The actual animations are top notch, high quality. Even the worst reviews of the game when it came out were amazed by them, and I want to see them stay.

The particle effects need re-doing. I kinda understand that they might have been trying to reduce clutter or make it more realistic, but it's missing the "awesome!" effect you'd often get when seeing a ws with a big explosion or warp in it connect for huge damage in ffxi, or using a similarly flashy ability in other games--for instance, almost every other 3d FF game. Part of the reason I level is to see what cool abilities I have waiting for me, but with a few exceptions it's been kinda meh. I hope they're able to re-do the particle effects soon, although knowing the fanbase I'm sure plenty of people will complain regardless.