Make XIV great again! 4.0

[Pence]

What are your top 3 suggestions to make XIV feel fresh, and great, coming into 4.0?

1. Challenging achievements in dungeons. No party member getting hit by plumes in Titan, speed runs, no party member getting hit by the big orb thing in Amdapor etc etc

2. Gear stats need a major underhaul. Return them to 1.0 with the interesting stats.

3. Sometimes quantity beats quality. 2 dungeons for 3 months is not okay. I'd not care if you redid 6 old dungeons with stronger mobs, a few new mechanics and harder hitting bosses. In the end your '2 new dungeons' are just the same as any other.

[Kaurie]

Hmm,

1. Build a Wall Around Ishgard and make them pay for it.

2. Total and complete shut down of Lala's entering Eorzea

3. Put all current Lala's in Eorzea on a registry

[SendohJin]

1) New Materia types (ability potency+, ability cooldown -, duration+)
2) New content tier to acquire new materia
3) simplify jobs and rotations, too much bloat.

[WeekendSoja]

Every time I see a PLD LB3 I just think of this segregating wall lol.

1. Special boss dropped materia with very unique stats on them.

2. Savage raids having a chance at spawning a rare second room with an optional boss / challenge. I would like to say this boss gives the players a chance to double their rewards for that floor but maybe op. Having a surprise new room with a randomly generated "optional boss" would always be exciting. (Exit still appears for those who do not wish to tackle the new challenge)

3. Re-implement battle regime to fit within current battle frame work. Have it work on threshold measures like some of the skills that require to boss to be sub 21% hp to activate. I've always had a image of how this could be implemented using current game resources but I never had the guts to post it here lol.

That's about it...

[Kosmos992k]

Make it great again? Is it not great now? I certainly think it is. Why do some people always want to talk things down so that they can claim they'll make them great again, when in fact things are already pretty damned great?

[Celef]

I would like them to add some element weakness and resistance To bad on a FF to not have them ^^

[Andevom]

Hmm,

1. Build a Wall Around Ishgard and make them pay for it.

2. Total and complete shut down of Lala's entering Eorzea

3. Put all current Lala's in Eorzea on a registry

We will also enact a plan to defeat the Ascians. It will be a tremendous plan. Incredible. Believe me.

[FinalWolf]

Rumors are going around that stormblood will have triple the budget than HW so I am expecting a lot

[Pence]

Make it great again? Is it not great now? I certainly think it is. Why do some people always want to talk things down so that they can claim they'll make them great again, when in fact things are already pretty damned great?

Why do so many people complain it's become basic? Because it has. If XIV released sub numbers like WoW used too I can assure you it would be draining numbers. What makes XIV great? The repetitive dungeons? 4 raid bosses every 6 months? Housing which is annihilated by F2P games? One of the most despised features in WoW? Garrisons. But Yoshi loves WoW so he tried to bring them over with Squads. They attempt to add new content - but it always fails because they're too stuck to their own formula.

There's no way 4.0 will survive this. I hate that I think WoW is kinda right in spicing it up each expansion.

[Talraen]

1.) Changes to crafting and gathering so there is something to do at max level that isn't just grinding tomes or waiting on timers. I'm not talking about viable endgame gear, just something fun that doesn't require bleeding-edge gear with maxed out materia.

2.) Quests that amusingly go into why so many of the more common asked-for ideas are fraught with peril. I'd love a questline about a fire mage that has been rendered totally useless by fire-resistant monsters, for instance. (Also: don't add these systems, no matter how many people ask for them)

3.) The ability to replay quests or even just specific solo fight instances (3.4 end fight for example). Not for any reward, just because it's fun.