Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

Yeah they do, you can check with the HP versions.

Just make sure you're close to them all, use the food and they all get a raised hp/mp boost.

Only problems are they don't stack, the better ones are crafted (only one is from curio) and they last 3 hours and are gone when trusts are recalled, so you have to also use an antacid after (it's only 1k from curio but still)

Please add a way to do original content synced, specially missions from the original expansions and Champaign. Currently, thanks to the level sync status the battlefield imposes (without syncing at all), there is no way for the players to deliberately sync with each other if the way to (say, synchronize everyone's level to the lowest of the group).

Give players the option to do all the old missions synchronized if they so want to, please. It's really a no brainer function and even FFXIV gets it right.

Geomancer:

Add a debuff to the player when a debuff bubble is nerfed on higher tier content, players should know if the bubble gets a penalty.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Geomancer:

Add a debuff to the player when a debuff bubble is nerfed on higher tier content, players should know if the bubble gets a penalty.

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Not to mention other artificial nerfs like the back to back summoner BP nerf, AoE damage nerf, etc. Only problem is this could get real cluttered real fast....

But you're absolutely right, this is 2021 and people shouldn't have to guess if their abilities are going to work as intended or not.

Refil hp/mp in HTBF when you enter, as happens in ambuscade.

Add aoe versions of sneak and invisible.

Make the following changes to the trust system for new players:

When you do the initial Trust quest in your nation, give players all the trusts they can obtain via RoE with it.

It's infuriating to me how many new players I see with ONE TRUST, because they never figured out how they could get more via RoE.

Also, don't give them the trusts as items! because they will have a full inventory. Let them learn the magics directly.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Make the following changes to the trust system for new players:

When you do the initial Trust quest in your nation, give players all the trusts they can obtain via RoE with it.

It's infuriating to me how many new players I see with ONE TRUST, because they never figured out how they could get more via RoE.

Also, don't give them the trusts as items! because they will have a full inventory. Let them learn the magics directly.

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So. Much. This. Going back and turning in ciphers is absolutely pointless and irritating.

Apologies if any of this is repeated, but... well.

1: FORUM: Search within a single thread, not just the whole forum.

2: EQUIPSET: Just... faster equipsets? Please? The roughly one second technical delay between changing sets makes quick magic basically useless unless you want to cripple your macros for that chance of a faster cast. There has to be a way to do it, because it's one of the big selling points of The Forbidden Client. Maybe instead of equipsets we needed sixteen-slot macros we could whistle up in other macros?

3: ASTRAL CONDUIT: This ability is too powerful. So it gets specifically weakened in content, and as a result now Summoner as a whole becomes too weak to use. There are a lot of fixes for this, but my favorite two are either replace the ability outright (I'd love to see an SP that lets me have two different avatars up at once for 60 seconds, just saying), or change how the ability is weakened. Instead of 90% damage reduction to blood pact: rage damage, how about anywhere it seems necessary to weaken the ability, anyone with access to blood pacts gets an Omerta type effect locking minimum recast on the ability to 30 seconds? That way, you can have two summoners in the fight without making them both useless, but astral conduit isn't an "I win" button - and most importantly, users will know what will be happening. (Can't take full credit for this idea, I did come across it earlier in the thread, but it's absolutely worth repeating and expanding on a little.)

4: PORTABLE MOOGLE: Can we have, say, a Moogle Guard +2 whose enchantment immediately inflicts a five minute duration weakness, silence, and amnesia on the user but puts them into the job change menu and allows them to use it? This way it's not an overly powerful tactical choice - if this is viable in the middle of a fight, it was clearly not a particularly dangerous one - but it would be such a convenience for things like carrying one job through Dynamis to unlock upgrade slots, then being able to contribute with another, more prepared job for the following waves.

5: PERMANENT PHANTOM GEMS: The worst thing about high-tier mission battlefields is running back and forth to the NPC vendor to buy another key item. Can we make the key items permanent but allow the user to spend merit points to enter the fight rather than being temporary items purchased for merit points which allow the user to exchange the key item to enter the fight? It would save so much pointless running back and forth.

