QoL they should implement

This is my rant thread, but you're free to add things to the cause and maybe someone on SE will drop by and notice what could be fixed since being vocal on reddit only makes zealots downvote you to the seven hells.

Remove: (PENDING)

• Allagan Tomestone of Lore (Superseded by Poetics)
• Allagan Tomestone of Scripture (Same as above)

Why? It adds useless code to the overall spaghetti code we already have to live it, so make a flat conversion of existing ones and round down the lowest possible to one. They could use the system like how ventures were tuned into currency instead to simplify things for people who fee like still holding on to them for no particular reason...

• Role abilities limitation (i.e make them baseline or remove the limitation)
  
  Why? It's a thing of the past and there's nothing exploitable about it. Same as Protect. I know that YoshidaP sees it as nostalgic/iconic (not ubisoft iconic!) and all but it's obnoxious to say the least. Same as cleric stance that was fixed, even though it still lingers. It was at least in the RIGHT direction! So keep the base as it's now but remove the limit. Maybe even add a small explanation like "optional role abilities", even though we know they're clearly not. And explain to new players that they might come in handy or something.
  
  This goes for Classes as well. There's 10 abilities and 10 abilities you can use at most. If this is some kind of trial and error thing for new players then it's bad game design 101. But at least it's going in the right direction. I will not mention the mess that was cross-class skills and other issues we had from 2.0 till 4.0.

Add: (PENDING)

• Add Weekly/Daily Hunts to the "Timers" window.
• Add HP values to target bar (and target's target if possible).
  

Fix: (PENDING)

• Let us turnin Verity gear for GC seals. Please! Do let not let us wait another xpack just for this when the gear became "obsolete" as of patch 4.1. Even desynthesizing if possible just anything.
• Remove the cap on Poetics and Wolf Marks, as they serve no purpose now except for low level gear and glam (PVP). If the cap is still there due to coding issues then so be it.
• Make Allowances reset once a week (all 100) instead of every 12 hours. I understand that this was used for time gating in the past, but that was in the past and the future is now!
• Combine Allied and Centurio Seals add a hard cap for the upcoming 340 gear you can buy each week (this would also solve the underlying issue ignored for now.) You could for example use the amount of seals you can gather in total each week and go from there.
  
  
• Combine Impact proc (RDM) into Jolt, this makes 100% sense in PVP and PVE.
• Combine "Action" combos into one button, or at least add the option to allow such a thing. As key clutter is something this game still suffers from (sadly).
  
  There is no "depth" added from pressing 1-2-3 or 1-1-1. It only adds more (other) buttons to press and more keybindings to use overall, and it's nothing but obnoxious. And for those that suffer from "muscle memory" let them have the current option if they so desire. Clearly, if you can add this to PVP then it's possible to do so outside as well. This is partially already available if you play with a controller and use extensive macros. I do not play with a controller but I know many that do!
  
  Streamline melee jobs, especially MNK:
  
• From a lore perspective, your position relative to the mob sure makes sense, but in-game it does not! Out in the open having melee jobs (according to game logic) is to run around and/or stun (if possible) to maximize damage (if even possible!) because certain abilities require you to be behind or by the side of certain mobs is tedious. this means only <1% of total mobs will even let you use your full potency skills (excluding boss encounters when a tank or boss is standing still, and of course POTD that have positional requirements removed). By defined logic you are giving people cake but they may only have a slice once in a blue moon. So if possible, remove the restriction in outdoor content at least.
  
• Now let's talk about MNK. If anything make all Fists of *** passive traits like NIN got theirs (fall damage, running speed). You remove useless clutter (both abilities and keybindings required) which is nothing but good! Same with their positionals which should seriously be fixed. If this game was a tactical RPG then yes, using the flank and rear as damage modifiers would be something neat, but this is an MMORPG where movement happens in real-time hence why it's nothing but bad design choice (from a gameplay perspective). If anything you could streamline monks different combos to mirror that of a SAM, which is what it's mostly related too. MNKs by far require the most redesign out of all jobs currently (the rest only need potency tweaks). What's up with Tornado Kick? Remove it and give them and DRGs an "execution" ability which every other melee and ranged job has.
  
• You are slowly but surely depreciating Heavy Thrust for DRG and that is good! I understand the core concept of it but like mentioned before it is nothing but obnoxious, and it does not differentiate a skilled player from a bad(/new) player, it shows the difference between someone who can read and someone who does not (care what it does). Both now and back then, it did not nothing but add (the illusion of) "complexity" as many usually point out.
  
