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;

[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]

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

[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..... :<

[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.

[WrenElessedil]

"Are you sure you want to open this door/use this item/do whatever even though you wouldn't have clicked it if you weren't already sure?"

[Bsrking5]

The age slider doesn't work like the way I want. Why can't my character be the age that i want them? Is it bad for the WoL to have a larger age range? And they changed my favorite voice.

[Esmoire]

No hyperbole: you can take 90% of the confirmation windows out of FFXIV with no cost to the user.


1) Take out the confirmation entirely, which is enough for most of these
2) Take out the reason for the confirmation, IE not dropping keys for a door like 5 steps away
3) Make better user experience, like if this takes you somewhere, make the way back wherever it sets you

[DPZ2]

"Are you sure you want to open this door/use this item/do whatever even though you wouldn't have clicked it if you weren't already sure?"

Pretty sure this is there because Console vs PC.