What would you take from FFXIV and put into FFXI?

[Alhanelem]

3) Better crafting systemNo, not in the slightest. Crafting should not be a mini game.

So you'd rather just sit there and watch a crystal spin for 10 seconds. OK, Frankly I think the one really good thing in XIV is the crafting system. It makes you feel like you actually have control over the output instead of it just being totally up to chance.

Outside of that-
an action bar would be nice, and thusly having the 0-9 keys along with the ctrl and alt 0-9 combos to activate abilities and macros.

Better mouse controls that are actually useful

Faster HP/MP recovery out of combat

Voiceovers for major cutscenes.

The only major beef I have with FFXIV in its current state is a staggering lack of content. There are so many things that should be added by now that are still missing e.g. chocobos, last update added non-storyline quests but there are not enough of them.