Regarding Firmament Titles For 5.3

[Arillyn]

My feedback is keep the titles and achievements the same every single time for the Restoration Ranking. They had told us that once you got the Top 12 the titles wouldn't change and I'm 99% sure they had also said that if you got in the Top 12, you wouldn't be allowed to do so again therefore giving other people a chance to get the Top 12.

I already got my Top 12 the first time around. I worked for it and am proud of it. I don't really want to do it again and this time compete with the crafting bots that have surely figured out the expert crafting. Also, I think those who worked for it before and missed it should have the chance to get it this time without competing against those of us who already got it.

[Esmoire]

Yeah... As someone with a title myself from the first round, I am against anything about making the old titles exclusive. It is more fair to the people under the presumption they could get that title next time ranking happened. Would have drastically altered participation if people knew that was the only chance to get the titles. Especially since like, you know, if for any reason you could not play much FFXIV for a week you would be SOL. Don't need to create a graveyard of titles at each stage. I am not against having the same title for top 12 and top 100 every season.

[Sated]

As someone who ranked on my server for my craft I'm very upset that they aren't giving the same titles. This activity is not healthy competition, especially for how long the crafting period lasts.

I strongly believe rewards should remain the same to offer opportunities to new people to unlock these rewards each period. If they really want to offer variety, make it a different title for each craft or something, but please if you love your players at all make it the same rewards every season - this is cruel.

[Tlamila]

I fully agree with what everybody said, keep titles the same and give new people a chance. I already got my title last season and sure as hell I don't want to redo it, but somehow they managed to give now a cooler sounding title like it's an advanced version of the other one.

[Unholychinchilla]

I really like the Saint of the Firmament title, but was quite sick the first time around, so due to having to sleep a lot I was slowed down and missed out on 12th place by only 10k points. I took comfort in the fact that I'd get a second chance in 5.31 when I'd be able to be better prepared and hopefully not half dead. So this feels like having the rug pulled out from under me and now Saint Ascendant seems like a consolation prize.

All in all I'd rather keep the titles the same. There's still only going to 4 ranking periods, most likely, so it's not exactly going to turn into something everyone can get even if it doesn't change.

[Lissandra]

I'm in the boat of keeping the previous titles. The ones who grinded very hard before should not feel compelled to again, and this in turn would give those who did not make top 12/100 a chance to get the titles as well. Most people don't have the time to put in 12+ hours a day (for a week or two) in a MMO for a virtual title.

[Alleo]

Please dont go against your words..You said at the start that (to make it more fair and reachable by a bigger amount of people) you wont change the titles for each new round..with that anyone could over time try to get it. This would have been a great way and quite the improvement. Get those that are hardcore and some of the botters out of the way in the first one to two seasons and afterwards people less hardcore might give it a try.

If you now change it up and give us new titles for each one this will only make it harder for everyone. Those that did it hardcore last time have to do it again (and 10 days is a lot..) while now anyone will know that they might never reach the title after that thus also put in more work..this just creates unhealty playstyles and botting..

I would really like to know why you are planning to go against a good idea and make it into something worse? I have heard of no big complaints with the system that is in place right now..so why change it?

[Zsolen]

I have Saint as well, and I agree with what people are saying throughout this thread.

This is bad both for the people that finished top 12/100 the first time around, and it is bad for the people that did not get these titles. The former may feel they have to defend the titles, and the latter may feel they could get shut out again.

I'm all for helping the rebuild, even with another title not on the line. The competition can cause burnout, so the restoration efforts could easily take a hit post-season.

[Espritduo]

So basically, no one anywhere seems to think this was a good or fair idea to have new titles. So why the heck did SE decide to do this? What kind of people do we have running this game that are consistently this completely out of touch with what ANYONE wants?

[Alleo]

So basically, no one anywhere seems to think this was a good or fair idea to have new titles. So why the heck did SE decide to do this? What kind of people do we have running this game that are consistently this completely out of touch with what ANYONE wants?

Yeah I honestly dont get it. When they announced their plans at the very start people were happy with the solution because hearing about crafting/gathering pvp first created the exact fear that will happen now if they change it up..that it will only be for the hardcore and the cheaters..and the hardcores will suffer from this by having to nearly no-life it..and everyone else will be left in the dust...another part of content useless. With their first strategy this would have been a perfect way to give everyone a chance..to make it more healthy, to stop bots from just spamming it and its a great incentive when even a more casual player might have a chance to win..