Suggestions from a new player

[Mindx3]

Hey all,*

Iv recently began playing ffxiv a couple days ago and iv made it to 18 CON so far. For the most part im having a blast, and enjoying Gridanias story line (especially cuz im CON). I have some issues and suggestions for the game. I feel that the dev team could use some feedback from new players especially since they are trying to accomidate newer players for the ps3 release.

•More tutorial quests
I felt that after the begining story line quests were completed i was just kind of thrown into eorzea without further introduction to any other aspects of the game.*
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•Quest tracking
I know we have the journal map, but it would be nice to be able to track these quests by having locations tracked on the minimap and on the world map as well.

•Equipment vendors
We have the market wards, but it would be nice to be able to find equipment at non player pricing and availability. The fact that i had to travel to uldah (Since gridania is empty) to find equipment in the market wards is unacceptable.

•General chat
I know people complain about spammers in chat, but the whole in game community seems mute to me and that needs to change.

•Average level shown at camps on world map
With not much to do iv been exploring for good solo camps to level up in but i always end up reaching a place with higher level mobs. It would be nice to show the appropriate level for certain areas so i know where i could head to next.

•Solo camps
I enjoy soloing as much as i like grouping and have been soloing completely so far and intend to do so for most of the leveling process. I was soloing last night on opo's and oil bugs at lvl16-18 near camp tranquil, and was getting 500xp for bugs and 900 for opos with some down time.*I dont know how the rest of the game is but i have a feeling that most leveling is done by grouping on field mobs.*
It would be nice to have map indicators of good grind camps for your level, as well as camps without indicators for secret camp location purposes.

Fields of valor in select locations would be a great addition to ffxiv.

•Leve mobs
I found it so lame that often times the leve mobs would be grouped together making it impossible to tag only 1, even on solo difficult. I found myself getting wrecked at camp tranquil during these leves because i couldent take on 2 mobs at a time. Maybe im not high enough to take on those leves just yet, but i know i could complete them if i could fight 1 mob at a time.

•Random cut scene events
It would be cool if we could have random events happen to us while traveling. Traveling on foot is kind of boring right now, and i believe this could spice things up.*
Events could be anything from chocobo stampedes to garlean ambush, treasure found, quests etc

•unknown random npc quests and items

Currently all quests are marked with "!", it would be cool if npc's could be randomly set as a questgiver and jump from npc to npc once completed, this would give players incentive to interact with npc's to find that cool hidden quest. Random quest npc's that jump from location to location out on the field would be a nice touch too.*

iv always enjoyed in old school rpgs when i talked to a npc and they end up giving me a item. Little things like this keep people entertained and immersed.

•Interactive objects

Im the type of player thats likes to check everything in games when possible for that hidden item or event/area. Using pokemon as a example, while in a cave i check every boulder for that hidden nugget or potion or when in a house i check the garbage for items as well.

•Camera control

Please make it so i can left click on the screen and move my camera around while moving without turning my character.

• UI
It would be nice if a mobs element type could be shown when selected.
- A zoom out function for both mini and world maps is needed

-Area of effect button needs to stay, its to legit to get rid of.

•Linkshells
With no general chat in cities and bad LS commands i find its a bit difficult to find the correct person to invite you into a LS.*
Could a LS counter be added that allows a LS leader to post their guild as open for recruitment as well as letting players apply to said LS.

Any other new players with suggestions please post!

[DeadRiser]

Meh I really don't want the game telling you which way to go for everything. We need more community talk in this game and it's slowly starting to get that way with SP grind parties and Raids.

Um solo grinding, good look on later ranks. You will more than likely HAVE to go in grind parties... unless your gonna grind 8 leves every 36 hours.

Group up is all I can say, especially for leves. You'll get them done faster and get a boost from that at the end in sp.

Finally, I will never see eye-to-eye with a MMO player that solos. It just.. meh

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Hello! Welcome to FFXIV Official forums!

Hey all,*

•More tutorial quests
I felt that after the begining story line quests were completed i was just kind of thrown into eorzea without further introduction to any other aspects of the game.*
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coming in 1.19, check the Producer Letter #XVI

•Equipment vendors
We have the market wards, but it would be nice to be able to find equipment at non player pricing and availability. The fact that i had to travel to uldah (Since gridania is empty) to find equipment in the market wards is unacceptable.

In the market wards there is weapons/armor that is sold by NPCs

•General chat
I know people complain about spammers in chat, but the whole in game community seems mute to me and that needs to change.

??? well your in the most quite server probably, ppl are spamming in my chat log from where i am

•Average level shown at camps on world map
With not much to do iv been exploring for good solo camps to level up in but i always end up reaching a place with higher level mobs. It would be nice to show the appropriate level for certain areas so i know where i could head to next.

Hmm isn't that part of the game where you need to explore?

