What I expect from the expansion reveal livestream

[Ammokkx]

Well this thread was a disappointment from post 1.

[Hausti]

Honestly this thread made my day XD
Thanks @OP

[Vickii]

There's people who are passionate about the game but aren't blind to its flaws. Lately, one of the biggest issues has been the claim that various desirable features would be 'too hard' to implement.

I thought the original post was pretty funny with that in mind. Why not take it as a bit of playful ribbing instead of some deeply personal attack?

Haven’t taken it as a personal attack. Taken it for what it is, whining from jaded players who might be better off moving on if they can’t find something about a new expansion to be excited about.

A lot of us have fun with this game and get tired of seeing the same people btching and crying about the same things over and over.

[DrWho2010]

whatever expectations you have, you will most certainly be disappointed. I can tell you that much for sure. lol

[E4EO]

If they don't fix healers in 6.0 I'm stopping with 14, seriously, healers have been a mess ever since 5.0 and everyone knows why, they along with tanks have always been my two preferred roles in games and it sucks so much that they have no substance in 5.0.

If they further homogenize tanks? I'd be REALLY done with this game.

[Dogempire]

This thread is kinda fun, so gonna make my own contribution:
- Since pets are so annoying, summoner and scholar pets will now be temporary and given a recast timer like Bahamut-egi and Phoenix, and will have their own assigned skills during their temporary summon, you also can't control what they attack, much like the
Machinist autoturret and automaton queen
- Removed tank stance entirely, tanks now have a trait that makes them generate more aggro for the damage they deal, now instead of forgetting stance you can spend more time forgetting to use cooldowns during large pulls
- Because healers dealing damage is so problematic, we've removed all damage skills and given you a chocobo to heal for open world and solo instance content instead, now you can truly embrace your role of standing behind things spamming cure 1 while waiting
for everyone else to actually kill the mobs
- Made changes to the ranged role as a whole, removed Tactician, Shield Samba, and Troubadour, replaced them with /comfort, /soothe, and /console to fulfil their role as support dps

Please look forward to it

[LisSquid]

They will announce the fourth healer. What they don't say outright is that they will be making this fourth healer by giving it the abilities they pruned from AST and SCH. They removed them in ShB hoping we would forget these abilities existed. It will also have shield and regen stances.

[Kisshu]

They'll add a single new item to the achievement shop.
Following the 2 PVP armor sets per type in SB and 1 PVP armor set per type in ShB, they'll now add 0 new sets in next expansion. Also no weapons, maybe some new towels.

[MsQi]

Character Customization
We cannot let WoW's new character creator outshine us. We will be adding more hairstyles for all races (except Hrothgar and Viera because that is very difficult to do, please understand).
Due to our spaghetti code, we will not be adding other customization options in this expansion, but someday in the future, we might. Please look forward to it.

I don't know why people are so excited about WoW's updated character creation. It's still way less than FFXIV has and barely better than what they had before. Mostly just a new UI. They separated a few features and added a handful of more options, like a few more skin tones and hair colors.

Don't get me wrong. I would love to see more in FFXIV.

[BlitzAceRush]

I don't know why people are so excited about WoW's updated character creation. It's still way less than FFXIV has and barely better than what they had before. Mostly just a new UI. They separated a few features and added a handful of more options, like a few more skin tones and hair colors.

Don't get me wrong. I would love to see more in FFXIV.

I think it's more because Blizzard showed off a lot of stuff and concepts when they announced they were updating the Character creation and people here are going off of that, when very little of what they talked about or showed was actually added (like upright undead) While yes, WoW did update their creator, a lot of it was just changing the UI or adding previews like see some armour, see some animations that kind of stuff. The other stuff was just more hairstyles and jewellery, things we already get every patch and other things we already have, like the ability to customize eyes individually.

Ironically, people who say because WoW did it 14 needs to step up neglect to mention than all WoW's done is actually almost bring theirs on par with what 14 has now, and if ours is so lacking (I'd like more too) Then it's kind of sad to herald WoW's for just getting to about the same state.
About the only thing WoW's has now that ours lacks is the ability to demo armours and animations, oddly enough which we can do sort of with the benchmark's but as for actual appearance options WoW has just moved theirs from "Worse than 14's" to "About the same as 14's" Great for them, hardly the "14 needs to keep up" Some are making it out to be.