Discussing your 'unpopular' opinions

[AnimaAnimus]

I dislike the speed of the ilvl turn over with no changes made to past content to keep the relevant and the ease of getting all gear

I dislike the constant nerfs and SE's fear of alienating anyone by making something that you cannot watch Netflix and play with one hand

I dislike the current endgame of boss > boss > boss, would rather have trials where even trash mobs are worth killing

I really liked ffxi and think a lot of the endgame concepts for it, like dyna, savage, sky and assault, would make wonderful additions to endgame. FFXIV could learn a thing or two from XIs endgame

I think we need more stat diversity, simplifying it is one thing, reducing it down to such a state that you really don't even need stats anymore just put "+200 mage" or "+200 tank" on something and your good is ridiculous.

I hate hate hate kawaii and think we need less of it and more of everything else.

Bring back the gearswaps!

I would love more long term goals on things that are not fluff, like mounts.

I really like both Lyse and Minfillia and dislike Alph-nothanks and Haurchiphhht

I actually enjoyed v1, even if the game was busted, the community was better and we had a great time

SE will of course bring back Sephi-rot because they cant help but milk that cow worse than Bethesda milks Skyrim

[Naelynne]

Female gear / poses are not that great. I'd love some more armor that feels like armor and not get myself buried under a pile of glorified battle bikinis.

Some gear variety in general would be nice, instead of the same items reskinned/recolored.

I don't want FFVII or FFVIII for next raid tier. They're milked so hard it's dust.

I didn't mind returning to the Waking Sands.

I liked the Moogle quests.

[CosmicKirby]

Haurchefant's demise also prevented most people from even bothering to see or understand the Archbishop's point of view, leading to him and his allies being seen not as a tragic antagonists but cackling villains with no redeeming qualities.

The lorebook does that. Almost all of the Heavensward are described as complete assholes, potentially villains. Some enjoy murder, some are rapists, others sleep around with no concern for others at all.

[Skivvy]

I rather dislike speed runs. Yes, I'll do them, but I prefer slower* runs where you can actually talk/joke a bit with party members.

*I'm not talking a snail's pace here, just a bit slower to where you can squeeze in some random chat.

[Theodric]

The lorebook does that. Almost all of the Heavensward are described as complete assholes, potentially villains. Some enjoy murder, some are rapists, others sleep around with no concern for others at all.

I distinctly recall some of the Heaven's Ward being described as honourable and disliking their more uncouth brethren. Zephirin, for instance, yet he's shown to be smirking in-game when taking down a certain someone which only serves to give the impression that he is a psychopath as well. I suppose it's balanced out by Nidhogg not being much better, though.

I really like both Lyse and Minfillia

Out of curiosity, what do you like about them?

[AnimaAnimus]

Out of curiosity, what do you like about them?

Min I have a connection to due to v1's storyline and no one seems to understand that as a leader she of course isn't going to be on the frontlines, paperwork and securing relations doesn't happen on its own. A lot of what we did couldn't have been done without someone getting things done in the background.

Lyse has had a lot of character development and I am glad they took the worst scion and gave her some depth. I really didn't find her story so bad.

[RiyahArp]

There aren't as many bots in pvp as people claim. People just assume bad players are bots.

Bots happened mostly when they initially added exp to frontlines, since at the time DPS queues were horrid, and pvp served the same purpose as ceruleum fields fate parties did in HW launch; a quick way to get to level cap without needing to do the story. Once they nerfed exp I think they died down hard, because the exp was pitiful if you lost. Plus once the initial rush to 70 ended, there was less need to bot leveling. But pvp was really the same as ceruleum fields then, I think they had bot complaints then too.

[Selova]

The mentor system should have it's perks removed and instead of a gold crown the icon should be a watering can. I personally believe this would get rid of all of the terrible mentors that don't give a flying hoot about assisting or helping new players. This is also coming from a Mentor. The current mentor system is a joke.

[TarynH]

I hate robes. Would like to see more unique gear on mages.

Also, BRD/MCH should not have to wear mage-looking gear, just because they think BRD is a mage. It's clearly more archer/ranger in this game.

I hate having to grind tomes for materials to make CRAFTED gear. I feel it defeats the entire purpose of having an alternate crafted set. (In other words, it should be an alternative to grinding raids/dungeons for gear.) And I really don't care that it "gives dungeon grinders something to sell." At least make them obtainable by some other means, like scrips.

I also hate PvP, and feel they should neglect it a little more for the benefit of having more unique content put in the game.

[Squigley]

I think I might have too many of these...

Crafting / Gathering leves should be removed or at least the titles for them should be a mark of shame, leveling DoH / DoL is stupid easy as is. But now the game is encouraging and rewarding players for using the easiest ways.

And come to think of it, all bragging rights rewards (titles, mounts) should be removed if the content was unsynched. No effort, no bragging rights.

Open world pvp won't ever work in this game because of job balance (or lack thereof) + the special delicate mentality of the community.

Need option should be disabled on dungeon drops if the player already owns better gear of same job & level requirement. (yes, I read THAT thread)

High end crafting gear should be craftable without specialist requirement and bind on acquire so that you'd actually have to play the crafting game instead of skipping progression by gil. I mean, you can't buy savage gear from the mb, can you?. Entry level end game gear could & should be sellable, of course.

Catch-up between patches should be throttled somehow so that everything doesn't become obsolete once the next patch hits.