6.0 Hopes and Fears?

[Theodric]

Hopes:

- Necromancer, Time Mage and Beastmaster as new jobs.
- Additional character customisation options. Let us design a character to look like Snow from FFXIII, Basch from FFXII or Gladio from FFXV.
- Less focus on pandering to the vocal minority that flocks to Twitter and other social media sites.
- More engagement from community representatives right here on the official forum as well as a proper appeal/forgiveness system for bans dished out in exchange for minor offences.
- A focus on nuance and consequences in the main story, particularly in relation to the game's protagonists.
- Sympathetic antagonists to be allowed to live rather than be killed off. Other Final Fantasy titles had no issue allowing for it, so I don't know why FFXIV has a bizarre obsession with 'punishing' antagonists with death.
- More antagonist themed gear, hairstyles, paintings. minions and so on.

Fears:

- Zenos and Fandaniel continuing to overstay their welcome.
- Story continues to become increasingly contrived. Such as with more time travel elements and a lack of meaningful consequences for anyone but the antagonists.
- No dialogue options to tell the likes of G'raha and Alisae to back off whenever they get obsessive over the Warrior of Light.
- An unsatisfying conclusion to the story surrounding Garlemald, the Ancients and Zodiark.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Hopes:

Sharlayan as the new city.

We get to meet Alphinaud and Alisae's parents.

Comedy scene where Alphinaud bumps into the girls he tried to impress with his artistic skills.

Awesome scene where the Forum and all the of Archons come together to find a way to fix the Sound.

Secret light themed WoL or Ascian/creation magic Azem job unlocked as a part of the MSQ.

Garlean Legatus or Archadian Judge job that uses Garlean gunblades, can cast ceruleum magic like Regula's blue firey lion and use laws.

Summoner gets new egis.

Garlemald gets a good restoration storyline.

If we get six zones and one of those zones is either the center of the world or the moon, that means we could have 5 other zones exploring Ilsabard. I know Thavnair is out of the way, but I'd like to visit it. I think 7.0 onwards is going to be about going to the New World and Meryacdia and other shards, so if we're ever going to go to Thavnair I think this might be our only chance.

On the same note, it'd also be cool to be able to visit the ancestral homelands of the races in the games. Like Aerslaent, the island the Limsa Lominsans came from. Or some Hellsguard Roegadyn villages up in the mountains. Or those islands just off the southern coast of Aldenard where the Plainsfolk Lalafell came from.

I'd like to see Gosetsu again but I don't know if he will come back this expansion or go adventuring with us in the New World or Merycadia.



Fears:

Zenos eats Zodiark, or is eaten by Zodiark. Turns into a godmonster final boss.

The final boss is a godmonster (pls don't let the Sound turn into Lavos which we fight, just let it be a problem we fix using knowledge and our allies).

Garlemald is just a dungeon like Ala Mhigo.

The Eorzean Alliance destroys Garlemald and then walks away, leaving it a broken wreck, without addressing the underlying problem (Garleans can't use magic which is an objective disadvantage, and they are stuck in the mountains, which isn't fertile land). So it's just going to be WW1 where the Allies defeated Germany and walked away leaving it a mess without fixing anything, only for the inevietble to happen in the next generation.

Voice quality won't be consistently good due to ongoing lockdown. We've already seen this problem in 5.4, where the preestablished characters sounded good because the actors already knew their roles, but the newly voiced characters didn't sound good.

[shao32]

hopes:

- DRK rework of conflicting mechanics like blackblood and delirium and a restoration of his fast paced real MP managment tank identity + mechanics like darkside and living shadow aporting something to the gameplay and not being a decoration.
- healers and tanks gameplay getting enchanced, deshomogenitazed to a degree and a increment of the skill floor so both roles feel impactful again.
- viera and roghtgar headgear added, way more variety of hairstyles, female and male version of both races added.
- more battle content that last more than a week, more harder dungeons in both dificulty and number, better savage raids.
- increased the size of the dev combat team that take care of the jobs desing and fix issues to have more faster development and proper management of the 17 jobs + new ones properly and way more effective.

Fears:

- DRK stay as a WAR clone with inner delirium, useless ui elements (darkside gauge), no MP management and just only new fancy animations.
- tanks and healers even more simplified.
- viera at roghtbar added just a few hair options and no updates to the next expansion.
- more simplified battle content and brainless dungeons.
- the same amount of devs taking care of everything and take ages to fix anything related with the jobs like now but worse.

[SavishSalacious]

Hopes

- 6.0 isn’t the end of the game and that they create a new end of the world story line.
- That they confirm for 7.0 and beyond the final level cap will be 99 and they focus on ilevel after that.
- no squishes
- no changes other then new skills for my lovely BLM
- no changes to crafting, I finally got my rotation down for scripts and basically everything.
- more voice acting and longer cut scenes.
- story is better then shb. It was a good game, but the patches are..... interesting.
- let’s go to space.....lunar.....
- new mage class
- trusts, trust, trust, and more trusts.

Fears:

None of that happens or the opposite happens because of people’s “oppinions”

[Yuriwara]

I have only one hope...

- Hildibrand is back! -

[Gojin]

fears: No male viera, no new hats.
Hopes: none

[Garnix]

Hopes : Just more of the same
Fears : Just more of the same

[ASkellington]

Hopes:
More story regarding the Ancients. (what was the sound, more on the convocation, what the original star was like etc.)
Rework a proper one this time of healers and dungeon mechanics for healers. (tl;dr - if you're gonna force us to heal, give us more to heal)
Fix Living Dead and make DRK more unique from WAR.
Harder normal content, or some HARD versions of dungeons.
A new deep dungeon.

Fears:
No changers to healers: AST card system, WHM's lack of identity, SCH's everything, and/or fixing how much down time we have.
New healer introduced either steals previous skills from current healers and/or ends up in the same state of current healers.
Another expansion with Zenos as the main antagonist. Just... if we're gonna go that route can it be a bit more interesting than SB's?

[foyboy]

Hopes:

• The classes I play will expand rather than being reworked (they're fine in their current iterations methinks)
• The story will continue to be brilliant and full of heart and emotion. That the next expac will be another HW or SHB rather than another SB
• More emotes and glams that aren't locked behind MTX
• Even more varied dialogue options to allow more character expression.
• More usage of established characters. (merlwyb's usage in 5.4 is a good start.)
• More beautiful and varied zones. (Rather than having 3 generic deserts and an empty ocean like in some expacs)
• Hildebrand, Godbert, nashu etc will get a voice, even if only for a single cutscene.

Fears:

• Zenos will continue to be a horrible villain.
• Fandaniel will be a generic, mustache-twirling antagonist.
• They'll inexplicably bring back palpalymo for no reason.
• Classes will get unneeded reworks that completely change how they play for the worse.
• Nomura.
• With the success of shadowbringers, that square will decide to 'coast' for an expac, and half-ass the whole thing.

[Erendis]

My fear is that Zenos will survive to see 6.0...