6.0 Hopes and Fears?

Hopes:
- More complexity in gameplay
- Better Dungeons
- Better Job-Identification and greater differences between jobs while still balanced
- Hildibrand

Fears:
- More oversimplifications in gameplay
- Same old shit
- Continuation of balancing in form of: every job plays just the same
- No Hildibrand

Hopes:
-A 3rd free retainer or a Materials tab.
-Healer changes. Surely they'll have to look at Piety too now a crafted ring is BiS, it should give damage similar to Tenacity.
-Some new content. Bozja wasn't new, it was this expansions Eureka. If we're losing Hildebrand, several dungeons, new race headgear, new class primal weapons and deep dungeons it'd be great to see something in return.
-Hildebrand.
-One week delay to Savage.
-More difficult crafts besides spamming hundreds of one item in a 10 day window for next to nothing and a dinosaur for wasting 500 hours. Expand on the expert system and make Master Recipes a challenge. The 4 star set this patch was a small step in the right direction, requiring good food and some HQ mats.
-More of the same. I like gearing in this game, it's consistent and time friendly unlike other MMO's that shove you onto a constant RNG treadmill. Good job there.

Fears:
-Healers unchanged. WhM still a clipping, immobile mess, SCH's pet still clunky, Piety still a near-worthless stat over a certain amount/when you have a boss on farm.
-Crafting easier than ever, Fishing heavily nerfed to "draw more players in".
-Bots still rampant and untouched.
-No extra inventory slots at all and hundreds more items and materials added.
-The dungeon system untouched, no mythic+ or hard mode, just another set of worthless facerolls to serve as chores for leveling or tomes.
-Even more content pruned instead of more added. No primal weapons at all for the new classes.
-Dps nerfed to match the current "complexity" of tanks and healers.

Hopes:

A re shuffle of many rotational required skills to lower levels so that they are imprinted into muscle memory much earlier

As above but with AOE skills for some DPS classes so that they can use them earlier to help with trash packs in MSQ/Dungeons

Upgrade CNJ/WHM Cure 1 to cure 2 and maybe add a smaller chance for a free cure by using cure 2 or change the freecure buff to chance to freecure using stone and or aero

More MSQ voice acting and the WoL to have more selectable "dialogue choices" or even better a voice.

Remove the god awful default mount speed on a new area and make the slightly faster version default, now that +speed via maps is redundant after you earn flying for the zone.


Fears

They dont allow more skills into the lower ranges and we get yet more spread out due to the new level ranges because for some odd reason they seem to think 5+ decent rotational/situational skills for the first 50 levels is somehow overwhelming to new players

A plot armour baddy knocks the WoL on its backside once again early into the expansion and we have to power up for the finale

Poorly placed quests that makes us go back and forth for fake time padding

Even easier dungeons than 5.0 that are short and uninspiring

Immediate: Egi Glamours
Blue Mage Unlimited
Crowd Control and Utility to all jobs where applicable.


Over patch cycle:
Glamour System overhaul. Equipment Log added.
Reassessment of older content, lowering maximum ilevel so old content is still relatively challenging.
Overhaul Castrum Meridanium and Praetorium, end the Zergfest and give the dungeons some legitimacy if I have to do it every day.

Fears:
Failure to properly assess job updates and needs.
Inability to top that increasingly delicious ShB storyline.

Hopes:
-More hrothgar and viera customization
-Ishikawa succeeding at making Zenos an interesting character
-Good conclusion to the ascian story
-New deep dungeon
-Glamour dresser expansion
-Another ward or two for all housing areas
-More Cid and Nero
-Going to where no one will predict before the reveal

Fears:
-Dungeon design staying like it is even for the optional dungeons
-New jobs being added in spite of the dull state of most existing jobs
-Nothing being done to make lv1~60 leveling less tedious due lack of actions/repetitive rotations becoming worse as new actions are added and older tiers are trimmed down yet again
-SE still won't increase budget meaning PvE content will still not be the same quality or quantity as pre Stormblood
-Another Diadem-like system
-Nothing new added to the open world
-Overworld design not improved from Shadowbringers
-6.0 story is 12 hour long at best when you exclude/skip cutscenes
-We don't actually go to Garlemald at all

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Originally Posted by Theodric

- An unsatisfying conclusion to the story surrounding Garlemald, the Ancients and Zodiark.

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It often feels to me the only reason Garlemald was kept after 2.0 is because Yoshida couldn't come up with a solid reason to wipe them off his vision for XIV, but they were super convenient for plot devices. I won't be very surprised if the way they wrap up Garlemald itself is not very satisfying.

Hope: FFXIV developers finally figure out exactly what they want healer gameplay to be and clearly spell it out to the playerbase.

Fear: They continue to have mixed messaging on said subject.

Hopes:
-We go back to being an actual MMORPG with more job diversity, enmity and TP management, classic FF elements being brought back (Protect, Shell, Stoneskin, etc)
-Less scripted fights, more engaging dungeons and group activities
-Support going from ranged DPS to Healers so they can actually feel impactful during a fight instead of just spamming 1 spell between healing
-Jobs get their fantasy back (things like Leeches/Exalted Detriment/Esuna) with less general "role abilities"
-AST gets its original card system back FOR THE LOVE OF THE MOTHERCRYSTAL
-SMN goes full summoner with maybe a summon rotation? Also less dots, more summons
-SCH gets at least Bane back, more Fairy abilities to spend the gauge on
-BLM freed from Ice/Fire rotation
-New territories to the West and Sharlayan, explore more of Hydaelyn

Fears:
-None of the above happens
-Zenos doesn't get obliterated and/or shot into space
-The Ascian story doesn't conclude
-Everything stays the same

My biggest fear is jobs and encounters getting more complicated than they already are but it's gonna happen.

I keep seeing people talk about how "braindead easy" it is playing a dps so the moron is me I guess.

I want to keep playing but not if it's going to stress me out.



My biggest hope is more fluid rotations, a good story and the missing genders for Hrothgar and Viera.

Hopes :
- Identity and fun gameplay are given back to healers, tanks.
- Complexity (not difficult) gameplay is back with Enmity as before, debuff actions, special action (used way more in SB than in ShB), and more for healers.
- Hildibrand return
- Focus on more battle contents (Deep dungeon, more optional and difficult dungeons, etc.)
- A 4th healer
- More communication from the dev team about the state of the jobs

Fears :
- No changes made to healers or are even worse than now
- Still too much focus on other contents as crafters, gatherers, Blue Mage.
- Again too much uncessary and not asked rework.

Hopes for 6.0: Fresh content, new zones, new mobs, new quests. Typical stuff that comes with a new expansion.

Fear: That the majority of fears I have read in this thread are more probable than the hopes.