Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

I agree that a cross-server party finder is likely impossible without major changes that they couldn't do at this point, but linking AHs could be very possible since it would be mostly backend work. Whether it's a good idea for the health of the game is debatable.

You seem to be arguing against things I never said. I can't say I've ever told anyone on these forums they should transfer to Leviathan, and I definitely never said to force people to leave Asura. In fact, in the text you quoted I was suggesting ways to encourage people to leave of their own accord and also said that I know that some people prefer a packed server.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

I agree, although I don't think just free transfers would be enough. Even if you can leave at no charge, what's the incentive? Clearly some people enjoy a packed server and wouldn't leave without some major changes to the game like, for example, linked AHs or cross-server party finder. Especially considering they could very well lose their name in the process.

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For high pop servers FFXIV lifts the typical limits and also lets you transfer as many characters as you have on that server at once. That is, the usual cap on the amount of gil you can take with you is lifted, among other things. They could also offer temporary perks like XIV does, where transferring from a "congested world" to a "preferred world" confers a limited time double XP bonus.

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They won't give free transfers because most of the people on Asura paid to go there, they want to be there. They don't want to be on your server at all.

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There are existing players on Asura who don't completely like it who might transfer if they didn't have to pay for it- they just don't dislike it enough to spend money to get away from it.

A suggestion perhaps, not sure if this was mentioned prior, enable the SendPOL flag on all items to be moved over to mules. This could help with the storage issues, and allow players that no longer use an old main to move over any relevant items. Or the off chance you win a bonanza REMA it's not stuck on a mule.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add an NPC in each nation, that tells the player where the Domain Invasion Dragon is due to spawn next.

A lot of people cannot get onto unity chat often, this is something that really needs to be added as new players (and a lot of older ones) often have no way outside of continually spamming to get on unity chat and waiting for a message have no way to know where it is.

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When I advise a new player how to do Domain Invasion, trying to tell them how to know where a dragon is due is a nonsense.

"how do I know where a dragon is going to be?"
"well it tells you on unity chat"
"I can never get on unity chat, how else can I know?"

BLM Buffs:

The biggest problems with BLM are

A) their singular source of damage is nukes, and they don't do enough damage to compare with a melee DD spamming WS + normal melee dmg
B) Their nukes are finite, they can run out of MP (a melee can constantly spam)
C) their nukes take too long still to cast

The positives are they are out of melee range, however Corsair, Ranger, Summoner, Scholar are still far better.

What I would suggest (I'm not a BLM main anymore so if anyone has better suggestions, post away):

1) vastly increase the dot damage from Burn, Shock, Rasp, Choke, Drown significantly (and increase the MP cost), these spells should be just below the kind of dmg a melee gets from hitting a monster normally. Elemental debuffs should be considered the "melee damage" for a blm.

2) give BLM a new Job Trait that increases the amount of TP they get from using spells (to use Myrkr WS more, even on proper group fights)

3) give BLM a new job ability that lowers cast time of spells.

A BLM can no longer just fall back on nukes, they need another source of damage and the most obvious answer is elemental debuff dots, which should be around 30-40% of their overall dmg.

I know a fear is, things like this would make them stronger at soloing things however cor, sch and rdm can already do that anyway.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

2) give BLM a new Job Trait that increases the amount of TP they get from using spells (to use Myrkr WS more, even on proper group fights)

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There already exists a job trait that gives BLM TP from using spells called Occult Acumen. They could instead simply give BLM higher tier of this trait. As it stands, BLM only has this trait up to tier 2, whereas sch has tier 3 and DRK has tier 5. Honestly DRK would do just fine without this trait. How often do we use elemental nukes on DRK?! They probably gave BLM such a low tier occult acumen for "balance reasons", but considering how BLM is falling behind other jobs these days, increasing that trait level wouldn't be particularly game breaking anymore.

We only really need to have BLM buffed to a point where having one around is sweet by giving them some special ability/spell/ws that makes having one around invaluable, but not to the point where everyone feels pressured to come as BLM to event. Red mage could be argued to be "almost there", as having one around for distract 3, frazzle 3, dia 3, addle 2, and so on is really nice for the harder content. More often than not, however, we tend to just roll without a red mage in party. There is simply sheer lack of hard enough content to warrant having a red mage around right now. Giving BLM something like ability to shatter enemy magic defense big time, would not only boost their own dmg output, but also increase their status to RDM level of nice to have one around at least. This would also turn BLM into backup option to idris geomancer as far as reducing enemy magic defense goes, in case nobody in party happens to have idris geo, further increasing the value of this particular job.

Add an "equipment changed" message when using equipsets. It's annoying to have the message on normal macros and no message on equipsets, I often keep checking my gear actually changed because there is no message.

Using the command /equipset # echo will print in log if the set equips.

Oh, great thanks.

Do we have a Blue Mage trust? More trust and additions to the actual system would be neato

No we don't, sadly SE has already said they have 0 plans to add a BLU because it would be too complicated or something silly. I really wish we got Raubahn.

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Originally Posted by Immortal

No we don't, sadly SE has already said they have 0 plans to add a BLU because it would be too complicated or something silly. I really wish we got Raubahn.

