Ocean Sailing for dawntrail.

I know its probably too late to suggest, but it would be cool to sail the oceans of the world for treasure.

Like having Ocean Zones that each have different objectives would be cool as heck.

Sea of Ash, Glass Ocean, BloodBrine Sea, etc.

ALSO to control our own ship, and customize it to sail with friends on.

I want a pirate ship and to go plunder the shores and stuff.

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An oceanic version of diadem?

I want to do fishing from an outrigger canoe. You havent LIVED till you go on one of those. Vanuatu, crystal clear oceans and a blazing sun.

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There was a plan for this in 1.0.
Time to dig it up, boys.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

There was a plan for this in 1.0.
Time to dig it up, boys.

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POV - You're watching a Lalafell digging for content

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Throughout the years, I have played a couple of MMOs with ocean sailing.

- Archeage: While I didn't reach the high levels, one of the things that hooked me to it in the first place is ocean sailing, in which you build ships and cross continents (Instead of just teleporting) in addition to PvP & PvE ship battles.

- Allods online: Unlike Archeage, I did reach the high levels in this game. While the ocean sailing concept is simpler than Archeage, it had an interesting concept related to its world-building in which to enter max-level dungeons, you had to build or sail in a player ship to the dungeon location, which provided more immersion. Imagine exploring the ocean before stumbling into a place that no MSQ or side quest has led you to it, but it's a dungeon. Who knows what mysteries await you there? It feels like exploration and adventures without too much emphasis on PvPing

- WoW: I bet you probably played WoW and know what I'm going to talk about. Island expeditions may not have been a great feature, but it was definitely another amazing concept on paper. The concept is simple, you and two others are Team 1 while 3 AI characters are Team 2, and you strive to get to the max amount of points prior to the other team by killing mobs and mining special ore. To my knowledge, this was frowned upon by the player base because it wasn't very rewarding (Similar to Variant dungeons being interesting in design and concept but not rewarding)

While I'm sure there are more MMOs that introduced ocean sailing in one form or another, I think if XIV wants to introduce ocean sailing then it could be either following WoW island expedition while providing good rewards, or it could adopt a hybrid of ocean sailing and exploration zones in which a map consists of islands and there are ships sailing from and to on a designated date but not always available, so you might feel a bit stranded and in danger but definitely provides more immersion and risk/reward balance.

Make new world ocean fishing a thing.

One of my greatest joys in an MMO was crafting the first ship in Vanguard to sail to areas of the world that were otherwise unreachable by players. Of course, it was fun going into areas that were essentially uncoded and discovering bugs. But it was a great experience to throw down the shackles binding the playerbase to the earth and go to uncharted lands.

It would be great if we could make our own personal boat. Of course, it won't be crafting that does it and it will be heavily restricted. And you'd likely just use it once to get from Point A to Point B and get the aetheryte and just port there instead.

Yes. I've wanted this for years. Back in Heavenward, I thought FC airships was going to be something like that but for the skies.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

There was a plan for this in 1.0.
Time to dig it up, boys.

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For real? Damn, what else don't I know about the 1.x plans. I would love to know how far their content and story plans went.

it'd probably as shallow and uninteresting as underwater zones.