The future of FFXIV, in 6.1 and beyond!

[Seiori]

I think it would be great if the writers did a short story about the shadow hunters, so we can all have better clarity on what happen in those moments and just some more lore in general.

[NanaWiloh]

He definitely has some masks but we don't know if he *killed* them completely or just got rid of them for a time. Given how much effort we have to go through to kill them (and the amount of aether required to do so) it's hard to say really.

Lah, Emet and EB were the strongest the others were not as strong so taking them down would likely be much easier.

[Beytran70]

I think it would be great if the writers did a short story about the shadow hunters, so we can all have better clarity on what happen in those moments and just some more lore in general.

I wouldn't mind a series of RP missions where you play Gaius and co hunting down Ascians. That'd be badass.

[Raoabolic]

My biggest wish is for them to go small scale ala HW again. I was expecting Endwalker to expand the world but instead it feels like it was shoved by the wayside in favor of the unsundered and space. It's sad when the role quests felt more like what I was expecting than the MSQ. I'm hoping by 6.5 i'll be singing a different tune considering they haven't dropped the 24 man involving the twelve but it stinks that the parts I was looking forward to was pushed to role quests and raiding.

[Rokke]

Regional FATEs would be an ideal mechanism to introduce glamours related to that area. We've got the system for regional "reputation" in place now, why not expand the narrative of it and let us earn small benefits from it. I like your idea of minor discounts from vendors, etc. There are plenty of assets currently in the game to allow for such things. To be frank, I'm not interested in getting that massive mount from doing a bajillion FATES, but I WILL do a bajillion FATEs if they'll let me buy quantities of cheaper things such as glamours, emotes, and furniture.

This would be such a nice qol that I hope we get one day as it doesn't involve reinventing the wheel. Right now my FC is running fates to get everyone their shared fate completions but I'm just tagging along to help/socialize as I've long bought everything sans the "expensive" mount. Overall you don't see many fate parties in pf anymore because people have either finished farming the rewards they wanted or they saw the rewards and weren't interested. More glam/fluff appropriate to each zone would keep folks like me grinding a lot longer.

Azem is technically us, Gaia is more like zenos human with ascian power. So knock those two off the list. The ones you mentioned all part of the convication.. Then what seiori just said that Gaius has masks. So it is likely he took the remaining ones out. If someone knew how many masks gaius was carrying that would help.

Gaius had 2 red convocation masks but one of them looks like what Fandaniel should have worn going off his constellation so its up in the air if he even properly killed either of them lol

[KizuyaKatogami]

Wrong, Fandaniel stated after Emet death all the unsundered are gone. All ascians who survived the sundering are gone.

Yes, the unsundered are gone. Youre completely completely forgetting about the sundered convocation ascians. Altima,Pashtarot,Deudalaphon,Halmarut,Trevenchet,Emmerolith etc

[Lauront]

I don't care about expanded character customization.

The graphics look astounding and don't really need to be better.

Well I can assure you, even their developers are not that blinkered as to believe that. Yoshi certainly isn't.

[aveyond-dreams]

I have 0 interest in exploring anything to do with the ascians once 6.5 is over-now is their time to shine but once Endwalker is done please give us new villains.

[Lauront]

Agreed - even as an Ascian fan, I am tired now of their use as villains. We've seen their story via the ancients, so writing them in the position of two-bit villains just doesn't work and feels cheap - if they want to explore them more, do so by showing more of the ancients. Time for SE to do some of that "moving on" they keep having characters preach about, and that applies to what they do with the Scions as well.

[Puremallace]

People are getting lack of competition confused with success. Blizzard suffered from this misconception until they did not. Right now FF14 has a surprising lack of developer support for casual content. The end game is formulaic which makes it nice to not feel forced to play.

The current problem is time syncs at end game are becoming limited. They added a Collection tab and have done NOTHING with it in Endwalker, where are Island Sanctuaries?, new deep dungeon!??!?! Where are these things that are supposed to be time syncs for people who do not raid?

Noone and I mean noone can defend this current glamour system that keeps getting new mogs added each expansion with items we will never use. What is the point of farming glamour with a system that is so limited? You mean to tell me they have figured out how to do full blown photoshop quality graphics on a selfie but a wardrobe dresser that tracks items I pick up without this massively complicated process is just beyond their technical ability?

The simple truth is the JP community does not want it or consider it a priority so we will never see an improvement.