What do you miss from ARR?

[LalafellDown]

I miss not knowing how useless my gear would be the next patch or expansion. I guess the surprise and wonder. I used to think that all my hard work was worth it obtaining the certain gear set. Until 3.0 came out and I saw how useless the grind was. Why waste time grinding when it gets replaced and made easier to obtain later.

So you got that shinny new weapon who cares the next patch will have a better looking one. Theres no incentive to grow when we all start over at lever 1 each and every patch.

[Brill_]

Coil. None of the other raids came close to being as good as coil.

[Ramesses]

...I miss that you could cross over certain skills from other classes-- for example, having Physick on BLM was actually very useful.

Also miss the intensity of working towards the complete ilvl 90 AF+1 gear-- at one time, it was as a very solid set for your job class.

[Fhaerron]

The difficulty.

[Kohdo]

Mana Shift.

[Lumina]

The amount of content.

Nothing they've added since they started reducing content added in each patch accounts for the amount of stuff they've reduced. They took a problem of being overworked on patches and started reducing content instead of hiring more staff to keep up the pace of content on the company's biggest cash cow.

They say it's to give us more varied content but that's just a spin. We're still getting less than we used to, accounting for the stuff they're doing "instead". Wanna cut something? Stop giving us things like lords of vermilion, mahjong, chocobo racing, 3 versions of diadem... and maybe a controversial opinion, the feast. So much effort goes into it for the ver small group of players that actually play it and it's just not good content. Use the other subpar pvp mode that's actually more popular check your obligatory "we have pvp too!" checkbox.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game, but that's exactly why decisions like getting the amount of new dungeons we get these days instead of 3 dungeons EVERY major patch just don't sit right with me. Sad part is, many people playing nowadays weren't around back then and don't know what they're missing and so SE gets away with it.

[MsMisato]

I miss cross-class skills and how I miss cleric stance. It was so fun and hectic at the same time to DPS and heal. Shoot even some of the older skills that are no longer around. Like how DPSes leg sweep actually placed slow on mobs because its a leg sweep. miss stat materia lol

Map exploration. miss having to uncover the map. Now its like you never been here, but you know entire map already =/

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

No idea excatly in focus point on what i miss in ARR but for me i felt the game was much funnier without so much content focused on storyline if that was the matter, no idea excatly but i somehow enjoyed the game more in a roleplay worldish way a bit better than today its just a workstation on pf and builds.

[KageTokage]

Post moogle quests.

I liked having a chance to learn more about some of the minor NPCs we ran into during the ARR MSQ. They were good for both world-building and some laughs.

[Nyxheart]

Short answer would be everything probably.

The more exploritive dungeons, the difficulty of dungeons even on lower levels, following mechs, freely giving advice w/out worring about "You dont pay my sub" as much and more people asking "big pulls or no" and "full run or no"(expecial if someone was new or not synced) more often. Fall damage and the ability to prank my friends with it and having a laugh about it. (The shear number of times I pulled the skipped enemies over the cliff w/out dieing after the 2nd boss in Hullbreaker on my FC mates, Provoke on dps, tanking cartucce. My friends and I had fun in premades.) Enemies in dungeons you could outrun and therefore kite. ...also you cannot tell me that taking no fall damage makes sense. Weird gripe but still.

Crossclass system which was the entire reason I decided to pick up tanking, goons having higher HP than other dps because lore-they can wear scale. The synergy between classes because of the veriety of debufs and buffs, Bard being a support class with a healer limit break, the customability like bonus attribute points, the options for divercity in play style like vit/str, tanks tanking with tank stance because they were tanking instead of metaing damage for the sake of numbers. Mitigation as a whole across the classes. DOTS! The divercity between classes in general. Emnity management.

Non aggressive enemies, multiple level enemies w/in an area, the number of people just running around cause you couldnt fly. B rank hunts not needing to be assigned to get seals.

Drunken Friday Night Clears with team Mario that cleared content w/out charging for it for fun. Being trapped at the bottom of Titan. Not feeling like I had to raid just to get a good weapon/keep up. Raides that had more areas with them than trials.

Crafting stations being useful for me, GC stuff being at least semi relivent and useful, non-premacroed PVP hotbars, Veteren rewards like fantasia.

Sheilds and onehanded main hands for Casters (if youre gonna take onehanded weapons away can we at least be allowed to glamour them on twohanders?) Normal/less over the top weapon designes. Overmelding, less numbers bloat, CT mechanics. Less hand outs. No lvl1 weathered jewelry thats better than anything you can craft/buy till like lvl20 or higher.

The veriaty in expert roulette, WAR not being a meme. Having a better kit at low lvls. Most of the removed abilities for magic and war and their animations. And probably even more stuff I cant think of off the top of my head at this moment.

I do like some things, and understand why SOME of the stuff I really liked was removed. I still absolutly love the story. I just miss stuff I've lost... and find it infuriating that some NPCs can still do moves I want back.