Fundamental Changes You'd Like to See for 7.x and onward

So, given the 10-year plan, the game doesn't seem likely to spiral off (intentionally, at least) any time soon.

What sort of big changes or new long-term investments/directions would you like to see going forward?


Note that improvements are already in the works for lighting, texture resolution and shaders (especially for characters), and foliage and object density.

I'll be making a shortlist based on most liked posts, separated by category. These are not mine (my own are at the top of page 5 and included here only if echoed elsewhere), though I may adjust the posts' original language somewhat to better fit within shared categories.

Note: Feel free to edit your posts to keep all your suggestions neatly together even if more thoughts arise later. I'd just ask that you put "Edit (<date>)" so that I know to check what was added and can add it to the list.


OTHER TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS

• Ability to verify files w/o reinstalling the whole thing. Downloading patch files should not depend on having an active subscription (so that slower connections need not waste days of sub time downloading). (Post #101)
• Remove the double-ping cost from servers refreshing action ICDs upon receipt of server confirmation, either by removing that refresh or by including within it a command to reduce the ICD's duration by one's estimated round-trip ping. (Many posts)
• Don't kick people from the game client upon lobby error (yes, this can be avoided even now, but only via 3rd party mods), and have the error provide the disconnected player a ticket by which to tacitly/automatically put them as near as feasible to the front of queue, if any.
• Let everything queue properly. Sprint, ground-targeted AoEs, pots, food, poisons -- all of it. (Post #58)
• Let us have toes instead of just barely sculpted bricks with lines painted on them. (Perhaps also let us actually go barefoot and have higher-poly fingers.)

GEARING (including alt-friendliness, bad luck protection, speed getting from max ilvl to actual BiS, itemization freedom and/or parity, etc.)

• No more Luminous Tools. (Post #5)

GLAMOUR

• Expand it! / Rehaul it! (Details TBD) (Many posts)
• Make "Dispel"/Natural appearance an available Glamour Plate assignment, as to be able to dispel freely. Also, let us dispel glamours freely.
• Bind glamours to jobs, not to the actual items (such that equipping a new item doesn't even temporarily break your glamour and jobs using the same pieces needn't fight over them).

HOUSING

• Expand it, especially in regards to expanding the instanced side of housing (additional apartment sizes, further feature additions, etc.). (Many posts)

CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

• Butt slider. (And possibly other sliders, like for shoulder width, width --or height not just being an overall scalar-- etc.) (Post #8, 26)
• More clans. (Post #5)
• Increase what can be changed at/via the Aesthetician. (Post #23)
• More options for existing races (especially, more faces). (Many posts)

CONTENT VARIETIES

• More replayability and rescalability of non-time-gated content. (Post #26)
• Just take advantage of cheap additions where possible. Give us more frequent interactions with, say, vendors over certain times of day, selling to or trading with them; it only costs some dialogue and incredibly simple system addition for something that makes the world seem a lot more real and lively. Let grinding some particular type of mob or doing certain FATEs potentially lead to some other stuff. Build up off of FATEs into various interactions. (Various)
• "Rewards for doing Minimum Item Level / Silence Echo content, similar to Wondrous Tails, Faux Hollows or the Blue Mage Log." (14)

COMBAT DEPTH / (UNDER)MECHANICS

JOB DESIGN

• Move away from the 2-minute meta. (Post #11, 12)

  :: While this works well as a quickly thrown-together banner, there are very distinct directions from which this could be approached. May require encounter adjustments to not simply devolve into the very same state but with more jobs excluded or forced into set compositions. [MPW / Monkey's Paw Warning]

• Completely rehaul the healer role and/or its content interactions. (Many posts)

  :: At minimum, trade a good third of the healing oGCDs for more offensive and utility-based actions?

• Allow most shortish-CD oGCDs to scale with GCD speed (and therefore SkS/SpS) as not to waste partly SkS/SpS GCD benefits by having them clip into the earliest window of CD activation (wherein they would otherwise therefore delay CD use over the GCD animation time and potentially reduce CD frequency despite their Haste). (Post #3)

POWERS CUSTOMIZATION (benefits for multi-classing, further job customization, etc.)

