What features from Final Fantasy XI, would you like to see added to this game?

This idea just came to me, just thought I would like to see a discussion like this going.

Things I'd like to see:

*Seeking Party Feature
*Several mobs not yet added: Mandragoras, Lamias, Soulflayers, Iron Giants, Shadow Dragons, and Wyrms. (Not to be confused with Drakes)
*Housing. (Much like MogHouse)
*Endgame events similar to that of Assault, Limbus, and Salvage. (those were fun)
*SUSHI!
*Conquest (I always thought it was fun to see which zones get dominated by which nations).



(Yeah yeah in before 500+ post of Auction house please, along with chocobo and airship)

I would like to see PlayOnline.

Linkshell Messages (/lsmes)
Being able to kick people out of your linkshell without having to stand next to them. (Are you serious? Why is this like this?)

-Fame
-Mog House
-Chocobo Breeding

-Fields of Valor
-Chocobo Breeding (Chocobos in this FF should live ALOT longer)
-EXP/SP chains
-A SEA and SKY type area/events (modified to be unique to FFXIV and different as well. I mainly liked the level designs and mobs)

Mochi :3
planned mob camps
COR :o

-Well designed zones
-Gardening
-Good lore
-Events that don't involve bells
-Party seek flag
-Two hours
-Skillchains
-Fun

EDIT: CORSAIR PLEASE

-Airships
-Chocobos
-A main city that we can actually access
-Unlockable classes
-PET CLASSES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
-Besieged
-Breeding

Personally I'd like to see the return of BCNMs. Maybe it could be a good use of guild marks, eh? I mean once you buy everything you want there's really no point to them.

-Mog House
-Party Dynamics
-Corsair and/or BRD type classes
-Campaign

Chocobo Breeding and racing
Unlockable Classes
More linkshell functions like message or kicking out people without them having to be in front of you.

Oh yeah. Corsair. My fave and main class from XI.

Edit: The whole luck-based gameplay on a class. I really like that.

-Well designed zones that give it a unique feeling
-Awesome visual effects to magic/skills
-Much more better events than the boring ones we had (XMAS was cool tho)
-Party Seek Flag
-Chocobos/Chocobo Breeding/Chocobo Armory

I have too many !!!

Not much inspiration atm, but it would probably fall down to one word: CHALLENGE!
I mean, am I the only one feeling those quests are too damn easy?

-Personal House
-Mail System
-Chocobo/Airship
-DRK/PLD class

I don't want a carbon copy of FFXI stuff... but it wouldn't hurt to borrow from it.
Here are some things I'd like to see:

- A Mog House: any place that serves as a nice living area to store armor, weapons, trophies... that you can furnish and make look nice.

- Weapon Skills and Magic Burst: Something that you have to coordinate with your party to maximize damage (and give cool animations). I know BR is supposed to do this but it's way to tedious and impractical given the fast paced battle system

- Usable effects on Item/Armor/Weapons: We kinda have this withe the Hermes Shoes but there is no way of telling when the effect is ready

-Seek party feature is a MUST.
-another option for automated payment like the POL, Click&Buy is a major frustration to set up, it drive customers away.
-Player search function, by: name, ranks, class, area, purpose
-Strategic and cooperative party play, like in FFXI
-mob check feature, too weak, even match, IT. As of now, there is no way to check if the mob give any exp/sp or not, all I know is, blue con mob are weak, but HOW weak are they? will they still give any exp/sp??

-able to browse/sort equipments at the market wards by ranks & class, just like how AH is organized in XI
-teleport spells and make starting town so I can have my home point always set there, in addition to Aetheryte Crystals/gates where I temporary set for leves and exp camp.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

-Corsair and/or BRD type classes

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IKNORITE?
/10char

Oh yeah! ... and Blue Magic. But probably not for a while until a lot more enemies and skills are released.

