8.0 expansion wish list

We all know how bad 7.0 is and so many people quit during this expansions. This is an expansion that is the weakest of all expansions. If they want to save 14 and bring back to it’s glory day then here is couple thing they need to address in order to make next expansion fun again.

1. New player experiences. Currently in order to get to end game, new player need to play from ARR all the way up to DT. That’s like 200 hours of pure story to get through. It’s a big wall for new player to overcome. It’s the reason why so many potential new players don’t even want to touch this game at all or they would quit mid game. I know you can pay to skip but they would be confused with who is who and what going on. I would like the dev to developed two story line. One for new player and the other for veteran player which continues the current story. For example in 7.0 new player would be a character that was born in the new world and they meet scion that come to the new world to help in the rite of succession. From there the new player would meet Scion of the seven dawn and what ever happens next it’s up to the writer to figure out how to do it.

2. An engaging story. I don’t expect 5.0 level of writing but at least can we get 3.0 level of writing. 7.0 is the worst story of all expansion. 8.0 story can’t be worst right? We can only hope they learn something from 7.0.

3. Cross data center party finder. No I don’t want NA be able to party finder with EU or JP. I want NA to be able to party finder within its regional data center. Same goes with JP and EU. All data center party finder is pretty much dead except aether. This would make party finder from other data center lively again. It’s so sad to see your own data center party finder only have 1 party up and then when you go to aether in you see hundreds. The worst thing is when new raid latch drop and you can’t go to aether. Good luck raiding that day.

4. Glamour log or book. A feature so many player wants. We all know ffxiv true end game is glamour. This feature also would make old content suddenly worth doing. Of course you can say you can collect now but I would say where do I put them? There are so many gear in the game it’s very hard to save them all. If they at least could expand the feature where you can combine level 1 gear into 1 set to include all other gear would be great starting point. This is not a proper glamour log but it’s pretty close to what we can actually be able to achieve.

5. Job identity. Currently we only have 5 jobs. Tank, healer, melee, caster and physical range. Pretty much any job under tank is just a skin change. There is pretty much no more job identity anymore.

These are the five wish list I wish they fix in the upcoming 8.0 expansion. I hope at least we can get 2 out of 5 from it.