  And no, it did not. It just did exactly how most (and current) abilities were handled and that is pressing buttons for the sake of pressing them so combat does not become stale and give the hint of "tactic" as seen considering what games this is based upon.
  
  
• Make all Charge and Disengage abilities cost no resources (looking at you SAM and WAR). And while were at it give everyone a similar level for when they learn them.
  - RDM get Corps-a-corps at 6!
  - MNK get Shoulder Tackle at 35
  - DRG gets 3 different Jumps at 30, 45 and 50
  - NIN get Shukuchi at 40
  - SAM/DRK get Hissatsu: Gyoten/Plunge at 54
  - WAR get Onslaught at 62(???)
  
  The only one that makes sense is Corpse a-corpse due to RDMs melee combo which is complete at 50 (if you exclude Verholy/flare) but the others do not, and the fact that WAR gets theirs at 62 is mind boggling to say the least! Not to mention it costs 20 while also being gimped by the fact that Overpower needs a target unlike DRK who can just Plunge (insert target here) and use Unleash without having to worry about enemy position(s) since it'll hit anything around them (same as Total Eclipse for PLD). The later 3 could've at least gotten their charges at 50.
  
  
  Astrologian:
• SMN/SCH pet summon time was reduced to 3 seconds (down from 6). This shows that something could (should) be done about Diurnal and Nocturnal Sect as well. There's tools already avail for AST right there. For example; Time Dilation/Celestial Opposition could be used for Aspected Helios AND Aspected Benefic if the event should present itself for either sect (on any given time), instead they're mostly used to extend card buff duration. This is of course due to the fact that either sect CANNOT be in fact changed during combat (and precasting is a huge waste) which makes me really wonder where the shared recast timers comes from. Current logic is if we ignore the lvling aspect and focus only on endgame is that if your other healer in the raid is either WHM or SCH you change your Sect accordingly. Sadly that is not the case, and we all know that.
  
  This would add more flow to the RNGess of AST gameplay overall (flipping cards) since you would be able to adapt to "any" situation presented. SCH does this already with either pet since they're able to recast either, and each have their unique abilities that do NOT in fact share CDs hence why it's possible to solo heal as SCH w/ pet assuming you and your party (8 man) know what they are doing.
  
  
• Card RNG an general mechanic is up next. (TBA)
  
  
  Stances and Tanks:
• Streamline stances (even for DRK) as they make no sense in current game version nor has it done since 2.0 release. You recently reduced the HP of mobs in 1-49 and 51-59 dungeons (4.1), which means you do have a sense of direction even if somewhat slow.
  
  
• In other words; give them Tank stances at lvl 15 and DPS at either the same level or 30 or whatever you deem worthy. This makes a lot of sense for everyone but especially for new/future players. Also, each CD based AoE (Circle of Scorn, Salted Earth and Steel Cyclone) should be learned at 30 or something instead of keeping it at later levels (45-52). Not only does this help with enmity generation for new players or tanks that are undergeared. But also since overgeared players tend to pull aggro quite easily from inexperienced tanks overall.
  
  
• PLD Shield and Sword Oaths share a recast timer (GCD) and cost mana. Which mean you can stance dance on the fly. The penalty is GCD and mana cost.
  
• DRK got Grit that costs mana and suffers from GCD (like above, meaning it aligns with PLDs stances overall) while Darkside has a 5 sec oGCD + mana cost.
  
• WAR have Defiance and Deliverance. They share a 10 second CD but are otherwise unaffected by GCD like AST with their sects which means it's a double edged sword, with more leaning towards lacking consistency than QoL compared to PLD or DRK. WAR may however change their stance in any given situation if you ignore the 10 second oGCD penalty which means they're ALSO able to do so [U]during and outside of combat. Why AST does not follow this "rule" is beyond me. If you look at certain boss dungeon mechanics from Heavenwards onward they are actually tuned towards this 10 second cooldown, allowing you to change stance to deal more DPS then switch back once the boss enters their next phase. A good example would be Amikiri or Shisui Yohi from Shisui of the Violet Tides when it enters the fog phase or Zenos Yae Galvus in Ala Mhigo where there's plenty of time.
  
  The only stances currently streamlined and that actually "make sense" from both a human and in-game logic would be PLDs Oaths (like with SMN/SCH pets).
  
