What would you want to bring over from FFXI to FFXIV?

[justinjarjar]

No wyverns plz that sounds worse than bow mages.
Red/blue mage
and DANCER 100% this
^^^^^^^^this one.

[DoctorPepper]

The entire FFXI game. :P

(but with better drop rates lol)

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

How ironic given it's still technically '2.0'. I still don't get how people are making the '1.0 to 2.0' leap when no such thing happened. I mean, Heavensward is an expansion, that is it expands on the existing game. Not a single main expansion for XI before Adoulin changed the core game in any way, and even in the case of Adoulin it wasn't by much.

Not this again! Please read the other threads for a deeper explanation. No one talked about changing the core game. Lots of misunderstandings going on. Stahp it.

On topic:
I'd like coffers to be meaningful in open world again. And I don't mean how the treasure maps are right now, I mean more like running through some open world areas and finding a coffer out of nowhere that contains a key to some other chest. Of course they can't contain maps from optional areas anymore because people would outrage about having to put effort/it being too tedious (lol) unlike the way we have maps now. They also probably wouldn't contain AF for the same reason (but that would be awesome...) but I guess they can contain gil or meaningful crafting items or key items used for quests, instead of the way quests are right now (it's mostly either kill mobs in a designated area, wait for something in a designated area or talk to an NPC), which is boring imo. In a perfect world though, they would contain AFs under a quest and maps from optional zones. ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ It was always exciting to find one and acquire that rare map or be done with your AF and be able to equip it right away. Some AF was acquired through quests and others through the coffers to spice it up a little. Variety in these little things is what I'd like to see more in this game.

[Lollerblades]

Dynamis
Limbus
Sky
Salvage
Nyzul Isle
Einherjar
Merits
Mythic / Empy weapons
Campaign
Besieged

Pretty much most of the fun stuff that made XI enjoyable. XIV could do with an injection of variety. Not the same cut and paste content with a different face on it.

[Yhoiryo]

Gear swapping.

[Leadleaf]

A vanity system that allows you to save one look and instantly change back to it for as long as you had the items in one of your inventories. Maybe have prisms spent on making a saved set.
Premaking lowman parties for current content.
General aesthetic of some races, i preferred galka and mithra's more primitive look, i didn't care for most of the animations though.

[Xpress]

I really wish we could tag Dev's in this post. See some of your guys responses. This post is pretty impressive so far.

[Kio]

No wyverns plz that sounds worse than bow mages.

Honestly I don't see why not have wyverns or why it would be a bad thing. It has had plenty requests from players since 1.0 beta. Just don't attach it to dragoon, make it a pet for beastmaster or something. Since we don't have any legit pet classes in the game yet.

[Sapphic]

Mythic / Empy weapons

Errr what was "fun" about farming for 100s of thousands of ancient currencies over months upon months or paying millions upon millions of gil for them? or Having to repeat Neo Nyzul over an over and over for months to get Alexanderite or paying mega millions? Or having to farm Einharjer for months. And hey were just one part. Or, more often than not farming them for the LS leader first, then moving on down. It could takes years before you even saw it.

People complain about having to redo fates already and you think a ridiculously long time sink like those weapons were in FFXI is fun? Most of the Mythic trials was to get the killing blow on x hundreds of a certain type of mob. next trial more on a different type of mob, etc for 5-6 trials. Then it got to the NMs which you had to kill x number of times whilst competing with everyone else on the server who needed them.

FFXI was one huge, obvious timesink that had you running the exact same content for years to try and get one item on content that was gated to once a day.

Thanks, but no thanks. FFXI can stay where it is, in the past, As even FFXI has removed the retardly long time sinks by removing the gating.

All it would do to FFXIV bringing stuff like that from FFXI is revert 2.0 back into 1.0, aka a failure.

[Obysuca]

A vanity system that allows you to save one look and instantly change back to it for as long as you had the items in one of your inventories. Maybe have prisms spent on making a saved set.

>_> I like how XI did glamour better than XIV did lol Got the gear? Got the job a high enough lvl to use said gear? You can use it any job!
I can't tell you how many times I've seen a really nice body piece, or one that's not dyeable but a different color, that would match/look nice with what I have, but it's not my job :/