Awesome changes made that weren't there when you started playing?

[Dreggit]

Removing Chocobos from the party list.

It used to be that Chocobos occupied a party slot. So 4 plays with 4 Chocobos created a full party. Sucked for hunts and FC events.

[Iscah]

Gosh. FFXIV has one of the worst systems I have ever seen when it comes to conferring the appearances of gear from one item to another. With how many people are mentioning the improvements glamours have seen, it must have been really bad before.

The overall system hasn't changed, but previously the only way to apply glamours was using prisms to apply one glamour to one gear piece at a time. Plates make the process quicker and you don't have to carry the glamour items in your inventory. The actual prisms were needlessly complicated as well.

[Crushnight]

@Esmoire

It was stupid thinking on it.

Required level 50 to unlock glamours.
Have grade 1-5 glamour prisms.
Have grade 1-5 clear prisms to remove glamours.
Crafting your own prisms required level 50 crafter to get the book needed.
Couldn't glamour a multi-part piece except with another (stuff like odin armour etc it's why the trial drops items separately) .
No extra storage besides retainers.
Wasn't out with base ARR came with a patch.


Still waiting for them to do away with the cannot glamour an item that is a higher level than you are currently.

[Vahlnir]

Still waiting for them to do away with the cannot glamour an item that is a higher level than you are currently.

That's the only part of it all that made/makes some real sense. WoW only does this within expansion levels once a player gets there through the appearance tab. The only outlier is the base game, which permits lvl 60 appearances or under to be used by players. We don't have that as much as I wish we did. WoW might be circling the drain but man, their transmog feature is great. Wasn't always great though, it took a few years to get there.

[CazzT]

On that note, five more glamour plates. I can see why we can't have one plate for every job and class, but at least we can cover all the stat types, crafter, gatherer, and have a few plates to spare for your favourites or stuff like BLU.

I think 20 or 25 plates would be sufficient to cover everything. It would be enough for all the adventurer jobs, enough to cover all three land classes, leaving enough to have some for the hand classes. Or vice versa if you're on a crafting/gathering alt.

At the minimum it should always be enough plates to cover all the adventurer jobs plus two.

On topic -- As someone else pointed out, auto-gathering. I did some gathering before this was added so I got a small taste of the tedium.
Also, Glam Plates are an amazing addition.

But my favorite addition.... Being able to have my Midgy and Paprika out at the same time!!! Minion and Choco, at my side while I vanquish my foes!

[Andanie]

Not having to get to level 15, 26(?), 34, on a class you don't want to play because the abilities were necessary for playing another class effectively or even just unlocking your job. It was a cool concept, but it practice it really sucked.

Role abilities in general, and not having to chose between 3/4.

Glamour no longer needing a specific prism for a specific crafting/armor type. (No more Wood Glamour prisms or w/e they were called.)

Glamour being available at 15.

Apartments.

Chocobos no longer taking up party space if you're grinding fates in the word.

No longer having to grind fates if you don't want because of PotD.