6: GRISLY TRINKETS AT ???: As with phantom gems, grisly trinkets for Geas Fete are just a pain. How about if a) the party leader trades an item (or items) to a Geas Fete ???; b) that player has used a grisly trinket since entering the zone; and c) the item (or items) would normally allow purchase of that grisly trinket, then this item trade is treated as selecting that item from the normal Geas Fete menu. If all alliance members are nearby and have a tribulens or radialens, monster is spawned and nominal level cap status is assigned, and the traded items are consumed. As this presents a balance issue with the duration of radialens, maybe give that a 5% to 10% chance of being lost upon initiating a fight in this manner.

7: BETTER AUGMENTING: Skirmish stone augmenting is awful. Reisenjima stone augmenting is even worse. The problem with both is you know exactly what you want, you know what stones to use to get it, but you have to just sit there going through the menu over and over in the faint hope of actually seeing those augments turn up. A streamlined system where you can choose a specific available augment or two and have the NPC consume multiple stones to silently reroll until either that augment is rolled or the supply of stones (or currency, for Skirmish stones) is exhausted, would be greatly appreciated.

8: HIGHER MERIT POINT CAP: Merit point caps might once have been a way to make the system feel like meaningful character customization, but it simply feels like an artificial restriction which makes certain less-than-optimal choices unusable. This has already been addressed with general traits like ability scores and combat skills; with the introduction of Master Levels, there is an opportunity to bring job-specific points in line. For every, say, ten Master Levels, increase the maximum number of Group 1 or Group 2 merits by five without raising the cap on individual items. Presuming the system progresses up to level 90 or higher, by that point even the most merit-intensive jobs can have all of their job-specific merits filled in, at a progression rate which won't make it feel like they've suddenly become significantly more powerful. This will produce a somewhat uneven benefit between, say Dancer (four group 1 categories and four group 2 categories, for a total of twenty potential new points) and Black Mage (seven group 1 categories and six group 2 categories, for forty-five new merit points to spend), but that's something to take up with whoever decided Black Mage needed to specialize in exactly two elements (or one and Elemental Seal), now isn't it.

9: PURCHASABLE HTBF DROPS: It's no secret that certain high-tier battlefields, Lilith and Cait Sith for example, will have players returning over and over only to leave empty-handed. It would be nice if they could at least provide a currency that could be exchanged for specific drops from the fights, at a rate of say one piece per thirty-two attempts on Very Easy down to one per two attempts on Very Difficult. Depending on your luck and the quality of thief you can bring along, those are probably about the number of fights you'd need to see items drop from those fights anyway so why not make it feel like there's some progression toward the goal.

10: BETTER PET CONTROL: I don't want to fuss on about summoner-specific tweaks, but it's what I play most so it's where I feel the most room for improvement. Avatars really could use a few more commands, like Heel: Avatar follows its summoner, disregarding all monster actions and aggression; and Stay: Avatar stays standing in one spot, moving only to return to that position of knocked back from it. Also, it doesn't fit the suggestion but I don't want to make another entry for this: Can we give Cait Sith a different astral flow ability, and add Phoenix as an SP-only avatar with the area Arise ability Cait Sith presently uses? It already feels like an ability that should fully consume astral flow, and nobody can say they haven't heard "Phoenix when?" enough to be sick of it.

11: SPARKS OVERHAUL: Everyone buys acheron shields for sparks and sells them for gil. This is a behavior that has been known and acknowledged and designed around for a while now; it's why we have a limit on sparks per week now. Can we just skip the middle-man and exchange that 100000 sparks for the equivalent value in gil? And while we're at it, maybe take the limit off non-sellable items? Somehow I just don't see Rem's Tales being the secret to the greatest illicit gil mining opportunity of the 2020s.

