List of Antiquated/Awkward Game Mechanics

Despite how pretty the game is and how polished the majority of it feels, there are a handful of things I've noticed that feel straight of 1999 or even things that WoW managed to get right at launch almost 10 years ago.

This post was originally longer, but ironically, posts are limited to 1,000 characters on these forums, which is something that should probably be on this list.

• You can't open your friends list, linkshell list, or whisper anyone while you're in a dungeon.
• We need to be able to link items in chat.
• You can't do ANYTHING while mounted. At the very least, an option to auto-dismount when attempting to speak with an NPC or use an ability while mounted would be greatly appreciated.
• A list of zone names next to the Aetheryte locations in the Teleport menu would save lots of map opening and closing for those of us who haven't memorized every zone in the game yet.
• The ability to simply right click and ignore someone is necessary.

working dungeon kicks
default to queueing partial dungeons with people having to select non partials intentionally
skip the cutscenes automatically after the first time you saw it, make it an option

• You can't invite people to a LS, promote people in a LS, invite people to a party, or do any LS/party functions while fishing/crafting
• You can't move for almost 10 seconds while using a limit break
• Being raised makes you unable to move, unable to be healed, but able to take damage.
• You can't right click someone's name in chat to blacklist them
• You can't right click someones name in chat to invite them to a LS/FC
• You can't easily invite someone to a party without having to search their name manually and then invite them
• Ten thousand confirmation messages when doing anything UI or inventory related
• Can't kick people from parties in dungeons
• Can't replace someone in a dungeon with anyone you want, even if you entered with 4 people from your own server
• Can't zone into dungeons by walking into them
• Have to manually select "join group in progress"
• No cross-zone chat channel
• No confirmation for removing items off your retainer's AH yet 9000 confirmation messages for everything else in the game
• Fate progress when hovering over it on the map
• Ability to track/untrack any quest we want
• Ability to do GC leves in a party
• Having to drop party to enter solo content
• Having to drop party to initiate leves if party isn't in range

There's a lot more I can't remember right now.

LB is fine, its a very strong attack so you need to make sure you know your position and that it will stay safe

OP, you can edit your post and type way past the 1000 character limit. Just a heads up.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

• Being raised makes you unable to move, unable to be healed, but able to take damage.
  
• Fate progress when hovering over it on the map.
  

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Yes to your post, but mostly these. God I wish they would fix the raise issue and implement the Fate progress. It's already frustrating enough to have to rely so much on FATEs, but it's hair-pullingly-frustrating to get there with 1% left on the progress bar after traversing the entire zone to get there.

Sch's fairy dying from poison even when you eat fruit in aurum vale

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Originally Posted by ErisTirel

[*] You can't do ANYTHING while mounted. At the very least, an option to auto-dismount when attempting to speak with an NPC or use an ability while mounted would be greatly appreciated.

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I think the big thing against this is, expecially in crowded areas, if there are a lot of players near an NPC it is alread "somewhat" difficult to swiftly click on the npc to turn in/begin a quest. If mounts were allowed for communications with NPC's it would lead to even more frustration trying to get around Magiteks or Goobbues (or similar large mounts). A separate way to target the NPC could be nice (if it isn't already implemented, I haven't really checked)

It's the simplest annoyance that I cannot talk to any NPC while mounted, but since this game is essentially talking to NPCs all the freaking time, mounting and dismounting becomes quite cumbersome. Fix this, SE.

Fully agree about the immobility when being raised or using limit break. When I'm being raised, and I'm helpless for several seconds because I'm watching a stupid animation, that is some valuable time lost that I could be tanking/dps'ing/cc'ing, etc.

The antiquated, non-linkable chat is hilariously outdated, not to mention the barren options list when it comes to clicking names in the chat box.

And the chat limits while in a dungeon....really?

This is a fantastic game with plenty of content, and it really is worth the money imo, but SE has missed the boat on some MMORPG-101 mechanics and features. Make this already-great game more user-friendly in the UI and features realm, and you've got yourself a polished, enjoyable experience.

* No loot tables whatsoever.
* Chocobo takes up a party member slot. Can't do GC leves with it. Can't dismiss it if you teleported into town unless through companion menu.
* No loot link? Really?
* Can accept quests that are a higher level than you (if you're playing as a class lower than your highest)
* Quests sometimes reward items that are higher than the quest level.
* Crafting text defaults to the general chat log.