STORY INTERACTION / DIRECTION

• "No more revolving door of MSQ writers. Pick one, and stick with them." (Post #13)
• "More of a focus on high/dark fantasy storytelling and locations." (Post #13)

WORLD INTERACTION / DESIGN

• Let story-progressed/developed towns develop over their storylines, allowing new players to see them grow.

OTHER BIG QUALITY-OF-LIFE CHANGES

• Job crystals, once acquired for the given weapon type, are equipped automatically; jobs required for all dungeons with a minimum level of 30 or higher. (Post #5)
• Either allow the option of retaining skills despite syncing down gear and stats in down-leveled content (even if that means working harder for nearly the same performance as those using fewer skills) or seriously rework the acquisition of skills (reaching a satisfying kit at a far sooner level). (Post #23)
• FC Finder (and perhaps similar tools) available in-game. (Post #7)

First of all, being able to choose your unsheathed cpose like you can the sheathed ones instead of it being based on gender, I hate that some people (not me, definitely not me) have to use third party software just to have a cool idle pose for jobs like DRG while playing a female character and even then other people without that software (me, definitely me) can't even see that pose and just see the lame one

in terms of job design, I'd like to see them incentivise using your healing smartly to optimize damage instead of being able to just spam them out whenever (of course you should still have free healing abilities, but they shouldn't be as common as they are now on every job but SCH), as of now I don't see much of a point to spells like Pneuma in casual content, since you can just press Kerachole then Ixochole on every raidwide and get a BETTER result since you gain Mana.
This may be a hot take but Lillies should be in the territory of "slight DPS loss, DPS gain if you play around raidbuffs" and let you charge up 2 Blood Lillies at once so you can drop both into 2m buffs, maybe also give WHM a 2m personal buff so it still functions while playing with selfish DPS

this is probably also a hot take and most likely a stupid one considering I don't play Caster or Ranged, but I think having a "Taxes" for Casters and Ranged is totally fair as long as they keep the bosses hitbox small in the next tier, especially the tax for Ranged since they have completely free movement, one tax I would remove would be "Rez Tax" but not by just ignoring Rez while balancing but by giving SMN and RDM an ability on a 60s cooldown that deals a large amount of damage but puts Rez on a 40s cooldown, so you still have a rez for prog but it's far more limited when you're going for a clear or reclear (BLM should still deal more damage than them)

I think gearing can be improved by making more oGCDs scale with skill/spell speed so SS/SkS tiers aren't as important and adding more damage to GCDs, so more jobs can have actual "builds" like BLM instead of just choosing which damage stat you wanna go with

that's all I can think of for now

Lemme be a goblin. I don't even care if I can't customize my look or anything, just lemme be a goblin. And none of that costume crap- I wanna do dungeons and trials and junk in goblin state too.

Character creation expanded, with new clans added - we're not getting any other races after this, so might as well expand CC.

Mandatory job crystals equipped for MSQ dungeons from Brayflox on (toggled off if you're in a premade group via the queue options like unsyncing and the like for those who want the "challenge" or whatever.)

Expansion of the glamour system.

Expansion of the housing system.

NO MORE LUMINOUS TOOLS, please.

I know with the calls for like, talent trees or multiclassing, they likely won't go that route - the devs have discussed it before with it being more a "we want EVERYONE to be included in party comps for all challenges, not just whatever is meta because of their builds" and they're unfortunately right. The minute there's a minmaxed build on something, if you're not following that or you're trying to join a static that's not with friends, you're just not considered because you're not the meta. Happens in WoW, happens in FFXI where if you don't have the "correct" subjob with the "correct" loadout, you just don't get parties. It's not really fun to play that way.

I'm sure I'll think of more things later.

This whole "bad luck protection" thing.

It's dumb.

You can't protect against the nature of randomness without (imo) greatly upsetting the balance of things somehow.

I mean sure I'd like to punish people that are on the floor for most of a fight and yet still be the one to win the weapon/mount/shiny thing etc.