Astral Conduit: I think there's three simple things they could do:
Instead of free-casting avatar abilities, make it last longer an abilities cost no MP like Manafont instead of having no recast time.
Or

Reduce BP cooldown by 50% instead of eliminating it entirely
Or
remove the penalty but put individual abilities on cooldown, such that you have to use different blood pacts instead of the same one repeatedly.

Regardless, the strong nature of this ability really shouldn't result in a punishment that also applies outside of this ability's use.

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and add Phoenix as an SP-only avatar with the area Arise ability Cait Sith presently uses? It already feels like an ability that should fully consume astral flow, and nobody can say they haven't heard "Phoenix when?"

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Not sure why you think this needs to be changed. Does it actually get used that often? I don't really see any reason why this should consume AF- it's not even the only ability that can facilitate recovery from multiple deaths, Bard has a song for that. It also seems like it would be wiser to just use Alexander and not die in the first place rather than use Phoenix with this ability.

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and add Phoenix as an SP-only avatar with the area Arise ability Cait Sith presently uses? It already feels like an ability that should fully consume astral flow, and nobody can say they haven't heard "Phoenix when?"

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Not sure why you think this needs to be changed. Does it actually get used that often? I don't really see any reason why this should consume AF- it's not even the only ability that can facilitate recovery from multiple deaths, Bard has a song for that. It also seems like it would be wiser to just use Alexander and not die in the first place rather than use Phoenix with this ability.

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It's powerful because it's specifically Arise, with the shorter weakness and the full (weakened( HP) and the automatic reraise, to up to five party members, instantaneously. With no requirement or drawback besides "use your SP, have your spells, and have 198 MP ready." Assuming two surviving party leaders, a weakened summoner could easily use this ability to have an entire alliance back up and at full strength in four and a half minutes - outperforming the ideal alliance wipe scenario of "everyone remembered reraise" by 10%. And then for good measure they could still toss up a Perfect Defense just before Astral Flow expires. Nothing else can do that as quickly; aoe raise from a bard is going to take five minutes plus recast times number of groups, Arise and Raise from a white mage is easily eight and a half minutes (to a minimum of maybe six and a half if you have a lot of member with raise capable subjobs.)

And if that still doesn't sound like it's worthy of eating the SP in one shot, consider the benchmarks already set for that: 30 seconds of near-total protection from most damage and effects and 30 seconds of pretty good but quickly weakening protection; or "area" Death that sometimes affects three monsters if they line up just right. Now, I'm not saying this is dramatically overpowered and needs to be addressed, but I am saying that the ability is not necessarily the best thematic match for Cait Sith, it is a perfect thematic match for Phoenix, Phoenix would never be added as a full-fledged avatar but could be as a one-and-done summon like Odin and Alexander... so taking Altana's Favor from Cait Sith, adding Phoenix, and giving Altana's Favor to Cait Sith as an SP burning ability would be reasonable and frankly would make summoners thank the devs for what would technically be a reduction in power.

Now, back to suggesting:

12: VOIDWATCH RERAISE: So, in Geas Fete, anyone who's unconscious when a monster is defeated gets a mercy reraise; this is nice, but honestly, not entirely necessary since drops are pooled and level cap status drops when the fight ends, so in the worst of situations a party member could homepoint, change to a raise-capable job, come back, and get everybody up before the treasure sorts. Disruptive, but fine. For Voidwatch though... if your lone survivor doesn't have raise, your party's stuck. No outside assistance until the chest is opened by everyone, no opening the chest while unconscious. Party members lose their rightful reward, and either three minutes while they wait for a rescue or all the experience they could have recovered (which is starting to be a concern again in the era of master levels.) This may be old content, but thanks to its importance to reforging armor it's still relevant, and it could use a small tweak to prevent "congratulations, you lose!" outcomes.

13: SHARED TRUSTS: As in Sheol Gaol, it would be really handy to have a party leader able to call any trust any party member has access to. Admittedly, this caused some loading problems when implemented there, but you know what, that's fine considering there's already a 90 second pause in Trust access when you invite a party member anyway; just use that cooldown to populate the party trust list.

