Things you DON'T want to see in Stormbringer..

[Mansion]

- An annoying NPC as the expansion main character.
- Limited jobs close to their current iteration
- Too much fan service (old FF bosses etc. a bit here and there is ok.)
- Broken jobs (OP or just plain bad)
- Mindless dungeons
- As previously said, long transition phases in fights.
- Genderlocked races
- A new PotD / HoH.
- The empty feeling of odd patches (4.1 4.3 and 4.5 are abysmal)

[TaiyoShikasu]

How bad the character models will look next to the new race.

[Jandor]

Things you DON'T want to see in Stormbringer.

• A 2.X/3.X style relic grind. Eureka was far from perfect, but it was still miles ahead of the previous method.
  
  
• A split focus. The Doma arc was nice, but felt barely related to Ala Mhigo a lot of the time.
  
  
• I like Hildy, but I agree it might be time to try something new.
  
  
• Some jobs need pruning, but don't just prune early levels and slot more stuff in at the top. Makes low level play terrible.
  
  
• No more dumb flying mounts. If it flies I want it to look plausible, stuff like the dinosaur just looks ridiculous.

[Iscah]

I don't want to see Hydaelyn turn out to be "evil all along".

[Mansion]

I don't want to see Hydaelyn turn out to be "evil all along".

Maybe not that far, but I think we might be presented a different opinion along the lines of "not as good as you thought", something like that.

[Squigley]

QTE's
Duty actions
Relic in Eureka
Jump puzzles

[Tlachtga]

(Terrible) attempts to capture the essence of XI and cater to people who played it.

Dumb fluff phases in extreme primals. Add phase in Lakshmi and Shinryu felt forced. The intermissions of Byakko, Tsukuyomi and Suzaku doesn't belong in extreme. (make them actually do dmg too)

Only having two Ultimate fights.

Gatekeep fights in the final fight of a savage tier that's basically a 4th fight. Exdad was fine at 4-ish minutes, but M&F is like 8 minutes. Ridiculous.

Limited jobs.

A complete lack of 4 man content that's somewhat difficult. Its sad that Rathalos is the only real 4 man extreme we got, and he sucks for people with high ping.

Jobs being unplayable at release. WAR was a joke tbh. A few other jobs were garbage truck leakage, and i'm not talking about damage here.

Being forced to lose damage purely because another job isn't present.

[Bonbori]

I don't want to see Hydaelyn turn out to be "evil all along".

Well... It won't "turn out" to be the case because we already know she is. Maybe not intentionally but it's because she and Zodiark exist in the state they do that the planet is so messed up. Whatever way it happens, they both ultimately have to go for things to get fixed. Not all Primals are evil either but that doesn't matter when their existence is an evil.

[Kaedan]

That would be negative. I did 2 HW relics (BRD and DRK) before any of the steps were nerfed (and 2 more before Umbrites and beyond were nerfed—never finished WHM but did finish AST), and I would rather have that. It gave me a reason to go into older content—I’ve barely touched Roulettes this expansion outside of Alliance when I was leveling my jobs and Expert for capping. Sometimes I do Raid Roulette for funnsies, but I never touch 70, 50/60, or Leveling hardly anymore.

If they want to add Eureka 2.0, fine—I don’t have a problem with that. But I would prefer the relic kept out of it.

No offense to you personally, but I wish people would stop using "relic" to refer to both ARR's and HW's long-term weapons.

ARR's was "relic", but more specifically it was "Zodiac".
HW's was "Anima".

Anima was MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better than relic to get. It was still somewhat of a pain in the rear, but much more tolerable. ARR's relic was absolutely, horribly, ridiculously terrible, and I think is primarily what Ritsuko is referring to. Anyone that claims ARR's relic was better to get than Eureka never got their ARR relic.

And to be frank, Eureka is MUCH less of a pain to get than even HW's Animas were.

The bottom line though, is this: Relics/Anima/Eureka weapons are never going to get easier or less time-consuming to obtain. That's the entire point of them. They are meant to be absurdly long-term goals.

[LalafellDown]

No more mister nice guy.