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It's pretty silly if you ask me, it's not like we're asking them to make the trust customizable or anything, just give it a spell list with XYZ spells and call it a day.

Lower the amount of points required to keep unity trust, it's so annoying how easy it is to lose your unity trust.

Do away with thumbs up giving a different colored flag for mentor, all that happens is players use alts to vote themselves up.

Thumbs up should be a visible text message and nothing else.

I would like to suggest the ability to combine the lvl 94 rings from dynamis. Similar to how the combatant's torque works.
Moepapa ring
Moepapa annulet
Tjukurrpa ring
Tjukurrpa annulet
Aife's ring
Aife's annulet
Portus ring
Portus annulet

The combined ring would have:
All stats+5 combat skills+5
Accuracy+7 store tp+4

This kind of new usage for old and forgotten gear would definitely be very welcome addition.

They ought to do something for the old relic accessories from dynamis as well. Perhaps use them as base item for having some NPC craft you better JSE accessory. To make them as different from Ambuscade capes and the like as possible, and thus make them useful in comparison, perhaps have them augment existing ability somehow. Something like... Warrior: Provoke delay-10, Thief: Flee regain+100, Monk: Counterstance counter attack+25% and so on. To make them useful as macro pieces in particular. Even if this would further escalate the lack of inventory space situation. :3

Do away with the the option to "renounce your guild" or add it to a different NPC (crafting).

Why on earth is this there and why is it so easy to do? Something this big should require you to speak to an NPC at both guilds or not exist in the first place.

A player can lose all progress with their crafting guild from 110 down to 70 if they misunderstand what this does. Considering the other crafts level down automatically if you level something else up, why is this even necessary?

They can lose a ridiculous amount of gil spent on raising the craft that easily? that would be like having an option to lose all levels on your job by talking to a moogle.

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Why on earth is this there and why is it so easy to do? Something this big should require you to speak to an NPC at both guilds or not exist in the first place.

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Unless I"m mistaken, you can only level a certain number of crafts past 70, so this option exists to allow you to level a different one? While you don't have to do it, doing so ensures that the points are taken away from the one guild you want them to be taken from.

The language should be clearer, but that's about all that needs to happen.

Make new rare Ex food made from crafting 50+ that is used for trusts only, "HP up", "refresh", "regen", "attack and accuracy", "don't use any weapon skills" (30 min duration and wears if trusts die or are recalled).

Make new rare ex saddles from leather 50+, that when traded to the mount NPC in upper jeuno give buffs that last for a week when mounted (speed up, regen while mounted, refresh while mounted, regain when mounted etc)

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New login item:

Add mog house furniture windows that players can get with views of Windurst / Sandoria / Bastok, these aren't hard to create since the models already exist.
Bonsai trees, resize the normal trees into miniatures and use the pot models from arcane pots.
Moogle outfits (add login items that when traded to moogle swap the moogle model to one of the many other ones available)
Add a Lillith Statue.

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Allow manequin items to be sold on the auction house
Add 2nd versions of each unity (apururu 1 and apururu 2), so people can actually get on them on busy servers.
Add a storage option to mog gardens or mog house 2nd floors, that isn't loaded in the field (I just want another place to put stuff!)

Mog garden:

Flotsam: "your inventory is full, would you like to dispose of the item?"

Everything else in mog garden "you need millions of inventory slots available"

Add a dispose option to all other options in garden please, I never do it much anymore because it's so annoying to make that much space. Why do you make this so annoying when you know space is an issue. Most people don't want the items they get, they just want to rank up..

I must be the only person in all of FFXI that doesn't regularly have inventory problems. I guess I'm the only one who doesn't keep every slice of hare meat and every crystal that drops to me.

Mog Garden gathering node upgrades should be able to be ranked up by using greater amounts of bayld, instead of having to do the whole gathering process every day for months. Something like 500k bayld for direct upgrade instead of the 5k bayld KI that is unlocked by gathering enough times. I'd much rather farm bayld than pop to mog garden daily and fill inventory with items that have little to no value and are just sold to npc, or tossed in order to free up space. This would not only be huge QoL enhancement, but would also revitalize Wildskeeper reives and normal reives to some extent when people use them to farm bayld.

It just gives you so much garbage, and they are all different items that sell for 100gil.

Not only the inventory space is a problem but it takes longer to throw it away or sell it than actually mine/gather. It's infuriating.

Mog Garden changes:

Add moogle to the 2nd area of mog garden, so we can buy food for the pets and not have to zone to do so.

Allow players to use 2 cheers for a maxed garden.

Increase how long helpers can be in the mog garden from a max of 9 weeks to 9 months, lower the price of employment.

Please make COPPER VOUCHER a key item upon completing an objective, there is zero reason this needs to be an item that drops to our inventory other than bloat since the key item system is already there at the npc.

Inventory problems are a thing, I throw so many of these away because I need the space and forgot to trade that single to the NPC before going somewhere.

At the very least add an option after you trade one for them to be key items, if the idea is to get new players to find out what they are.

