Good ideas from previous Final Fantasies that may be cool if incorporated..

I love all the FF series I've played, especially the little things that make it very interesting.


Let's start with my favorite: FF8.

Aside of the numerous requests about Triple Triad (which I support wholeheartedly) how about a long chain of Levequests with a rating?

Like the SeeD mission, when doing this long levequest which can consist of numerous tasks (escort, kill enemies, use items..) You will be assessed on how well you perform. (Killing wanted targets, timeliness, not running away, special conditions! Like killing X-ATM-092) and then rated from 0-100 depending on the criteria you fulfilled and then get experience points and treasure chests or tomestones and gil accordingly.

FF9, I believe someone had posted an idea about festival of the hunt, which I love tremendously. Just probably make it level sync'd so everyone can have equal chances of getting top rank, which is usually a decent card or accessory..

FF7, I do hope all or most of the gold saucer games make it in our gold saucer. The boxing game, the motorcycle game.. Chocobo breeding and racing, all the arcade games, even the touch of the haunted inn.. The laser shooting! Oh god, that was glorious.

FF4, well.. not much of a minigame-y aspect to it, but I loved how there were hidden chests on hidden paths. We have one in the Sunken Temple of Qarn, but I'd love to see more of these..

FF10 I liked the monster collection kinda thing. I for one would love a massive hunting log that we have right now, for example, for a more interesting leveling experience make us kill like 30 kinds of monsters, and 10-20 of each kind. And the monsters you killed gets into some sort of bestiary and then we can view images and some background story to them..

And one FF that I'm sure not many have played or even heard of, but in my opinion is the king of minigames in the gaming world is the Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Tales. All the minigames there were awesome. I'd kill for all of these to be incorporated to XIV, but with its own touch of lore.

I think it'd be awesome if the Gold Saucer had the same music from FF7. Also maybe make a few dungeons that use areas from old games like sea serpent grotto and temple of the ancients using the same mobs from thos games.

Dark Knight --> From --> Every game with Dark Knight.

Skills learned become materia. When u switch jobs, only ypur stats change, armors and weapons allow u to slot skills inside. Ffvii, materia system. So much potential, so wasted here.

They need to make the Materia system more like it was in FFVII...this materia system is lacking in utility at higher levels.

This.

I also really wish for the Job system from V, which XIV 1.0s original Physical Level system nearly replicated. They really dropped the ball on letting us respec whenever we wanted, it should have been more like "You played a lot of Conjurer, your Mind gets a boost when your Physical Level goes up", with the only way to respec it being reverting your Physical Level to 1.

Materia or gear that give you certain traits/abilities.

Ex: an staff that boosts free cure by 25 percent.

Materia system from VII was amazing, but I think if incorporated in this game will become a bit too grindy. Which is very not casual friendly, and I think that wasn't where Yoshi-P is wanting to go. Although, I do agree that the materia system is extremely shallow..


I'd be much happier grinding a materia level 0 that I can buy off NPC than making one from crappy gears that I will lose permanently and feel like I'm forced to use it. And Horizontal progression.. we need customization, because it keeps things interesting. Or wider ilevel gaps, like for example level 30 to 32 there's not even enough time to finish your spiritbond!

It's very lame imo, it does happen in games like FF4,7,9,10 and hell, maybe all FF has vertical progression but at least those cool armors can last you a long time. Remember having to shop for mythril gears and have barely enough gil? Then you decided to skip the next one and jump to two upgrades ahead instead (For example, you geared your party up entirely at level 25. You then skipped 28, and upgraded at 32 instead. But your friend could have geared up at 28, skipped 32, and geared up at 36. Or even grind money and gear up to the teeth for every available upgrade. In XIV, we do NOT have that option. That feel was really good.. the way we have it now feels like there is little to no purpose of some gears.)

And then about the special effects in weapons, although it would be super cool I think due to the human nature we will just find an optimal configuration and go with it the entire time. For example, a 25% boost in cure spell in a staff would leave people calculating how much better is it compared to using one with higher MND or ILVL? and when the winner is clear if you decided to go against the flow you'd just get called out for being a "noob". Sad situation.. That is why we can't have nice things sometimes, but I am also guilty in that I love min-maxing. Not that I don't respect other people's choices, but I will use the best thing available.