-Summoner (not broken like FFXI)
-Beastmaster

- Moghouse with collectible items
- BCNM
- AH
- More 11 style quests (and new ones aswell of course)
- More varied landscapes
- Beastmen (dev1028)
- Besieged
- Advanced job quests
- Gear Levels i.e. unlockable content
- Kill off anima - Use HP, Warp, Chocobos, Airships
- EXP loss, but minor
- Summons
- Dunes, lol
- AF
- The knowledge that there's alot to discover and a long road ahead to get there
- Skillchains
- Badass Weapon skills
- Missions with boss fights
- Leave leves as fields of valour type play and focus more on other content
- Remove maps until you've found them or bought them
- Fame for quests
- Main city in the middle of somewhere deadly, really hard to get to at low level

Auction House (not the market ward)
Mog House
Level Sync
Chocobo riding
Adventuring Fellow
PVP
Assault, Campaign Battles, ENM, Fields of Valor

I miss the fun...I don't know how else to say it. There was something about FFXI that was fun. The grinding was mindless but its was a neccesary evil that we all did as well as the farming. But it was still fun because I would run into friends and they would help or just hang out while I killed all the crawlers. In FFXIV that is missing. However, I have faith that SE will add it in with all their plans. Just from C.E. til now the game has become a lot more enjoyable so I know SE can pull it off.

I would love to see the MOG House and all its features, gardening, decorating etc.
I would also love to see wild chocobos that you can capture and then breed/race.
Also, SUMMONs, its not FF without summons :)

I'm agreed that the game can't be a carbon copy of FFXI. FFXI was fairly successful in its time, but that was 8 years ago. The industry, and people's expectations, have changed. The majority of people playing FFXIV currently have a bias as many of us are longtime FFXI players (myself included), but we and SE have to accept that it's time to think outside the box, to use a cliche.

That said, there are some things I would like to see:
-Mog Houses. However, I'm aware that the time and effort it would take to implement these would probably be prohibitive, but maybe as a feature in an expansion. They were one of my favorite things in FFXI and helped distinguish it for me since player housing in MMOs is pretty rare.
-An AH. the FFXI AH wasn't perfect, but it was still much more efficient and intuitive than the wards system is, even with all the changes that have been made. In fact, I much preferred the AH/MH combo to the retainer system, but I know a changeover would take a lot of man-hours.
-Chocobos/Airships. I know this is well established already, but as an addendum I'd like a breeding minigame that doesn't take weeks and exactly timing logins. I think ideally, everyone should have their own chocobo to encourage attachment to the game, so the ffxi breeding system would be a poor system to go with this idea.
-Character search, as an addition to the useful but convoluted system currently in place, rather than completely replacing it. I also think people should be able to invite people to their party and linkshell no matter where they or the other person are. Both the FFXI and FFXIV systems for party invites are unnecessary hoop-jumping timesinks that don't add anything to the game except mild annoyance.
-Savng the equipment I had on when I changed jobs automatically. This, again, is to reduce the amount of time wasted in menus and increase the time actually doing things

I can't think of anything else offhand.

Definately mog houses. Party seek too.

ALL OF THEM.

Classes:
- Summoner, Beast Master, Bard, Corsair, Ninja or Thief, Samurai, Dark Knight

Events:
- Dynamis, Divine Might sort of fight, Summon Battles, Salvage type event, Nyzul Tower type event, BCNM/KSNM

Lore / World:
- More cutscenes even if they're not super fancy, More unique environments with little touches, Airships, Chocobos for travel, "History" on market wards to make it more like an AH. Access to a "Unique" area in maps eg: Ru Lude Gardens. More zones with nice weather effects: Tornado/Snowing etc. Let more people join in story and stop requiring 1 person when its just a cutscene........, Mog houses

UI / System
- Better Linkshell controls (Kick anytime, Promote to master, MOTD), Better party system (so leader doesnt need to be in same area), Delivery System, Mail System (messages), Experience Chains.

Animations
- Better animations for just about everything (Ancient Magic is disgraceful), Animation when you change class, Better rank/level animation,

Skills:
- Warp, Teleport, Reraise, Dual-wield, Conserve MP, Magic Boost, HP Boost, MP Boost, Better Magic support as some are just useless and most conjurer spells are nulled on NM's and such.

Monsters
- Wyverns/Dragons

Probably more I cant think of right now.

-A search function.
-The party seek feature.
-The ability to do all city story/campaigns.
-SP/XP chains would be nice
-Skill chains/MB (I know we got battle regimine, but it usually glitches, and its just meh.)
-Animations. A lot of the spell/weapon skill animations in XIV imo are just straight up weak looking.

Soloing is all fine and dandy, and the leve's/behests are alright, but I just wish some good old fashion group xping was a bit more common place in the game. I feel less involved with the general population of XIV, unlike XI it felt like a community.