•Solo camps
I enjoy soloing as much as i like grouping and have been soloing completely so far and intend to do so for most of the leveling process. I was soloing last night on opo's and oil bugs at lvl16-18 near camp tranquil, and was getting 500xp for bugs and 900 for opos with some down time.*I dont know how the rest of the game is but i have a feeling that most leveling is done by grouping on field mobs.*
It would be nice to have map indicators of good grind camps for your level, as well as camps without indicators for secret camp location purposes.

Fields of valor in select locations would be a great addition to ffxiv.

There plenty, you just need to do more research

•Leve mobs
I found it so lame that often times the leve mobs would be grouped together making it impossible to tag only 1, even on solo difficult. I found myself getting wrecked at camp tranquil during these leves because i couldent take on 2 mobs at a time. Maybe im not high enough to take on those leves just yet, but i know i could complete them if i could fight 1 mob at a time.

Chill out then they are very easy compare to normal mobs

• UI
It would be nice if a mobs element type could be shown when selected.
- A zoom out function for both mini and world maps is needed

-Area of effect button needs to stay, its to legit to get rid of.

•Linkshells
With no general chat in cities and bad LS commands i find its a bit difficult to find the correct person to invite you into a LS.*
Could a LS counter be added that allows a LS leader to post their guild as open for recruitment as well as letting players apply to said LS.

many of us asking for better LS commands by now.

[mysterytaru]

Hey all,*

Iv recently began playing ffxiv a couple days ago and iv made it to 18 CON so far. For the most part im having a blast, and enjoying Gridanias story line (especially cuz im CON). I have some issues and suggestions for the game. I feel that the dev team could use some feedback from new players especially since they are trying to accomidate newer players for the ps3 release.

•More tutorial quests
I felt that after the begining story line quests were completed i was just kind of thrown into eorzea without further introduction to any other aspects of the game.*
*

They're working on this.

•Quest tracking
I know we have the journal map, but it would be nice to be able to track these quests by having locations tracked on the minimap and on the world map as well.

The journal is more than enough. Once you get close enough to the target location, it pops on the minimap.

•Equipment vendors
We have the market wards, but it would be nice to be able to find equipment at non player pricing and availability. The fact that i had to travel to uldah (Since gridania is empty) to find equipment in the market wards is unacceptable.

Visiting other cities is bad, mmmkay? Same goes for people who won't sell anywhere but Uldah.

•General chat
I know people complain about spammers in chat, but the whole in game community seems mute to me and that needs to change.

Not SEs problem. Not sure what you expect them to do about it.

•Average level shown at camps on world map
With not much to do iv been exploring for good solo camps to level up in but i always end up reaching a place with higher level mobs. It would be nice to show the appropriate level for certain areas so i know where i could head to next.

The leves you can get at any given time already give you this information.

•Solo camps
I enjoy soloing as much as i like grouping and have been soloing completely so far and intend to do so for most of the leveling process. I was soloing last night on opo's and oil bugs at lvl16-18 near camp tranquil, and was getting 500xp for bugs and 900 for opos with some down time.*I dont know how the rest of the game is but i have a feeling that most leveling is done by grouping on field mobs.*
It would be nice to have map indicators of good grind camps for your level, as well as camps without indicators for secret camp location purposes.

Is the number next to mob names really not enough to determine where you can fight at your level?

Fields of valor in select locations would be a great addition to ffxiv.

It's called guild leves.

•Leve mobs
I found it so lame that often times the leve mobs would be grouped together making it impossible to tag only 1, even on solo difficult. I found myself getting wrecked at camp tranquil during these leves because i couldent take on 2 mobs at a time. Maybe im not high enough to take on those leves just yet, but i know i could complete them if i could fight 1 mob at a time.

They're bunched together because they're in a mob party. You're not going be able to tag just one.

•Random cut scene events
It would be cool if we could have random events happen to us while traveling. Traveling on foot is kind of boring right now, and i believe this could spice things up.*
Events could be anything from chocobo stampedes to garlean ambush, treasure found, quests etc

•unknown random npc quests and items

Currently all quests are marked with "!", it would be cool if npc's could be randomly set as a questgiver and jump from npc to npc once completed, this would give players incentive to interact with npc's to find that cool hidden quest. Random quest npc's that jump from location to location out on the field would be a nice touch too.*

iv always enjoyed in old school rpgs when i talked to a npc and they end up giving me a item. Little things like this keep people entertained and immersed.

•Interactive objects

Im the type of player thats likes to check everything in games when possible for that hidden item or event/area. Using pokemon as a example, while in a cave i check every boulder for that hidden nugget or potion or when in a house i check the garbage for items as well.

Singleplayer RPGs. This isn't one.

•Camera control

Please make it so i can left click on the screen and move my camera around while moving without turning my character.

they do have that type of camera movement. You have to be in manual control of your character's movement though. It's a trade off between autorun and fine camera control.

• UI
It would be nice if a mobs element type could be shown when selected.
- A zoom out function for both mini and world maps is needed

-Area of effect button needs to stay, its to legit to get rid of.

