Suggestions: Quality of Life Stuff and other suggestions

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Originally Posted by Shuramura

Please remove the exemplar point loss on death from Odyssey and Sortie. It's way way way way too harsh for that kind of content especially considering how massive the exemplar point bars are at higher master levels and how incredibly stingy exemplar points rates are.

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Odyssey and Sortie are basically the only content where it makes sense to lose exemplar points. You can gain exemplar points against the normal monsters, and they're basically the harsh dangerous endgame event. This is like asking for experience point loss to be removed from Dynamis in the 75 cap days.

The problem here is that getting exemplar points back afterward is too onerous because the rate of loss is too high and the rate of gain is too low. That is what needs correcting.

I agree, rather than removing any consequences for death/failiure, exemplar points/master levels themselves need to be adjusted instead.

Oh, actually, instead of being all wah wah this is bad fix it, why don't I try to be constructive.

Let's assume that the master level grind is where SE wants it. Which... is dumb, it's content for bots not players, but okay. 2% of tnl isn't a super unreasonable proportion, it's just that the numbers get so out of control because of the scale of it.

What if players received +50% (or even +100%?) exemplar points while below the highest value they previously held on a job? So grinding for the levels is still a slow tedious process that no human will willingly undergo, but at least recovering them afterward is a little less harsh (while still being a significant deterrent for zombie fighting and homepointing rather than waiting for raises.)

Please add homepoints to the entrance areas of Escha - Zi'Tah, Escha - Ru'Aun and Reisenjima.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

deliverable items isn't relevant to this conversation.

It isn't even that much of a hassle to do the LB quests, they would never add an item like this to the game and why should they? Not even FFXIV does that, except for the purchasable skip option.

May as well just add a copy character button.

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You are offering the tiresome false dichotomy fallacy, misrepresenting my request to lessen an extreme as a request to change it into the opposite extreme.

No, a fully developed character in FFXI is quite a bit more than just a bunch of level cap quests. There are endless mission and quest lines that have to be completed. A character that merely has level 99 on a job has unlocked only a tiny fraction of the overall content. Letting people who have already done level cap quests on a main character skip them on characters on the same account is NOT tantamount to a copy character button.

I stand by my request; it would be extremely reasonable to let characters on the same account skip level cap quests with an ex but deliverable item that could be purchased from Maat.

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You are offering the tiresome false dichotomy

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There's nothing false about it. You are essentially arguing that all characters after your first should instantly get whatever level 99s you got for free.

Hell most other MMOs that offer anything like that at least make you pay money for it.

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it would be extremely reasonable to let characters on the same account skip level cap quests

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It is not in any way reasonable at all.

Even if that's all youre asking for, despite previously saying you should be able to send a level skip item to alts, I fail to see the point in this. It's not hard to do those quests, just do them. I find these constant "trivialize the game" suggestions just as tiresome as you find not-false dichotomy. It also speaks volumes about people playing the game like it's a job rather than enjoying exploring and doing things in vana'Diel.

Those roadblocks exist for a reason.

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Originally Posted by Eth

Please add homepoints to the entrance areas of Escha - Zi'Tah, Escha - Ru'Aun and Reisenjima.

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Surely the home points that are directly outside Eschas Zi'tah and Ru'Aun are close enough.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Surely the home points that are directly outside Eschas Zi'tah and Ru'Aun are close enough.

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I think this just reinforces my feelings on this lol. I couldn't agree with you more.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Surely the home points that are directly outside Eschas Zi'tah and Ru'Aun are close enough.

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It's not a matter of closeness, it's a matter of having to wait for two zone loads instead of one.

The title of this thread is "quality of life improvements", i.e. improvements that make the game a little more enjoyable by reducing nuisances and time wastes.

Those who enjoy zoning delays would still be perfectly free to teleport to the existing points outside to enter those two zones.

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It's not a matter of closeness, it's a matter of having to wait for two zone loads instead of one.

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So it's a matter of closeness. In other words, the time required to get there.

It is fine. It's not a big deal, a few seconds of black screen never hurt anybody.

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Those who enjoy zoning delays would still be perfectly free to teleport to the existing points outside to enter those two zones.

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If they did this it would frankly be stupid to leave those there. too many options can be a bad thing- more menu options to sift through and you can get confused about what is actually where.

There's a fine line between quality of life and just plain laziness. We've had more ridiculous proposals than this, like putting a home point and vendors in the mog house so you basically never have to leave it. Better yet, let's just make the game one big box and just spawn bosses in it when we want to fight something.

This is hyperbole, yes, but when you give people an inch, they take a mile.

It would improve my quality of life if they gave me infinite gil and removed all wait times for all content- until I did all of it of course. then I'd be bored. See, this is why MMOs have limitations.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

So it's a matter of closeness. In other words, the time required to get there.

It is fine. It's not a big deal, a few seconds of black screen never hurt anybody.



If they did this it would frankly be stupid to leave those there. too many options can be a bad thing- more menu options to sift through and you can get confused about what is actually where.

