates a file on your computer containing all the code like

/equip head "Warlock's Chapeau"
/equip body "Duelist's Tabard"

which is loaded with: /gearset equip before_Cast

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Originally Posted by FrankReynolds

I would even go a step further and say: Please give us 3 separate windows.

1) a chat window for conversations - Allow us to set different colors for ls / shout / yell / talk etc. complete with filters.

2) a log window for damage dealt / taken - different font colors for damage taken / dealt / party / alliance / outside alliance complete with filters.

3) a log window for actions / status effects / game messages. - again, different colors to differentiate between party / alliance / outside party / alliance.

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where in the world would you put that many windows and still be able to see what your doing >.<

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Originally Posted by Daniel_Hatcher

They said no to this because it could be used as a type of botting.

For example.

<macro1>
/ma "Haste" <name> <wait 60>
/call macro2

<macro2>
/ma "Haste" <name> <wait 60>
/call macro1

Done infinite loop.

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I can see this good point

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Originally Posted by tia

where in the world would you put that many windows and still be able to see what your doing >.<

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Well, on a 1920x1080 monitor, the chat window is like 1/3 full, so they would easily fit side by side on there.

for lower res, they could go above / below each other.

Let's be honest, 4 lines of chat is plenty when it's not full of damage / status effect info etc. Most of the time, you don't even need to see the damage window, but it would be nice to have like 2 lines always visible and just expand it when you feel the need. The status one you might want more lines, depending how many people your with. 4 lines is probably plenty for small group / duo / solo.

It's still basically the same amount of stuff, only separated for convenience.

Here is a SS i found on Google image search, that sorta illustrates this. Notice all the empty area in the chat window? That could be broken out into separate windows.

Well, this is more or less already confirmed for the new UI they're working on, so there's no need to bring it up here :p.

I'd really like it if they made Campaign WSs accessible outside of campaign. Tone them down and make them unlockable by similar means to trial weapons or mythic WSs, but in the past.

I checked most of this thread and I didn't read one on this content, exscuse me if i missed it,

Create new Skill Chain Effects and increase the utility of the old ones. Do I wanna be like Tenzen? Yes! One of the biggest things that sets this game out side the MMORPG box is that you can chain Weaponskills together and make elemental effects, big flashy ones. I was hoping SE was going to move this exact system to 14 but sadly it didn't happen. It seems today everything is just zerg fest 2012.There isn't any room for the Skill chain/ magic burst setup these days. I know I'm not the only person who misses the 2xDD, BLM, buffer, healer, tank setup. The problem is this is not practical or anymore (maybe legion?), but I miss the corny macro calls, the "Obama Smash!!" and we just melted a mob with 3k light x2 and a 4k Magic Burst thunder.

Now I am not saying revamp the game again, but certain Content could be tailored/ added later on. Even just boosting chains or adding new ones with higher damage or properties/ effects concurrent to their elements.

For instance; Skill Chain with benefits by stacking, it already does, but scaling for today's content. If you chained 5 weapon skills and you make Cosmic Elucidation (using as a mock level 4 chain skill) on the fifth Weapon skill, it can take the random property of ice and do an additional 4x damage if the monster is weak to ice, or you magic burst on the fifth which is Cosmic with Comet and it causes Slight Gravity/ lowers resistance to grav or comet does an additional 2.5 times more damage if the monster is weak to darkness (not exact number figures but just an example) or causes the mobs resistance to a certain alternate (Light, fire, thunder, aero) to be extremely low. the higher the chain the stronger the chain effects scales up and the element Damage scales or resistance lowers drastically. The level 4 and 5 don't have to be elemental, they can be enders, like after melt, fire, light, light then new chain holy sword could be the level 4 where a huge sword comes crashing down on the monster. Maybe not those exact names, figure, math, but this idea helps incorporate other spells and even old weapon skills as starters, no one uses anymore because they are extremely weak. Setting up chains of 4-5 weaponskills and having a BLM nuke would be a nice throw back especially if we could get some new level 4 and 5 Skill chains.

Could go with the catch 22 effect where you give up using maybe 12 weapon skills to one 5 weapon skill chain with 1-2 nukes on mid tier content mobs. I don't know, there are some brianiacs on here that can math it out to what damage you would actually need to substitute 10 sams/mnks/wars and make room for sam/mnk/war/drg and some scholars/blms/rdms. I just hate to see what brought and keeps some of us playing this game get utilized less and less.

Hey, I've got an idea; If we mean to stop using this thread as it was intended then let's make another thread so Matsui doesn't have to wade through opinions and plausibilities unnecessarily? Others may have yet to post, though doubtful, but they deserve to have the same visibility the rest of us have.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Well, this is more or less already confirmed for the new UI they're working on, so there's no need to bring it up here :p.

