Feedback: Dawnwalker / FFXI

Hi Devs and forum folk!

I was one of the many? few? who played FFXI when it launched.
I'd like to request a few of the things that remain memorable.

1. Maat
This bad ass old man will kick your butt... with your own Job!
The Endwalker MSQ featured a number of challenging solo encounters.

Could we see a hard, Job based challenge?
Test of solo Skill :cool:

2. Monster Trains
Everyone who has survived to level cap in FFXI should remember monsters coming through in large packs, either on purpose or on accident.
This the new world - old standard FFXIV has everything in play it safe small packs...
Toss it up.
A few zones where mobs do not leash to their spawn point. Throw in some Notorious Monsters...

3. Lore
I feel quite a bit of FFXI lore went unexplained.
Anything that explains the legends of that world is appreciated.



Off FFXI.

1. TTT Cards - Some of these are still gated behind FATES, really old FATES.
Since the FATE system is a slow grind outside of the current expansion content, could we get an alternative source to earn these cards?

2. Bigger on the inside housing
This upcoming feature has me very excited, enough that I've been holding on to my small house. Thank you for this!

3. FSH would like a boat to fish off of. Please :lalapleadyface:

4. I'd like to make a second request for *female* villain glamour gear.
It's definitely not because I want to dress as Ultimecia or Rinoa...
Definitely not...

5. Far out there:
Microsoft has acquired Blizzard.
With FFXIV new partnership with Microsoft...
May we please have a cross over into Heroes of the Storm?
Many people can not play first person shooter games, so a cross over in a top down game would be better than say Fortnight

Thank you for your consideration!

1. No, not Maat, not him.... Not now, not ever. :p (Twelve above, I still have nightmares facing him, nearly 15 years after the fact.... and I did his fight as WAR too, an apparently 'easy' Job to use). And we already have Job-based fights as part of the class/Job/role quests anyway.

2. This is actually at odds with the fundamental design brief Yoshi had from the very beginning, he specifically wanted to move players away from old-school FFXI-style EXP parties fighting trains of monsters in the open world, to what he called 'content based EXP', in other words, from doing things like FATEs, levequests, the Hunting Log, dungeons and especially main and side story quests, and so FFXIV ARR's design has consistantly reflected that. The special Eureka content added in the Stormblood expansion replicates FFXI with it's enemy trains, high amounts of agro and even EXP loss on death, but that is special content seperate from the main game, in a special instanced area with it's own levelling and abilities you can use and set. But in the 'normal' game, enemies are 'leashed' in the open world (and even in dungeons as well), so the days of being chased across a zone by a pack of goblins snapping at your heels is long gone.

3. That's a thing to ask on the FFXI forum, Hydaelyn is an entirely seperate world and universe to Vana'diel (as mentioned in the previous two crossover events involving Shantotto and Iroha and confirmed ages ago by the development team). The upcoming FFXI raid I suspect will not actually involve the 'real' Vana'diel at all, but be like the 'Return to Ivalice' raid and just feature FFXIV specific locations in Hydealyn that happen to have the appearence and names of FFXI zones and places, and feature FFXI enemies (we already have plenty of FFXI enemies in the game anyway, like goblins, qi'qirn and mammol'jaa). Sadly I don't think it's going to touch on much FFXI specific lore I'm afraid.