I'd like to purchase bad luck protection for real life lottery plz. I never win the 40 million dollar prize after all the years of playing lottery so i should get it now right? it's "MY TURN" lol

Log in Screen - The ability to change the order your characters

Housing - Enough houses to satisfy demand on all servers (or at least come a lot closer to it)
Instanced houses offered as an option alongside the wards without demolition for people who'd like a house, like to take breaks and who don't care for the neighbourhood
Accountbound houses allowing us to share them with out alts
Settings allowing us to toggle off food use in FC houses
Settings allowing FC members to interact with items in FC Rooms (food, vendors, crafting stations, bells etc)
Upgraded Apartments, larger sizes at least and space to place some outdoor furnishings ideally

Free Companies - A proper heirarchy for FC ranks so people cannot promote to or above their own rank
Less cumbersome method of crafting buffs (it takes a ridiculous amount of clicks)
A chance of getting a higher grade of buff if you make Excellent Progress when crafting (that means introducing something above Grade III)
Or a chance to get all your materials back (anything to make the tedium of all that clicking and sitting through the cutscenes worth it!)
More perks for ranking up your FC
Content that is FC exclusive that all members can participate in
More items that can be bought with FC seals
FC Finder in-game

Butt slider

Let's see
1. Yoshi move out and let some one new and fresh take over.
2.full rework of all classes in game.
3.all dungeons be used for extreme roulette ,scale up the one that need it.
4. Tank s and healers won't be as OP as they now.
That what I can think of for now as big ones.

Glamour system overhaul.

Removal of the 2min burst meta.

1) Character customization: We have better textures and graphics incoming with the overhaul, but we also need an expanded cache of options!

2) Glamour system: Make every item "All Class Glamour", except for Artifact sets and weapons. There's no conceptual reason to have the limitations we have today (see https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...her-jobs-sets/ for details on why);

3) Savage loot: I don't know how to change it, but something must be done to address the unfairness from that loot system for Party Finder raiders. I think I'm on my fourth week in a ROW without getting anything for P5S (trying to gear a healer job), while I see people winning every item in the loot table at once by themselves.

4) Job design: Hot take but I think the 2 minute burst cycles myst be extinguished. They are clearly a design choice and works fine as such, however it limits heavily job design as everything must be gravitating around this. I think it's way more interesting to interact with other players on a more personal level (such as AST card buffs) than with everyone at once every two minutes.

5) Blue Mage: Another hot take, but I like the way the job is designed. What I hate is how it just doesn't work well with the Party Finder, thus making it very hard to keep a flow of running content as its 'endgame'. The best way to mend this is pretty simple: let we join instances by ourselves, so we can complete weekly log with Basic Instinct (we don't get credit without a full party). Also please, move the Blue Mage update for the first half of the expansion!

6) Housing: I feel that they are aware that instanced housing is the best way to go and must be a technical problem holding them back, so I wouldn't comment on that implementation, but in the meantime... They could make at least apartments/FC rooms a little better with more item capacity. And please, if players were able to make tools to manipulate a vertical axis for furnishings, it means is possible, so I hope that is considered for improvements.

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

So, given the 10-year plan, the game doesn't seem likely to spiral off (intentionally, at least) any time soon.

What sort of big changes or new long-term investments/directions would you like to see going forward?


Note that improvements are already in the works for lighting, texture resolution and shaders (especially for characters), and foliage and object density.

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No more revolving door of MSQ writers. Pick one, and stick with them.

More of a focus on high/dark fantasy storytelling and locations. Less modernism and memes like the accursed scenes that came out of Endwalker.

A full pantheon of summons for Summoner.

A complete rework of the healer role.

Eyebrows for Highlander.

The addition of another race that uses the highlander male build, like Aegyl or something similar.

More longer hairstyles for female characters.

A full new cast that has both the visual diversity and diversity of backgrounds/personalities that the scions are lacking in.

No more "little brother" characters.

Permanent deaths and sacrifices in the main cast.

Deep Dungeon/Relic Zones releasing earlier on in the expansion patch cycle, along with more of that content.

The addition of a Beast Mastery Hunter equivalent from WoW as a full job.

Blue Mage having access to Duty Finder and the main story.

The actual conclusion of the Ivalice/Bozja plotline in content created specifically for it.

OTHER TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENTS

• The menus are too big now. Get rid of what we don't need anymore or merge it.
• Re-scale the health and sync of content from previous expansions to tier sync, so it's not too easy and boring.

