[DEVS] Wishlist for 2016

New Grand Company Content
- A ton of quests that tell a story behind FATEs across Eorzea.
- A Conquest system, even if it just shows which nation has the most influence in a region.
- Return of Behest to public areas.

Battle Content
- New Treasure Maps added and to be introduced to lower levels.
- Boost up Experience Chains in public areas for all levels.
- Open Dungeons with rulesets.
- Introduction of Besieged that allows the playerbase to build a war camp (like housing), to fend off avasions from monster armies. (Drop PS3 Support for this).

Other
- New additional Guilds (Treasure Hunter's Guild, Star Onion Brigade).
- New quests that tell awesome stories, like Hildibrand.
- Introduction of Blue Mage and Beastmaster job quests.

I'd like the ability to Vote Continue. Have you ever had a really good Duty Finder group and just wanted to keep on partying? Well, I think it would be awesome if there were a way to choose to run the same dungeon/raid again, choose another dungeon, or choose to queue as preformed party with the group your were grouped with via Duty Finder.

More Grand Company Ranks/Content/Rewards....C'mon it's been almost 3 years! I'm ready to rank up again.

Anti-RMT options (such as right click - report)

Token rewards that will allow us to purchase drops from chests in dungeons. Please place these tokens in the "Currency" tab. After someone runs a dungeon 20 times trying to get one piece of gear and it either never drops or they get out rolled, I feel that they've put in the work and deserve whatever it is that they are after.

The ability to queue with Choco summoned!!! (How long have we been asking for this?)

The ability to summon one of our retainers to fight along side us like our Chocobo companions. (We equip them with good gear and for what purpose? So they can hang out on the beach and grab us a malm kelp or steal someone's roof!?)

Looping overworld music, and the ability to use an option in the menu that allows us to turn off FATE music if we don't wish to have overworld/mount music interrupted by annoying FATE music if we happen to be passing by an area in which a FATE is up or happens to spawn as we're passing through.

All the suggestions that were made by Erik! Implement all the things!

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Originally Posted by MugenMugetsu

The ability to summon one of our retainers to fight along side us like our Chocobo companions. (We equip them with good gear and for what purpose? So they can hang out on the beach and grab us a malm kelp or steal someone's roof!?)

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The thing is, retainers have always been stated as being somewhat useless at adventuring - this fact was all but screamed at you the moment you actually hired one back in 1.0 in that their only saving grace is they don't mind doing the extremely dull odd jobs adventurers hate to do (such as selling items at the market):

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Originally Posted by version 1.0 npc Gyles

Gyles: "Retainers are men and women who offer their services in exchange for coin."
Gyles: "Though they're seldom as sharp as adventurers like yourself, they're no strangers to life's more menial tasks. Tasks which you lot might not think worth your time."

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Personally given the fact retainers have all but shown just how useless they are at actual adventuring (read: ventures), I'd much rather SE bring back the Path Companions, as at least they were actual adventurers who could hold their own in a fight (they even had the Echo!) and weren't just some 'gopher playing hero' like our retainers are doing now. ;)

AI RETAINERS IN BATTLE

- Allow us so train our retainers and/or alternates characters and have them join our parties so we can enter duties alone, see it as Final Fantasy XIII support characters but with retainers and/or alternate characters instead!.

I definitely would love to have my retainers and/or alts join my adventures and accompany me everywhere I decided to go!.

IMMEDIATE SWITCH TO ALTERNATE CHARACTERS

- I created my alternate characters after my retainers and I treat them as the same so it would be really great if you allowed us to switch quickly between characters without having to log out first, this way we could do much more and I would definitely have way more fun!.

Another way of seeing it would be merging my retainers and my alternate characters, optionally of course, so I wouldn't feel as alone in my house when not in a duty or something else, don't see it as a superfluous thing because it could have enormous potential if done well!.

just 1 word

FUN

<can i have it?> <yes , please> </poke> SE <please, listen>

There's a ton I've been thinkin' should be added, but I'll try to keep it short:

-More emotes Too many times I've wanted to portray an emotion, or do something that just currently can't be done. Here's a few suggestions:
/liedown (lasting) /yawn (without dozing)
/sleep (lasting) /punch (light punch on the arm, like in jest, or a "whoa hey now!" kind of thing)
/brushoff /waveoff
/wall (lean on a wall, all chill like...) /kiss (on the cheek, o' course...or somethin' like that)
/snuggle /workout
/bringit (You know - Bring it!) /sing or /hum
/facepalm
Also, more lasting emotes in the vain of /hildy , like /pensive or /headstand or the like would be nice. This list is NOT exhaustive by the way, I could keep going...MORE EMOTES PLEASE! And more dances is always good.

-Fix Gold Saucer, PLEASE! There's plenty of threads on this already, I don't need to go crazy, but this needs to happen. Fix both tourney's (no more exploitation!), fix Chocobo Racing (make it worth peoples time/more fun!), and on a positive note...ADD BLITZ BALL. You know you want to...