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I disagree, they havent really given us much to go on as to how we will be able to arrange the chat window or even if they would introduce new filters, i agree with Frank on this matter if we can split up the logs they ought to re evaluate how the chat log is filtered.

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Originally Posted by Mirabelle

So you want suggestions on how to fix certain things?

Well I'll start with Bullet Prices:
Possible fixes:
1) NPC sells high end bullets at a reasonable price (10-15k/stack), just like COR cards
2) NPC sells crafting mats for high end bullets at a reasonable price
3) Reduce the crafting requirement to make bullets, which will help get more HQ's which should drop prices
4) Make a trade-in NPC that allows you to trade certain amounts of lower ammo for higher level ammo
5) escalate the effects of recycle and give COR native recycle (this won't lower prices but will lower ranged attacker costs)
6) combo 2&3

Anyway that's 6 ideas for lowering ranged attacker costs.

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This was my idea on the matter I would like some of the other gun type job players out there to respond as to whether the logic behind it is sound or not considering i thought it was but the amount of likes it received was relatively low (gonna try and slim it down this time):

What I would like to see is a recipe revamp for how bullets are produced currently as I see it there is an imbalance in the production rate due to how the recipes are designed

For arrow/bolt they require: heads, shaft and for arrows fletchings, one syth yields 33-99 (or 99-297 for higher tier synergy recipes)

For bullets the recipie is an ingot and fire sand, the yield being the same.

The difference between the two is the components for arrows/bolts are all intermediate syths, that is to say they stretch out the base material anywhere from 6-12 additional syths from the original base materials, as opposed to the 1 syth you can make using an ingot.

My main suggestion is to revamp bullets recipe to be slug + shell casing + fire sand (head, shaft and fletching type equivalents) by using some intermediate recipie to stretch out the ingots into "adaman slugs", "orichalcum slugs", "steel slugs" ect. when combined with casings and fire sand would still produce the standard 33-99 (or 99-297 when using synergy)

That and make the process of obtaining adaman and other high end bullet materials easier to obtain.

(hope this better relays my intent this time)

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Originally Posted by Eyeballed

Hey, I've got an idea; If we mean to stop using this thread as it was intended then let's make another thread so Matsui doesn't have to wade through opinions and plausibilities unnecessarily? Others may have yet to post, though doubtful, but they deserve to have the same visibility the rest of us have.

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The translators will just skip those posts (and yours too). Settle down.

Not many players still care about Campaign, but some of us exist.



I want to see a means of calling for reinforcements during a battle.

I also want to see an elimination of undefended enemy posts. Since the changes made to fortification points, there's no strong incentive to attack the post; it would be better if all offensive Campaign Battles had enemies populating the posts.

I don't know if any of this has been touched on yet but, I want to have BLM be the TOP elemental damage caster and Ranger be the TOP Damage Dealer scaled down to Dancer being the least damaging DDer because of thier survivablity aspect. Ranger being highest because they pay for thier damage.

I want 100 storage across the board. I want to not lose my Blood pact because the monster died or went out of range. I want to be able to store my Kirin's Osode. I want abyssea to be minimum level 75... so that new peeps can learn the game and have other new peeps to learn with and do quests with.

I want Nyzul Isle uncharted fixed so peeps don't have to cheat to win. I want to have treasure hunter fixed or have a skill based type of TH implemented. (ie: a 6 man group takes on a NM... 2 of the members weaponskill chain and the BLM does a MBurst, the group should have a higher drop rate than a group that is unskilled and/or zergs the NM.)

I want Relic weaponskills to be revised and or thier stats changed so that they put out better damage.

I want and am begging for a few more places to get Meteor as a drop. I dont think our Dev. team intended Meteor to be a relic spell.

And lastly after skimming through most of this thread...I also want producer Matsui~San to take this thread with a grain of salt, if we did everything everyone listed we would have to change the name of this game to Final God XI online where everyone runs around on any job and kills everything solo with one swing of thier pinky toe.

It would be awesome if we could buy back items recently sold to npc.

I think it would be cool to be able to change race even if it was a paid service I would be fine with that.

Create a higher level BLM self-target (or party member) spell called "Return" that would send you back to your home nation in the present (like Retrace). It could function like using an outpost, and it could share recast timer with Retrace (Since I know the game is near its limit in individual timers).

I know there are several methods for travelling to one's home nation, but having it in spell form would be awesome.

What I want to see removed:
#1 - Remove all *Wait till JP Midnight* restrictions for quests/missions.
#2 - Remove all *Wait till next conquest tally* for quests/missions.
#3 - Remove all *Unnecessary time sink* for old quests/missions.
#4 - Remove all *Unnecessary restrictions for old quests/missions.

