Minor Gripes You'd Like To See Changed or Fixed: A Thread

[glitteringcosmos]

I love FFXIV. I love most everything about this game. I've sunk thousands and thousands of hours into it and I've been playing less than a year. It's quickly become one of the few positives in my life of corona-land. That said, I do have a list of things that I've noticed bug me, things that range from a little weird to look at, to oh my goodness SE I know you're better than that, please stop. Some would consider these things nitpicky, others deal-breaking. I call them minor gripes because ultimately they don't detract enough from the game to make me hate it, which at this point I don't think is possible. LOL.

Anyway, this is my list of minor gripes I'd like to see changed, even if I know some things on this list never will. Most of what's on here, I've seen echoed elsewhere, so I know the devs have seen and are aware of these complaints. BUT I'm curious to know what's on your list, mostly to see what, if anything, gets changed in future patches and expansions.

• Male Miqo's arthritis hands. I get they're supposed to be claw-like, but... please change lol. Femmiqos don't have this issue.
• Not being able to flip housing items. Rotating is one thing but flipping is another.
• Not being able to place anything but tabletop items on lofts/treehouses/outdoor decks without gliching
• GENDERLOCKS. Please please please do away with genderlocks. Bury them forever. It's 2020 no one wants your antiquated gender norms.
• You knew this was coming.... Male Viera and Lady Hrothgar pleeeeeeeease
• Speaking of Viera/Hrothgar, more expressiveness in the ears please? Miqo ear twitches are adorable. The static ears on Viera and Hrothgar are just.... lifeless. At least put a little bit of movement in them.
• World travel from expansion hub cities. Ishgard, Kugane, and Crystarium at the very least.
• Glam plates. More of them, and use outside of major cities.
• Squadron AI. Give them a little TLC. Give them the Trust AI. Something. Anything.
• NPC accessibility. Where are the major players after you beat MSQ? Let me chat with Aymeric and Raubahn please.
• But seriously do away with genderlocks. Why can't male characters do that wicked awesome DRK pose with the sword in the ground? Femme characters in this game are so heavily favored please just even the playing field. Throw us a bone SE.
• Housing. We know it's bad. SE knows it's bad. Gotta fix it. Is all I'm saying.

What minor (or major) changes would you like to see brought to the game?

[Raikai]

Male miqo'te hands, I very much agree with you... I wonder if someone even likes the hands like that. At least a new idle pose, then...

I won't be listing major things like job overhauls, since they usually been covered in other topics:

1) Housing items to be preview-able on the vendors or Market Board, in a preview window like the equipment, so we can test dyes as well;
2) Not very long ago someone managed to datamine (alongside with the, now available, wedding sets) that there are more gender-unlocked items like Butler/Maid outfits, or many of the common armor sold at the Gold Saucer. I wonder what SE is waiting to make them available;
3) Give us a 2-hand version of the BLM and WHM FF13 weapons! They are very cool looking and yet go unused... Ironically they are still for sale in the Mogstation, and the sprout me back in the day bought without a clue that these jobs wouldn't be able to use 1-h weapons later on (at least they were cheap...);
4) Señor Sabotender weapons for GNB and DNC;
5) Performance action for Dancers. Differently from set dances, this one would let you "live improvise" to a certain dance style, much like those dance games where you have to hit the buttons at the right time;
6) I'm hyped for Violin as the next instrument, but where's the guitar? There's already a model and some NPCs playing, so the animation foundation is sort of there. Also let us play insturments while sitting;
7) Make the menus more responsive, with less interface lag;
8) Let us have a display for both MCH lunchbox and BRD quiver. Sometimes they cause clipping issues;
9) Dps Lily spender for WHM;

Lastly, but not quite a minor thing:
10) Revamp the capital cities and have them just be 1 instance like Kugane - Perfect opportunity to add more interesting things to them;

[glitteringcosmos]

Male miqo'te hands, I very much agree with you... I wonder if someone even likes the hands like that. At least a new idle pose, then...