• In other words; make PLD/WAR stances and AST sects into one shared button for each job and mirror the Oath mechanic (game wise) if the code allows it. This saves both one less button to press and bind (and macro for some). What they all (should) have in common is that they share the same CD/penalty and that it's not possibleto have both like it is now. There is nothing that can be exploited apart from a VERY VERY VERY slight DPS increase for tanks and QoL for both tanks and AST if you were to follow the 2.5 O/GCD route for example.
  
  
• Combine Blood Weapon and Blood Price for DRK into the same button. (it's all based on Grit) like how you combined Unchained/Inner Release for WAR. And please, let both have their own cooldowns, i.e not being locked to the same ability. Actually, this is a very plausible idea, and increase Carve and Spit mp gain by 3x, as the CD is far from worth it when the potency trade off is nowhere near the mp gained as a tradeoff. You want us to manage MP and Darkside better? Make this happen then.
  
• Please make it so that Overpower for WAR does not require a target, as neither Flash, Total Eclipse or Circle of Scorn does for PLD or Unleash for DRK which is sad because neither Steel Cyclone/Decimate does for WAR. Same could be said about DRKs Dark Passenger while we're at it.
  
  As mentioned above, most abilities are similar (near identical) for several jobs but have weird restrictions for no good reason other than being there just because.

When you are on a specific DoH job and you search for a crafting recipe - would love for it to actually pull up the class you're on first. So for example - I'm on my weaver, and I do a general search for "cotton" because I can't remember the specific name - let the weaver recipes show up first! Tired of always having to scroll. :X

Add ALL currency to the currency tab. Any tokens/gears/random bits that you can use to buy something from an NPC should be stored on the currency tab as they are in fact currency.

This one is probably for me only, but I would love for them to adjust the day/night cycles a bit. I swear it always feels as if it is night time and/or raining in game. It's just dark so often. If they could tweak it so that the daylight/dusk/dawn portions are stretched out more, I'd be in heaven.

so it looks like you are pretty new, the old tomes go away every even patch, so lore will poof on 4.2 also, all gear up to 340 will be able to be turned in for seals come 4.2

Revert Esuna to being built into the core Job skills. If you want to give SCH the skill at a level lower than 40 - as you rightly should - implement a lower level trait/skill that's locked behind the level 30 quest. If healers can avoid taking it, they will, and people will die, if not to Doom, then to some of the ridiculously painful dots we need to deal with.

Crafting log: We currently have "Search for Item by Crafting Method". I would like to add "Search for Item by Gathering Method". The functionality already exists in the Custom Deliveries window for the BTN/MIN items - add it to the crafting log so you can see where the mats you need can be collected. Either mark base mats with a flag so the option will only show for them, or, push comes to shove, follow the way "Search by Crafting Method" is implemented today - if the item you're looking for doesn't exist, just show a blank screen in the Log.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Revert Esuna to being built into the core Job skills. If you want to give SCH the skill at a level lower than 40 - as you rightly should - implement a lower level trait/skill that's locked behind the level 30 quest. If healers can avoid taking it, they will, and people will die, if not to Doom, then to some of the ridiculously painful dots we need to deal with.

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YES, please :( Esuna is such a vital skill, all jobs should be taking it. And if there is a skill that all jobs should always have on hand, this should not be grouped into the "role skills".

Speaking of Healer role options - Protect should probably go away as well or tweak it somehow so that it's an active skill (maybe more like the old Stoneskin?). I know the skill is a FF staple, but there is very little reason why healers should have a "use it and forget it" role skill. In most cases, it is cast once, and then not thought of again.

allied seals were never combined into centurio seals. the reason they didn't show up on Yoshi-P's character in the Live Letter was because that character was never given any!

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Originally Posted by Senhime

[*]Please make it so that Overpower for WAR does not require a target, as neither Flash , Total Eclipse or Circle of Scorn does for PLD or Unleash for DRK which is sad because neither Steel Cyclone/Decimate does for WAR. Same could be said about DRKs Dark Passenger while we're at it.

[*]Streamline Tank and DPS stances for tanks as it makes no sense in current game version (actually, it made no sense since Heavensward).

In other words; give them tank stances at lvl 15 and DPS at either the same level or 30 or whatever you deem worthy. This makes a lot of sense for everyone but especially for new/future players.

