All the little FFXIV annoyances, what are yours?

Reply to casting on moving objects:

L3 does focus target by default if that helps..

The fact that /cpose does not actually change your default pose, so in cut-scenes you are forced to stare at yourself using the default one that you hate so much.

Also, the lack of glamour options for DoM classes (DoW's get to use our stuff because it's labeled as "all classes"). At the very least we should be able to cross glamour between healer and dps stuff.

Thanks everyone that answered me.

One of the coolest mounts in the game (Twintania) being locked for most of the playerbase who have already referred friends (pre-referral code) or those (like me...sigh) whose friends don't play MMOs.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

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I don't see how or why they would need to balance anything...if all DD or all healers go in they have to figure out how to deal with not having the required jobs in the dungeon...if its designed to be done a certain way then that's how it has to be done...but nothing wrong with people taking the initiative to try and do things differently...they'll just have to find a way to compensate for the design...

That one basilisk in the middle of the intersection between all the cobalt ore nodes

everything about materia

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

Not being allowed to change jobs inside dungeons. Another seemingly pointless restriction. I've had my share of groups where a tank has ditched, and I could easily have swapped roles and kept us going - but no, can't have that for whatever reason. There's already a 2+ minute CD on all abilities after class changing in the field, I don't see how there's any exploit here.

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You could do that with 1.0 and how it went is you would go with a AE jobs for the trash, then switch to MNK for the boss, if you didn't have that job, no dungeons for j00. When theres no tank, you should be able to fill that spot if you have a geared tank job, but being able to switch just because you want to, no. As can imagine now players queing as tank, then switching to DPS when they are inside. People are stupid, plan for it ^_^

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

Not being able to change gear/open certain menus with AH or Merchant or other windows open. Sure it's a minor annoyance, but it's still an annoyance. Particularly when looking for dyes, keep having to exit out of everything to open the dye menu to find what the actual color is of certain color names. Again, not sure why this restriction exists. If I want 20 (hyperbole) different menus open while standing at a merchant or market board... well that doesn't really harm anything.

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My minor annoyance is players confusing an Auction House with a marketplace, with an Auction House you bid. Marketplace you pay or dont, the set amount. But yeah tis a pain the limitations on how many menus you can have open at once.

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

I said I wasn't going to talk about gil sellers but, I will question why I can't mass-deny friend requests. I've got at least 20 of them right now, all gilsellers. Of course a better more universal solution to the actual problem would be better, but at least this minor change could treat a symptom.

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They are making it so trial players cannot send friend requests which will cut down on that due to trial accounts needing zero investment for a throwaway account (aka they know it will get banned).

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

Level Sync, the idea is a great one and helps keep content somewhat relevant. That said, i really really wish it did not lock out abilities. Low levels are tedious, partly because you have very few things you can actually do. My monk spent 20+ levels essentially hitting 1 > 2 > 3 in that order over and over again. It would be nice if we could keep access to everything we learn, just have their values lowered like everything else is. Yes you'd be a bit stronger than intended, but it'd also be a hell of a lot more fun and I imagine it wouldn't be to much different than having properly itemized gear - even if those stats are lowered its still blows anything you "should" have at lower levels out of the water. Plus it would be nice having the option to practice new ability rotations even if roulette decides to put you in Satasha.

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No arguments there, also Not so sure they would need reducing in potency as the strength is based off potency + stats which would be reduced anyways with level syncing.

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

Dragoon has no wyvern. Yes the wyvern sucked. Yes Squenix's inability to balance pet classes is why Dragoon sucked for so long. I don't care, I want my cute flying lizard back dangit.

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Good, it was a waste of space in FFXI and a serious cause of balance issues due to power being divided, plus DRG is a Dragon killer, not a Dragon breeder. Wouldnt object to a minion tho. Job minions would be cool.

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Originally Posted by Quixotica

Finally. less an annoyance and more just a wish. Namely the party co-ordination and co-operation of FFXI's Skill Chains. Few things were as satisfying as lining up a Freeze Magic Burst perfectly with a group of people you just met. XIV's "Limit Break" system feels so passive and just meh in comparison. It's actually just part of my general dissapointment in how much less depth XIV has. It would have been awesome if XIV's classes could play off eachother in some similar way.

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Skill chains in FFXI where really used as it was more efficient to just TP burn than SC. Also it increases the difficulty of Balance, and I would prefer to have a game that is as close to balance that every job is viable for all content than more flash and pazaaz and balance falls out the window.

But to one of my niggles. Not being able to mail bewtween alts, painfully obvious it didnt stop RMT so no reason to not add it, plus the ability for alts to have full access to private homes on the same account.

Having no access to friends list, linkshells or FC while in dungeons/raids.

Having to dismiss my Chocobo to queue for dungeons.

Urianger's dialogue.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

The broken part of it is that doesn't let you tab-taget anything that you can't see the HP meter of. Even if it's right in front of you. This happens A LOT on WoD. It doesn't even have any logical order that it tab targets to, you'd think it would at least be the enmity order.

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I feel like I'm the only one who understands how the tab targeting system works in this game. This "Can't see the health bar" issue IS annoying and I'll give you that one. Otherwise it's not hard to understand. When you hit tab and nothing's selected, it'll target the closest target to you (In front of you). When you hit tab any time after that, it'll proceed to the right to the next target on the screen regardless of distance from the player. It goes to the right. If you hold Shift when you hit Tab, it will instead cycle to the left. It worked the exact same way in XI. In this way, a savvy player can angle the camera, or change their facing on the fly to tab-target directly to the target they wish to select, knowing that the selector will proceed to the right from the current target.

Things that actually annoy me in-game: The Materia system, not being able to mount anything other than my chocobo when my chocobo is out, not being able to queue for things with my chocobo out, my inability to dismount automatically upon using a combat ability, housing costs/availability.

Lack of in game curves
(THIS PICTURE IS A LIE BTW SQUARE)

Lack of housing,

Lack of blue hair for elezen

Lack of water spells on WHM

Gaius card. (Beginning to think it doesn't exist)