14: STORAGE SLIP STORAGE: Porter Moogles and their storage slips have been a nice solution to inventory clutter, allowing one space to account for dozens of items (some of which you might actually want in the future!), but they're getting pretty bulky themselves; we're up to, what, 28 now? It would be nice to either have a separate inventory pocket for them, or have a Storage Slip 00 which can be used to store storage slips.

Home points: (for people who multibox, this is the most annoying thing in the game)

Add option: Last 3-5 most recent travel destinations.

Home points are most often used for travel back and fourth to set locations repeatedly, for instance ambsucade > location to get key item and repeat.

Adding most recent location list that is easy to navigate to makes it less of a chore.

This would basically copy the feature used in Abyssea for Atma additions.

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HTBF

As above, most recent KI. It's annoying fiddling with menus when you're basically spamming the same BF over and over, please add "last Key item" option to easily obtain it again.

"Re-obtain last Key Item" on first page.

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Copper Vouchers

Add an option, once you have traded 20? copper vouchers to the NPC to automatically have all copper vouchers stored to npc insead of getting the voucher. I throw so many of these away right now because I just need space and cba to go trade.

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Item Storage:

Add storage options to floor 2 of mog house, this will give this area more use and give us more generic storage space (not armor or weapons, just accepts items) that only load there. This will let us put items like omen scales, ambuscade upgrade items etc in a specific location). Space can be so annoying I don't even want to do anything sometimes because i'm needing to continually clean my inventory.

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Fashion storage location:

Linked to mannequin in mog house, talking to mannequin allows you to store armors you only own for cosmetic reasons and this storage location is not accessible in the open world. Kirin Oside, Byaakos Haidate, swimsuits etc. No reason for this to be accessible in the field, just causes load lag.

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Goblin Mystery box

Allow players to trade 7 items per week to the goblin for points, instead of 1 per day for points.

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Crafting:
Addon an option to lock your craft level, many people level crafts and sub crafts to exact numbers for HQ tiers. Then if they get a skillup, they have to skill down again. This is very annoying.

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Dyna D

Add an option upon entry to lower the level of the monsters inside, remove all drops and lessen the time you're allowed in there. This will enable small groups to get the 100 kills for upgrades

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/unfollow

Add a command that does the opposite of /follow, useful for multibox players.

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Add option: Last 3-5 most recent travel destinations.

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Is this not what the favorites list is for?
[/quote]/unfollow[/quote]
H to remove target lock, R to stop autorun
Just use a keyboard macro for this

Revert the Shinryu adjustment that was made for the whiners.

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Originally Posted by Sfchakan

Revert the Shinryu adjustment that was made for the Asurans.

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Fixed that for ya.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Fixed that for ya.

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Truth

10char

Yeah what a bunch of cry babies ppl became, I was so annoyed when they changed that, I haven't even bothered to try that bcnm after a few times.

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Home points: (for people who multibox, this is the most annoying thing in the game)

Add option: Last 3-5 most recent travel destinations.

Home points are most often used for travel back and fourth to set locations repeatedly, for instance ambsucade > location to get key item and repeat.

Adding most recent location list that is easy to navigate to makes it less of a chore.

This would basically copy the feature used in Abyssea for Atma additions.

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That reminds me. Savable Atma sets. Sometimes you need TP for red weakness. Sometimes you need regen for a little photo shoot. Sometimes you want to go in and rip a few monsters a B hole, and maybe even a C if you're bored, and you want the classic killer physical or magic sets. Never does somebody go in thinking "boy, I sure do want to go back on the wiki and look up which Atma I used for what, or hope that all the ones I need are still on recent."

But who am I kidding, that's Abyssea. They're not going to make Abyssea, of all things, more convenient.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Home points: (for people who multibox, this is the most annoying thing in the game)

Add option: Last 3-5 most recent travel destinations.

Home points are most often used for travel back and fourth to set locations repeatedly, for instance ambsucade > location to get key item and repeat.