I won't be listing major things like job overhauls, since they usually been covered in other topics:

1) Housing items to be preview-able on the vendors or Market Board, in a preview window like the equipment, so we can test dyes as well;
2) Not very long ago someone managed to datamine (alongside with the, now available, wedding sets) that there are more gender-unlocked items like Butler/Maid outfits, or many of the common armor sold at the Gold Saucer. I wonder what SE is waiting to make them available;
3) Give us a 2-hand version of the BLM and WHM FF13 weapons! They are very cool looking and yet go unused... Ironically they are still for sale in the Mogstation, and the sprout me back in the day bought without a clue that these jobs wouldn't be able to use 1-h weapons later on (at least they were cheap...);
4) Señor Sabotender weapons for GNB and DNC;
5) Performance action for Dancers. Differently from set dances, this one would let you "live improvise" to a certain dance style, much like those dance games where you have to hit the buttons at the right time;
6) I'm hyped for Violin as the next instrument, but where's the guitar? There's already a model and some NPCs playing, so the animation foundation is sort of there. Also let us play insturments while sitting;
7) Make the menus more responsive, with less interface lag;
8) Let us have a display for both MCH lunchbox and BRD quiver. Sometimes they cause clipping issues;
9) Dps Lily spender for WHM;

Lastly, but not quite a minor thing:
10) Revamp the capital cities and have them just be 1 instance like Kugane - Perfect opportunity to add more interesting things to them;

ooooooh performance actions for DNC like BRD has would be incredible, I hadn't thought of something like that!! Hard agree on the BRD performance changes, too

Definitely agree on the housing previews. Housing in general needs a major overhaul but this would be on small QOL change they could easily implement and it would make so much of a difference.

Actually just.... agree on everything you wrote LMAO but those two were the standouts to me

[astercantus]

Mine are mostly glam related!

- Bigger wardrobe please...400 slots is most definitely not enough for all the glams I want to store.
- Cross-job glamouring: some job-locked sets would look amazing for other jobs.
- Specific dye channels rather than just coloring one part of an armor/weapon entirely
- Ability to set the main menu theme to whatever we want without going into movies (I love ShB but that opening HOARRRRRR can get a bit much after a while)

[glitteringcosmos]

Mine are mostly glam related!

- Bigger wardrobe please...400 slots is most definitely not enough for all the glams I want to store.
- Cross-job glamouring: some job-locked sets would look amazing for other jobs.
- Specific dye channels rather than just coloring one part of an armor/weapon entirely
- Ability to set the main menu theme to whatever we want without going into movies (I love ShB but that opening HOARRRRRR can get a bit much after a while)

AGREED I would LOVE more slots in the glam dresser. I get why they have some job locked sets (to fit ~*job aesthetic*~ I suppose) but I agree I'd love to see cross-job glams, at least for jobs of the same type if nothing else. Dye channels would be an incredible change, I just don't see it happening with the current system we have :'(

And omg THIS. This is what I thought we were getting when they added changing the menus in 5.3 (before you didn't have the option, it was stuck as whatever expansion you'd most recently bought) and I hate that it reverts back to the ShB menu every time you logout of the game client. It shouldn't be a hard change to implement to just.... leave it on the one we select..... :<

[NekoHina]

Mine are mostly glam related!

- Bigger wardrobe please...400 slots is most definitely not enough for all the glams I want to store.
- Cross-job glamouring: some job-locked sets would look amazing for other jobs.
- Specific dye channels rather than just coloring one part of an armor/weapon entirely
- Ability to set the main menu theme to whatever we want without going into movies (I love ShB but that opening HOARRRRRR can get a bit much after a while)

ABSOLUTELY AGREE 1000%!!!

I also would like to add a very important gripe (at least to me).

Please, for love of all things good, if you find the same size property elsewhere and you move your estate...please just move everything AS IS! Do not take up the whole floor plan inside and store furniture!!! I am begging you, SE! I have already had to redecorate the FC house due to relocation. But my personal house is full and my storage is full. It is already a con that you cannot have anything in your storage if your item count is maxed out anyway (what does it matter?) or else you cannot relocate. But if you moved everything - lock, stock & barrel then it would not be a problem! Sure some houses may not be exact so things might not fit perfectly, but it would be a lot easier to repair than to completely redo. Please consider.

I totally agree with the whole dye option requests. Dual channel dyes would be amazing, but I also would love to see some more of the pearlized, metallic or even glittered colors...especially a bubblegum pink (lighter than cherry, darker than pastel but a true pink not rose, coral or purple). I do not think I would dye anything else another color if I had that one.

Since anyone can get the conjurer’s mount these days at such a low level, please consider a newer one like a glittery allicorn similar to Pegasus or maybe the water horses from the fairy lands? That would be amazing!!!

I am all for more storage and certainly more glam plates. I have 10 retainers and they are all full, my closet is full, my extra large chocobo saddlebag is full and my inventory is getting close. I desynth everything I can or turn the items in, but what’s a girl to do?!?

This request is a big one. Please give a general amnesty to those who were banned from this forum years ago and are still playing. My husband has played since the beta, has had his SUBSCRIPTION EVERY DAY, NON-STOP SINCE THE BETA, but has been banned from this forum for several years for no good reason other than ticking off a group of trolls so they would all report him. He wants so much to come back so he can discuss his favorite game with like-minded individuals. He tries on Reddit but it is just not the same if you are a decent person. Hahahahaha. Anything goes there.