-PvP needs more variety Again, lots o' threads on this, but Wolves' Den is kind of a poo shoot, and Frontlines, whilst fun, is kind of for hardcore only at this point. Some people have suggested some awesome ideas on this thread already. Besieged does sound amazing...

-More GC content/unlocked ranks

-Give me control of an airship! An instanced area like Diadem, perhaps, or even like the residential areas, 'cept in the sky, and we have control...just something! I'm one of those weirdos who miss climbing on board an airship and chillin' in FFXI...I need more.

-Expand furniture capacity for residences Our fc Mansion has huge empty spaces and yet...WE'RE ALMOST AT FULL FURNITURE CAPACITY?! Fuel our creative side. Give us some room to design...

-I second adding playable content to residential areas/residences Perhaps even some social mini-games? I'd be down...

-Fix mount animations This one's kind of a sidebar, but...have you seen the Behemoth mount try to walk lately? It's...not right...

-My Job wishlist: -Red Mage (possibly with Mystic Knight mechanics..?)
-Geomancer (terrain based abilities a must)
-Samurai
-Blue Mage (yes, make me hunt for those blue spells...)
-Beastmaster (catchable pets a must; stored/consumable mob abilities a must)
-Dancer
-Gambler

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IMMEDIATE SWITCH TO ALTERNATE CHARACTERS

- I created my alternate characters after my retainers and I treat them as the same so it would be really great if you allowed us to switch quickly between characters without having to log out first, this way we could do much more and I would definitely have way more fun!..

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I also second this. Perhaps allowing us to mail items between our characters too? Maybe?

I would still want to be able to use any skill macro without having it be dim from being in the wrong job please

Savage versions of the current primals thus far (may be better off save for 4.0)

Magenta Dyes

Indigo Dyes

Mogmail quests centered on the NPCs at Zenith (specifically Verdolfnir)

An achievement related to Mobs named for Stars (Dubhe, Rastaban, Thuban, Etamin, etc)

Adding Fey Glow and Fey Light to the Macro-icon default list in addition to the related change

Mount that plays A Light in the Storm

Mount that plays Bismarck's theme

A Blue Mage job that has access to White Wind as well as certain mob abilities like Luminsphere, Luminous Lancelet, Bad Breath, The Chimera's attacks, etc.

Nontroll answer: Enhanced Retainer interface, ACTUAL ARMORY COMPENDIUM GLAMOUR ENCYCLOPEDIA GEARLIST WARDROBE SYSTEM FULLY FUNCTIONAL TO FREE INVENTORY SPACE, JUST GO AND COPYPASTE FROM GW2 IF YOU WANT I DONT CARE BUT HAVING GLAMOUR TO USE INVENTORY SLOTS IS NOT OK, Housing item limit upgrades, mirror function and dye preview.

Troll answer: End of Seventh Umbral Era Trailers, New Dev Team and 4.0 relaunch anouncement.

-complete revamp housing...yup

-mail to alts

-df+chocobo

-wont get into job changes (too many :p )

-hot pink metallic dye

-ability to dye ENTIRE piece of gear

-less frumpy clownish gear

-zone with seasons

-waist length hairstyles

-relic that lasts years (sometimes its the best...other times it falls behind, just keep it going)

-more gc ranks

-increase in fc chest

-perks added to specialists (combat perks /dol/glamour/mounts if specialized only, a wide range ,not just a recipes to try and break other ppl)

-copy besieged (yeah I used to like that lol)

- quick synth that is actually quick (not just auto)

much more but others are gonna mention them anyway :)

Oh I forgot to mention another wish which I've been thinking about a lot lately (eventhough it might be impossible to implement, sadly)

The ability to be able to switch your race according to the job you're playing. It could work the same as changing jobs (instant)

For example: I main SMN and AST. And I'm a Miqo'te. But I wish to be a Highlander whenever I switch my job to Ninja.


I know it's wishful thinking but it would be neat for those that like more than 1 race, and don't like to do the same grind on their alts, just because the race is different.

More varied statistics on gear. Give us Job/Class-specific stuff as well on gear, whether through set bonuses or something like the "Mastery" stat from WoW (that did something different for each class and specialization). Four stats is just not enough for interesting gear variety. Sadly, something like this probably wouldn't make it into the 3.x era (so not in 2016).

More eastern (MNK/SAM/NIN) armor! I'd especially love to see upscaled versions of some FFXI sets (as they did with Ares and Koenig for the Wootz armor sets), most especially the Arhat's set and the Usukane set.

-This, or something close to it, since I'm really tired of gear in this game being extremely boring. You can play around with the secondary stats somewhat, but that has such a marginal effect...

-A Merit style system. Linked to the above somewhat, I guess... The developers concern with both is that new players would be left behind and have to grind up, but I find that to be very stupid and shortsighted... The resulting game we have, where progress is essentially reset every ~6 months, is incredibly shallow. Being new and having something to work towards isn't a bad thing, if it were you wouldn't be giving us a second Relic weapon quest, because the Relics are guilty of this exact problem, and despite complaints Relics are still one of the more popular pieces of content in this game... Slap a use for EXPing post-60 and I'm a lot more tolerant of things like Atma grinds... Grinding FATEs for Atma and nothing else? Sucks. Grinding FATEs for EXP and Atma? An improvement.