There's a fine line between quality of life and just plain laziness. We've had more ridiculous proposals than this, like putting a home point and vendors in the mog house so you basically never have to leave it. Better yet, let's just make the game one big box and just spawn bosses in it when we want to fight something.

This is hyperbole, yes, but when you give people an inch, they take a mile.

It would improve my quality of life if they gave me infinite gil and removed all wait times for all content- until I did all of it of course. then I'd be bored. See, this is why MMOs have limitations.

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And there is that false dichotomy peddling again, where wanting to mitigate a nuisance equals giving everyone infinite gil.

Contrary to your "MMOs have limitations" rhetoric, zone delays are not an intended game mechanic, and they are also not a form of content time-gating. They are an unfortunate side effect of legacy hardware and bandwidth limitations. Nothing more.

I hate having to run to the zone line in Den of Rancor to Cloister of Tides, and then to the protocrystal to fight Leviathan. There should be a home point right next to the protocrystal.

I hate having to move 3 feet from the Home Point crystal to the Moogle in Norg. Please move them closer together so I can change jobs directly from the Home Point.

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And there is that false dichotomy peddling again,

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You keep saying it, but it's not false, so your response means nothing. I explicitly stated it was hyperbole to make a point- a point that is wooshing right over you, apparently. Clearly, Catmato undestands.

What you are asking for is not just "quality of life." You may be of the opinion that you're not asking for much, but I disagree. And when you ask for this much, people will then ask for more after- once you get used to a "higher" quality of life, eventually it's not good enough and it needs to be increased again. It's happened throughout the game's history.

Yes, I know you're not explicitly asking for the game to be made braindead easy, but it's a step in that direction and that's enough for me to oppose it when considering how easy travel already is. Your request is silly at best. There are already home points close enough. There are tons of home points all over vana'diel, and there are at most a small handful of places where I might feel like this is lacking, and the locations you named are not among them.

You used to have to bum teleports off of white mages back in the day, and now you can teleport just about anywhere you've already been via home points, tomes, and other systems. I think that's plenty good enough.

Please fix the conquest point redeem menu to not close on item purchase like what you did with the sparks of emeinence menus.

Please add flan type mobs to Ra'Kaznar, that do not cast magic, have low evasion and very high health.

We really do need more skillup type mobs in the game, everyone uses Uragnite currently but there are not enough and we need more locations to skillup in.

Skilling up weapons and magic, as well as unlocking latents are a big part of the game and we need more monsters made for this purpose.

"please add easy punching bags."

Really? You can skill up off anything you can kill for EXP/CAP. That's how it's always been done. If skilling up is trivial, then there isn't any reason to have it at all. There's no shortage of places you can kill things to gain skill on.

Not to say they couldn't ease things a bit but i'd rather make tweaks to skill up rates instead.

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Originally Posted by radar

Please add flan type mobs to Ra'Kaznar, that do not cast magic, have low evasion and very high health.

We really do need more skillup type mobs in the game, everyone uses Uragnite currently but there are not enough and we need more locations to skillup in.

Skilling up weapons and magic, as well as unlocking latents are a big part of the game and we need more monsters made for this purpose.

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Why flans that don't cast magic? Them being BLMs is kind of their thing. Slimes would make much more sense.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

I hate having to move 3 feet from the Home Point crystal to the Moogle in Norg. Please move them closer together so I can change jobs directly from the Home Point.

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I still think we should have a Home Point#2 at Kazham AH. (Every other town has one).

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

"please add easy punching bags."

Really? You can skill up off anything you can kill for EXP/CAP. That's how it's always been done. If skilling up is trivial, then there isn't any reason to have it at all. There's no shortage of places you can kill things to gain skill on.

Not to say they couldn't ease things a bit but i'd rather make tweaks to skill up rates instead.

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I think you are simply arguing for the sake of arguing. Have you looked at the Urganites in Ceizak and Yahse? There's maybe, only 7-8 mobs in total and people claim them 24/7/365. They use them for both combat and magic skill-ups, WS trials and even automatons. This is a very fair request and I don't think you actually play this game.

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I think you are simply arguing for the sake of arguing.

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You can think what you like, but that doesn't make it true.

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Have you looked at the Urganites in Ceizak and Yahse?

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Urganites aren't the only mobs you can gain skill on.

Seems better to me, if anything, to have us spend less time on skillups overall than make special mobs that are easy to skill on.

The posters request (make a special mob that doesn't do the things it normally does for easy skill ups) is not a reaosnable approach to this- there is a difference between quality-of-life improvements and trivializing the game. If for some reason you absolutely can not gain skills on some other mob, they could just as easily increase the number of spawns of the mobs people already use.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

they could just as easily increase the number of spawns of the mobs people already use.

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Alternatively, they could offer free server transfers off overcrowded servers.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

Alternatively, they could offer free server transfers off overcrowded servers.

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Well, yes. Though this would be far from the only reason for that lol.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Well, yes. Though this would be far from the only reason for that lol.

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Yeah but it would solve 90% of the problems and suggestions that people post here.

