Another 4.0 Wishlist

1. I don't want every zone to be big. It woule be cool if they all had variation. 2. Ivalice Moogles, Ronso, and Viera races. 3. Phantom Train 4. Doma AND Ala Mhigo. Ala Mhigo could be the new state, and Doma could be the new Idyllshire, but not forever! As we rebuild it, we restore the city state. 5. War in eorzea. I want the Garlean war to not only be in the new areas, but to come home too. It would be cool to have instances/raids/battles/trials/mainstory scenerios/dungeons in our city states. Non instances through df of course! It would truly be different. Tie it all to the story. 6. To restore and solve the mystery of the Sharlayan island, unlocking its city. Make the content about restoration, and unification.

My only wish is to have a Gunblade Job and as a DPS Job.

However, that won't happen for a while as Yoshi-p said back in 2.0 when discussion Ninja, Red Mage, and "Gun" Job that he believe it is best saved for when we begin progressing into the Garlean Empire or can access it as the Gunblade Job was more suited for that moment.

I can agree with not every zone being big for the sake of being big but have decent size zones that take a bit to travel through is never a bad thing. ^^

Id love for a city state to be the central hub in the future and expand off of it over time like Rev Toll and Idyllshire. We waited so long for ishgard(including 1.0) and its a shame we don't really stay there as often as the tome areas. I guess thats a personal problem but still!

I'd love it if we didn't have to wait for NPCs to finish their emotes before going into the next line of dialogue

Blue Mage, Red Mage, Dancer and/or Samurai Jobs. I'd like to see Blue Mage and Dancer the most. Making Dancer a melee support DPS would be fun. A Gunblade job would be fun too.
I'd love to see Ivalice Moogles or some sort of small beast tribe like race. I however don't want to see Viera since we have already two humans with animal parts races.

I'm not thinking about new jobs yet or new races. I would really appreciate a better character edition application, more options and stuff. About the contend jut pray to have Ultimecia's Castle as the new 24 man raid :)

A midcore raiding option, regular raid for the easy storyline. Midcore (hard mode) for those who want to raid a few times a week and still be able to clear it with some challenges and savage for the truely dedicated...

New Jobs/Race but something more creative. Sure I know lots of ppl want samurai, blue/red mage, dancer. I am already tired of it and SE didn't even mention of implementing them lol. Wish they would come up with something brand new and exciting. I don't even care what it is, just make it NEW and not some reproduction from other ff series.

Another thing I would love to see, is the echo removal. Do not add more echo to old/existing content, nor add it to newer content. Nerfs of raid content or content in general needs to stop. I do know not everybody is hardcore but I mean the last 3 years we pretty much play this game afk. So I would really love to see some more challenging content.

I don't want ANY new races. At all. No.
Just some more options to the races we have, thanks.

As this game is very siloed with classes, if they did release the Red Mage, Blue Mage, Dancer, or Samurai, I am sure most will be disappointed.

Samurai will Either be a Tank or a DD (do we need more DD?), if it is a tank it won't do much damage of course.
Red Mage of the release it will probably be a healer or something similar to SCH. So no DD no high defense, no special game changing buffs.
Blue Mage would just have a set of skills based on a slice of the elements that will be interesting names, however in the end it would just be a funky BLM type caster. (no learning skills from mobs, etc).
Dancer would probably just be a straight DD, or like a Bard. You give up damage to buff.

Out of all of them the most likely due to the game style, (which would fit in the game) would be
Samurai and Dancer.
The others if they did release them people will be sorely disappointed, as it won't be like FFXI

In order for the other 2 to work, he entire game system for jobs would need to change.

1. Race specific combat animations as an option if we don't like the current ones.

2. That whatever new crafting recipes they add will not require us to re-visit any old areas and the materials needed are from new areas only.

3. Recipes requiring 4-6 items only used for crafts at the level cap only. So if the new cap is 70, only level 70 crafting recipes will require 4-6 different items, everything from 60-69 only requiring 1-3 different items.

4. New classes. I don't really care what, I'll level it regardless.

5. Hidden items on gathering nodes eliminated entirely and visible from the get go.

6. Unspoiled nodes eliminated as well with the items placed on the normal gathering nodes.

7. More weighty choices during the main story that changes some dialogue/npc's you encounter along the way even if the overall story and ending don't change much.

8. Player characters actually participating in those fight cutscenes so that the npc's aren't having all the fun. Something like the player character's dramatic entrance in the ninja 50 and 60 job quests are a good example.

That's all I can think of offhand.

Stance off protection - Stuff like Cleric or Grit that wear off if you already have them on if you hit them again in an oGCD, make it so it protects against double stance shifts within 5 seconds, it will turn it off only, instead of it being possible to turn it off then on again.

So if I have cleric stance on, and I mash the button because it doesn't want to turn off most of the time, multiple presses only turns it off and not back on again. Right now it's clunky. Turning it on doesn't have a problem, since it has a cooldown already.

Better/customizable debuff filters - Increase the display cap on debuffs on bosses (esp. in 24 mans) so it shows the player all their debuffs on the mob instead of the cap we have now where sometimes there are too many so you use a dot or something and it doesn't show up at all even though it lands.

