Please SE, make the game better. :)

Who need a hairdresser really? When so many things that goes wrong could be fixed easily.
Content exp grinding related:

Fates & Fates again. I mean, I really don't miss the party system from XI, especially when you see the discrimination betwin jobs, but seriously camping fates is ridiculous. Its just a mess where everyone mindlessly spam their AoE over & over again. To fix that you could either do:
• Make the exp dropped from open world monsters a little bit higher (somewhere like 30-40%) and raise the level of some of them.
• Make the monsters inside the dongeons drop coffers with relevant gears for the level of the dungeons, to attact players and to make the dongeons appealing.

I know it sound silly but this would make some players happy, just by giving them a choice betwin fates or exp party. Another thing that make fates bad is the fact you’re too busy trying to rush your AoE everywhere that you don’t even have the time to try & socialize well. That’s a shame.

Gearing:
Tomestones was a good idea, however you did not do right with the limitation. 300 ToM per week was an idea but you should have thought about it a little bit more. Because of these days mentality, we are expected to have multiple jobs levelled up if we want to join a group to keep progressing.
This being said, why should we be bound to 4 to 6 months tomestones farming just for one job? That’s beyond ludicrous. With 300 ToM/week we can not even afford a single earring or ring (375 ToM) that’s just outrageous.
What you could do instead:
• Raise the amound of ToM gained at the end of a Dongeon, 30 > 50, and increase the cap to 500, as well as the price of the gears, i.e: Head 495 > 510, Body 825 > 840 Accessories 375 > 385. Do the math, you will see that, while this is an increase in gain of ToM, we’re still bound to do our weekly 10 WP/AK, but that we can now get at best one piece of gear per week if done logicaly. Same goes of the +1 Relic item, 300 > 420.

Notorious Monsters:
Some players want them back, some don’t, I personally see that as a threat more then benefice to the player base, why? Because of your never ending balance and because of the players mentality.
Normal notorious monsters are needed, for every level from 10 to 50, in every zones, yes please.
But no more place holder like in the XI, no more “Spawn every 3 to 9 hours” either, that was beyond ridiculous as well.
Make NMs that pop every 1h, which drop reasonable gears or side improvement: Hello Mysticmaker Profiblix, Mee Deggi the Punisher (hated that one.. 1/143 for the drop) and I pass.
These were good NMs, they would drop gears that you would keeps for a long time and their drop while being not to over powered were really consistent! Rare or Rare/ex, no one would really care as the monster would pop every 1h. The drop rate would have to be thought as well, because as mentioned above, 1/143 for Mee Deggi was just painful, anyone would have given up.

HNMs:
As I said in many post, these should not come back unless the gears dropped is equal to what you can get from ToM.
I really don’t care if some people have the time to camp monsters such as HNMs and if there is a Bots war betwin FCs, I really don’t, do it as much as you want, just don’t make the gear dropped something that would become a requirement. Most of us don’t want to be told “You can’t join our raid because you don’t have X gear dropped by Y HNMs that can pop every hours in a 3 days window.
The problem is not about not wanting competition, it’s about not wanting to be bossed around by people who have no life & want my life to be as miserable as their own, and to get a piece of gear to be considered one of their bros, simple as that.

ZNM & KI’s NM:
Do it, you could use FFVI as an inspiration for the storyline, you can probably use something like FFX “Coliseum” where we need to catch monster for a crazy professor from the Garlemald empire, who make nasty experiment to create new monsters with their DNA, you could do that very easily, it would be fun to go out in the open world with your FC to try & catch monsters. That Professor could give you a new bestiary that indicates which monsters needs to be trapped, with a Tier similar to VWNMs.
Of course, each new monster created would drop a new piece of crafting material, and the professor would give you rewards if you can defeat his creations.
Der Richter was a good one too and Crusader from VI as well, you can easily assimilate these and put them into XIV, they would be fun and challenging.

Dongeons:
While its easy to appreciate them, as it look like FFXI assaults, there are a few things that need to be looked at:
/tells, why did you disable /tells inside dungeons? I don’t know I ask. Why can’t we access our Friend list as well, this is a real handicap. We should be able to send/receive /tells and invite our friends into an instance, that would fix the problem of someone bailing or disconnecting.