I really hope SE listens and implements some of these.

[Morningstar1337]

I'd like to see more Dye colors. Bright bordering on gaudy colors namely. Chartreuse yellow is a my white whale in this regard but I also would want to see other tertiary colors and some bright oranges and purples as well.

I would also like to see more unlocked "replica" sets of gear like the PVP i100/110 sets, espeiclly sicne SAM, GNB, DNC and RDM lack equivalents. Relatedly i am also miffed that the Faire sets left out a headpiece since that means that the Shisui headpieces lack a dyeable counterpart.

Outside of Cosmetics. I would want a few extra hotbars across the board because all the class ones were used on organizing minions/mounts and I want room for BLU setups, failing that the ability to copy PVP bars to PVE ones would suffice.

For GroupPose, I'd like the ability to chnage gearsets within the mode, as well as the ability to access job skill animations as emotes.

[Raikai]

I'd like to see more Dye colors. Bright bordering on gaudy colors namely. Chartreuse yellow is a my white whale in this regard but I also would want to see other tertiary colors and some bright oranges and purples as well.

I would also like to see more unlocked "replica" sets of gear like the PVP i100/110 sets, espeiclly sicne SAM, GNB, DNC and RDM lack equivalents. Relatedly i am also miffed that the Faire sets left out a headpiece since that means that the Shisui headpieces lack a dyeable counterpart.

Outside of Cosmetics. I would want a few extra hotbars across the board because all the class ones were used on organizing minions/mounts and I want room for BLU setups, failing that the ability to copy PVP bars to PVE ones would suffice.

For GroupPose, I'd like the ability to chnage gearsets within the mode, as well as the ability to access job skill animations as emotes.

A good feature would be bar visibility turning on with combat, would be nice to de-clutter your screen when you don't need it.

I would love the option to have some sort of "proc panel", letting us highlight icons of procs, buffs and debuffs.

[glitteringcosmos]

I'd like to see more Dye colors. Bright bordering on gaudy colors namely. Chartreuse yellow is a my white whale in this regard but I also would want to see other tertiary colors and some bright oranges and purples as well.

I would also like to see more unlocked "replica" sets of gear like the PVP i100/110 sets, espeiclly sicne SAM, GNB, DNC and RDM lack equivalents. Relatedly i am also miffed that the Faire sets left out a headpiece since that means that the Shisui headpieces lack a dyeable counterpart.

Outside of Cosmetics. I would want a few extra hotbars across the board because all the class ones were used on organizing minions/mounts and I want room for BLU setups, failing that the ability to copy PVP bars to PVE ones would suffice.

For GroupPose, I'd like the ability to change gearsets within the mode, as well as the ability to access job skill animations as emotes.

I'd love for more dyes/more customizable dye options (I think Meoni calls them dye slots when he brings this issue up, which is a lot). It kinda sucks that you can only have x number of dyes options for the gear and doesn't really lend to the whole immersion thing in general when you seen dozens of characters sporting the exact same glam as you in the same colors.

Pleaaaase more hotbars and macro options SE! And while we're at it fix the macros so that they don't fail << >> The number of times I've wiped because I hit my invuln macro only for it to only execute the chat action and not the actual... you know... invuln action.... also the number of times I've missed a rez because my macro decided to not properly rez the person I was targeting. Yes I double checked to make sure the macros aren't broken. Yes it's still an issue LOL

I think gpose needs to be made more intuitive in general. It's so needlessly complicated and confusing that I rarely use it for that fact alone.

[MsMisato]

I'd love for more dyes/more customizable dye options (I think Meoni calls them dye slots when he brings this issue up, which is a lot). It kinda sucks that you can only have x number of dyes options for the gear and doesn't really lend to the whole immersion thing in general when you seen dozens of characters sporting the exact same glam as you in the same colors.

Pleaaaase more hotbars and macro options SE! And while we're at it fix the macros so that they don't fail << >> The number of times I've wiped because I hit my invuln macro only for it to only execute the chat action and not the actual... you know... invuln action.... also the number of times I've missed a rez because my macro decided to not properly rez the person I was targeting. Yes I double checked to make sure the macros aren't broken. Yes it's still an issue LOL

I think gpose needs to be made more intuitive in general. It's so needlessly complicated and confusing that I rarely use it for that fact alone.

The macro itself isn't broken its an animation lock and you have to plan to be able to absorb one hit before it fires off. THe only invulnerability move that is somewhat instanaoues is WAR Holmang ability you still take damage but you can't drop below zero. Just like the DRG jump is an animation lock and they can still get hit in the process.