-Speaking of Atma, remove the RNG... Still have a chance to get a full drop per FATE, but have a currency drop which can be exchanged for the drop. The problem people have with Atma is that it's purely RNG, you can make absolutely no progress in a day. If a currency drops, and 100 of those = 1 Atma? Then you're making progress no matter what, and the RNG is more of a lucky reward, rather than the communities number one enemy.

-Speaking of currencies... You're killing my inventory, please start slapping these things in Key Items or something... I've got the four unidentifiable items, four beast tribe currencies (which you could add two more to, and a third come Gnath dailies...), Red and Blue Gathering and Crafting tokens (+four), Brass and Steel Sky Pirate Spoils... The list goes on, lets not dare add Fishing Tackles to the list... It's ridiculous, do something about it...

-Speaking of inventory... The Glamour system is terrible. There is no reason I should have to hold onto gear the way I do (two whole Retainers dedicated to the task!), more so since there is no use for the stuff once I've got a superior item level (could fix that with my first point though). Let me shove everything in the Inn Room Armoire Chest, and let me directly Glamour items from it, without having to remove them. Then, then you need to fix the Glamour Prisms, because they're the biggest waste of space in this game... Why do we need so many types? Work them exactly like Dark Matter and Repairs. Do you know why self Repairs work? It's because I only need the craft leveled. It's because I can carry a single stack of Grade 6 Dark Matter, and that can repair everything. If I wanted to Glamour on the fly (why wouldn't I? I just got in Coerthas, its cold, let me Glamour a winter coat. Now I'm at Costa de Sol, let me Glamour some swimming gear), I'd have to carry not only the gear, but potentially 35 different varieties of Glamour Prism. It's stupid. Like I said, work it like self Repairs; Grade 5 OmniPrism as a cure-all for all your Glamour needs.

-Workshops to be reworked and expanded upon. Remove the Light Party requirement, it's stupid and achieves nothing, I just end up wasting three other peoples time. Instead, have it so multiple projects can be worked on at the same time, but different members. So member 1 might be making one thing, and member 2 another, and they can contribute to each others projects (for an EXP reward, obviously, although EXP means nothing to some of us...) if they want. That's a much better system. Only problem with that, is that there really aren't any Workshop Recipes that work for that, which is why the Sky Pirate stuff? That should have been made in the Workshop, rather than Specialist Recipes.

-Speaking of Specialists... I'm actually reasonably OK with Specialist Recipes, though the balancing is atrocious currently. That said, Specialist Recipes do nothing to address the real issue with Specialists; Specialist Skills are rubbish. The idea was that Specialists would let one level just Weaver and not suffer for not having the other crafts cross-class skills, was it not? Specialist Skills really do not achieve this... They need a serious revamp, and while we're at it, make Specialist Recipes more forgiving. Like I said, I'm OK with with them, but it seems to me that it would have made more sense to give Specialist Recipes and high Craftsmanship/Control requirement, that would require the absolute best gear, while Specialists themselves gain an innate boost to Craftsmanship/Control (maybe CP too?). Then you have a situation where Omnicrafting is still possible, it just requires a massive amount of work, Specialists have the advantage at the start, but over time everyone can access the recipes by upgrading their gear.

-Hunts... Add force popped versions already... Make them effectively endgame Levequests (which were locked to the party that started it, so the whole server can't join in), so the whole thing can feel more like an actual hunt. Keep the existing open world zerg-trash in place, perhaps have the Levequest ones require a small Hunt Seal cost to get started, but I'm sick of Hunts being content I can't enjoy... I want to go kill a Hunt and actually fight it, this purely open world system has just resulted in a zerg (which I wont take part in) and plenty of drama...

-Diadem... Well, I'm going to suggest force pops again... Zergs suck, plain and simple, but that's the least of Diadems problems, the way Gathering was handled, the way enemies were... All of it, very disappointing... Gathers just go off and do their own thing, enemies are just bullet sponges... Solution? Gathering spawns more stuff. I mentioned force spawns? Well, there you go, have some of the pop items obtained by Gathering. Those treasure chests Gatherers can (rarely) find? Change them completely. Instead of trash materials in them, give us temporary items (similar to Besieged in XI, basically they're powerful potions/etc. just there for the event and vanish when you leave). The white crystals in Diadem were pathetic, but temporary items? That could work. You have Gatherers finding these chests, getting everyone some items to speed up combat, no more need for the whole zone to come together to speed things up. No more desire to kick Gatherers, because they're actually making a meaningful contribution now. As for the force pops... Go look at XIs Zeni NM system, and work something like that into Diadem. Have the pop items be temporary items and you've got a solid objective in Diadem; Obtain pop items and work up the hierarchy to Pandemonium Warder, before the timer runs out.

