What are you hopeful for in 3.2?

Two stances for Bard?

Harp Stance - Support Stance, stationary, boosts all songs and support skills, harp in hand, harp only animations, songs and party buff skills only.

Bow Stance - DPS Stance, mobile, boosts attack skills, bow in hand (as is the default now), bow only animations, attacks and self buffs only.

All that would be fun.

- Eliminate crafters
- Eliminate Gatherers
- Give us some timed retainers that are crafter specialists
- Give us some timed retainers that are gatherer specialists

(Crafting is a damn time sink for me, don't make it more useful, please. Not everyone can be playing 6h daily for the crafting business. In 2.0 this was something cool and refreshing, nowadays it's just an endless grind with a lot of chores. Especially gathering you feel like if you'd have a job with schedules. )

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

am i the only 1 who still mains as bard and enjoys the changes they made?? i prefer bard the way it is now compared to b4 HW considering minuets can be turned on and off pretty fast we can still be mobile for fights that require alot of dodging o.o

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Minutes can be turned off ya, but it has a cooldown which makes it a dumb thing to turn off as you have to wait even longer to have access to both Empyreal Arrow and Iron Jaws, the two most useful skills in the class. The class needs a rework plain and simple, we don't do the damage of a Black Mage or Summoner, there was no reason to even turn the class into a caster in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Reilyn

Actual content

A high challenge, high reward alternative for gathering relic weapon items, since doing 6+ month old chores again for a weapon that is better than SCH a4s weapon after I've already downed a4s 2 months ago (kick in the teeth much?), but will be outdated in a month isn't making me want to log in to do any of it.

Materia slots in raid gear is nice. I'm sick of wearing my ilvl150 melded jewelry for accuracy in savage (or even in experts). Somehow, I think they'll throw a wrench into my hopes again if diadem healer gear never having accuracy, and fixed relic weapon stats was any indication. Would be nice to not miss when I actually feel like doing damage, you know...

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This game needs an overhaul of its gear progression system, period - for reasons you illustrate. Across 10+ years and too many MMOs to list, I've never - personally - played one that obsolesces its gear as rapidly as FFXIV. "Just finally finished up your current gear set after weeks of grinding on the same content? Well, don't get too attached to it, because a new set is being introduced in the next update. So, you'll get to do it all over again".

Frankly, this game needs a huge injection of creativity and new ideas. The retreading of 2+ year old ideas and systems, with little to no variation, except for what the new tomestone will be called, is really ridiculous at this point.

So, what would I like to see in 3.2 and forward? More imagination and new ideas coming from Yoshi-P and his team, with better thought-out implementations (aka, not another Diadem or LoV scenario).

I'd said it in another thread, but looking at FFXI as an example, with 1 expansion (Aht Urghan) that game got 5 completely new and completely unique, and very fleshed-out systems, with their own rules, settings, rewards, etc. They didn't keep retreading the same systems they'd been using from previous expansion(s). They designed and implemented new ideas and content, giving players more variety and more options. In a MMORPG, more variety and options = A Good Thing.

With the variety and depth of content SE was able to implement in XI, under *far* greater restrictions ("PS2 Limitations" anyone?), I can not believe what we're getting from them in FFXIV is the best they can deliver. No way.


Even just some announcements of new ideas coming from them in future updates would be nice to start with.

Fun, enjoyment, a proper sense of reward and accomplishment.

That's what I want for 3.2 and so forth.

Also...
- Get rid of weekly limits and lockouts !!!
- Stop wanting to control how we should play the game
- Give us more freedom and some horizontal progression
(3 things I know won't happen)

All of the above is what is making me not enjoy the game anymore.
I've always been the type who like to play the game at my pace. I'm somewhat between hardcore and casual. In the sense where I like to take small break whenever I want. Only to catch up by playing hardcore for a while.

But all the limits are making me feel like I need to play enough to get most of the weekly limits. While missing them are making me feel like I'm suddenly left behind with a gap that I can't close until the next set of armors are released. Making the previous set worthless.

It is wishful think but I would love a revamp to Machinist into it becoming closer to what was originally promised being a class that get little special bonuses to the attacks with Ammo used rather than just simple boost chance for 123 combo.

Example:
Split shot - ammo effect: Shattered Armor (debuff) - increase damage taken by 5% for 30 seconds (stacks over Valnurability).

Slug Shot - ammo effect: Wounded Arm (debuff) - decrease enemy's damage by 5% for 10 seconds.

Clean Shot - Ammo effect: Double damage

Lead Shot - Ammo effect: add 50% chance for condition damage effect to hit a 2nd time each condition click.