GEARING (including alt-friendliness, bad luck protection, speed getting from max ilvl to actual BiS, itemization freedom and/or parity, etc.)

• Always have 2 chests in savage, but change it so that if you already cleared for the week, you automatically roll Need and if you win the item gets discarded.

CONTENT VARIETIES

• Rewards for doing Minimum Item Level / Silence Echo content, similar to Wondrous Tails, Faux Hollows or the Blue Mage Log.

WORLD INTERACTION

• Less S rank conditions that involve killing 300 enemies. Think of new ideas or new versons like Armstrong, Ophioneus and Burfurlur.

WORLD DESIGN

• If we get new areas similar to Eureka, they don't need to become flat like Hydatos just because some people don't want to navigate.

OTHER BIG QUALITY-OF-LIFE CHANGES

• Setting so that when you turn the camera or click hotbar buttons, you can't target players or chocobos in battle and lose a GCD.
• Let us log in faster if we get disconnected and are in the middle of a dungeon. Don't exit the game just because there is no connection yet.

Move away from how formulaic everything is. While there are always some different things added in patches, in many ways, the patch cycle is very formulaic. If anyone ever wants to know when something will be added, just look at 3.X, 4.X and 5.X patches and that gives you an idea when new raids, 24-man, trading hunt marks for upgrade items, crafter/gatherer gear, relic quests, etc etc etc.

It isn't something that will ever happen, but make these extreme/savage instances less scripted. Instead of it being linear with:
- Mechanic 1, wait 10s
- Mechanic 2, wait 15s
- Mechanic 3 or 4, wait 15s
- Mechanic 5, wait 10s
Phase Change
- repeat above, just with modifications

Change it up. Force players to be reactionary or recognize that the next ability can be any 1 out of say... 10 mechanics. Then, remove the enrage timer entirely. If a group can survive this non-scripted onslaught, then reward them for doing so. Maybe compromise and put in soft enrages only - putting vuln stacks or damage buffs out there.

Also, add expert recipes on the difficulty level of the water otter fountain, but for crafted gear. Maybe make it the equivalent of i615. Crafting is overly simple. Keep it simple for those that want to just click two buttons and HQ something. Add in a reason to actually know how to craft, but make it worthwhile and not just for glam.

1. Being able to differentiate between physical and magical attacks
2. Hairstyles and headgear being available for all races
3. More safe slots for raid markers
4. Tacklebox for fishing( this is most likely not happening) or extreme streamline of bait
5. Unhomoginization of role actions and simply just have each job have its own version of the role action.
6. Rework of healer dps actions and gameplay.
7. Rebalance of all ranged dps
8. Remove the weekly cap for beast tribe quests for stormblood expansion and earlier
9. Provide a solution to the gearing problem in ffxiv
10. Better rewards for criterion dungeons and pvp battlepass.

Since we're not getting any new races, I'd love to see more customization added for the races we already have. More face options and perhaps giving other options such as adding muscle sliders to races that don't have them, etc. More tail, horn, ear, etc. options. The works. Also, please allow us to change eye color at the aesthetician. If I'm remembering correctly, Yoshi P originally stated this would be included before it launched forever ago and it never was... Just imagine it's contacts or something, come onnnn. :/ I'd love for them to fix the issues surrounding Viera and Hrothgar (hats, hairs, etc).

Instanced housing. I'm very grateful to have my own house but it's horrible to think that if I ever drop my sub I could potentially lose it and never have a hope of getting it back... So please, give us better instanced housing than apartments.

I NEED an actual pet class in Final Fantasy now that summoners no longer have combat pets. What was essentially the loss of the job I resonated with the most in XIV caused me to unsub for half a year and I dunno if I am going to resub after this month if the itch leaves me since I lost that connection to the world. So yeah...beast master like job or something pet focused.

Some type of PVE side-content with changed combat style. Something along the lines of the new PVP actions, but in a specific side content (next Eureka-like) and it evolves the further into the content you go with new gear that also enhances each job actions and traits.
Just some content where the combat is different and each job can feel unique in it.