I'm quite happy with how the battle system is, what I wanted more is the little touches of quality of life and fun mini games incorporated to all our missions and quests.. I'd gladly sub for another 3 years if they could make some sort of parallel world similar to FF fables or chocobo's dungeon.

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

FF9, I believe someone had posted an idea about festival of the hunt, which I love tremendously. Just probably make it level sync'd so everyone can have equal chances of getting top rank, which is usually a decent card or accessory.

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Yup that was me.

And I'd love a card-game, preferably Tetra Master (proven to work thanks to FFXI)

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

Dark Knight --> From --> Every game with Dark Knight.

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On a completely unrelated note about those eyebrows, god they look awful, you're not fooling anyone with those charcoal caterpillars!

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Not Final Fantasy (though close enough), but I really want a /mrgrgr emote... <3 Edea~

(seriously, why was there no Bravely Default cross over event? Mrgrgr!)

- The "Abilities learnt through weapons" from FFIX
- Choice of job traits from FFIX
- Sphere board system from FFX or the board from FFXII

The sphere grid is actually quite interesting, it makes everyone equal in the end but before that it allows diversity in builds, haha

Mini Games from Final Fantasy past the could/should make it into FFXIV

Final Fantasy V: Piano
FFXIV Implementation - Simple really, place a piano in Adventure Halls and allow player to sit down and play it. 1-9 would be different notes

Final Fantasy VI: Auction House
FFXIV Implementation - This would basically be a true Auction in the sense that the game would auction off rare items that player bid over.

Final Fantasy VII: Gold Saucer
FFXIV Implementation - Already hinted at by Yoshi-P

Final Fantasy VIII: Triple Triad
FFXIV Implementation - Just develop a card game that two to four player can sit down and play around a table

Final Fantasy IX: Chocobo Hot Cold
FFXIV Implementation - Run around on a Chocobo digging for buried goods with a warmer / colder game

FFX: Blitz Ball
FFXIV Implementation: Perfect for PvP players that want teamwork and objective base content

FFXI: Chocobo Racing
FFXIV Implementation: Instead of being passive, it needs to be active where players control the mount. Maybe add elements of kart racing into it.

FFXII: Hunt Club
FFXIV Implementation: Bounty Guildleve were a party of four or eight will embark to slay a Notorious "Mark".

FFXIII-2: Casino
FFXIV Implementation: People love to gamble in MMO so why not give them what they want lol

FFXIV v1: Parley
FFXIV Implementation: Parley >_>

- A more diverse job system. (Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy Tactics)
- Monsters as companions. (Final Fantasy Tactics)

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Originally Posted by Tanama

- A more diverse job system. (Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy Tactics)

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Yoshi asked the 1.0 community if we wanted that in ARR - the community voted to keep the existing Armoury System. So yeah, I doubt that will now ever be implemented (that's democracy for you).

Blitzball would be fun, just make it so that in the first game you actually play... the enemy team doesn't have ridiculously stacked stats in such a statistic-reliant game. I'M LOOKING AT YOU LUCA GOERS.

You know what I'd love to see from past Final Fantasy titles? A Freelancer Job. A job that has zero unique attacks of its own, can equip any weapon or armor (FFXIV-wise, this means it'll be a Job Crystal equippable by any DoW/DoM class.), it can equip all cross-class abilities offered by all classes (every ability that can be used by another class/job other than itself, not ALL abilities), and the Freelancer Job Crystal actually gets better with every "Mastered" Job (Every job that has completed either their LV50 Job quest or their "A Relic Reborn" quest). The Freelancer Job would be statistically weaker than every other Job even if all Jobs were mastered, but not by so much that it would actually be terribly significant.

I want this because I want to be able to use cross-class abilities that some Jobs simply do not have access to. Kind of a versatility vs. specialization tradeoff.