-Beast Tribes, I like Beast Tribe quests, even the FATE ones (though the apparent plans to speed those up is still welcome). The addition of currency to their quest rewards? Love it. That said, I'm still disappointed that the zones are a shadow of their former self... Castrums too, for that matter... Bring back the open world dungeon feel of the areas... No need to NMs and all that mess, we have FATEs for that nowadays. No, what I mean is bring back the Treasure Coffers and Keys. How about something similar to Diadem? Truly open world, but balanced more like a dungeon, one for each of the Beast Tribes, main focus being obtaining keys and looking for Coffers to open. Similar rewards to Diadem, you get some crappy gear you can trade in for the Beast Tribe currency, or perhaps something you want to keep and use. The back of Zahar'ak has been mocking me for years now, two gates that wont budge, one seemingly leading to that tower... Lets finally make use of those?

Changes for 2016;

• More than 200 characters in a Moogle Mail
• FC master/officer ability to moogle mail all FC members
• Change housing to enforce 1 personal estate per account (as well as one FC estate to accommodate FC masters), per server.
• Relinquished land should go into an auction process with a reserve, if it fails to meet it's reserve it goes ip for sale as normal
• Secondary stats that are wortha damn
• Primary stats more complex than every melee stack strength.
• Resistance to status effects that works
• Status attecks that atcually affect enemies - eg Pacification from Shield Swipe must be really weak sauce since nothing taller than and Aldgoat seems to even notice it.
• Shield given back to CNK/WHM/THM/BLM, after level 50.
• Glamour 1H weapons over 2H weapons
• More face, nose, chin, eye and lip options in character creator.
• More range on 'chest size' slider and change this to a 'proportion' slider with imact on chest, waist andhips/booty, within the limits the gear models will allow.
• Proportion slider for males functions similarly to alter physique emphasizing/de-emphasizing masculine physicality, again withing the limits of the gear models.
• Miqo'te need a bob-tail option.
• highlanders need a couple more attractive faces for male and female
• Eyebrows for all...
• Lalafell with an option to be more lanky, or stout allowing for slightly taller, more proportioned lalas.
• higher allowance for outdoor and indoor furniture
• A 'break' and stagger system for large enemies where we can attack specific target points, like knees, and if sufficient damage is done the enemy is incapacitated for a few moments during which you have the chance to 'break' the enemy for a bonus, rare drop.
• Extended versions of existing dungeons with much harder bonus sections With bosses that require good gear, good skill and some strategy to beat.
• Add some element orprocedural generationto dungeons to make each dungeon run be a little different from the rest.
• Horizontal gear progression
• Slower vertical progression
• Raids that are hard, but not savagely so for players that want more difficulty than normal mode,but do not want the exercise in frustration that Savage brings. KeepSavage for those who want that challenge.
• Raid drops for 'normal' should be 10 ilvls below the mid-core harder version. Raid drols from the middle tier difficult should be 5 ilvls below the savage drops.
• To further separate raid drops make savage tier gear dyable, make the mid and low tier upgradeable for dying, with upgrade items added to themid-core versions during the catch up patch.
• More inventory and/or add an additional free retainer with each additional city state.

Individual limit breaks to replace the current LB system. Everyone gets two LB options.

Tank: Single target heavy damage or AOE damage reduction
Melee DPS: Single target heavy damage, AOE moderate damage
Ranged DPS: Single target moderate damage, AOE heavy damage
Healers: AOE Raid Buff (different for each healer), Full Ress (no weakness)

Ah, I forgot...

-Dungeon play-style queues Some people want to run through a dungeon in five minutes. Others want to explore. Some <gasp> actually want to watch cutscenes, at the very least the first time they run it...

My solution is simple. Story-mode, Exploration-mode queues. Speed runners can keep the current one. If not this solution, than something. Praetorium was obviously intended to be explored and enjoyed, yet it's pretty much a marathon now. Good luck enjoying the story as it was intended... Hard mode dungeons aren't much better. People are impatient; let them play together, and let everyone else enjoy the game to their hearts content.

-I second expanded inventory I do miss being able to buy backpacks/pouches in WoW, something to that effect would go a long way... The Armoury Chest could use an upgrade as well, what with the new jobs we just got/are going to get in the future. Also, I understand SE is trying to make a bit of side money with pay-to-use additional retainers, but a third (free) retainer per character would go a long way. Also, the lame factor would be less.

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Ah, I forgot...

-Dungeon play-style queues Some people want to run through a dungeon in five minutes. Others want to explore. Some <gasp> actually want to watch cutscenes, at the very least the first time they run it...

My solution is simple. Story-mode, Exploration-mode queues. Speed runners can keep the current one. If not this solution, than something. Praetorium was obviously intended to be explored and enjoyed, yet it's pretty much a marathon now. Good luck enjoying the story as it was intended... Hard mode dungeons aren't much better. People are impatient; let them play together, and let everyone else enjoy the game to their hearts content.

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They were not made to be explored. Why cater to bad dungeon design?

You gain nothing by stopping.

If you like doing it a certain way, you should make a group for it honestly.

Thought of one. If you start to cast Holy then cancel the spell your staff's top glows for a moment. Do that as a mage perpetual emote. Glowing staff to light the way in dungeons. Classic D&D image.