A complete upending of the entire design philosophy with respect to the healer role. Design them for this game, not Hello Sylphie Island Adventure, where the twenty copies of Cure 2 and Medica rot alongside the 1111111111111111 ☆~super awesome gameplay~☆

My biggest thing is to make healing fun again. Because it is not, and it used to be.

Combat system overhaul, like final fantasy xiv 1.0 giant dragon explosion treatment... Get rid of the 2.5 second cool down... Make special attacks slower but more impactful.... Make things so that I can actually chat and stuff during combat. Bring back small parties for exp....make the world feel dangerous.

Character Customization - Expand the character creation and customization options the following ways, especially now that graphics are going to be improved:
+ Addition of missing options for the two latest races
+ Addition of more options for existing races overall
+ Options that reflect a wider global presence in your videogame. As an european white man, I point out how Eurocentric the majority of the choices we have are. There's very little in terms of other cultures and ethnicities being explored, and the only other major addition so far has been far eastern fashion in Stormblood. Not that there isn't any, just that it's quite rare, and the "typical neutral hollywood hairstyle" is what you see the most.
+ Have Jandelaine be able to change more to people's appearances, save Fantasias for race/clan changes
+ Improve on existing races (Higlander eyebrows, where they at?)
All without the removal of racial features.

Glamour
- Remove the job limit on non-unique gear pieces
+ In the event unique gear pieces are re-released, make them global as well (example: Virtu gear which is a re-release of classes' Memoria Misera/AF gear)

Old Content
+ More content options for Blue Mage
+ More options for the Chocobo Companion
+ More on the GC Rank system (or simplify the darn thing, as it's too long with very little progression in the past years)
+ More options for GC Squadron. As well as additions to the NPCs we can recruit (the latest two races are under-represented. Lore is not an excuse. If lore doesn't stop Au Ra and some Miqo'te from appearing, it shouldn't prevent Hrothgar and Viera after 6.0 either)
+ More/Better incentives to run old content than forcing them to remain alive for Relics.

Story (Main and Sidequests)
+ Less "chipper" characters that break sobriety and cause mood whiplash (Loporrits. Even for my friends who say they're fine and enjoyable, them being so dissonant to the mood established by us killing Zodiark and a new threat arising was awful)
+ Less death fake-outs.
+ Finish the Ivalice/Bozja story and respect the characters you add in them
+ Better lore. Hrothgar lore being watered down to "LOL Sharlayan Misconception" is not just dismissing Hrothgars, it made me not trust Sharlayan's image as a bastion of knowledge. Especially now that they are a lot free-er than ever before.
+ Make more use of your already-established lore. The only time I saw a proper use of existing racial lore was in Stormblood, and that was that. Eorzea feels less and less true to the books you published on it. And make it more interactive if possible (like having Astros be able to divine for RP purposes!)

General Content
+ Housing needs to be rethought. Island Sanctuary proved instanced housing works. The two systems can 100% coexist.
+ Better Housing Decoration system. The grid is a lie.
+ HUD improvements. I feel like there is an old-fashioned faux-medieval HUD from ARR and a more modern HUD in the latest menus added. Consolidate and standardize
+ Level Synch shouldn't revert your skills, only your stats and damage. If not, then rethink your approach skills and class flow, as the initial levels of any job are a bit tedious
+ Variant Dungeons are a good addition if anything for the lore they bring. Some normal dungeons appear barren hallways. Adding those snippets we find to our notebook would make them more interesting.

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Originally Posted by Midareyukki

a lot of good suggestions and a casual namedrop of the aesthetician

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I mean you posted a lot of great suggestions and a lot of stuff I'd love to see, but I can't get over how anyone mentioned Jandelaine by name.

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Originally Posted by vanaii

I mean you posted a lot of great suggestions and a lot of stuff I'd love to see, but I can't get over how anyone mentioned Jandelaine by name.

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...it's stupid but...