What I want to see added:
#1 - Add *New Summons*
#2 - Add *New Blue mage spells*
#3 - Add *New Job Abilities*
#4 - Add *New Teleports*
#5 - Add *New Supportive abilities*
#6 - Add *New Quests* that worth the time to do.
#7 - Add *New Help text for all Spells/Abilities/Job traits*
#8 - Add *MORE PEOPLE INTO THE GAME*

What I want to see Adjusted:
#1 - Adjust *Neo Nyzul Isle* Make it skill-based not lucky-based. *It's Doable for certain players who met alot of certain requeriments, DMG-wise, Support role job-wise*
#2 - Adjust *Imperial Army I.D. Tag* 1 each 12 hours. stockable too :)
#3 - Adjust *NM Lottery Spawn System*
#4 - Adjust *NM Timed Spawn Conditions*
#5 - Adjust *Old Salvage drop rate*
#6 - Adjust *Old Limbus drop rate*
#7 - Adjust *VNM* Make it pop in specific places.
#8 - Adjust *Sacrarium*
#9 - Adjust *Enmity System*

FOR THE GOD's SAKE, ADD NEW 30 MIN EVENTS FOR 3-6 PLAYERS.

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Originally Posted by dartcron

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.

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It IS invincibility for the wyvern. Testing here http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/106...=1#post5356823

The 2hour grants both physical AND magical shield for its duration(1:30). It also lowered Restoring and smiting breath recasts to 30 seconds, and resets their timers if they aren't up when the 2hour is used.

So yeah, it'll keep your wyvern alive, for a minute and a half anyway.

The real issue, IMO is it's extremely limited DD applicability. Seeing as it's still subject wyvern breaths two greatest weakness. Resists vs high lvl mobs, and the breath dmg- that nearly ever NM seems to have.

It's decent vs normal mobs. Was getting 800 dmg breaths with all the usual breath+ gear(Armet+2, torque, belt.) But I don't need a 2hour for normal mobs. This needs to be useful on high end content... and it's not. When I went to Ig-alima as a high lvl test mob, I started getting 170~341 breaths.

Defensively, all it does is keep your wyvern alive for one fight.(and you can't lock it on a ???. It'll wear off anyway. I suspect it's linked to the wyvern's duration.)

Offensively, it's just too weak for a two hour ability. I get maaaybe 1k~2k(assuming zerg lvl ws speed and that breaths don't just get floored in events like legion, avg breath dmg there:17 points) more dmg in breaths, and a live wyvern(Assuming I don't die). Once every 2 hours....

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

Hello Matsui-shishou, here are my ideas for the future of FFXI, and what you should be focusing on from now on, I'll try to keep it short but we all know I will fail.