You can zoom out on the world map, it's not necessary on the minimap. Weaknesses of mobs should be learned not handed out, and AOE is not availale for all spells so, no, it shouldn't always be available.

•Linkshells
With no general chat in cities and bad LS commands i find its a bit difficult to find the correct person to invite you into a LS.*
Could a LS counter be added that allows a LS leader to post their guild as open for recruitment as well as letting players apply to said LS.

LS stuff is not in the forefront of changes til they have the important things like battle system, class changes and balancing and content added in.

[Mindx3]

Meh I really don't want the game telling you which way to go for everything. We need more community talk in this game and it's slowly starting to get that way with SP grind parties and Raids.

Um solo grinding, good look on later ranks. You will more than likely HAVE to go in grind parties... unless your gonna grind 8 leves every 36 hours.

Group up is all I can say, especially for leves. You'll get them done faster and get a boost from that at the end in sp.

Finally, I will never see eye-to-eye with a MMO player that solos. It just.. meh

Im not against grouping up at all and i intend to group,as i stated i really enjoy doing it, but there are times that i just want to solo. As for finding a group it may be easier if i had a LS. If the game told me where to go id have more time to level and less time looking for a good camp.

[Zemeckis]

I learned this the hard way prob wasted 500k+ gil on items and not going to Uldah and that's the place you but and sell stuff.

[Ava]

ITT: New players dont matter, this game is HARDCORE. L2P etc.

Edit: I found merit in most of your concerns. Most had to do with user friendliness and I agree with those. This game needs to be more user-friendly, it's a pain to pick up as a new player. This coming from me trying to get several friends to play and they couldn't make it past level 10 because the game was too much of an annoyance to play.

[Mindx3]

Hello! Welcome to FFXIV Official forums!

Thank you for the welcoming

coming in 1.19, check the Producer Letter #XVI

I kind of knew this but figured id post it anyways

In the market wards there is weapons/armor that is sold by NPCs

Did not know this thank you, are they low level gear at a affordable price to a new player? Because thats what i was mainly referring to.

Hmm isn't that part of the game where you need to explore?

I did explore lol but instead of wasting my time exploring i could have went straight to a camp, this kind of goes hand in hand with the next quote

There plenty, you just need to do more research

Chill out then they are very easy compare to normal mobs

I know they are lol, and i know the reason why i got owned was because i was to low, but i still think grouping them up is rediculous

[Estellios]

The enemies around a camp are usually at that camp's level range, so I'd go looking in the general vicinity of camp Tranquil if those are the current leves you are doing.

On guildleve difficulty, don't be afraid to go back and do the lower rank leves even if you have higher ranks available. If you can set the older ones at a high difficulty and complete them quickly to get the time bonus they might be more SP than the higher rank ones and a lot less of a headache. Don't forget about all your buffs before you engage, Protect + Shell + Stoneskin + Shock Spikes gives you a good amount of breathing room. If you work on Thaumaturge a little bit you can also pick up Sacrifice which gives you a nice Regen effect.

[Mindx3]

They're working on this.



The journal is more than enough. Once you get close enough to the target location, it pops on the minimap.

Being able to track it and never having to open up the journal to make sure your going the right way is a better system

Visiting other cities is bad, mmmkay? Same goes for people who won't sell anywhere but Uldah.

For new players who dont know uldah is the place to be, searching in your main city is optimal. Lucky for me iv been following this game slightly to understand how things in ffxiv work

Not SEs problem. Not sure what you expect them to do about it.

I expect them to add a general chat channel lol,maybe linking to every city

The leves you can get at any given time already give you this information.

Only certain camps pop up and they only pop up when im near the appropriate level. And im not really talking about aetheryte camps, im talking about open fields.

Is the number next to mob names really not enough to determine where you can fight at your level?

Its what iv been using thus far, but i havent had the luxury of exploring all of eorzea just yet, so i guess in a way its not enough to determine where i can fight. I could be leveling and decide to switch spots, as im searching i could randomly run into level 90 goblins. Of course i would turn back but damn really...i just ran all this way just to turn back?

It's called guild leves.

FoV in open fields where people may group up or solo away from aetheryte camps, FoV is on going, guild leves you complete in 20 min

They're bunched together because they're in a mob party. You're not going be able to tag just one.

It just looks really rediculous tbh...personal pet peeve i guess

Singleplayer RPGs. This isn't one.

Not a valid argument especially for the things i suggested

they do have that type of camera movement. You have to be in manual control of your character's movement though. It's a trade off between autorun and fine camera control.

I will try this but im sure i have and it doesnt work...but i will try again

You can zoom out on the world map, it's not necessary on the minimap. Weaknesses of mobs should be learned not handed out, and AOE is not availale for all spells so, no, it shouldn't always be available.

How can i zoom out on the world map? Necessity isnt a reason to not implement something that could prove usefull. Weaknesses of mobs is handed out on internet databases, just makes it one less step i have to do.

/10charsss