Also add a customizable debuff filter for the target bar, so for example if I'm on Ninja/Warrior and I only want to see my stuff AND dancing edge/storm's eye I can do that so there isn't a back and forth overwriting nonsense. If I'm on Bard/MCH and I want to keep track of Disembowel from a DRG I could also do so, if I'm on a caster and want to see Foe's I can also do that, Trick Attack etc.

Also, the current option also filters debuffs cast by enemies if you have the filter on, makes it annoying for healers that are trying to see how long the debuff and it's duration on the target bar.

Ala Mhigo, Red Mage, more character customization, avoid adding more spells to an already crowded spell list. A whip class.

Dancer job preferably as a healer type, but could live with dps also.

SE finding some way to block RMT /tells which annoy me every day.

Swimming. Underwater exploration is always fun. Make it fun!

More mounts to use as battle companions similar to our Chocobo's like using the Unicorn to fight with you or one of the primal ponies or the lanner birds etc.

More housing slots to place items and more different kinds of flowers for outdoor gardens. I really love to make my garden beautiful :)

I'd be happy with a new race or expanded options for the races we have - like more poses, emotes, faces, hair, and other body/face options etc or adding a third clan to each race which look a bit different than what we have now.

I don't want ala mhigo cause I am sick to death of hearing about that place lol and Illberd isn't exactly a good spokesperson for it since I hate him passionately.

More dye colours maybe.

• Red Mage!
• Deeper Character Customization
• Ala Mhigo
• Remove Wanderers Menuett from Bard
• Give Machinist two guns and a faster playstyle
• Make more cloting and gear more dyeable (two colors maybe?)
• Give me the option to create own quests (with rewards) for my FC
• Garlean styled jetpack as mount xD

Remove TP.

It's a stupid mechanic that punishes you for playing well. While I see it's usefulness in stopping people from Doom Spike spamming everything, it gets extremely irritating when you're simply doing your single-target rotation and you floor your TP gauge. Monks, Dragoons and Paladins suffer the most from this since their tools to manage TP are limited and it gets drained very quickly. As a Dragoon main if I'm in a party without a ninja, I'll be out of TP in some 3 minutes of continuous single-target DPSing. Bards and Machinists will not sing a TP song if I am the only person needing it. There is nothing I can do to manage TP without relying on outside factors.

They could do BLU right, I don't know if people would like it, but instead of really learning skills traditionally it can just tell you what it is, and you go find the enemy with it. Then when they use it on you, RNG chance. Then blue could do DPS/Support/heal/tank. They could make it so that blue has a large spectrum of abilities to learn make it a all in one but not as proficient as the other jobs that are really specific for the role.

I would honestly like to see RDM take a tank slot as odd as that might sound.

I would like us to go deeper into the lore and meaning behind the gods/goddesses we chose, our clan and so forth. Maybe open up some new outfits or customization options based on how we interact with them. Imagine a unique body tribal talisman or tattoo for doing quests for a group of Keepers of the Moon - or some unique hair ornament for doing some sidequests for the country lalafell (I can't remember their tribe).

For our chosen god/goddess I'm not sure how they would approach this, but maybe a once a day ability/blessing of some kind? Of course if it were really a buff, everyone would choose Rhalgr (DESTRUCTION, BABY!) But I could see something like Naldthal taking off market tax for a little time or Oshon letting you dig an extra treasure map (exploration).

A mage DPS class.

- implement nms with useful gear/mat drops (no tomestone/seal crap) and more open world content

- more gear diversity and additional bonuses would be cool, too. Actually BiS is always highest possible ilvl which is kinda boring#

- difficult 4 man content like savage dungeons would be also cool, getting 7 other nice/competent people together is a pain the a*

Outside of the story and main dungeons they bring, I'd suggest;