Hot Shot - Ammo Effect: Burning Wound (condition) - damage over time: 50 potency Duration: 30 seconds

I am hoping for content that does not require doing fates or delivering stuff because NPC at Point A is too lazy to bring it to NPC at Point B, lol
But in all honesty would just like something fresh that gives new life to the game.

The major thing that I want in 3.2, is for them to ensure that with the addition of the new materia system, that it is easy for all the materia to be obtained, only because I dont want it to be another restriction that people will use, that each person must have their gear melded with this many of X,Y,Z materia and this gear needs A,D and B materia...

-good balance for tank clases, nerfs and buff for equal.
-a good change for damage calculator
-parry useful stat
-buff damage for brd-mch
and more glamour ^^

I'd like to see many skills and abilities actually start to serve a real purpose and impact content.

I can count on one hand the number of occasions I've actually "needed" blunt arrow to silence something instead of just spamming it as a dps increase
I can count on one hand the number of occasions I've actually "needed" to Stun something instead of just spam it as a dps increase
I can count on one hand the number of occasions I've actually "needed" to pacify something instead of spam it as a dps increase.

I can probably also count on one hand the number of times I've "needed" to use sentinel, bulwark, rampart or any other cool downs in order to survive a particular mechanic...

I can't even remember the last time something needed to be slept, bound or heavied and kited, crowd control doesn't exist.

everything is just a dps check, kinda boring....

Don't care. I went from 2-3 hours a day down to 2-3 hours a week with the new 2 dungeons a week to much of the same, patches to long between. Losing interest.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

I'd like to see many skills and abilities actually start to serve a real purpose and impact content.

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This has always been a pet peeve of mine. I actually wish they'd go the WoW route and remove damage from stuns and silences entirely. I know it doesn't hurt anything to use them for DPS (except on the rare fights where they're mechanically necessary), but I would be more satisfied with them if they were cooldowns you used intelligently instead of on-cooldown DPS-increases.

Keeping job-specific sets and the release of a raid that doesn't suck.

I would like to say I'm hopeful in believing they'll spend all of 30 minutes designing a RMT chat filter script. So that we don't end up with people disabling PM's just to get rid of the spam. But hey wishful thinking.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

I'd like to see many skills and abilities actually start to serve a real purpose and impact content.

I can't even remember the last time something needed to be slept, bound or heavied and kited, crowd control doesn't exist.

everything is just a dps check, kinda boring....

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Original Binding coil had specific attacks which had to be silenced by the bard. T1 and T2. SCoB had some kiting for Bards or SMN's on T7. SE changed their outlook and saw that certain classes were "required" in the instance due to their abilities and certain classes (dragoon) were not being invited for the fun because they didn't provide enough versatility.

This kind of thing scares the pants of the developers so they try to make it so any party composition can complete any content. This is part of why we dont see mechanics requiring class specific skills anymore.

I hope in 3.2 the next part of the relic quest is so long that people actually quit. Instead of just saying they are going to quit, and not quitting.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Keeping job-specific sets and the release of a raid that doesn't suck.

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I'm hoping we see job-specific sets stick around, too. I much prefer aesthetics designed around Jobs than more nebulous concepts, especially because my main is NIN and a lot of the gear we get doesn't feel very "Eastern."

I'm not hopeful.

They've been regressing.

Better pvp with better rewards.

Also some debuff like heavy and sleep should have some benefit in fight so the skill like Stella or Repose doesn't become bloated skill. (I know A3S need heavy debuff but need for other fight too)

For DRK to feel different and not a paladin with a greatsword.

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Originally Posted by FinalWolf

For DRK to feel different and not a paladin with a greatsword.

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I'd say that it feels very different already, personally...

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Originally Posted by m3eansean

Original Binding coil had specific attacks which had to be silenced by the bard. T1 and T2. SCoB had some kiting for Bards or SMN's on T7. SE changed their outlook and saw that certain classes were "required" in the instance due to their abilities and certain classes (dragoon) were not being invited for the fun because they didn't provide enough versatility.

This kind of thing scares the pants of the developers so they try to make it so any party composition can complete any content. This is part of why we dont see mechanics requiring class specific skills anymore.

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QFT.

Dragoon got an entire expansion centered around a story that made everyone wanna be one, and Bard is now the red-headed stepchild.

I also miss the need for crowd control, stun/silence and kiting. Honestly, other classes can kite (we downed Melusine with a Dragoon kiting). Yes, it was easiest on Bard and Summoner, but not impossible on other classes. Everyone has a skillset they can work with, and I don't think it's a fair excuse to dumb down interesting fight mechanics.