Exp chains
Auction House
Mog House
Delivery box
/assist command
seek party
Pet jobs

Those would all be nice :)

Here are the ideas I want to see brought over from FFXI

1) Chocobo Breading
2) Chocobo Digging (Maby a new DoH class)
3) Chocobo Racing
4) Fishing contest
5) Spawn NMs (ones you pop with a pop item)
6) More tiered Battles (like the Special Faction leves, but implement this in other areas as well)
7) Something like Campaign or Besieged (these where great to fill time while waiting for a group)
8) Fame for missions (add something that encourages people to do quest, they are added but if you are above that rank there is no reason to really experience them.)
9) Something like Burning Circle Notorious Monsters and Kindred Seal Notorious Monsters
10) Instanced battles like Salvage and Assualt. These where perfect for the casual player. Assault was 30mins and salvage was a little longer at 100mins. These kind of events would add substance and fit the casual goals of the game.
11) Linkshell Message
12) Bring back the FFXI's Party Search Feature, the one in game now is not being used at all.

I want

-Battle Threat system and positional system (SATA ftw!)
-Party seeker
-Samurai
-Beast Master
-Beast-men zone
-Zone variety
-1 AH

I don't want

-Drama
-GS
-NM Camping
-The same kind of transportation from level 20 to 75
-De-leveling
-MPK
-Run with inv e sneak for hours for a quest or for a camp
-4 AH

* Nyzul Isle Investigation type of event!!
*Short end game events like Einherjar instead of part time job events like Dynamis.

PVP like XI - liked that more then Open world PVP
Duals - Challenge players in open world without actually killing them. Good way to test yourself
Endgame - Dynamis! I loved.

- Drastic Class uniqueness (When at the same lv my mage solo easier than a tank or any DD, there something wrong right there)

- More, much more agro mob. (It’s plain to peaceful, where’s the adrenaline of walking in Valkurm Dunes and the likes, that made me love FFXI so much?)

- Skill chain ( they miss on this one big time, that was parties was all about. tactics, strategic and execution = fast kill a lots of fun)

- Better animation (when I first started as a mage and saw the animation effect off the process and the landing of magic spell, said to myself mehh... must be keeping the good stuff for high level mages. eventually I realise this was it and this must be change.)

- Chocobo

- Modification to the battle system that make us actually want to party, and a better search option for those seeking and looking for a party)

Pretty much everything at this point, FFXIV as of right now is a joke compared to FFXI

- Mog House. Player housing is really important in my opinion and furniture is fun to craft and collect.
- Support/Buff Jobs such as Bard.
- Fun seasonal events that give nice rewards and don't involve bells. I loved the seasonal clothing in FFXI. Swimsuits, Yukatas, Halloween Outfits etc.
- Chocobos and Chocobo breeding.
- Party flag system. Put up your flag if you want to party, the current FFXIV system does not work as no one wants to use it.
- Linkshell management. Ability to kick inactive people.
- An event similar to campaign or besieged.
- Proper skill and magic animations. FFXIV is a beautiful game but the fighting and magic animations are soo bland and lackluster. FFXI had visually amazing weapon skills and magic, please do something about FFXIV's boring animations.

CHOCOBOS! Accessible after achieving rank 20. A system similar to FF7's maybe?? Hehe

-A conquest system, when some garlean territory is introduced. With campaign-style battles and whatnot.
-Mog houses, definitley.
-Delivery box system.
-Quest fame.

To be honest, I can think of more things that they could add that were never in FFXI.

Linkshell Managment:
/lsmes
Sort names alphabetically.
Show zone locations/Job/Rank.
Able to remove inactive members, I think my linkshell is on it's 7th version?
Promote members even if they aren't online.

For the love of God, /assist and <stnpc> <stpc>

A usuable search feature... I can't seem to figure out how the search function works or what it was suppose to be used for... why can't I have /sea all . . .

Moghouse/Appartment Furnishing
Delievery Function

Retainers/AH:
I want to be able to see the price history of the last 10 items sold. This will help stablize economy.
Why do retainers crash when servers go down? Actually... randomly...
Item search function avaible at your retainer as well as entrance/exit

Thats all I really have for now.

Class emotes. (these are fun in ffxi)
Limit breaks And a ffxiv maat. (we need something to test players skills)
Mog houses but with added uasble furnature like a stove for cooking instead of always always using the pocket stove.
Yukata (but full robe form not just a shirt)
Shantotto sorry she my fav npc :3
npc of mixed races such as the half human half elvaan dancer from wings.
the dancer class ( loved this one and all the airtifact for it.)
level sync- and ppl actually use it.