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i agree with these changes, we had a new player join our fc recent, a war. He found it awkward to use overpower since it requires a target and is LoS based, it can be hard ti gather up mobs more so with how fast dos attack. give war an circle aoe, like axe swing, or make OP a circular motion rather then a down strike.

it also makes more sense to have tank stance @ 15, its the start if group dungeons, and would help go along way to aid tanks in learning their stances.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

allied seals were never combined into centurio seals. the reason they didn't show up on Yoshi-P's character in the Live Letter was because that character was never given any!

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it should be though. allied seals are hard to get with the way things are, they need to go back to old content and change them to fit the new content.

have 3 dalies and 1 weekly hunt bill for each area take out fates from allied hunt bills, and give only centerio seals. would make getting the higher speed easier, as as of right now you get 2 speed boosts a week, but only if you do all hunt bills everyday. which include waiting on fates.

Do some rank A and S ARR hunts and you will get your allied seals way quicker. I have unlocked all the max speeds a very long time ago, and now i dont even know what to buy with them. Also dont bother to wait for the fates if they are not up yet and you have something else to do, the time needed for that make it kinda unproductive.

Plus it was weird since the beginning that allied and centurio seals were announced to be merged, since our GC and the centurio clan are lore wise two different organisations it was making no sense for them to give suddenly the same rewards. Wouldn't surprise me if it was indeed misinterpreted from some video/screenshot and ended in a false information.

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Originally Posted by Kleeya

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which no one on my server really does s rank hunts in ARR areas, and finding A ranks can be a bit hard if you don't know the time they respawn, and some arr zones are a bit big.

but really, I wasn't complaining about it. I wasn't asking for advice. I was suggesting a clean up to a system no one really uses. its counter intuitive to have a disconnect in how hunts work between ARR vs hw + sb.

come consistency will go a long way. ARR stuff feels outdated compared to how hw and sb, and it shouldn't be.

lore wise the clan can partner up with the gc to give a uniformed seal, and hunt bills.

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Originally Posted by BigRed5392

which no one on my server really does s rank hunts in ARR areas, and finding A ranks can be a bit hard if you don't know the time they respawn, and some arr zones are a bit big.

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Prioritize the mount speeds for those areas and look up guides about the S ranks. It's not magic nor is it secret knowledge. Ariyala deffo has a tracker for your server, too.
Just because your server doesn't utilize this system doesn't mean other servers don't, either.

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I was suggesting a clean up to a system no one really uses.

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You don't use it because you don't hunt right. If you do, Allied Seals are ridiculously easy to come by, though I'll admit the daily mark system for them is borked.

Would like to see a similar crafting material bank storage that GW2 has, inventory space issues would vanish forever

Would like to see upcoming dungeons as 5 mans as the new base instead of 4 man, with an extra DPS spot, to help with dps q times

Let us change the retainer without exit the summon bell already xD

Also a notice when your buying speed boosts, or master craftsmith recipies that you already have that one, without having to dig through achievements to figure it out

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Originally Posted by Kyp

Also a notice when your buying speed boosts, or master craftsmith recipies that you already have that one, without having to dig through achievements to figure it out

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That's already in the game? Unless I misunderstood you, if you try to buy a speed boost you already own, or a masterbook you already own, it tells you. That's how I know which master crafter books I have, or which gatherer folklore books I have - I click until I get something I don't get the message for lmao

Remove positionals on overworld mobs.
Return of "Required" Skills to each class from Cross Role (Rampart and it's variants back to tanks, Esuna to healers, etc)

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which no one on my server really does s rank hunts in ARR areas, and finding A ranks can be a bit hard if you don't know the time they respawn, and some arr zones are a bit big.

but really, I wasn't complaining about it. I wasn't asking for advice. I was suggesting a clean up to a system no one really uses. its counter intuitive to have a disconnect in how hunts work between ARR vs hw + sb.

come consistency will go a long way. ARR stuff feels outdated compared to how hw and sb, and it shouldn't be.

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Yes, that's the way to go, dont take any advice to undestand the game and getting better at it, just ask anything to be nerfed, i will try that for the next omega 2 savage i will wipe on XD

Irony aside since the 4.1 update, and S ARR ranks giving centurio seals, which means free upgrading to 340 stuff, these hunts are overcrowded on my server even at 3am. Without the right active hunt linkshells you might think its dead while in fact it is not. As soon as i connected to the game today i did get in them two rank ARR rank S spotted, that's 200 allied and 100 centurio seals in less than five minutes. But if didn't have these linkshells, i wouldn't even know they were players killing them if i wasn't on the right map seeing tons of "inv pls" in the chatbox. And even if nobody are really hunting rank S in your server, you can always try to spawn them yourself (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...umed-mechanics).

