A plead from the Roleplaying community (Suggestions & Improvements)

I think the roleplaying community still needs a lot more QoL, here are a few I've been gathering up and thinking about myself;

- Chat bubbles with an option to toggle on and off. It will immensely deepen the roleplay experience and even help regular players to keep their eyes on the player they are talking to instead of the cold chat box below.

- Raidwide markers as roleplayers in events, you place down markers to notify a target to represent a monster to kill or an npc of relevance as the dungeon master. The markers still cannot be represented for more than eight people at a time, which makes larger events harder to micromanage and clunky.

- More character customization I think with the popularity of the game and it's time overall, a good addition to it's ten year marker would be to allow more character customization options aligning with the graphical updates.

- More enterable buildings and possibly more clutter & sights to explore in the open world. It's kind of saddening as a roleplayer to see so many nice art concepts of areas and locations, but when it comes down to it, most houses are mostly set dressing and can't be entered. Roleplayers are craving more reasons to have events in the open world and camp out / in cities.

- Opening up more lore to the races and jobs I think they should open up more lore exploration into how classes function and are represented in the world, something even akin to "class halls" in WoW. For example, dragoons trying to find their way after the Dragonsong war and reconnecting with dragons as allies. Monks trying to rebuild the Fist of Rhalgr, Gunbreakers training a new generation in Bozja. Opening up Duskwights position in Gridania and the Keeper position in the Shroud. Not just sidenotes or one npc saying "This is the situation now", but actual fully fledged locations and storylines that open up the old locations in Eorzea, Far East and beyond.

- Persistent emotes, that last more than 5 seconds. Aside from more emotes being good. A persistent read emote, a kneeling emote and a lot of other emotes being a cycle instead of something you have to click over and over again would be a good addition and add to immersion and relieve players from having to click.


- Explorer dungeons having no time limit the explorer dungeons are great for screenshots, but having the timelimit makes having events inside dungeons clunky. Eventually having to exit and reposition. Removing the time limit would be beneficial to all.


If you have anything I missed that would improve your roleplaying experience, please do leave a comment! I think it's important we discuss about things in the open so things can maybe change someday if enough people ask for it.

1. SE has already stated they're not interested in adding this as it would just be too much visual clutter and would be far too annoying, especially when you throw multiple languages into the mix.
2. Although I can see the usefulness in RP events, allowing players to use them out in the field/cities etc would just be too tempting to abuse and once again cause too much visual clutter in cities.
3. This is something coming with the graphical upgrade in the next expansion Dawntrail, but that will not be til middle of next year.
4. Welcome to RPGs, where towns are usually only one or two buildings you can enter if at all and the rest are for visual purposes. It would just take too much resources to add extra building interiors that would just be some random villager's lowly abode with no story relevance.
5. SE stopped Job and class quests because with more and more Jobs being added it was becoming difficult to think up new and exicting storylines for each, so the role quests begun with Shadowbringers is the replacement. Also, some of your examples wouldn't fit expanded 'lore' quests ironically because of the lore (Jobs generally are either Disciplines that have fallen out of use, been banned and made completely illegal for whatever reason, or were restricted to only a handful of practioners). You as the Warrior of Light have basically eclipsed all the other practioners of those Jobs anyway so if anything they should be learning from you. There are other quests that do take you back to older areas and fill in lore aspects, but you have to know where to find them (there's a new questline from Ul'dah that explains about the events of the Calamity in greater detail added for the 10th anniversary of ARR launch for instance).
6. I'd like more persistant emotes too (as far as a persistant 'read' emote goes, the ACN/SMN/SCH 'idle with weapon drawn emote' has them reading their grimoire, so we kind of already have that particular one), but I suspect there's prossibly a technical reason in the background that limits the amount of persistant emotes they can use, especially if the animations are complex.
7. Dungeon 'exploration' mode is timed because it's still using the instanced dungeon (or 'duty') server to function, which can only have a certain amount of players accessing (this server is also used for things like the Island Sanctuary, certain GATEs in Gold Saucer, and minigames like Triple Triad). Hence if players were able to idle inside it it would cause the whole thing to become congested, and soon enough, crash and fail. So this is not possible either.

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On some points,

1. Did they say that, really? Not doubting, but the reasoning is questionable, especially when it could be a toggle.

4. My other modern MMO reference is WoW (I don't remember how it was in GW2) and the capital cities there have a really big number of buildings that you can enter. That is a bit jarring for me, especially in Kugane, where you can count on your hand the number of buildings you can actually go in.

5. The reasoning of the job quests being done for is understandable, it would become unsustainable in the future with more and more jobs, however I'd say they could insert specific job lore on those common quests that are more important (the ones that are usually a chain and have cutscenes) with stuff, available to every job but with special dialogue bits for the relevant one. For example, in Thavnair, we could get one of those with more about Dancer's origins, a job that we had basically nothing on going to Endwalker, the expansion that we actually visit their homeland.

7. This is defnitely the reason, and in a small tangent, I'd love to have raids and alliance raids available to the Explorer mode too. Some of them are truly beautiful and could work not just for roleplayers, but for gpose too, like the the airship in Dun Scaith.

Before I answer, I would like to add a possibility of airship for the FC's being instanced for visitation / making it somekind of a minigame area for the FC. to make usage of the fc airship and submarines beyond just being money earners and nice cutscenes. Customizable airships being a possibility.

1. That is why I said there would be a toggle option to avoid spam. Easy fix.

2. It would only be for people in your alliance raid, nobody outside of it. I don't see clutter being an issue in big cities as you can just leave the raid.

4. I would like to believe it is an engine limitation, because I've seen other MMO's do it just fine and definitely played a ton of RPG's that have plenty of enterable buildings. If the engine limitation has been stated, then so be it.

5. If it's too much work for the story team to handle, I can understand that. But I don't see expanding the lore of the jobs and their pasts as a huge issue if there was a team to tackle it. Admittedly something like White mages are a bit niche, but I don't see illegality as an issue as we tackled Reaper & Dark Knight just fine as job quests. The WoL just needs to be there, and do quests with them, partake in their story. Maybe it could open up new class related glam options or even mounts?

6. Maybe it's a technical limitation to do with players, the npc's are emoting them in loops just fine.

7. Fair enough if it borks the engine / servers again.