Official Final Fantasy XIV Expansion #2 Hype Wall!

[Deltayen]

Hello Everyone,

Been playing Final Fantaxy XIV since 1.0 off and on, and I have been on these forums for well over a year. I have never decided to post or respond to anything, because, well I don't know.

But here I am. First post and I decided to make it the official FF XIV Expansion #2 Hype Wall!!!

What is this wall for? What should we post?

I created this wall so we can all share our excitement about the expansion pack. Whether is be rumors about features, features you would like to see personally, or just some other random post about it.

Please stay on topic, and REMEMBER the mods do check these posts and instead of giving them a reason to close the thread, let's share our interests and heart for the newest expansion so maybe a feature we like can be tossed around back in the studio.

[Deltayen]

1. I would love to see new housing areas. New wards or course, and we all know that apartments will most likely be in the same 3 areas we have. But I love to have a house in a Dravanian Hinterlands(isque) area. It is so beautiful.

2. New areas in the expansion that look like Dravanian Hinterlands. I am a sucker for beautiful green grass and mountainous hills area. Dravanian Hinterlands is by far one of the most beautiful places in the game IMHO. I would love to see more areas like this that are massive in scale and the green grass and hills are rolling for what seems like forever.

[Deltayen]

3. Flying continued. I hope that all the new zones are flyable.

4. More gold saucer activities. I know some of you may hate me for this, but i love the gold saucer. I just grinded out the Adamantoise Mounts 200,000 MGP in about 4 days. I would love to see snowboarding, and another big couple things that are rewarding. Plus more rewards to buy with MGP, and possibly crafting to be connected somehow? (I.E. crafting snowboards has been talked about somewhere I heard)

[Deltayen]

5. More fluff. I love fluff items, for hanging out and RP'ing or just while waiting around and you throw some fireworks or something really fun. But as of right now, all I know of is consumable items. I would like infinite use items, with a cool down of course.

6. Swimming. I dislike swimming in MMOs for the most part but I would love to see some swimming (maybe not combat) which could really introduce beautiful zones underwater (like an air pocket city?) and just the water itself being accessible really can increase the gameplay and immersion of the game.

[AnduinLynn]

The new expansion should be fun, but what I'm looking forward to is:
1. Trailer video
2. Music

The only reason I gave this game a chance was because the Flames of Truth video simply captivated me, and I still cannot go a day without listening to Answers. Whatever the expansion is about, I hope it has a badass trailer.

[Valmar]

Fortress building!!!!

40 Man Raids!!!

SAMURAI!!!!

2 of them are lies.

[Leanna]

The geomancer job from FF Tactics <3

[MaikoRaines]

There should be build up towards it in the way of extensive patches. Like a main storyline that leads up to it quite like what they did with ARR - thought not TOO much of a hiatus.

Samurai class would be nice - a sword class that isn't a tank.

Beast Master would be nice too - I could easily see this being the new tanking class. A warrior decked out in beast garbs as a tank, dual hand axes while his pet does DPS off the side or some such.

Dancer class - For every Bard, we need a Dancer =p

New Summon Egi's/animations - If there ever happens to be an Odin Egi I will roll a SMN because of this reason.

More lore - I assume a lot of the Au Ra are from the Far East continents. I would like to see a bigger Doman presence and backdrop for the story. Given the NIN job quest from 51-60, it sounds like there's a lot more Ninja camps/establishments. Doma sounded like one of the bigger ones and the other clans are eluding the empire as best they can.

New dungeons and raids obviously.

A Hangar for your airships to see them for yourself. Sure the dome screen with them are nice, but it'd be a nice visual touch to modify them and touch them accordingly.

New exploratory missions to other realms. I don't like how Diadem just got tossed to the side like this - I miss exploring and downing massive monsters for gear and goods.

Like how we need more cowbell, we need more crossovers! Events! Dungeons! An old scene with a new feel and purpose. I am hoping with XV and VII, we'll see some crossover events or be able to get some new toys from these releases.

I'm sure I am missing some others... will update as I think about them.

[Kaurie]

Hmm, either we are a little behind or way ahead here :\ Yoshi has said they already have their plans for several expansions down the line. Though, I suppose small QoL stuff could make it in.

Also, the expansion is fairly far away - no? What spurred this topic? I am predicting it will be ~ 6months after 3.5. We're on 3.2 launched Feb 23 - 3.5 months per patch -> 3.5(patch 3.3)+3.5(patch 3.4)+3.5(patch 3.5)+6(patch 4.0) = 16.5 months from Feb 23 or roughly July 7th 2017.

In terms of what I want? I want an overhaul of the system. The following is in no particular order:

- No level increase, so that 3.x content is relevant without level syncing
- New abilities/traits/talents/skills/spells added via unlocking through quests or some other method than leveling
- New abilities/traits/talents/skills/spells added in a way that provides multiple builds/rotations
- A focus on horizontal gear progression to coincide with vertical
- A relic quest line that is redesigned with a focus on story and growth rather than grind and ilvl
- Personal housing added in a way that is housing and not apartments
- New crafting jobs added with different playstyles
- Ways to allow you to gear more than one max level job at once

then several smaller QoL stuff like
- Gear wardrobe
- Unlockable dyes
- More things added to currency wallet
- Cooldown reset on wipes
- removal of extraneous UI elements

[Garotte14]

Since we got flying in the last expansion, I'd be really stoked for some underwater zones next. Swimming, fathoms deep, Atlantis like underwater cities, maybe some submarine mounts, emerald weapon. I just dig the idea of all the little secrets that could be found. Exploring sunken ships, islands, etc. I don't know if/how combat would work underwater though.

Samurai and Red Mage.

Please some type of horizontal progression on gear.

I would like to see new dungeons added to, and not replacing the current expert roulette, instead of being stuck with only two for 3 months. Have 2.0 roulette, 3.0 roulette, 4.0 roulette, etc.

PS3 support dropped so the game can expand, to include: more UI customization, and more inventory space.