WAR:
You really need to look forward to decide what you want to do with that Job. If I could would personally look into these improvements:
1. Tomahawk: Decrease the resistance of the target to slashing by 40-50% for 15-20-sec, it would increase WAR damage on said target, while increasing its enmity as well.
2. Berserk: Make its duration longer please.
3. Defiance: Increase the stack of rage from 5 to at least 10, remove the damage penalty or reduce it to 10-15%.
4. Steel Cyclone: Increase its potency to 350 and add a knock back effect to it.
5. Foresight: Make use of all this VIT we’re stacking on WAR, you could make this ability raise a % of damage reduced using our VIT.
6. Thrill of Battle: Reduce its cool down, give it +5-10%.
7. Inner Beast: Increase its potency and its chance to critic, remove the cool down.
8. Overpower: Reduce the cost of TP, 140 is too much, increase its potency.
These change to WAR, increase the its DPS, while still leaving it as tank.

BRD:
You shouldn’t nerf it more than it was already done, the people who complain about how BRD is powerful are bad players who cannot play their job properly, let’s face it. Once BRD will be nerfed they will jump on the BLMs & say that its too powerful and then ask for BLM to be nerfed.
Seriously there is no reason for BRD to be nerfed more, a good MNK or DRG can easily outdamage a BRD.

New jobs: I believe that we really don’t need new tank for now, I know that you want to stay away from FFXI’s mechanics, however you may need to look forward to add jobs with similarities for players to enjoys new classes/jobs.
I think that for now we need buffing jobs and a truly enfeebling job, I like the way the game is for that matter, but I find it funny that PLD & BRD get a silence motion for example. The FFXI RDM was something fun to play, maybe too powerful at time, but it can be easily done without that excess of power in XIV.
We would also appreciate to have more choice of talent available, 4 choices from 2 subclass is not enough in my book. Maybe allow a choice of 6 betwin 4 classes would do it? Seems balanced to me.
I am not going to say which job should come back 1st because its a matter of preference, I personaly would like to see DRK BLU RDM & THF come back soon.

Relics/Relics+1 AFs/ToM-AFs/AF2:
I don’t know if I am the only one, but I personaly feel like there is something lacking here.
Like traits that would augment the job of the wearer, FFXI had that and it was great.
I don’t know, I feel that these items are plain, with just a boost in DEF and stats. Why don’t you add something suchs as (WAR AF head: Increase the duration of Berserk by 5 secs/+20 Determination under the infuriated state) etc?
Also give that kind of enhancement to the Relics & relics +1
• Relic: 1 enhancement
• Relic+1: Major enhancements
I don’t know, make the relics feel like they are relics, not just a weapon with more Stats buff & bigger base damage..

Farming, supply & demand:

Farming: Everyone do it more or less, its a way to make gils, I really think its time for you to add new recipes and new monsters which would drop new crafting materials. Make theses new monster a little bit higher in Lv, to raise the challenge.

Supply & demand: When you want to buy an item on the sales board, the quantity you buy is totaly dependant of the seller. When I sell things I often put a stack of 5 or 10 because who want to buy 99 Lizard skin? So I think we should be able to buy 10 or 15 or whatever we need from someone selling a stack of 99, like FFXI bazaar option.

I have listed lots of other things, but right now I am at work and I cannot remember everything. I won’t say this game is bad because I really enjoy it, but it has a lot of room for improvement.
A lot of things can be done to make it even better, more than hairdresser >.>;

And remove that 1k post limitation, very annoying..

Wow too much to feedback for u but 1 thing to point out is your first suggestion and I agree
Mindless fate grinding and not even fun. It's a race to get claims. Worst idea to level a job. Even though I did so over 3000 fates to lvl all my jobs to 50 so I have the right to say this. This is so not fun LOL (you get a achievement called "destiny's child" for completing 3000 fates that's how I know).

OPEN WORLD DUNGEONS!

omg we need these. I was running through Uggalepih Temple the other day and then logged into xiv and ran thru WP and was thinking how nice it would be if it was open world. I could not imagine Uggalepih as an instanced dungeon. The lack of open world dungeons takes away from the experience of a world.

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OPEN WORLD DUNGEONS!

omg we need these. I was running through Uggalepih Temple the other day and then logged into xiv and ran thru WP and was thinking how nice it would be if it was open world. I could not imagine Uggalepih as an instanced dungeon. The lack of open world dungeons takes away from the experience of a world.

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Originally Posted by strifer88

Wow too much to feedback for u but 1 thing to point out is your first suggestion and I agree
Mindless fate grinding and not even fun. It's a race to get claims. Worst idea to level a job. Even though I did so over 3000 fates to lvl all my jobs to 50 so I have the right to say this. This is so not fun LOL (you get a achievement called "destiny's child" for completing 3000 fates that's how I know).