I have a hard time writing "Aeshtetician". It's honestly easier for me to call him Jandelaine ^^;

Job Design

• Healer Overhaul
• P.Range retake/overhaul (more support like)
• Resource management (NOT just job gauge - ex: MP/TP)

UI

• PARTY BUFF TIMERS FFS!
• Allow us to change buff/CD timer colors*
• Better customization of what buffs we want to track
• Optional locking system for HUD so its easier to line up elements you want
• HUD saver across characters

Housing

• Make lofts ACTUAL TOOLS we can use instead of having to glitch items we want on to them
• Give apartments various sizes from S to M to L so they actually CAN compete with housing

Glamour

• Remove role glamour restrictions already
• Viera/Hrothgar hats

Character Customization

• More faces for races other than Midlander
• Beards
• More hair styles
• Sliders (shoulder/butt/more height etc)
• Remove gender restricted poses; let us choose
• Remove horns locked to face for Au Ra
• Allow us to have more than one make up/face paint option
• Color wheel for EVERYTHING

* https://i.gyazo.com/2bcc4971107eca6a...8ae84b90dc.png Can you see that number on Draw? Yeah me neither

1. Job design improvement especially in the healer role. Heavy emphasis on job identity and diversity of playstyles, undo the 2m burst, undo the mass homogenisation, scrap the pure healer bs etc. Build jobs to be front loaded. Make multi classing beneficial but not required. Low skill floor, high skill ceiling
I want these addressed https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues at an absolute minimum. An entire role should not be crippled like this.

2. Content shake up
Move replayability and longevity in content that's not time gated for its worth like savage and extremes are. Get the relics started at the same time as savage. More party size scaling content like variant dungeon. More duels and CEs without the time gating to get back into them after a wipe. Scrap dungeons and break out of the formula somewhat.

3. Battle design
Higher difficulty across the board that requires actual healing and punishes mechanic failure. Things like slow or paralysis or even twice come ruin so the onus is on the player not the healer to fix a mistake. Return of status effects, mp management and enmity. More randomness so skill is more than just "execute rotation on this jump rope"

4. Gearing
Role based loot in savage with a system like notoriety for pugs. More meaningful horizontal progression or alternatives for stats (pso2ngs is a good example of this, you can get BIS for dps, but its worthwhile to have defensive or utility augments on your equipment too otherwise you will die in a single hit)
Seasonal lockouts and limits scale with time passed. Didn't get an alliance raid coin in week 1? Dont worry you can get 2 coins in week 2. Week 3 you can have earned a total of 3 coins.

5. System changes
Get rid of that artificial doubling of ping. players should not be required to seek out 3rd party tools in order to double or even single weave.
Change error 2002 so you aren't booted out the game
Adjust the load in priority so the boss, heals and party members and overworld npcs/interactables are first and other players last.
Improve hit detection. Snapshots are still a problem
Overhaul the glam dresser data so its only loaded when the player opens the relevant menus.
Move all materia and fishing tackle into their own inventories.

6. Glamour
Remove restrictions on class glamour. Make more armour for none tanks. Unify variants so they can be swapped between.
COLOUR WHEEL

7. Housing
Instanced housing, ditch those damn pillars. Move stairs. Allow none fc access to submarine/airship without a house. Make a damn Z axis already

8. Character customisation
Draconic au ra and increased female height. Decouple horns from faces, hrothgar hair from faces etc. Give viera their actual digitgrade feet. Increase bust and butt sizes so they aren't looking flat as a board. Increased muscle definition. Increase hand and foot definition. Give highlanders eyebrows. Adjust the previewer to show different weather and get rid of the blue filter.

9. Story
A more realistic story. Permadeaths, no more kids in our gang and better villains not "bored yandere prince" and "moping creator and his space probe". More variety of races. Explanations for if/when villains defeat us. I find it incredibly jarring how Zenos beat us when we were fresh off of defeating the likes of Alexander.

Oh and I forgot this one too:

Glamour

• Enough with the non-dyeable sets outside of raids

No more alliance raids/leveling dungeons/level cap dungeons with nondyeable gear.

Its 2022. We can have dyeable dungeon gear. Raids can remain locked as an incentive to savage, but if I as a healer am going to be stuck with white robes for the next 10 years, even with lifted glamour restrictions LET ME DYE THE DAMN WHITE OUT

Raise the minimum running specs up to at least PS4 level, or PS5 if enough actually make it to market any time soon. Sorry, potato PCs, you're dragging us all down.