1. Game Controller Support
   Since you are working on a new UI for FFXI, it would be fantastic if you could make the Game controller support better, maybe supporting "xinput" controllers (currently it only supports "dinput" ones) or putting an option that allows the game to use analogic shoulders as digital buttons. Can find more details and complaints from users in THIS and THIS posts.
2. In-game camera max-distance from character
   Currently there is a limit on how far away from your character you can "zoom out" the camera. This limit probably had a meaning back in 2002 when the game came out, but we're in 2012 now and it would be very nice if SE could slightly increase this limit. People already do this very easily through third party tools, it wouldn't be a hard work for SE to offer us the chance to do it in a legit way. Further info HERE
3. Merit Cap Increase
   Abyssea's way to do XP offered all of us the chance to level new jobs, get new merits etc. It was probably the right way to go, altough maybe abyssea "overdid it". Pretty soon most if not all player will have all the jobs they want to level capped at 99, same with merits. Since "lost xp while dying" hardly matter anymore like it did at 75, we're close to the point where people won't XP anymore. You need to keep adding stuff players can do with their XP/merits, that way they will always have motivation to keep getting merits. An example would be to raise the cap on merit WS, allow us to merit more.
   Add new categories of merits, raise the cap of merits in already existing categories, and things like this.
4. New Graphic Interface
   We know you guys are working on a new graphic interface, please do not forget about Gamepad users. Players using gamepad could still use a Mouse to set/place the windows, but then use Gamepad to navigate through them. Please do it! Even for the macros, we heard you want to make so there will be three basic macro options, the CTRL line, the ALT line (like we have now) and a third one. This wouldn't create any issues at all on gamepads. For example associate right trigger to CTRL line, the left trigger to ALT line, and both triggers for the new line.
   Just an example. What I'm really worried about is for you to make so the new interface won't be useable with a gamepad.
5. Experience Points balancement
   Abyssea-style Alliance XP was really nice, but it's getting boring after more than one year, and it keeps on promoting lazyness. Why don't you resurrect the concept of old 6-people experience parties?
   I know you can still do them nowadays, problem is that they are worse than Abyssea alliances from every point of view, and so there is no motivation.
   Please offer some motivation so that people will be able to do XP parties again with the new expansion, and watch out not to overdo it. I do not want new parties to "kill" abyssea-style XP. I just want them to be an additional viable option.
   Doing the same thing for a long time makes that thing boring, doesn't matter if it's about Abyssea PTs or normal PTs.
   Being able to choose what you do would create a bit of variation and make things less boring
6. Enmity Control
   We all know that in Abyssea these formulae were completely broken because of the very low "roof" at which enmity caps and several other issues I won't talk about.
   The Enmity balancement was based with lv75 numbers, and Abyssea killed all of this.
   You need to rework all the system, especially the Damage=>Enmity conversion formula, because that formula used to work with level75 values maybe, it certainly doesn't work with lv99 values.
   Also, could you consider making Tanking less "strange" compared to other MMOs? You can do this by adding special job traits to tank jobs or tank stances (see below), something more efficient than just a raw amount of enmity that won't ever be enough.
   I'm not asking to make so a Damage Dealer can never steal a Tank's hate, but it should be harder to do so than it is with the current state of the game.
   When a tank needs very very specific gear to do what he's supposed to do (tanking) you know something is wrong in the game. A tank in a MMO game should have all the basic necessary tools to perform his job. Better gear should make the job easier/more efficient, it shouldn't be something as absolutely necessary as it seems to be in FFXI's situation today.
7. FFXI and "stances"
   It's a very common concept in many MMOs to create variation among the same class/job.
   You have a certain stance, when you activate that you lose something and you gain something, pros and cons, making it a balanced and situational thing to change your playstyle and allow you to do different things in different situations.
   This is especially useful for classes/jobs who can do many things. Scholar for example, or Ninja.
   A concept similar to "stances" already exists in FFXI, many jobs have something similar.
   I think their balancement should be reevaluated though.
   More "balance" - to make a stance balanced you need to make so it gives you something and it takes away something, for some "stances" in FFXI this is not true and they offer only advantages.
   Also, they need to be more focused on the long time, and not short time buff.
   Good example of how stances should be implemented on this regard are: Afflatus Solace, Afflatus Misery, Composure, Light Arts, Dark Arts.
   Bad example? Yonin and Innin, or Footwork.
   Players need to CHOOSE when they want to play in a stance or another, the balance should come from what you gain and what you loose.
   You shouldn't be forced to refresh it every 3 minutes, and monsters shouldn't be able to dispel them.
8. Entertaining and challenging fights
   Please bring out again Fights against strong enemies that require a whole different range of strategies to be defeated.
   Examples from the past? King Behemoth, Chlevnik, Wyrm, Aspidochelone, Tiamat, Vrtra, Cerberus, Khimaira, Kirin, Seiryu, Suzaku, Jailer of Fortitude, Jailer of Prudence, Jailer of Love. All these mobs had very different abilities which required different strategies from the players willing to challenge them.
   The so called "zerg" strategies are annoying. It's good to have them when they're PART of what you do, they get boring when they are the ONLY thing to do.
   The same thing could be said about challenges which are un-original, unbalanced and frustrating, forcing players to resort to "cheap" strategies, like abusing/exploiting certain particularly strong job abilities like Perfect Defense and Embrava, to name a few.
   This is not a sign of a good battle planning from the development team, imho
9. Consolidation
   Currently, in my opinion, there is way too much situational gear in FFXI, creating several issues in players who have multiple jobs. There just is not enough inventory space, and it becomes easy to get "lost" between the sheer amount of gear all of us do own.
   "Consolidating" certain pieces of gear could be a nice way to save inventory space and make so a single piece can replace 2 or 3 old ones.
   A decent example of this is the recently added Chatoyant Staff.
   Can you please do something similar for other categories of items? Sea torques, Elemental Gorgets, Elemental Belts, Elemental Obis, etc.
   Would be like killing two birds with one stone.
   On one hand it would offer players motivation to collect all of them and not just a few.
   On the other hand it would allow them to save a lot of inventory and macro space, and have single items with the stats of many.
10. Weekly Forum Event
    Make so that once every week (or every month, or every 15 days) there is a special discussion where players can make ONE post and ask ONE question.
    One of this question is chosen every week and Developers will offer a detailed reply to that question.
    Like "How does the ability XXX really work?" or "How does the item XXX really affect the ability YYY?" or "What's the formula to calculate the amount of ....?"

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I seem to be asking for a lot, don't I?



I want to see native, Red Lotus Blade, Seraph Strike, and Sanguine Blade for RDM.

I want all jobs to recieve a native Dual Wield trait, without a delay reduction. Dual Wield with delay reduction should be reserved for NIN, DNC, THF, and BLU.