Adding most recent location list that is easy to navigate to makes it less of a chore.

This would basically copy the feature used in Abyssea for Atma additions.

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I agree that the homepoint menu system is far too clumsy and slow, especially for multi-boxers. Even better though than what you suggest would be to have an in-game text command that can be macroed, for homepoint use. For example, /homepoint WinWoods1 would take you to Windurst Woods Homepoint #1. Of course, this would only work if you are within a certain radius of a homepoint.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add an option, once you have traded 20? copper vouchers to the NPC to automatically have all copper vouchers stored to npc insead of getting the voucher. I throw so many of these away right now because I just need space and cba to go trade.

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This - and please let's have a similar system for silver vouchers, Seals and Crests.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Dyna D

Add an option upon entry to lower the level of the monsters inside, remove all drops and lessen the time you're allowed in there. This will enable small groups to get the 100 kills for upgrades

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Would be great if you could customize Dynamis D more to individual goals and play style. Personally, I think Dynamis D is a bit too long, I reach my "sick of this" point usually half an hour before time runs out. Would be nice to be able to choose half the time limit for a modest increase in drop amounts and rates.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

It really doesn't change anything, and unlike say, FFXIV, where most of your items are job specific, in FFXI, a lot of items are used by multiple jobs. If you had job specific bags, it would be absolute hell moving anything that isn't job specific gear all over the place.

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Do the math. 15 job specific Artifact/Relic/Empy items for each job, plus 1 JSE Torque, any number of Ambuscade capes, plus "random" JSE items (Epitaph/Sancus for SMN, Regal Gem for RDM..), Ultimate/SU5 weapons (not all JSE, but many).. some jobs even have job-specific 119 abjuration and SU3 sets (SMN has both).

You easily get to 20 per job, and higher on some. Even if we're assuming only 20 items per job saved, for those who play, say, 10 jobs, that's 200 extra slots, or the equivalent of 2.5 mog wardrobes.

It always feels like the people asking for JSE-specific inventory containers are sleeping hard on porter moogles.

It's inconvenient to go back to the moogle, pull items out, use them for 5 minutes, and put them back, when they could easily remain in inventory without being loaded unless you're on that job.

But that's what this game is solely about, being a time thief. 2 minutes here, 5 minutes there. Simple conveniences mean you play those 5 minutes less and we can't have that.

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Originally Posted by Sfchakan

It always feels like the people asking for JSE-specific inventory containers are sleeping hard on porter moogles.

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We just don't want to spend 10 minutes each time we switch jobs traveling to the nearest porter moogle, moving storage slips out of case/satchel/sack, trading items and moving storage slips back into case/satchel/sack.

If it's taking even 5 minutes, you're doing it wrong.

Add a blist button to search.

/sea all yob

>tell
>request
>cancel request
>send message
>invite
>blist <---- add this

This is needed because they use long names now, to avoid blist. yobbbrrrrrsstttt for example.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

Add a blist button to search.

/sea all yob

>tell
>request
>cancel request
>send message
>invite
>blist <---- add this

This is needed because they use long names now, to avoid blist. yobbbrrrrrsstttt for example.

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It would still be more optimal to blacklist words. because you blacklist yobbbbrrrrssstttt and tomorrow yobbbbrrrssstttv is shouting then the next day yobbbrrrssstttz is shouting. That's pointless to keep filling your blacklist with accounts that SHOULD be banned in 5 minutes but aren't.

Or, and I know it's crazy, ACTUALLY BAN THE DAMN SHOUT BOTS OCCASIONALLY. I mean Jesus H Christ It's regoddamndiculous how little square cares about anything but sub count.

If it's easy to blist then who cares how many they make, it's difficult to blist right now. If it was an extra button on search you could block them in a few seconds.

You shouldn't have to, is the point.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

During the Welcome Back Campaign, please reactivate wardrobes 3 and 4 on any currently inactive accounts. I logged in, but not having access to half my gear made me just log out almost immediately. If I can't play the game, I'm much less likely to get hooked and resubscribe.