My wishlist is this:

1. Housing: Keep your promise to make personal housing separate and more affordable than fc housing. Or failing that, allow us to purchase expansions for our personal rooms that includes item limit increases.

2. Remove cast timers from Bard. Percentage-wise we are still in the same place as 2.0 compared to the other dps jobs while losing one of the traits that made the job unique. There are other ways to do something similar with Wanderer's Minuet, for instance a stacking buff the longer you remain in one position. It adds a new layer of strategy, yet doesn't look like a copy/paste of another job's ability.

3. Keep the 1.0 promise and give us Musketeer. Many of us have waited too long as it's been passed over in favor of Arcanist, Ninja, and now the new Heavensward jobs.


In closing, most of my wishlist is simply keep your promises, Yoshida, because I'm nearly ready to quit because you and SE are failing or outright refusing to keep them.

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Originally Posted by trigun43207

I say tattoos that can be glamour to the accessories slots depending on where you want them... make it a company reward, veteran reward, sale it in the mog station whatever.

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omg yes totally forgot that unisex tattoo's for our characters that we buy through mog store gold saucer which ever then go see the hairstylist to add them to our character like when changing hair and stuff

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

They were not made to be explored. Why cater to bad dungeon design?

You gain nothing by stopping.

If you like doing it a certain way, you should make a group for it honestly.

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I would be snarky about your "not made to be explored" comment...until I think about it. I imagine they were not specifically made to *not* be explored, but in the end the dungeons are *awfully* linear to a one. So I'll give you that point, I should have said "full-run mode"...

But do you honestly want to seek out and form a party EVERY time you want to go into a dungeon, and therefore expect others to? Sure, let's encourage SE to make gameplay decisions to LIMIT play styles! Heck, let's have 'em remove dungeon queue altogether! Is THAT what you meant?! -_-

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I would be snarky about your "not made to be explored" comment...until I think about it. I imagine they were not specifically made to *not* be explored...

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They use to have dungeons where you had different routes you could take, each leading to a certain boss within a time frame. Each boss having a different drop. Dungeons that had paths specifically for quests (AF). I think they were made to be seen and explored to an extent. The dungeons are just so beautiful.

While that doesn't completely solve the problem, I think having that back mixed with removing so much trash in between mini-bosses with the option to extend the time limit to explore and take on all 3 parts would be fun. Though the downside is now you got people who will want to do everything and those who want to just get it done. Wow when you think about it, it really is hard to please everyone isn't it...

Real dual wielding...

Failing that, can we at least have Monk/Bard/Ninja weapons differ a bit? Bard always pulls out the same harp, why not have the harp model based on current weapon? Monk and Ninja "dual wield" the same weapon... Would be interesting to see say, Ninja with Kannagi in one hand, and Yukimitsu in the other...

But yeah, really, give us proper dual wielding instead... Take some stats off of Bards bows, and slap them on Harps, half the stats on fists/daggers and let us equip two... Christ, last I checked Ninja doesn't even deal two auto-attacks... How is this dual wielding?! Don't tell me it's impossible, Paladin gets a sword and shield... Shields even get their own little block stat, you could easily have Harps boost songs somewhat... As an extra bonus it would mean you wouldn't need to keep making ridiculous bow-harps, because a harp would actually be its own thing...

Oh, and looking at old concept art... Bard was going to get flutes and drums? What the hell happened... Could easily make that similar to shields... Harps = faster songs, drums = stronger songs, flute = cheaper, or something like that, similar to shields block rate/strength/etc.

This would be my list:

1. Major Diadem improvements to focus on exploration rather than mindless pinata-smacking (it seems they're working on it, which is a plus to me!)

2. Extreme Dungeons (4-man content) please!! ;;

3. /liedown or /playdead emote, and more glamour items (you can never have too much, really).

My one and only wish:

Make relics actually worth something in the end. They are not worth 18 "crystals" farmed from FATEs in HW areas.

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<There were> dungeons <that> had different routes you could take, each leading to a certain boss ... I think they were made to be ... explored to an extent.
While that doesn't completely solve the problem, I think having that back mixed with removing so much trash in between mini-bosses ... would be fun. Though the downside is now you got people who will want to do everything and those who want to just get it done. Wow when you think about it, it really is hard to please everyone isn't it...

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Yeah, SE's got their work cut out. That's why I thought having more options would work somewhat. Nothing's going to be perfect, but trying to fix glaring holes is not something I think we should downplay or give up on. Introducing a variety of dungeons would be cool, but like you said the impatient people will still mess with stuff. Which is why I think providing queues based off of expectations could work; or at least something like that, it was just an idea...

Ok, content..... break the class/job system.

Break? Why yes, break it. Take the classes and turn some of them into new jobs and take others and melt them into their jobs. Add some new skulls to mix it up. I\\'m not going to list every class/job but here are a few examples... oh and also to get the old jobs would be the same as always gld@30 + coj@15 = pld, but with more in the vain of jobs to advance jobs like in ffxi..... anyway....

GLD
Tank
Duel One-Handed swords (see guild symbol)
*core skills shared with paladin, shield skills passed to pld, new skills based on the rage skills of the Flame General replaces shield skills, post-30 has to be raised seperatly from pld.