Expanded character creation. Of course.

Give character creation and fantasia use a 24-hour window to adjust things that don't work out in game as well as they did in the creation menu.

Expand the armoir. At the least, all of the glamour gear from the main story should be able to be stored in it. Or, alternately (and preferably), just a straight-up glamour log like WoW.

1. Character creation preset
   
   
   There is a lot of stuff that you can't just rightfully choose when you make a character because everything is sold as a "package" rather than we "buy what we can" something that saddens me very much is that Au'ra horns are tied to their faces and the same happens with Hrothgar hairs and Viera bunny ears. making it that that a face preset is a "suggestion" rather than a package would be marvelous.
   
   
2. Classes
   
   Make thief a Starting job. that's it, I think its just really annoying to have a arr class gatekeep by level 10 10 years after it's implementation just because it was released a little late.
   
   Fully Separate Scholar and Summoner.
   That's it, just fully flesh out Scholar from Arcanist/Summoner so you don't have any worries when balancing both jobs just because they share a few skills, make it so scholar can be unlocked at MSQ 30 or ACN job quest but separate their roots in the gameplay aspect.
   
   
3. Cristal Tower
   
   On labyrinth of the Ancients and World of Darkness there one specific fight each where all three parties are separated, when you get late and is pulled to the job people always go to A spot as default, make specific spots for each party group so everyone isn't lumped out in a single spot (and you can do it since Mhachi and Ivalice feature duties that rightfully separate alliances)
   
   
4. Healers
   
   The separation of Pure healers and Shield healer didn't really affect much the healers job overall and being a healer is still quite bland, playing it didn't used to be like this during Heavensward or Stormblood but the dev team took this direction neverthless, AST and SCH used to have more interesting gameplay (cards where more diverse, energy drain lowered Aetherflow cooldown) but all this was butchered out from the healers and left them with a very stale gameplay that focus solely on healing.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Raise the minimum running specs up to at least PS4 level, or PS5 if enough actually make it to market any time soon. Sorry, potato PCs, you're dragging us all down.

Expanded character creation. Of course.

Give character creation and fantasia use a 24-hour window to adjust things that don't work out in game as well as they did in the creation menu.

Expand the armoir. At the least, all of the glamour gear from the main story should be able to be stored in it. Or, alternately (and preferably), just a straight-up glamour log like WoW.

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MMOs survive by being accessible to as many people as possible. It is why it took ages for wow to get a graphical overhaul. You don't want to alienate a good chunk of your player base.

For many games played by non-gamers, of which ff14 is one, you want to make it as accessible as possible.

Other games like this include the sims, where EA waits a long time between releases as most of the players will never upgrade their comp. They essentially wait for those old computers to die off.

Potato pcs are not dragging everybody down. They are helping to fund the game.

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Originally Posted by PirateRyanG

Potato pcs are not dragging everybody down. They are helping to fund the game.

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So were PS3 players. They got dropped in Stormblood.

I'll use your categories.

GEARING
The maximum item level increases less often, but there are more options at each level. The current model has only 2 options at the highest item level (savage raid and augmented tomestone). I would have 4 or 5 options, each coming from different kinds of content.

One of them would be the aetherial gear that used to exist, with randomized secondary stats. Some people disliked those sets because they didn't want potentially best-in-slot gear to come from an RNG grind. The solution to that is to cap the maximum potential stats of this type of gear at less than the savage raid gear, so it's never BiS. Raiding is still the way to get the strongest gear with fixed stats, but aetherial is a good option for other players (and a timesink content to farm them unless you get lucky on high stats early).

Another option could be ultra-rare, tradeable gear. It could be given a yellow icon color and be a potential drop on the final room of treasure map dungeons and deepest floors of deep dungeons, or guaranteed by 3 lines on Wondrous Tails. There needs to be tradeable items that are actually useful to people for a healthy economy, and things that are actually rare to maintain a high value.

CONTENT VARIETIES
You can get so much more mileage from the mountain of assets in this game.

Let's say there's some crystal caverns where memories are manifest. Enemies and bosses from elsewhere in the game are spawned in random formations. The next boss or wave of enemies will spawn at set time intervals, whether you've finished the previous boss or not. This could create some new combinations; say you're already fighting crystalline Twintania but then you see spotlights dancing on the floor and... it's King Mog spawning. Now you're fighting both.

