What do you miss from ARR?

That the game didn't just hand you a bunch of treat as tank, you had to work for it.
That we got 3 dungeon each patch.
The raid felt like a raid instead of 4 trials you had to do in the correct order.
The relic weapon was actually useful.
Getting more trials.
Hildebrand being amazing.
Getting more beast tribe.

I guess the short version would be to say: I miss getting more content each patch, and I miss that tanks were fun and interesting to play.

I miss cross class skills.

Cleric stance and the general juggling involved in balancing healing and dpsing with a side dish of MP and enmity management.
I even miss those "shit shit shit got locked in cleric and my tank is getting torn to shreds oh fuck" moments. I enjoyed the risks many things typical for ARR involved.
The teeny bit of costumization via stats and cross class skills. Finally getting every cross class skill I needed was definitely an achievement for me and felt great. Doing dungeons in unsual comps when no tank was available but you really wanted to get on with the story. Titan Egi, you were the real MVP.
Watching Dragoons use Blood for Blood or Black Mages Convert at a really, really bad time and hovering over Swiftcast because everyone knew how this would end.

I miss tedious main story quests.

I miss the pre-Log in movie! I wish I could set that as my default.

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Originally Posted by Edax

I guess I miss the semi-realistic armor. A lot of the AAR gear had a sensible design while most of the expansion stuff have gone off the deep end. I know it's "Final Fantasy" but still, real looking armor can be cool.

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A shame ARR had to end with giving us the emblematic opposite of sensible design (at least for most jobs) in the Ironworks sets (and their future reiterations)... Granted, the caster set was decent enough.

Cross-class skills. I mean, while they kinda forced you to level up classes/jobs you may hate, It was nice how you were making your jobs stronger the more arts you decided to learn. It was also awesome how Heavensward didnt remove any skill, but add more. I also miss having to actually care about enmity generation

only thing I really miss is the raids were more then just boss rooms. Do not like how they just turned into instance boss fights.

My friends. :3 We used to get up to some stupid things back when the game was new and everyone was having fun together. Over the years just about all moved on, and I feel like I'm in a far different place where finding that type of a group again just isn't going to happen.

I miss Minfilia more than anything else. I still pop into the Solar in the Rising Stones every now and then, half-expecting her to be there again.