Doing this would add some level of variety while maintaining the basic skills. Not all classes would make the cut, but it would be interesting assuming the old classes get stat boosts to be on par with the jobs. And a good way to add weapon types that would be difficult to add, such as a greataxe warrior and a duel one handed axes wielding mauradur. And in effect basically add up to 10 new jobs over night.

I'm just going to put my mundane things here, because I'm not going to go on a tangent about the core mechanics I feel need fixing.

I definitely want more fleshed out GCs. They haven't been updated at all and really should be.

Ascian minion. Lahabrea minion. Elidibus minion. I don't care, give me one. Please. I beg you.

More TT cards and the ability to use more than 1 rank 4 or 5. Like maybe 1 Rank 4 and 1 rank 5, or two Rank 4s or something when you hit 100 cards.

Graniteskin. Give it back.

While maybe not for 2016, TERA did something I felt was extremely nice in that they lowered the stat requirements and basically revamped entire old end-game story dungeons that no one ran anymore because they were irrelevant, eg turning them from 6 players to 3 - or 4, in XIV's case. This could work well for the future with Coil and, a year or two down the road, old Alex areas.

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Ok, content..... break the class/job system.

... Why yes, break it. Take the classes and turn some of them into new jobs and take others and melt them into their jobs. Add some new skulls to mix it up. ...
Doing this would add some level of variety while maintaining the basic skills. Not all classes would make the cut, but it would be interesting assuming the old classes get stat boosts to be on par with the jobs. And a good way to add weapon types that would be difficult to add... And in effect basically add up to 10 new jobs over night.

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I hate knockin' people, and everything you've suggested so far in this thread I /thumbsup , but this one...they would literally have to remake the game to accomodate it. And to be honest...a lot of people would not be okay with it. It sounds like a great system, just not for XIV. Maybe down the road, for the next SE MMO...they do need to implement horizontal progression, though. Customization of some sort.

See, I disagree here, I think the Armoury System at it's base is perfectly fine, the problem is you have the large amount of players from FFXI expecting the more traditional Job system, and thus demanded that the Armoury System, which is based around the proficiency and skill in the use of a certain weapon be changed accordingly to a pseudo-Job system. Thus SE have been tinkering with the Armoury System, experimenting with changes to it which seem fine on paper but which don't quite work well in practice (first they tried having multiple Jobs branching off the one class with ACN splitting into SMN and SCH, and well, we know how that turned out. Next they tried with Heavensward having 'extra Jobs' that have no base class and literally start at level 30 - naturally this resulted in players having to get used to new classes immediately that normally would have taken time to get experience with. This too has arguably been less than satisfactory.).

Hence, in my ideal world, SE would just go back to the beginning and scrap these experiments, split SCH from ACN and give it it's own base class (Mediator?), and create base classes for AST, DRK and MCH (as an idea, Mystic, Ravager and Musketeer respectively?), and bring some consistency to the Armoury System. But I digress...

Getting back on track, my wishlist is pretty much just what I've been longing for since ARR's launch - the restoration of certain 1.0 elements and ideas that were lost in the change to ARR:

The Path Companions returning to compliment chocobo companions
The missing 1.0 music tracks returning like Navigator's Glory and Piece of Mind
An option to change the UI's graphic style and font to 1.0's interface style (only without that stupid slide out menu)
The missing 1.0 maps like the West Shroud, the rest of Coerthas, the southern half of Mor Dhona, and the missing 1.0 open dungeons like the Mun-Tuy Cellars and the Nanawa Mines

Apart from that, I would love to also see:

Trains added as a form of transport in and out of Ul'dah into Thanalan like how the ferries work in Limsa and Gridania
FATEs altered slightly in that you are asked if you would actually like to join (like how Campaign Battles in FFXI work) instead of automatically including you in it if you happen to pass through it regardless of whether or not you actually want to participate
More FFXI-themed armour returning (my personal choices are the Eisen tank set and the Novenial dress) :D

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See, I disagree here, I think the Armoury System at it's base is perfectly fine, the problem is you have the large amount of players from FFXI expecting the more traditional Job system, and thus demanded that the Armoury System, which is based around the proficiency and skill in the use of a certain weapon be changed accordingly.

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I agree whole heartedly with your post. The Armory System sounded great, basing jobs on combinations of weapon based classes works well in my opinion. I'm not sure that arcanist blending into two jobs was a big mistake though, the mistake was allowing levelling SCH to simultaneously level SMN. The HW jobs starting at 40 was a mistake as you say, it makes it very much more difficult to get into these jobs effectively since the just kind of pop into existence from nothing. I'd very much like it if they could find their way back to the Armory System, and use the classes to build weapon proficiency, and class combination to formulate new jobs which then develope independently of their associated classes.

For the love of GOD, please do something about the housing situation. I am one of the ones that /still/ does not have a house despite playing this damn game for a ridiculous amount of time. I have the money, but I don\\'t have the time nor the desire to sit in front of a potentially inactive house (awesome timer system you guys have, as well) to get a feature that should be open to everyone.

