Biggest hope for Dawntrail

[Mcg55ss]

Skill/Ability Tree
Tanks play different
No more round/square arenas
No more 100% linear dungeons
No more escort quest
Thanks.

I mean they've already addressed most this and it's no
The tree makes balancing a lot harder so they don't and won't implement it
This might happen but we'll still have some that are
They will always be linear because Yoshi p said what's the point in making them not when players will just find the most linear path and optimize that singular thing anybody that goes off that will get flamed.
Part of all MMO

[GoatOfWar]

Warrior nerfs.

[SomeGuy22]

Devs chilling out with the job homogenization

[Hyperia]

Devs chilling out with the job homogenization

All DPS jobs are now reduced to two buttons, normal attack button and big fancy attack button on a two minute CD.

Jumping while attacking will give you a random 1% to 25% DPS boost per attack while in the air.

[Kewitt]

No hope just get let down just be happy with what we get

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Thats its still a fun game.
....and Female Hrothgar.
And yeah sure, that they have a solution for headgear on the Hrothgar as well as the Viera

[Raikai]

It's hats that only cover the upper half of the head that don't work, and we've seen no forward motion on that. (Compare the hoods and berets from the Rinascita sets. Hoods work, hats don't.)

But they never really clarified the actual reason without vague answers... If a modder can do it and making a quality product (google can easily net you the image/videos), then it is possible, just need resources to be actually directed to it. As far as I could see, the modders kind of change little bits about some of the hats, for example, to accomodate the viera ears that are placed in a rather difficult place on the top of the head.

If I could guess another reason, from what I could read, is that Viera does not have their unique hairstyles with 'hat mode', so that would be yet another improvement besides the actual hats.

Regardless, I hope to see good news about this when they announce Female Hroth.

[WeebPolice]

No hope just get let down just be happy with what we get

[ReynTime]

no way

they will do round/square/triangular/modular arenas like they did in Pandaemonium

MSQ dungeons will always be linear, probably leading to open areas like Troia
They won't stop using escort system.

Oh my god I sure as hell hope not. Worst implementation of free roaming areas in the history of XIV.

[OdinelStarrei]

...

Now wait a second, that guy had the right idea.

It's far better to go in with zero hopes, and zero expectations.

Female Hrothgar? Exploration Content? New job actions? While this stuff is soft-confirmed, we have no details on the specificity/timeline/quality of any of it.

Why open yourself up to the vulnerable position of being disappointed when you can instead be entirely ambivalent? You aren't being rewarded for being passionate, after all.

If it's trash, that's a shame, but I never expected anything of them anyway, so it's no loss on my part.

If it's great, awesome! I'm having an even better time because my low expectations were blown apart by the amazing experience. Everyone wins.

There's no lose case there. Where as if I expect quality, expect growth, expect the team to wow me, and it doesn't happen, I start feeling like I "wasted my time" or "misplaced trust".

Throw all that stuff away. We get what we get.