What is your biggest wish for endwalker that you know probably won't happen?

[Truen]

A return to 4.0 healer builds. I HATE chain spamming Broil 10,000 times a week on SCH. The 5.0 healer changes have been one of the worst string of nerfs I've ever seen in any game.
I ask myself how they could possibly make things worse than they are now, but then I remember Yoshi is involved and I literally shudder in fear.

FF14 should ban the term homogenization from their design ethos for the health of this game. Diversity is interesting and often fun...no more sameness.

FF14 should not aim to be a weird parody from The Giver...

[Banim]

Frog mounts from extreme trials.

[Unholychinchilla]

Frog mounts from extreme trials.

YES PLEASE! I want a nice, hoppy mount!

[HollowedDoll]

Ear physics for Hrothgar and Viera! For those unaware, both races have 100% static ears, to the point they might as well have been horns, whereas Miqo ears bounce and wiggle with most of their emotes. Ear movement is a big factor to how animals express their emotions so it's a huge missed opportunity that 2 of the 3 animal races can't do it [time and resources constrains aside]. Probably won't happen for EW, or even whenever they overhaul both races' limitations, but it'd be nice.

I don't know about hrotghar, but viera ears do move with the wind and as you walk, so they're not static, merely non expressive.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Consolidate some of the Wondrous Tails entries. For example, count Labyrinth of the Ancients, Syrcus Tower, and World of Darkness together as one Crystal Tower entry; or count Alexander Eyes/Breath/Heart/Soul of the Creator together as one Alexander: Creator entry.

[Jettinson]

Will probably not be very popular given the number of times people have cried over not being able to clear duties that involve performing game mechanics but...

An MSQ containing numerous solo duties that require the player to successfully complete mechanics to clear that will take players through every battle mechanic introduced so far in game. Solo duties that are super easy if you do the mechanics correctly and nearly impossible if you don't. That way even the people that skip potion their way to jumping straight into Endwalker will still have some experience with battle mechanics by the time they'd gotten into endgame. Some people will complain that it's gating content, however I see as no different than requiring player's to improve their skill. It's no different IMO than a single player offline games that become more difficult as you reach later stages in the game.

Some instances with certain classes or roles do nice job on teaching, wished it was more reinforced in actual msq. (Lv80 tank was fun with tower, stack marker and some aoe for example and works well as part of advanced training)

[Tlachtga]

for content outside of savage and ultimate to be fun again.

gonna add to this actually.


Afflatus Rapture unlocked 20ish levels earlier than it is now. Swap it with Thin Air.

Presence of Mind becoming a 2 min cd.

Living Dead not being complete trash.

Dark Missionary moved to lvl70 or below so its present in lvl70 content, namely UWU and UCOB. Same for Temperance.

Blood Weapon being changed to 5 stacks instead of 10s.

Unleash being made a weaponskill instead of a spell so its actually affected by skillspeed.

Storm's Eye not taking 3 gcds to put up. Just make it a button at this point like FoF. or make Infuriate grant 30s of Eye.

Return of Palisade, Apocatastasis, Refresh and Mana Shift.

Return of aoe DoTs aka Aero 3 equivalent but for all healers.

Bards to actually be affected by their own damn songs.

Umbral Soul moved to earlier level.

Crystal Tower alliance raid series removed from Alliance Roulette and placed in MSQ roulette.

[SpanishInkwehsitor]

Crystal Tower alliance raid series removed from Alliance Roulette and placed in MSQ roulette.

Hell no, Crystal Tower raids aren’t part of the MSQ so why would it even be there, and I can’t imagine many people will like getting either the 1 hour movie or an actual good raid.

[Tlachtga]

Hell no, Crystal Tower raids aren’t part of the MSQ so why would it even be there, and I can’t imagine many people will like getting either the 1 hour movie or an actual good raid.

It's absolutely part of the MSQ. That's why the Crystal Tower Alliance Raid series is required for MSQ progression. This was introduced in 5.3.

All duties in that pool give a large amount of experience for basically zero effort. it'll still be very popular.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Fix the item level sync in low-level content so it has some bite again. I'd love to see the sheer rage that would happen if people had to remember that Glasya Labolas actually has mechanics.