Either make instanced housing a thing (real houses, not this apartment shit) with pre-rendered neighborhoods to give it the neighborhood vibe and people can zone to your house if they are in your party and you are the leader OR have the server automatically open up a new ward when wards are 90-95% full. With that system, it keeps dead servers\\' wards low so it saves resources and you can divert resources/server space to the servers that need it. Really tired of dumping money into this shitheap only to get denied a feature due to "server limitations." Time to upgrade your Pentium IIs.

I think the original 1.0 Armory System would have been met with less resistance if the classes had been traditional Final Fantasy ones. But they had a design ethos that everything had to be different from FFXI originally, which led them to design classes that didn't "feel" like Final Fantasy.

I think the system we have now works well enough, but my compulsive need for...uh, I guess, symmetry, makes certain aspects of it drive me batty. I think we need more jobs branching off of base classes, just so SCH/SMN aren't the only one. As mentioned a few posts back, a dual wielding, DPS-based, branch off of Gladiator would be great, using Raubahn's fighting style for inspiration. I've always thought MRD should have had a DPS component as well (with Ravager or Berserker being the most likely suspects from other Job-system games), though that's rather unlikely to ever happen now that WAR itself has such viable DPS options (and it's probably unnecessary for the same reason).

I would also like to see THF and/or DNC branch off from ROG. I've always loved THF in FF games, and was really hoping to get AF for it when they started talking about a dagger-based class. They've generally thrown some bones in that direction at least (with the Kirimu set having a very similar style to various THF designs in other FF games). Getting a proper Ranger off of Archer would be great, too.

In a similar vein, the lack of base classes for DRK, AST, and MCH really bothers me. But at least there's not just one of them, so they sort of feel like they have a category all their own.

And I want Musketeer! It bothers me so very much that the guild in Limsa is sitting there unused. >.>;

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Hence, in my ideal world, SE would just go back to the beginning and scrap these experiments, split SCH from ACN and give it it's own base class (Mediator?)

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Really? I think the mistake was making ACN a DPS... Carbuncle was historically more of a healer, no? Certainly more of a support rather than attack dog, at least... The whole Bio/Miasma/Virus set of skills also fits perfectly with SCHs lore in this game, where they were essentially Nymian doctors... The whole sickness based attacks fits perfectly IMO...

I'd rather have seen SMN given its own thing... Split it off completely, slap it behind the MSQ like the Heavensward Jobs. Why? Because then you've beaten all the Primals, and all of them can come as standard rather than worrying about all this fluff like Egi-Glamours... Revamp the entire Job to work similar to how Bahamut works, with both elemental wheels for the main six Primals (Fire>Ice>Wind and Earth>Lightning>Water). So you build Inferno and Tremor stacks at the same time, bust out Ifrit, you've then spent your fire stacks so wind (Garuda/Vortex) stacks take over and you can do the same for Titan, all the while building up for Bahamut. My biggest gripe with SMN is that you summon a pet once, then maybe again when it dies... Heck, my biggest gripe with the Job in past titles is that the old summons eventually got replaced... Make them all part of the Jobs rotation and you have a Job worthy of the name IMO.

Then just slap much of the old concept for SMN onto RDM. DPS with a heal and raise? It's RDM, makes sense. Sword and magic? Apply DoTs with magic. Apply Fester with sword. Would make for an interesting magic fencer style Job...

All that said, I still want Musketeer > Scholar to be true...

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Oh, that reminds me;

Revamp the Companion system. Step 1, Gambit System. Step 2, more than just Chocobos. Chocobos can be the customization option, other companions? Copy FFXI and just give us a bunch of story relevant NPCs... I think starting with many of the forgotten Class Guild NPCs would be nice... Few of the Job ones, assuming plot hasn't gotten in the way... Imagine having Fray at your side instead of a Chocobo that spams Medica instead of healing you properly? Well, the Gambit system would sort that out anyway, but still, Fray > Chocobo.

My wish list:

Fix PVE endgame:
ATM is really boring; just grind 2 dungeons and doing weekly VoidArk for the 99% and 4 Floors of As for the 1%. Playing since launch is really odd since HW. All intent of new content have been a fail lately (Diadem – LoV- Choco Race) no one doing those things and no actual reason to do it... or they just suck like Diadem mindless skill spam.
Then SE throws us a bone (like Relic) to force us to spam old content over and over again….

Fix FCs content:
Be in a guild in this game is less beneficial compare to several others MMO, FCs buff sucks, no guild content at all (like GW2 quest), carfting facilities sucks, Workshop is just a money sink and brings crap.

Fix housing:
Housing suck. Nothing to do, besides decoration. Gartering is irrelevant and most of the seeds are just cheap crap. No real reason to have a house besides waste money. No reason to go to other ppl houses. Take Archerage and Aion as examples of housing.

Fix PVP:
40-60 min queues? Farm the same BG over and over for 5000 times to get the rank to buy already obsolete gear? PVP just a zerg fest? … pvp suck. Make all BGs worth it and PVP progression a real option to gear a char. Make BGs smaller, lets us actually be able to make a difference during every fight and not just follow the zerg and spam things. Let casters (and now BRD-MCh) cast without interruption or add the “concentration” stat to reduce the chance to be interrupt… so many thing wrong with pvp.

