Dead features

I'm sure there are a lot of features that have gone thrown by the wayside over the years.

I personally would love a revamp of the Grand Companies. They felt like such a missed opportunity, especially for, say, MSQ Trusts.

What feature(s) would yall like to see revived/improved?

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Originally Posted by arstoka

I'm sure there are a lot of features that have gone thrown by the wayside over the years.

I personally would love a revamp of the Grand Companies. They felt like such a missed opportunity, especially for, say, MSQ Trusts.

What feature(s) would yall like to see revived/improved?

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Chocobo + pet system

* Side quests useless for job leveling
* Fates useless for job leveling
* Free-cure
* Armoirer not storing tomestone gear and alike
* Marketboard - limited and problematic with undercut automation.
* Mobs dropping crafting resources superseded by fate currency exchange
* Overgrown upgrade/token system for upgrading crafted combat gear (and alike)
* Materia overmelding?

* Majority of MSQ non-voiced in any way (WoW Classic third-party voiceover addon rocks)

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Originally Posted by arstoka

I'm sure there are a lot of features that have gone thrown by the wayside over the years.

I personally would love a revamp of the Grand Companies. They felt like such a missed opportunity, especially for, say, MSQ Trusts.

What feature(s) would yall like to see revived/improved?

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They kinda wrote themselves into a corner when the WoL became a "Citizen of the world", I just wish they put the work they've done with trusts into Squadron.

Other features, (and this one pisses me off to no end), put some stuff into Achievements Certificates, they came in with a sob story about new players getting behind on Veteran Rewards, killed VR and proceed to simply abandon Achievement Certificates.

Companions, we have a menu entry that implies we would have multiple companions to choose from and it never amounted to anything?
Throughout the years there were multiple opportunities to use this as:

- Maggie, the Magitek Armor
- Midgarsormr, from HW
- Anima from Anima Weapons quest line
- Alpha, from Omega Questline

Anima is such a sting, since the flavor text from the minion is:

'"Ardashir fashioned this new body utilizing the anima's original soulstone. No longer limited to the immediate vicinity of the anima weapon, it is free to explore the realm at your side. Whether it will grow to become a real boy or girl, however, remains to be seen."

Grand Companies and Squadron are one big thing I'd hope they get back to.
Belts could come back as some kind of fashion accessory.

What I miss most though is ear slots for Miqo'te hats. I still think the best hats are from the ARR content and had so much love in the designs.

As for improved stuff.
I think the jobspecific emotes like "victory" and "battle ready" could be build upon for easy and fine job identity.
The improvements to the weapon draws were really great and I would like more of that.
Don't know how hard that would be for so many jobs though.

Grand Companies
Guildhests (these could quite as easily be that expansion to the Hall of Novice people keep wanting)
Blue Mage - This job needs to be given more love in solo content such as PotD and HoH. I literally don't care, they're perfectly capable of granting immunities, they have already done so with a lot of dungeon bosses, some dungeon trash, FATEs, raids, trial bosses etc., - So there is little no reason.
Unreal (I am putting this here because even though it is progressively updated it is still something that contradicts from what they outlined) - Unreal was meant to be so you could experience old trials when they were 'on-content' so to speak. However, functionally this is still very limited.
FATEs - boss-level overworld FATEs should be the norm, in my opinion.
Hunts - Should IMO be related to the above on FATEs
Scrip system and attainment of crafted gear - This has grown so monotonous over the year, that it is just something in the content cycle with very little substance.
Master recipe attainment - There's a LOT they could do here.
Glamour system - In my opinion this should just be a check-list. I can understand this is a great deal of data to pull server-side though.

I would love if some stuff from ARR gets revitalized.

Grand companies content
Fighting Chocobo / fighting pets content
A more complex Hunt/reward system
Bring Squadrons to Trust level. I would replace the Scions with my customized squad in a second.

The hunt log from ARR has a dedicated button and no use whatsoever when completed

Chocobo, Grand companies, Hunting logs, Squadrons

Guildhests, they were kind of an additional tutorial for combat. Supposed to teach you about silly things like kill orders for mobs and paying attention to the boss and the arena.

I do miss my hand-picked squadron.

Low blow, Interject, headgraze, and soon Gapclosers.

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Originally Posted by arstoka

I'm sure there are a lot of features that have gone thrown by the wayside over the years.

I personally would love a revamp of the Grand Companies. They felt like such a missed opportunity, especially for, say, MSQ Trusts.

What feature(s) would yall like to see revived/improved?

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Guildhests were a left-over from 1.0. There is still a roulette for it, but it just ends at what, level 40? That queue never pops for anyone because people believe it's dead, and because it has no content after 40, people just don't care about it. There is room to stick some of the cut fights here that were removed from the game (eg like old ARR fights we can no longer play like the original Livia fight.)

Also, why not have a dedicated "solo instance queue" where everything you've unlocked in the game is listed, so
1) you can try it again with another job (even job instances with a different job would be interesting to try.)
2) you can find it. How many times have you stopped before accepting the solo instance in the MSQ, Job quest or side quest (eg Hildibrand, Beast Tribes) and just don't remember where they are? If you could just queue it without finding them, it would save time.