Lower Dual Wield 3 on Dancer from 60 to 45-52 inline with Ninja so it can be obtained as subjob.

Please grant all jobs Dual Wield 0 at level 1 with no delay reduction (or even negative delay reduction) to open up a significant number of subjob options.

Smarter AI from the trusts would be nice. For instance I hate having Sylvie in my party with Koru-Moru because she will cast haste 1 which makes Koru-Moru think it's okay not to overwrite that with haste 2. Another small gripe is Ulmia and Joachim spamming ballad when I am missing 3 MP on DRK when I just want their haste or Koru-Moru refreshing Monberaux. And for a luxury wish list item; a customizable menu that allows you to disable certain abilities on trust npcs so they use the abilities that you want them to. That would make the handful of them that are useful but have a small flaw a little less frustrating to use as well as perhaps open up some more options for some of the ones that are nearly useless because of one or two things they do (or don't do) that spoil what they are good at. And for the love of god let them finish a cure cast if the battle ends before it goes off.

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Originally Posted by Shuramura

Smarter AI from the trusts would be nice. For instance I hate having Sylvie in my party with Koru-Moru because she will cast haste 1 which makes Koru-Moru think it's okay not to overwrite that with haste 2. Another small gripe is Ulmia and Joachim spamming ballad when I am missing 3 MP on DRK when I just want their haste or Koru-Moru refreshing Monberaux. And for a luxury wish list item; a customizable menu that allows you to disable certain abilities on trust npcs so they use the abilities that you want them to. That would make the handful of them that are useful but have a small flaw a little less frustrating to use as well as perhaps open up some more options for some of the ones that are nearly useless because of one or two things they do (or don't do) that spoil what they are good at. And for the love of god let them finish a cure cast if the battle ends before it goes off.

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Trusts are supposed to be a little dumb, I think, to make it more enticing to try to form parties with players instead, but honestly... I don't think Sylvie has Dunna or Idris, Qultada doesn't seem to use Barateria Ring or Regal Necklace, Joachim and Ulmia don't even have a Blurred Harp or a Moonbow Whistle - support trusts are severely kneecapped already just by not having crucial gear, they don't need to be dumb too.

Just being able to set very basic tactics like "don't interrupt my skillchains" and "the corsair needs Haste, not Flurry" would make them a lot less painful to use, in those situations where it's not practical to pack a real party.

(That said, you can avoid Koru-Moru's irritating... everything... by using Arciela instead if you just need Haste II; she'll use it on you regardless of job and will overwrite basic Haste if necessary.)

I agree that they don't need to be dumb on top of their other handicaps. They also do not scale well to higher 119 tiers and don't scale at all with master levels. Having them a little less yell-at-the-screen worthy I think is the last they can do.

Also thanks for the tip about Arciela.

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(That said, you can avoid Koru-Moru's irritating... everything... by using Arciela instead if you just need Haste II; she'll use it on you regardless of job and will overwrite basic Haste if necessary.)

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Originally Posted by Zenion

(That said, you can avoid Koru-Moru's irritating... everything... by using Arciela instead if you just need Haste II; she'll use it on you regardless of job and will overwrite basic Haste if necessary.)

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King of Hearts casts haste2 and refresh2 on the player no matter their job as well.

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Originally Posted by Catmato

King of Hearts casts haste2 and refresh2 on the player no matter their job as well.

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King of Hearts is an AoE risk though. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but I like to avoid those unless I'm letting Valaineral pull everything with Uriel Blade anyway. Nothing like having your trusts suddenly start disappearing because somebody caught an extra three mobs doing something they shouldn't have.

Which is another thing it would be really nice to be able to tell trusts not to do. Haste instead of Flurry, don't interrupt my skillchains, don't use area attacks if they'll hit multiple targets.

You're not wrong, but I don't remember the last time I had a problem with that.

It would be nice if you didn't have to dismount to use certain things in an area that allows mounting.

As an example, the Gates of Halvung or the entrance/exit of staging points.

Please consider giving Ygnas Auspice, they really aren't as good as they should be considering how difficult they are to get.

With the amount of sheet music now available, it would be nice if a new sub category was added for sheet music only under "Key Items" in the menu.

SMN needs AOE attacks.
Feel each Avatar should have an AOE attack.
Am aware Ramuh has one........
A Pet class should not have to wait 45-60 mins to use AOE imo. Unlike BST, SMN isn't much of a melee. Thus, should been the number 1 candidate for AOE pets.

It would be nice to have another way to verify where Voidwalker NMs were instead of /heal. Preferably one that doesn't involve dismounting, which /heal currently requires.

Please remove the gear swap penalty in Conflict. This rule was implemented for PvP to prevent people from making themselves untargetable by repeatedly blinking. But now that we have /lockstyle this rule really isn't necessary anymore and it makes it much more difficult for people to participate.

Would it be possible to let us buy Abyssea NM key items with Cruor? Specifically after we've already beaten the NMs through traditional means, similar to how the Unity NMs work.

At the very least, the lesser NMs, as their KIs usually are a set to pop higher NMs needed for trials/upgrades.