To know when a hunt might be on you have got some websites where players are entering the moment of death of each hunt, and with the site processing the reapparition timer you know when to hunt what and when not. This alone explain how some players find some rank A mobs after another, especially if you are a whole coordinated group scattering through the maps to find them quicker, and you know the usual spots they are spawning on. I usually always have this one open in the background when hunting : http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/

Buying max speed for big maps first is indeed kinda needed, especially if they are some early pullers on your server.

Now i am not saying that you get used to hunting in one day, it takes some time. But when really trying it is not that hard to unlock all max speeds at all.

And to be back on qol, i would really like to have an option to sort mascotts alphabetically, to find quicker if i have already one of them or not. Or even better, having the number of items possessed search telling you if they are already in your collection on top of telling you how many you got in your inventory and retainers.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Prioritize the mount speeds for those areas and look up guides about the S ranks. It's not magic nor is it secret knowledge. Ariyala deffo has a tracker for your server, too.
Just because your server doesn't utilize this system doesn't mean other servers don't, either.



You don't use it because you don't hunt right. If you do, Allied Seals are ridiculously easy to come by, though I'll admit the daily mark system for them is borked.

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i play on ps4 and don't always have access to a pc, and i need to replace my phone as it barely holds a charge.

how about instead of poking fun at others, maybe consider changes could be nice. i work most of the day, so i can't always be on for hunts. I rely on the bills.

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Originally Posted by Kleeya

Yes, that's the way to go, dont take any advice to undestand the game and getting better at it, just ask anything to be nerfed, i will try that for the next omega 2 savage i will wipe on XD

Irony aside since the 4.1 update, and S ARR ranks giving centurio seals, which means free upgrading to 340 stuff, these hunts are overcrowded on my server even at 3am. Without the right active hunt linkshells you might think its dead while in fact it is not. As soon as i connected to the game today i did get in them two rank ARR rank S spotted, that's 200 allied and 100 centurio seals in less than five minutes. But if didn't have these linkshells, i wouldn't even know they were players killing them if i wasn't on the right map seeing tons of "inv pls" in the chatbox. And even if nobody are really hunting rank S in your server, you can always try to spawn them yourself (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...umed-mechanics).

To know when a hunt might be on you have got some websites where players are entering the moment of death of each hunt, and with the site processing the reapparition timer you know when to hunt what and when not. This alone explain how some players find some rank A mobs after another, especially if you are a whole coordinated group scattering through the maps to find them quicker, and you know the usual spots they are spawning on. I usually always have this one open in the background when hunting : http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/

Buying max speed for big maps first is indeed kinda needed, especially if they are some early pullers on your server.

Now i am not saying that you get used to hunting in one day, it takes some time. But when really trying it is not that hard to unlock all max speeds at all.

And to be back on qol, i would really like to have an option to sort mascotts alphabetically, to find quicker if i have already one of them or not. Or even better, having the number of items possessed search telling you if they are already in your collection on top of telling you how many you got in your inventory and retainers.

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i wasn't asking for advice though. I find it rude to just give it, with out asking if i require it. I know about the hunt LS's, hunt tracker. I don't always have access to my pc or my smartphone (barely holds a charge) If i wanted advice, i would have asked for it.

I'm suggesting a change for consistency, not "to make it easy" i personally find it hard as i work 12 hrs a day on a 2-2-3 schedule iirc (i worked a ton of over time lately) and switch between working 6am-6pm to working 6pm-6am. i get 2-3 days off with 1-2 day i'm on call which lately, have had to go in.

Most of my seals come from the hunt bill because that is what I can realistically do. I'm not new to hunting, just got everything I wanted year or so ago. Only got back into it for the speeds as they help with gathering.

instead of coming in to derail a qol thread with "advice" how about either a) not post if you disagree. or B) post why you disagree. Just shoving advice down peoples throat with out asking questions is pretty rude. As is the passive aggressive retort when politely refused :)


also i recommend looking up what a nerf is, you used it incorrectly in the context. :) asking for the ARR hunt bills to work like the Centerio hunt bills Or combining the currency to 1 item isn't a nerf. :) Its a QoL change. A nerf is making something easier for sake of it being easier.

im asking for consistency not ease. :)

also no such thing as early pulling.