I do hope they do something with the remaining Grand Company ranks, just because it's there makes people constantly ask about it.

Problem is, some of those systems were abandoned for a reason. Maybe they just didn't work, or were replaced by a newer one, or had a purpose that's been rendered moot 10 years later, etc.

Chocobo companions - Sure, they could increase the level cap, but to what end? The open world is already easy enough that it's not necessary in the first place.

GC ranks - Same thing. Yeah, they could add more, but why? What purpose would it serve?
(IIRC, the last time this was asked in an interview the answer was something along the lines of "since GCs don't really do anything right now there's no point in adding new ranks until we figure out where to go with them.")

Hunting logs - Replaced by the daily/weekly hunt system, which lets it be ongoing content rather than a one-and-done thing.

Squadrons - Probably always just supposed to be a prototype for Trusts and duty support.

Guildhests - Designed from the start to teach players about mechanics as they level up. There's no real reason to make more, especially since over time the game has gotten much better about teaching mechanics in regular dungeons and raids as you level.

And so on, and so forth. Most dead systems are dead for a reason and don't need to make a comeback int he first place.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

GC ranks - Same thing. Yeah, they could add more, but why? What purpose would it serve?
(IIRC, the last time this was asked in an interview the answer was something along the lines of "since GCs don't really do anything right now there's no point in adding new ranks until we figure out where to go with them.")

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New purchasable materials.

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Hunting logs - Replaced by the daily/weekly hunt system, which lets it be ongoing content rather than a one-and-done thing.

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They could have put the daily and weekly hunt bills in the hunting log instead of making them key items.

Anyway, I want to see new chocobo racing courses. They don't even have to update the mechanics, just add courses for the new regions we've been to. It's no wonder content dies if they don't bother to update it.

Job quests. I wanna visit old friends and go on small little further adventures with them.

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Originally Posted by Sylpharia

Chocobo, Grand companies, Hunting logs, Squadrons

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Chocobo's do take a long time to fully max out, but I agree. At least we get to have bardings and dyes. The DPS of my bird doesn't seem to scale up, and it sometimes struggles with tanking while I'm playing a healer. It's a fairly decent healer at least.

Grand companies felt like they were a relic of ARR, and our squadrons stop being useful now that trusts have become better. We sort of outgrow these once we venture into Stormblood. Maybe they should expand expeditions o higher levels, like submarines so we can get some rare items and huge sums of gil or something. Mine farm me MGP each week.
The materiel containers are a nice add, they may give us 5.0 and 6.0 boxes.

I miss getting miniatures of bosses for housing decor. We got a few in Heavensward (including, irritatingly, only two of the Warring Triad), then Susano and Llakshmi, and then nothing aside from the Weapon busts.

More Companions, Grand Company, and Squadron stuff would be nice.

Though the addition of Beastmaster is probably going to be the closest we get to "more" combat pets, the plot seemingly requires the Grand Companies to be doing *something* to justify expanding them, and the game really wants to push the Trusts system which I haven't experience yet, but it's telling already that I spent more time in Heavensward taking my squad out to do stuff but never once used duty support with the important story NPCs, lol.

I wish the chocobos would've become a bigger thing.

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Originally Posted by Tunda

Chocobo + pet system

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This. To be more precise the pet system ACN/SMN/SCH used to have. I personally would love it to return as a mainline job, not limited

Hamlet (content that requires a mixed party including DoH and DoL)
Skirmish
Chocobo Caravans
Atomos big sucking some aetherites

+1 for using Squadron members in Duty Support. I don't care if their leveled stats are carrying over or they play exactly like the random Adventurer/Scions in early ARR Duty Support. I feel sorry for them rotting in this Squadron room whenever they are not on a mission to get me goodies. We're roping them into working for the Grand Companies and educating them and then they can't work in the field properly? Let them help me save the world!

- The Duty recorder.
- The Doman Enclave. Easy 20k gil a week but too much effort, and they never iterated on it even though I think the base idea of a "turn-in items you don't need for better money" was not too bad...
- Expansion hubs/cities in general. I'll never understand why there is this need to make a new hub in each expansion that makes every previous hub completely useless. Update old hubs and let people spend time in their preferred hub please.
- Everything Grand Company related as mentioned by everybody else here.
- Probably a hot take but : a lot of Gold Saucer activities. Chocobo racing, LoV, TT, mahjong. Incentivize them, simplify them, do something.
- Alt jobs. Switching jobs at will is one of this game most appealing features IMO, but yet it is strangely not encouraged at all. They basically just suggest you to level one of each role for the quests and that's about it. And then there is the adventurer in need which is...something.... But there is one feature I really like when playing VS fighting games casually: the random button. I would like to be able to just pick a roulette, and ask the game to randomly pick a job for me. Otherwise I know myself and I just end up playing the same 1 or 2 jobs all the time. And the more jobs we get the more of a problem it becomes for me personally. (also, don't get me started on having to gear up each job separately, which can be done without even playing the job at all.)