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Reposting again during the next campaign.

During the Welcome Back Campaign, please reactivate wardrobes 3 and 4 on any currently inactive accounts. I logged in, but not having access to half my gear made me just log out almost immediately. If I can't play the game, I'm much less likely to get hooked and resubscribe.

Why don't you just, sub for a month and move your gear? Am I missing something?

It's 160 gear slots that would need to be taken out of other inventory and quite possibly reshuffled any time you swap jobs, even assuming you would have 160 slots free to transfer the gear to. The not having our gear available for the free logins is a problem for a great many people.

Add perle, Aurore, Teal armor sets to the sparks npc.

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Originally Posted by Tharly

It's 160 gear slots that would need to be taken out of other inventory and quite possibly reshuffled any time you swap jobs, even assuming you would have 160 slots free to transfer the gear to. The not having our gear available for the free logins is a problem for a great many people.

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Then plan ahead the next time you subscribe and sort your gear out so it will be available during freeplay periods. It's not impossible to have a 2-4+ jobs available with Safe, Safe2, Locker, Wardrobe 1 and 2, and porter moogles available.

So many people just don't make a plan and have a proper way of sorting their gear.

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Originally Posted by Sfchakan

So many people just don't make a plan and have a proper way of sorting their gear.

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It's called wardrobe 3 and 4. Specifically designed for this task and therefore uniquely suited for storing and sorting gear.

Add arrows, bolts and bullets to sparks. The limit on gear players can get from sparks seems odd to me.

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Then plan ahead the next time you subscribe and sort your gear out so it will be available during freeplay periods. It's not impossible to have a 2-4+ jobs available with Safe, Safe2, Locker, Wardrobe 1 and 2, and porter moogles available.

So many people just don't make a plan and have a proper way of sorting their gear.

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While I do see your point, it is the only choice we really have right now, you are correct. However..I must say, SE keeps adding gear but does not add more storage. They add PAID storage, for a game where they introduce new gear but nowhere to put it, and even with paying for all the wardrobes, I simply cannot play all the jobs as advertised without having inventory issues. That is the problem right there.

Even worse - the more gear/items we have, the longer it takes to load each time we zone because they won't update the dial up issue we have, so to talk to my linkshell I have to wait a LONG time if I am zoning. So in fact, SE is the one who needs to sort this out, not us. We can only use bandaids.

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While I do see your point, it is the only choice we really have right now, you are correct. However..I must say, SE keeps adding gear but does not add more storage. They add PAID storage, for a game where they introduce new gear but nowhere to put it, and even with paying for all the wardrobes, I simply cannot play all the jobs as advertised without having inventory issues. That is the problem right there.

Even worse - the more gear/items we have, the longer it takes to load each time we zone because they won't update the dial up issue we have, so to talk to my linkshell I have to wait a LONG time if I am zoning. So in fact, SE is the one who needs to sort this out, not us. We can only use bandaids.

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It's a huge problem, especially when the new gear they add consists almost entirely of sidegrades / situational gear, like the new Odyssey T3 armor/attire sets. For people who play all jobs, that's another 30 pieces.

Here's a thought: imagine if instead of adding all these T3 sets, Odyssey had permitted us to upgrade the Malignance set to +1 and +2, and the 119 abjuration +1 sets to +2 and +3 versions?

Upgrading existing gear that we've worked hard to obtain is the more player and inventory-friendly solution.

They add paid storage to try offset inflation costs, they have to try keep the game profitable and with inflation that gets harder.

I would argue they countered inflation costs by going from a full dev team capable of producing new content/expansions to a barebones crew resourced to be able to barely add anything. I'm pretty sure more than a few people would be willing to buy a new expansion pack or even a remaster that wouldn't need d3d proxies or jumping through hoops to make the game playable on modern graphics cards.

Expansions were not free, they were $40 each. They were also not made by the XI dev team but other dev teams at square enix, that now make expansions for xiv among other things.

Who said they were free?