Fix BRD-MCh:
I want my archer to be an archer not a caster with DoTs…. I even get interrupt lite mages… wth?

Fix SMN:
SMN is a joke here…. Just a nuker with an ugly thing following u. I want my SMN to own/control amazing egis and actually be his main source of dps.
MidCore content:
Where is it? Everything is a faceroll or a HUGE wall.

EVERYTHING on DF:
If I want to wipe 5000000000 times that’s MY PROBLEM. Stop forcing ppl to make statics or premade full parties. In low population servers like Goblin that’s a HUGE wall for us to try stuff. Waiting 60 min in PF to find ppl suck. Change raiding loot system.

Fix tanking:
Make tanking about… be a tank, mitigate dmg, not just another DPS holding agro during 99% of the fights

Fix crafting:
Crafting should be a way to make money and gear up for pvp/pvp not just a waste of money. Every crafting job should be able to do useful/ rewarding things by itself.

Fix the inventory system:
For a game where glamour is a daily thing we have TERRIBLE inventory system. Make something like GW2.

Fix... events

Design actual events and not just 30 min seasonal quests. Events should be a way to take us away from routine for an extended period. STOP being lazy! Add USEFULL stuff as event rewards (mounts, crafting mats -after fixing crafting-… experience tomes/ food, special choco food, minions, great FC food, cards) and not just glamour things for the fanboys/ whiter knights.

Fix Triple Triad

Lets us play Triple Triad/ LoV Everywhere and be able to watch other ppl matches. Rework / add more variety of achievements/ weekly achievements. Add/ rework complex rules to make it easier to get for newbie’s. Revamp the tournaments and reduce the amount of matches we need.

My love to all the fanboys / white knights how think everything is GREAT and DeVs need to focus on skins and emotes…. Wish I could be so… positive? (Everything is awesome.. everything is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOog0XS8Qg )

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A wishlist doesn't have to be balanced, does it? Cos I'd really love for Ninja to get more Ninjutsu... Don't need more Mudra, just have Dream within a Dream apply a status effect which changes the effect of the existing ones... I mostly just want Huton to be Utsusemi and Suiton to force Hidden (by creating a dense fog to hide in), maybe Raiton being a self Goad similar to the Spire. Direct damage Doton? A placed trap, which needs to be triggered in Katon? Hyoton could add ice damage to attacks... IDK, I'm one of the few people who wants more skill bloat, because having situational skills makes things like soloing old content a hell of a lot more fun.

Oh, come to think of it...

Give me back Perfect Dodge and make it so Hide actually works again. It doesn't work on anything these days, it's really quite sad... One of my fondest memories on Ninja was using Hide to sneak all the way to the first boss in Darkhold, and activating the door so we didn't have to deal with his AoE. That and sneaking away to get Treasure Chests that would otherwise be skipped. The speed you move at, and the fact that Hidden simply doesn't work anymore, completely destroys that, though... I don't even want complete immunity from detection... Have Ninja able to see enemies line of sight/range of hearing, and have Hide reduce the radius on them. Then sneaking past still requires you to pay attention... I would much rather have a trait that displays enemy LoS/etc. than have All Fours... All Fours does nothing outside PvP, just replace Malmsight with it, since Malmsight doesn't do anything anyway, and give me something useful in PvE... I find sneaking around fun, make Hide worthwhile again, and have dungeons where it is perhaps advantageous to sneak past, grab the objective, then sneak back, and perhaps I wont be calling dungeons in this game pathetically boring, too (the last puzzle we got was in Qarn, what's up with that?).

Thinking it over, I probably like the idea of Hide being useful because it provides options... My biggest complaint with this game is that very rarely are there multiple ways to tackle a piece of content... Dungeons are completely linear, for example... One of the reasons I love the undersized party option, and think it's the greatest thing Heavensward added, is because it lets you attempt old content differently. I'm sure most went into the dungeons unsynced with a full party for optimal speed when it came to that section of the Anima quest, but personally I took it as a challenge to attempt to do the dungeons with as little help as possible, and I had an absolute blast in the process. More options in content would be great, not just "do we have the Ninja sneak off and grab the key for a minute, or do we spend a minute fighting past the enemies?" (the illusion of choice), but which route we take in a dungeon, which bosses we fight... I'd take one dungeon like that, over ten of the dungeons we currently get, TBH...

Make walking dead more noticable than a tiny debuff. I'm dyin over here!
Also, perfect dodge was good, shade shift, its forgettable and what little it blocks doesn't block much.

Quests
Relic quest- please make the reward worth more than a flavor of the month weapon, if stats are too much, find some other thing than it looks pretty and we chuck it for 10% off.


Cutscenes/minigame?
an we have something like qte or options that change what our character does in cutscenes? Not all of us enjoy the whole "stand on the sidelines acting passively" bit. I'd love seeing something like that in game.

Emotes
Cannot go wrong with more expressions and new emotes from what we used in the scenes in HW.