• Swimming & surface movement on water
• Underwater capability for our Magitek mounts... ;)
• extend flying to some of the ARR zones
• Permit swimming around the beaches in Costa Del Sol and The Mist
• No new species, but deeper customization options for the ones we have
• A tank that uses magic, not physical weapons
• A dual wielding max DPS stance for PLD (and a similar all-out DPS stance for other tanks) that sacrifices some defense for maximum damage output
• A sword based DPS (Samurai would be cool)
• A blunt weapon DPS that uses hammers and maces
• A physical healer - heals with medicines and such, not just a spell.
• New Jobs should start at 30, with slightly fewer skills than MCH, AST and DRK had, to allow an easier introduction, but add the reamining skills more quickly as you level so by 60, you are on par with others.
• Up the level Cap to 70
• Slow the item level growth so it does not spin out of control
• More horizontal gearing
• Fix secondary attributes so that we can create alternate builds that vary performance of our job in meaningful ways. Something that is more meaningful than everyone stack Crit, and then Det...
• Add at least one more cross skill slot and open an additional job for choosing cross skills
• Allow one of our retainers to accompany us in the field as a field companion to fight along side us, though when they accompany us, they can undertake no ventures or manage the market board sales.
• Give us more inventory space or a 3rd free retainer (especially if you allow a retainer to become a field companion).
• Add some mid-level dungeons with puzzles and other fun, rather than punishing, mechanics.
• Enforce stricter level sync to mitigate the ridiculously overpowered characters in older content. Arum Vale is a strict-ish level sync which maintains some of the difficulty and requires people to pay attention to mechanics, this should be how level sync works on all level 50+ content as well, but with a slightly looser ilvl sync than AV uses.
• Remove all of the running around from point to point filler quests from the ARR and HW MSQ, and re-distribute the XP, gil and gear to other MSQ quests. Maintain all quests that actually contribute to the main story, but remove all the filler to allow a swifter progress through the MSQ.
• The long slog of getting through ARR's MSQ all the way to Steps of Faith in order to get to HW has acted as a deterrent for RMT in HW zones, this is one major reason why there should be no skipping of the story. Collapsing all the filler quests that involve no encounters shouldn't make it any easier for RMT to get to the new content since all the dungeons and other trials still have to be completed.
• Please give us the sleeping emote our characters use at the Inn when we log off there. It's 100,000,000,000 times better than the 'doze' emote is for Miqo'te...
• Expand on the ideas in the Deep dungeon and the treasure map dungeon, there are innumerable doors and gates that go nowhere in the game. drop in a few more of them and then use them as entrances to procedurally generated dungeons for dungeon crawling. The entrances should be found using a different kind of map from the treasure map. Once discovered, the entrance should always be visible to the map holder, until they have completed the final encounter successfully and obtained the final treasure. Such maps should not always lead to a functional entrance, and sometimes the dungeon beyond should be very shallow and in ruins preventing further exploration, in these instances, the map would turn to dust in the player's hands.

My only 'wishlist' is that it gets released sooner than 1 year from now :)

I would also love a dark healer. Something that doesn't draw from light energy for a change.

I want a beastmaster that uses a whip or a crossbow.

Well. Some of my desires (more than thoughs).

1. New State City (well, this is obvious). Ala Mhigo seems the choosen one for 4.0, but, Doma or a city in the Meracydian continent looks good too.

2. Level cap increaed till 70, but only 3 skills plus 2 traits or something. Too much skills seems redundant.

3. Samurai as tank, Red mage as Melee magic DPS and Dancer or Geomancer as healer.

4. A long, interesting and epic MS, but please, no more trash sidequest "delive this item to X NPC", just few of this, do not fill the entire questchain with this.

5. More dungeons! And return to the 3 dungeons per patch. Also, more trials.

6. More high level content. Not onlya 8 man raid with 4 turns every 6 months. I know is too much job, but more variety helps. Not only bosses, high level dungeons too.

7. Remove the specialist or just add the option to get all of them. No more specialist locked things. Also a complete redefinition of Red Scrips system if you continue with them.

8. Swim! And dive!

9. Less weekly restrictions. I know keep player paying every month is important, but I think there are too low quantity on, e.g. tomes or scripts.

10. Please, this time release the Relic weapon on launch, don't make us wating 6 months for it.

11. Rework on the character animations and customization. We need better animations, less robotic and generic, and physics if possible. I prefer this than better graphics.

12. About MSQ, probably Square Enix already has the story preapred, but I like we retunr to the fight agains Empire and the Ascians, instead of participate on a single region war (Dragonsong War), and fight the real menace again.

13. And last, please, don't make our character look like a spectator, like 3.1 and 3.2. More participation and more relevant role on story. We cannot stay in a cutscene only doing emotes and not even fight agains nothing (that Warriors or Darkness fight scene from 3.1 is a bullshit, sorry to say, we should kick those guys asses at least for a bit instead of just look who they defeat the others whole our character even not draw the weapon, it is ridiculous as we are at least a strong than them). And this also include make our character again a true Warrior of Light, a entity who others respect (or even fear if they are our enemies, like Thordan in the end). I want to feel powerful again. Not just a random NPC more in the story.

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Originally Posted by Xlantaa

And last, please, don't make our character look like a spectator, like 3.1 and 3.2. More participation and more relevant role on story. We cannot stay in a cutscene only doing emotes and not even fight agains nothing (that Warriors or Darkness fight scene from 3.1 is a bullshit, sorry to say, we should kick those guys asses at least for a bit instead of just look who they defeat the others whole our character even not draw the weapon, it is ridiculous as we are at least a strong than them). And this also include make our character again a true Warrior of Light, a entity who others respect (or even fear if they are our enemies, like Thordan in the end). I want to feel powerful again. Not just a random NPC more in the story.

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This is something that always made me wonder...
I understand that our character can't speak for real, it would be too hard to ask an actor for every different character voice, but....
why can't our character say something during cutscene? Why can't you write a dialogue as if our character was speaking and interacting with other NPCs? Only thing they do is /yes 90% of the time

I am fine with the areas being large. Just put 2 aetheryte crystals in each zone at reasonable points on the map. Churning mist is a good example. And Azys La is a bad example.

I wish for swimming though.