Changes I want to see in 5.0: Opinion post!

[Jandor]

- In game calendar for planning group activities with your FC or LS

Yes, yes, yes. Easily my biggest want from your list, and something I really miss from other games.

It's a pain in the ass to achieve the same thing through out of game tools, people don't want to install them, they don't sign up, they don't check them very often, etc. If it's in the game we're all playing it would make things much more straightforward.

[CaptainLagbeard]

A Better loot system for Raids, specially the 24 man ones.
This expansion's attempt to improve it was the whole Greed Only, THAT worked out well didn't it... But the fact that the bosses drop specific gear is one of the biggest problems with them, you don't always get a drop of loot to roll on.

At the very least they could make it a token kind of thing, like you have in 8 man raids (with 1 token needed for each piece) so you don't need to wait until the RNG drops gear for the correct job. And removing jobs from the loot drops would actually allow as Square intended people to use their more geared classes instead of going in with lower ilvl hoping for a drop.



For 8 mans, I wonder would it be possible to make it so you get a bonus for rolls that increases every run, so eventually you can't roll low and will get your weekly loot instead of forcing to either do the normal raids 30 times or with a premade group 4-8 times.

[Tint]

At the very least they could make it a token kind of thing, like you have in 8 man raids (with 1 token needed for each piece) so you don't need to wait until the RNG drops gear for the correct job. And removing jobs from the loot drops would actually allow as Square intended people to use their more geared classes instead of going in with lower ilvl hoping for a drop.



For 8 mans, I wonder would it be possible to make it so you get a bonus for rolls that increases every run, so eventually you can't roll low and will get your weekly loot instead of forcing to either do the normal raids 30 times or with a premade group 4-8 times.

Uhm... are you suggesting that they take the same loot system they have in 8 man story mode raids and use it also for the 24 man raids -

and then basically say that the loot system of the 8 man story raids need an overhaul because it's too difficult to get a token? o.ô;

I mean, running a 24 man raid 30+ times a week to get a token is nothing I look forward to. That would take a little longer than with the 8 man story raids ^^

[TheMightyMollusk]

Let the first fights with Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda count towards the weekly dungeon challenge log entries. It's mildly annoying to be looking forward to that bump of EXP and then, nope. Especially if there's a first timer on Ifrit, that intro cut scene is pretty long.

[Metalwrath]

- Achievements for FC’s to work towards (mounts, maybe the availability of mounting in main cities or a way to gain a speed boost); provide more incentive to be in an FC besides just buffs (maybe FC currency (what’s one more going to hurt?) attained through group events I.e. have 5/8 FC players in a trial? Those players earn FC currency or exp bonus) that can be traddd to vendors or an individual FC NPC. Maybe even just allow us to use it for the airship. Or update the features on airships, unlock more raids, etc. but I feel my precious ideas would be more easily implemented....idk just ideas here, anyone else have any good ones for this?

Sorry but this is just a horrible idea.By giving any incentives towards that it would cripple duty finder wait times for players completly.Not everyone wants to do content only with fc.Then you have the issue of players being on at same times with their fc which would make getting the achievments extremly awkward for some fc members or next to impossible.

[Metalwrath]

One thing i would like to see is a change to how lvl syncing works with older content.When you lvl sync to lower level content it should not sync you to maximum ilvl for the content lvl.This removes any form of challenge when revisiting the content in roulettes not to mention it has a negative effect with newer players who get free carries in older content and dont get the same learning experience as players did back when it was current content.
Also i think that no content should be allowed be completed unsynced for the first completion.Fair enough once they've done it once let them unsync after but we shouldnt have so many lvl 70 players with no knowledge of any boss mechanics that have been around since lvl 50 or 60.

[Metalwrath]

Also in terms of the hunt i'd rather we have more than one kind of s rank spawn for each area.Maybe have 5 different s ranks per area.
Also make a change to s rank hunts that the hunt is not targetable for 5 mins after initial spawn.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Uhm... are you suggesting that they take the same loot system they have in 8 man story mode raids and use it also for the 24 man raids -

and then basically say that the loot system of the 8 man story raids need an overhaul because it's too difficult to get a token? o.ô;

I mean, running a 24 man raid 30+ times a week to get a token is nothing I look forward to. That would take a little longer than with the 8 man story raids ^^

Well, with the tokens you would be guaranteed a chance to roll every run, unlike the current loot system. Maybe increase the amount of drops to compensate for having more people rolling.

Also, not really an overhaul on the 8 man, just limit the grind of the 8 man by eventually just giving you a forced 99 (which seems to be the max) roll.

[Makeda]

For me:

1. Have Macros function just like normal skills/spells. No delays or special processing.
2. All all expandable UI elements to be select what direction the expand in. So you could have the enmity list, party list, journal list, etc grow upwards or even sideways...
3. When in a dialog animation lock, allow movement keys to cancel it as if 'escape' had been pressed.
4. Just as there will be an option to replay the quests at max level, make an option to allow any zone to be scaled to your current level.
5. Mare glamour like the Couerl Tanga and Bikini top. :P
6. A UI element that ONLY shows any hotbar item that has currently proc'd - that can be positioned by itself
7. The ability to scale and move the UI elements for buffs and debuffs independant of any other UI elements.
8. An option to log into the inside of my house / apartment if that is where I was when I logged out.
9. A 'talent system' like WoW? Basically something to customize some skills, even if only cosmetic.
10. The ability to turn off the special effects of other people's spells. Or a 'half effect' version of all spells and the ability to set NPCs, enemies, and allies to either normal or half.
11. The ability to lock the size of the chat bar and make it clickthrough.
12. The ability to make ANY UO element clickthrough, even the hotbar (I use keybinds anyway).
13. The ability to auto-blacklist people who use certain words in chat, such as "www" or "com" or a small list of words of my choice. Putting a word on my list would also cause my own chat to not be able to use that word (prevent abuse).
14. The ability to friend my own alts... I know this one is not there on purpose, but I can wish...
15. Built in integration with discord. I know this will never happen but I honestly do not understand why no game that I play at least has something like this. I guess this would require hassling discord to put out an API for it...

[Vahlnir]

Abandon the concept of Diadem. We get it SE, you don't want it to fail. But there comes a point where it needs to stop. Eureka is an expansion on Diadem's systems. That doesn't make it any better. Go back to how relics were before SB, please. That's really my only wish for change.