Bosses would only use a subset of moves they used in their original encounters so as not to produce any unfair combinations when paired with something else. If you are too slow at killing things and no more can be spawned due to tech limits then you receive permanent vuln stacks at the next spawn time instead. Something like that but you get the idea, some kind of battle arena where old enemies can be recycled in new patterns with random elements.

Another thing that could be nice is defensive missions. There used to be like a caravan escort in V1, forgot if it had another name. I like the idea of helping merchants at certain times of day, with bonus items added to local merchants if their deliveries are protected. One FATE chain is like that in Eastern Thanalan, but you could expand that idea into larger content with better rewards.

Never going to happen wish list.

Horizontal progression.

1. Multiple skill trees for individual jobs or roles.

2. Elemental and physical wheel application. (Fire ice debuffs, slashing piercing debuffs. Etc.)

3. Additional stats. (TP MP accuracy etc.)

4. Gear stat and ability customization to gear.

5. Open world. Dungeons, trials, raids, experience camps.

6. Better interaction with older content.

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

OTHER BIG QUALITY-OF-LIFE CHANGES
Job crystals, once acquired for the given weapon type, are equipped automatically; jobs required for all dungeons with a minimum level of 30 or higher. (Post #5)

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Re: Job Stones,

Require them after level 35. Require every single weapon after that to require a job stone.

To incentivize it even more, add the level 30 spell / ability ON the job stone (you get it when you equip it) to help a bit with the synced content.

Character creation additions & improvements- not related to textures or resolution or shading
But actual additions to character creator
It has not been updated aside from new races being added

I would want each race to be updated starting with adding new faces
All male races can wear full beards
I want beard textures, from wavy to curly to coiled & braided

Eyebrows for Highlanders

Better hairstyles that come with more variety because currently, 97% of them are flat hair- there are no real long hairs, braids, curls, mohawks, up-do's, anything with actual length
I want more NPC hairstyles like Yugiri & Gaia's hairstyle

Add more make-up styles and options to wear more than 1 at a time
Add matte lipstick so you don't have to only have gross, glossy lips

Give each race more customization in regards to their specific identities:

Au Ra would get more horns with tints to add whatever colour to their horns and scales seen on NPCs - I'd give them fang options as well and more Au Ra based hairstyles

Miqo'te I would blend their features regardless of clan, because seekers of sun & keepers of moon do mix
All miqo'te's would get spotted ears, fangs and males would get better beards
Miqo'te would get customizable face stripes
More miqo'te based hairstyles

Roegadyn would also get the same treatment, options to have mixed looking roe's as well as beards for males & more roe specific hairstyles as well as bigger butts/ thighs

Pretty much, I'd just want more options that are better than what we have

I'd also add an underwear set option so not every race wears the same silky cloth- but can wear leaves, hide or fur

And a butt/buldge slider

GEARING

• Getting gear or glams in criterion savage dungeon
• In savage if you didn't get an item you get 2 books instead of one
• Adding a token at the end of the alliance raid similar to the savage raid to purchase the raid items

JOB DESIGN

• Adding different damage skill rotations for healers to make them more unique and fun to play

STORY INTERACTION / DIRECTION

• Stop making new content tied to old and long optional sidequests (The current hildibrand questline for the relic is crazy for people who never did it)

OTHER BIG QUALITY-OF-LIFE CHANGES

• Materia gear plate (You will never have to change you every time everytime you switch jobs withing the same role)

skill trees/loadouts are useless in a game where damage is the only thing that matters. it's an illusion of choice.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

So were PS3 players. They got dropped in Stormblood.

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They got dropped after the PS4 was widespread and available. People had likely upgraded by that point.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

skill trees/loadouts are useless in a game where damage is the only thing that matters. it's an illusion of choice.

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Within equal tightness of balance, so is job choice beyond the best each of each incentivized category (obliging 1 of the best melee, physical ranged, magical ranged, healer, and tank, and then an additional 1 each of damage, healer, and tank). That doesn't make those choices uncompelling.