Some suggestions, mostly quality of life, obvious things

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Originally Posted by Telris

Suggestion: Display debuffs that are cast by the player always first and debuffs cast by other players behind them. So if I have 4 debuffs on my target I would know that the first 4 icons are cast by me. Another nice touch would be, that debuffs that are cast by you have a bigger icon size so it's even easier to track them. This could be optional via character settings though.

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I think a better suggestion is to make the your own debuffs larger. Nothing too big, but larger than the other debuff icons. Even if yours are in front the way you suggest it could still be confusing sometimes due to not knowing whether the debuff after yours is one of your own or not since sometimes you are required to look away, and during that time your debuff might have timed out and replaced with someone else's debuff that was the same as the one you had before, thus you mistake it as your own.

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Originally Posted by Raynor

Oh and an option to hide earrings please, i look like Pat Butcher -.-

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ADD THIS TO THE LIST!

Anyone else actually NOT wear earrings just because they can't stand looking at their character with earrings during the cutscenes? I know I'm on the extreme end of the spectrum of love-hate here but really... the earrings really make me wanna hurl. I might put them on for end game if necessary but as soon as I'm out of an instance, unless my head armor hides them, I'll be taking them off again!

Not sure if it's already been said, but please add more debuff slots to mobs during fates, or at least to boss ones. Attempting to dps Svara or Odin as a summoner is a chore, since even if you get them to appear long enough to DoT up, there's a high chance so many dots will be applied in that window that by the time fester registers, your dots have already been pushed off the mob by all the others, causing it to do low or no damage and go on cd (and waste a charge). Could also become an issue in a summoner heavy group in 24m content, but fates are where it's really noticeable. Being stuck using nothing but ruin because your DoTs get removed by other players feels awful.

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Originally Posted by Nexvix

Get rid of the timers; The timers are unnecessary and add a lot of tension and anxiety to the situation especially if you're trying to learn the fights. It's even worse if you run out of time on an hour long dungeon because you have to do it all over again and potentially fail again.

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Even with the increased timers some people still get antsy when running a dungeon on duty finder. I even had people try to rush me when I'm explaining a fight to someone who has never been to the dungeon before. It'll still happen, but the timer corroborates their rush.

I would like to be able to sell things on the market from the board, instead of closing it out, and walking over to the bell, and hope there isnt 30 people standing on it.

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Originally Posted by Sneakaboo

Bit of a bigger one.

Make the checks client side based instead of server side.
This way every thing from clicking an item/crafting/activating and 'instant spell' will be more snappy and direct.
It will just feel less sluggish.

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While some checks can be done client side, the server should always need to validate it too otherwise it make the game far too easy to hack.

To all those who ask for timers to be removed for dungeons or for the difficulty to be lowered please JUST DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. I'm fed-up with fast-food type of mmos and I'm happy that I can go back to testing and failing before completing things in a game! If you don't actually like playing, then just don't play!

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Originally Posted by Mistix

To all those who ask for timers to be removed for dungeons or for the difficulty to be lowered please JUST DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. I'm fed-up with fast-food type of mmos and I'm happy that I can go back to testing and failing before completing things in a game! If you don't actually like playing, then just don't play!

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I think you're misunderstanding the concept here. People who want timers to be removed do want to play. They want to explore the dungeon, discuss tactics before entering boss fights, etc. They can do more with more time, especially if they're in a duty finder group and will have to start over from scratch with all new players next time.

If I'm new to a dungeon, I just follow everyone else, but if DF puts us all in a group where we need to follow someone else, that doesn't really work out unless we're able to explore and figure out what we have to do. You may be thinking "look up a guide" but many actually want to experience the game themselves, explore for themselves, come up with tactics between themselves and others, etc.

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Originally Posted by Abhayaa

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet: Please add keyboard hotbar functionality to the UI options on PS3. From what I can tell, you did a good job of integrating it onto gamepad, but I'm not much of a gamepad person (especially with more complex games like this). Everything else works on the keyboard-- I'd like to be able to fight as well. :]

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I second this wholeheartedly, i find it pretty frustrating that this isn't available on the ps3, it makes no sense, keyboard and mouse support but you cant use the hot bar??

comeon, school boy error....

I really appreciate this a neat well formatted list for Devs to read over and see the suggestions the community as a whole have. The Original Poster is dedicating a huge amount of time reading over these looking for quality suggestions so thank you.
I'd love to see one this well done for future game expansion suggestions. a place for ideas on what we would like to see changed or included in the years to come.

I disagree with the ability to talk to NPC's while mounted though. at first I to grumbled about this but then I saw a magitek armour mount. who remembers the days of 7 Elekks standing on top of the NPC you need to speak to. I already have enough trouble selecting the summoning bell for my retainer!!!! an auto dismount when clicking an NPC would be great though!!!

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Originally Posted by Fossil924

With all the launch game issues,server issues and mission quest issues getting off you mount shouldn't be high on SE list of issues....your kidding right?

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where exactly did the post mention that these were crucial, emergency changes? they are suggestions. no, auto dismount is not high on the list of required fixes. But it sure will make the game more fluent. No doubt lots of these suggestions have already been stored away in the SE to do list.