[Vent] What you guys think should change on ARR?

I hope they rise up the reputation per quest on ARR beast tribes, earning 10 points per quest is torture. :p

The character models. They're in need of some tweaks. Highlander men could use proper eyebrows, for example.

Well the big one would be shortening the after story MSQ.

While it was important back in the day when they were trying to prop up ARR so it didn't become a 1.0 incident. They probably added a bit much to the ending content after the original MSQ. Now the game is successful enough they don't need that kind of buffer and there's been 3 expansions.

MSQ-wise, streamlining some of the quests (especially 2.1 to 2.3/4). Try to show more of what Minfilia actually does when we are not around, so that she does not appear so useless.
Make Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium solo instances.
Add an aetherite in Vesper Bay, not Horizon. (And YES I know you can get to Vesper Bay from Limsa.)
Beast tribes did take a lot of time now that I think about it.

Delete Tataru and swap her with Moenbryda.

What should be changed in ARR content? ALOT, theres so much stuff that needs improvements:

1 Rework the outdated town maps and ARR maps to be all alot bigger in size n 3D like all maps from HW on making it possible to use mounts in them and fly in those maps

2: Rework and redesign the summoner and scholar to become finally two complete independent jobs with own different classes and summoners using warhorns instead of books, only scholars use books then

3: add more faces, tribe options ect to the character editor, for example a micote tribe that is looking much wilder n ferocious than the others, less human, more cat with fur on arms, legs, feet and much more claw like hands with long sharp nails, alot more tail options n ear options

Just 3 examples, could come up with aloz more, but typing with smartphone is exhaustive xD

Rework MSQ, but I read that they were going to do it for patch 5.3. Can't wait to see it with my own eyes.

Trim up the 2.X patches and trip up a few spots of the 2.0 msq like the pre titan quests. Maybe increase exp rewards so that you don't hit exp walls while leveling up through ARR if they haven't already.

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Originally Posted by Kaiserdrache

What should be changed in ARR content? ALOT, theres so much stuff that needs improvements:

1 Rework the outdated town maps and ARR maps to be all alot bigger in size n 3D like all maps from HW on making it possible to use mounts in them and fly in those maps

2: Rework and redesign the summoner and scholar to become finally two complete independent jobs with own different classes and summoners using warhorns instead of books, only scholars use books then

3: add more faces, tribe options ect to the character editor, for example a micote tribe that is looking much wilder n ferocious than the others, less human, more cat with fur on arms, legs, feet and much more claw like hands with long sharp nails, alot more tail options n ear options

Just 3 examples, could come up with aloz more, but typing with smartphone is exhaustive xD

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With SCH and SMN no longer having the connection that is ACN, what sort of changes to adapt the two do you suggest? ACN would have to be changed from a DPS to a Healer in order to stay lined up with SCH while a new starter class would have to be added for SMN so players aren't instantly getting thrust into a Job the second they start the game.

A few items, some minor, some major.

Minor
Haukke Manor NM needs something you can interact with to warp you to the start instead of having to Return.

Last boss of Haukke Manor HM needs adjustment due to DPS creep. She will often wipe parties because she has scripts tied to her current HP and will often sacrifice her last add with a lot of her HP left, wiping the party.

Keeper Of The Lake gunship boss is the most obnoxious boss in the game. Nothing about a super fast airship leaving patches of fire is fun to play against as a melee. Get it to chill tf out.

ARR has some excellent music we don't have as an orchestrion yet. Tranquility, Fealty, Undying Faith, and A Tonberry's Tears, to name a few. I get a few of these are short but that's up to us if we like that or not, right?


Major
Copperbell Mines is in a lot of ways the worst dungeon in the game. It has enemies that leash and go invulnerable if they are pulled too far. Most of all, none of the bosses here seem interested in actually fighting the party. They are just very noninteractive experiences and don't speak well for the excellent content to come in HW. I think all the bosses should be changed so you actually have something to interact with.

ARR's sidequests are all about quantity and little about quality. As someone who has done every single sidequest in the game, I found a lot of the ones in ARR just don't seem to be interested in creating interesting narrative or saying something about the world, and don't seem to respect the player's time. IMO they should cut like at least 2/3rds of the sidequests that are weak, then take the remaining ones and make them much better with better rewards.

Consider making Arcanist a healer class first and foremost. The branches of the class would stay the same, but it would be better if players had two healer options to start.

All the beast tribes need serious revision. Ixali shouldn't be asking us to equip gloves or go to different maps and stuff... not after we have experienced the fun, convenience, and variety of the namazu. All of them need to be able to completed faster.

The last two dungeons should be taken out of the duty roulette and made into solo experiences, which I hear is what they intended to do. Tomestone and XP rewards can be increased somewhere in content that is actually intended to be played and enjoyed. Nothing in either of these two dungeons are really interested in posing a challenge, and the way they crammed in so much exposition at the end of the main game is a disservice to the writing at large.

I would LOVE to have new maps, made to get the needed for swimming and flying, and making the maps more enjoyable and useful