Add RoE objectives for raising pets in the mog garden, a kind of checklist if you will.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add RoE objectives for raising pets in the mog garden, a kind of checklist if you will.

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That already exists. They're called Key Items. Mementos.

Change AOE food to 30 mins, or make an alternate version with that duration. The entire point of this food is for use with trusts so they get the food effect, 3 hours is too long because when you dismiss they lose the effect.

Would it be broken if you can like level sync yourself to whatever level you want until you zone? If not that would be cool. Hey I am just one dude so others might hate that idea.

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Originally Posted by Monsuta_Man

Would it be broken if you can like level sync yourself to whatever level you want until you zone? If not that would be cool. Hey I am just one dude so others might hate that idea.

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I always wanted to to this to fully understand the level-by-level effect of sync on gear stats (though that barely means anything nowadays).

Also, that level sync RoE.

It is long past time to remove all the three players+ lockout on content.

3 player lock is there to encourage geared players to take less geared players, at least on asura that's exactly what happens fairly regularly

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Originally Posted by Shouk

It is long past time to remove all the three players+ lockout on content.

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iknorite? It's long past time they just went and made it an SPORPG or Single Player Online Role Playing Game.

Heaven forbid anyone ever actually plays or even interacts with another player in game.

Posting the campaign information below for reference.

I enjoy playing campaign battles. However, there is only so much a handful of players can do to influence who owns each zone (beastmen vs. nations). Would SE please consider adjusting campaign battles in a way that makes it easier for a smaller group of players to influence region control now that there aren't many people playing this content anymore? Each time the 'Campaign Festa' special event comes around, I try and flip the beastmen strongholds but am never successful (I spent 6-8 hours 2-3 days before tally invading Oztroja during battles, trying my best to influence regions where beastmen were gaining influence, but to no effect).

Some ideas:
- Make campaign ops have a stronger impact on regional influence
- Increase the nation-side influence
- Revamp rewards from union chests and raise level of mobs to get players to come to campaign battle again
- Raise EXP caps for campaign battles and/or add capacity point acquisition to campaign battles


Campaign Festa

Campaign will undergo the following adjustments for the duration of the campaign.
- Experience and allied notes earned from evaluations will be doubled.
- The amount of spoils obtained from treasure chests when participating in unions will be increased.

Furthermore, earn special rewards, including montiont silverpieces, 100-byne bills, Lungo-Nango jadeshells, and more from the following four Campaign Ops, in addition to their normal spoils.
- Splitting Heirs
- Cracking Shells
- Plucking Wings
- Fiat Lux

Please add more storage space, that is not mog wardrobes.

Most players do not need mog wardobes, most players just need more storage space for normal items.

Mog safe + furnishings = 80 storage
Mog safe 2 + furnishings on 2nd floor should also give = 80 spaces.

A Wanted Bazaar

Visit the AH, find an item that may or may not be in stock, have an additional option "Wanted" to select where you can input a quantity and gil amount.

This adds to a list that behaves similarly to your bazaar - when a player checks you, an option to the side of 'View Wares' is there ('Wanted'). That lists all of the items you have selected at the prices you are willing to pay. If you have set a price at more gil than your character currently has on them, those items are greyed out as per the usual merchant interface. If you don't have the gil to fulfil any of your Wanted items (or free space left in your inventory), the option to see the list disappears to save people wasting time checking it. Programatically, the exchange could work in the same way as a confirmed trade.

The icon that appears if you have any items on your Wanted list is the same as the Bazaar icon, but tinted green. If you have both Bazaar and Wanted items, the icon is split.


People could afk and other players could 'quest' after the items others want, if they decided the price was right for them. I think this would help in an age where Auction House sales are slower and hence necessarily limited to the seven most optimal sales you can list, when in fact many questers, armour upgraders and crafters are after many less obvious items.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Please add more storage space, that is not mog wardrobes.

Most players do not need mog wardobes, most players just need more storage space for normal items.

Mog safe + furnishings = 80 storage
Mog safe 2 + furnishings on 2nd floor should also give = 80 spaces.

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Actually, I disagree. You are a merchant, your situation is totally unique. I generally don't keep most non gear items on hand if I don't actively need them.

People who keep every bird egg and lizard skin that drops into their inventory need to learn what's worth keeping and what isn't.

Suggestion: just like the Unity leaders call out the Domain Invasion dragons, it would be nice if they would call out when Besieged starts advancing, and then again three hours later when the battle starts.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Actually, I disagree. You are a merchant, your situation is totally unique. I generally don't keep most non gear items on hand if I don't actively need them.

People who keep every bird egg and lizard skin that drops into their inventory need to learn what's worth keeping and what isn't.

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I'm in the same situation. 790/880 of my inventory is all armor and weapons. (The remainder is just a few furnishings, storage slips, ammo, aeonic pop items, ambuscade materials and kupons etc.

I will also admit: We desperately need more / new content.

Odyssey: Sheol A, B, C in Rabao should have came with events in Kazham too.

I'll even take a Dynamis Divergence in Beaucedine Glacier and Xarcabard.

I hated Limbus and Apollyon but I'll take I-level 160 versions of that nonsense. Maybe even a glimpse into Abyssea 2.0?