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I know, I had to make lots of post because of the 1k Limitation, sorry.

After the next patch I will be pretty happy for things related to ToM and such. However I really think the game will lack of interestging things to do still, in one of my 1st post in this thread I mentioned a Coliseum FFX style with Tiers alike FFXI VWNMs. I really think something like that would be wonderfull, especialy to go out in the open world with your FC.

A system like that would provide lots of fun and a good rewarding system, it could satisfise thoses who want HNMs by providing it without the long & ridiculous spawn windows.

Open world events is a must SE I'm not talking about the 24 hour hnms just open world. U have this amazing platform already make it fun. I alrdy canceled my 90 days auto renewal because I'm so bored in this game it's not even funny. I log on I craft for 30 mins I log off. All my friends too. They log on and go afk watch anime lol. Still got 40 days left from the initial 90 day sub. Ganna go month to month now til I see some improvement. I know developing a game is hard esp trying to satisfy the majority. But what you have now is just so boring. Coil finish in less than 3 hours on Monday rest of the week nada.

Upcoming 2.1 really looking to see what pvp will be like if it's anything like wow pvp you will have me on 90 day subs again. Super balanced and fun. As far as 2.1 Pve stuff looking forward to primals extreme but still it's only 3 or 4 fights after I beat them. I can see myself being bored again sitting in ul'dah crafting lol. Crystal tower is joke no alliance premade(bad idea) and item requirement is 55. It sounds like a breeze.
Well see.......

No new coil stuff for another 4 months from now......

Yah..... Open world big boss fights drop pieces. That u can't get anywhere else give it some BIS pieces so people will go for it! Make it spawn on condition. Whoever spawns it claims and everyone else can watch.

Love ff11 system where u can work hard for a piece of gear and it will be useful for a long long time even after level cap and on different jobs. Makes getting them feel super rewarding. When I get a Allagan loot srsly I think to myself oh.... Another allagan.. The Heros is prolly better.....lol coil fights are fun tho don't get me wrong :)

Also agree with OP about bards and markets.

Complaining bards are too powerful is fucking stupid. In coil I'm the only bard in my group. I'm singing 50% of the time. I don't even come out top dps in any situation. Not that I'm bad. It's my teammates know how to play their roles. So the new live letter clearly stated they will take away 1 cross skill from bard which I highly suspect it's going to be blood for blood. If this is the only thing your taking away. Fine. I can live with that BUT still doesn't change the fact that we didn't needed this nerf. Having 20% deducted dps 50% of the time raiding is alrdy a big nerf. Not to mention sometimes we have to focus on silence and I always focus on my healers Mp pool too. I'm more of a support. U need dps? Ill pop cool downs u need Mp!? Ill song, u need silence? Ill focus on that make sure I'm not spamming my dps buttons when my turn is coming up.

Yah ff11 bazaars were great I love running around clicking on people's bazaars and can freely choose how many I want to buy. Bring this back.

First and foremost. Warriors do NOT need an increase to dps, they are tanks and should never have large amounts of dps. It is not their job to provide a bulk of the dps. They already have plenty of dps. Also in terms of world bosses that drop gear equivelant to ToM? Seriously, think about that one for a few minutes. You call many things about this ludicrous. Sorry but ToM gear from those mobs would be a bad idea. All I see if complaints about things YOU dont like. As stated, for 3000 fates you get an achievement and title so do your fates. Also if there were mobs in game that dropped gear equivelant to ToM gear then noone would do the dungeons and would render it completely rediculous. I dont know how FF11 was so I cant comment on that but I feel a majority of the things you can do are already good.

You should need to do the dungeons and honestly. I have never been told I cant come into a dungeon because I dont have gear for more then one class. I primarily play a paladin because it is what I am good at. If people are not letting you in because you dont have more then one class leveled and geared then perhaps that is not their real reason and if it is perhaps they are not worth going with. Please think about things before you type them out. I have had to argue with a majority of your comments and yes bards are getting a little nerf and losing some abilities from their cross classes. Bards were preferred over other classes because they can keep up the dps with the other classes and have far more utility then most others do. That being said, make some real comments that provide use. Yes fate grinding can get tedious. When that happens then run some dungeons.

There are always groups doing dungeons both high and low level. The game has been out just over 3 months. Give them a break, they have a TON of new content coming out to please you but telling them to do things is not going to get it done. Enjoy the content as it comes in because there is alot coming such as new Primal Fates, player housing, barber shops, guild house, ect.