Things wanted for next expansion?

[Reinha]

People to stop asking for faster paced combat.

Seriously, if you want faster paced combat you have the option of playing not only nearly every other MMO currently running, but also most other games in general.

I've asked for a single job with faster paced combat before. This shouldn't affect those who like slower combat since they can just play every other job currently available.

A new healer and a new tank.

This is what I'm hoping for assuming they aren't copy paste. Give the new tank a different base rotation than 1-2-3 and the healer some melee attacks and new healing mechanics.

I would also like combat while swimming and flying, and dungeons where you fight bosses in the air (in a vehicle if needed).

[The_Promised]

We need graphics update on characters, more faces/customization and butt slider . Airships as mount and not to use just for restriction duties, I wanna to use the fc airship and submarines on all the zones that we can fly/swimming. And swimming pool on houses. Also the garlean jobs.

[Jandor]

I've asked for a single job with faster paced combat before. This shouldn't affect those who like slower combat since they can just play every other job currently available.

That's a different request to OP's, and I personally have problem with it. A much faster paced job could be a lot of fun, just don't go poking the rest of the game

[Corue]

Better character creator customisation and job idle stances unlocked for both genders.

Also a gunblade job sounds cool.

[Duskane]

Viera,More options in character creator,Job stones upgraded or just a new tank and healer,A Tropical region maybe Roe related similar to how HW was very Elezan and SB is Highlanders
im just gonna guess now ninja will be the poster boy like Drg and Mnk/sam
and raid tier with Music as good as Alexanders

[Remyogic]

I've asked for a single job with faster paced combat before.

BRD and MNK are pretty intense at LvL 70. As BRD, I rarely have the time to click everything I need to click within a single GCD, most of my decision making is what to click and what to wait until the next GCD for.


Lowering the GCD would mess with the game's engine and mechanics and would require some pretty hefty overhaul's in the way the game functions and balances overall. Since everything is designed based on a 2.5 GCD as it's launching point, I doubt we see a reduction in the GCD outside of a new game all together.

On topic: I want to get back to the endgame of 2.x where every Raid we cleared and every Primal we killed felt like saving the world. The weight of killing Bahamut before he came back and destroyed everything again was intense, and the threats the 2.x Primals posed to peace vs. war in the realm felt real. Give us some storytelling in the end-game that is more than, this dude wants to play games with us and we oblige, cause reasons.

[Soge01]

Regular enemies not having a set predictable pattern with the way they attack and them not just spamming auto attack with one aoe move in between.

The regular enemies in Stormsblood a bid smarter than previous expansions but I wish I couldn't just utterly destroy them without having to think most of the time unless I'm at or below their level.

[Stormfur]

1. Let me glamour my monk pacifist's set onto everything. Seriously I love that set so much. We've got guys running around with little bunny cotton-tails, for Halone's sake. Any shred of "immersion" went away when we got magical flying elephants.

If you think people will be confused about what role a player is based on what they're wearing, there's a handy little icon beside their name that will tell you. Failing that, at the very least, make it so that sets from level 60 onward can be used on any job/class. By that time, I'm pretty sure players will understand who's a healer, who's a tank and who's a DPS.

2. Beastmaster or Ranger as a class.

[Riardon]

Meaningful dialog options or remove them completely. I prefer nothing than a fake illusion of choice.
Climbing and cave/underground exploration.
Faster paced combat.
More horizontal gear progression.
An updated character creation screen (more faces, more option more everything)
Updated textures (HD texture pack)
Removal of silly technical restrictions like the low PC/NPC viewing limit (Use my RAM properly and not only the ~2GBs XIV still uses).
Updated sound (can we change output device in game without restarting? Perhaps no but let me dream)

[Jonnycbad]

It has remained the same for the most part since ARR other than the increase in skills but that isn't what I mean. Compared to some other MMO's out on the market, FFXIV feels slower paced which works well for this game but for people who have stuck around long enough, can begin to feel dull and boring.

Disagree. Lowering it to 1.5-2s for most jobs and then to 0.5-1 for NIN/MNK with their buffs would be stupid. It would just be a button smash fest. The reason the GCDs are slower in XIV compared to WOW is because WOW has boring and crappy skill animations. If GCD was shorter in XIV they'd need to speed up the animation or reduce the number of animation frames from every skill and spell in the game, which would reduce the aesthetics. Imagine Foul or Flare's explosions being on screen for 0.5s? Boring. If they didn't adjust the animations then skills would overlap eachother and it would just look like a hot mess. I think this reduces the aesthetic of the game. Take for example Chaos Thrust from FFXIV 1.0. Look how gorgeous it was before ARR came out and they sped it up 300%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ajGiHoO-Y