My take on what can be changed for FFXIV

[DrWho2010]

Again, though, literally none of what I suggested accelerates BiS on your main. It solely allows you to grind your other jobs up to the ilvl of your main, rather than forcing only one gear class to be competitive per tier.

If, as you say, no one is currently sticking around to multi-job competitively, then what I've suggested has in no way let them gear faster or given them reason to leave earlier.

then there's no reason for the devs to implement a way to let people gear other jobs faster.

[Shurrikhan]

then there's no reason for the devs to implement a way to let people gear other jobs faster.

By your own claim, at present, the season's progression effectively ends once a player gets their "main" their BiS set.

The rate by which one reaches that first BiS set is unchanged in my suggestion. There is simply means enough to grind out BiS also for other jobs, such that players are not forced to have only one competitive gear class for the whole relevant portion of a tier regardless of their time and willingness to gear up other jobs. There is thereby more available to be done, and more vantage points from which to play the content that would tend to expect competitive item levels.

None of that reduces the time players would stick around. Quite the opposite. Nor is it some huge undertaking to simply add another means of purchase.

[DrWho2010]

By your own claim, at present, the season's progression effectively ends once a player gets their "main" their BiS set.

Pretty much yes. Again, the amount of people that want to multi job compete after their main is BiS is very small. If they want to BiS other jobs, then they just have to continue playing weekly or wait until the savage tier is unlocked and then they barse all they want later.

The rate by which one reaches that first BiS set is unchanged in my suggestion. There is simply means enough to grind out BiS also for other jobs, such that players are not forced to have only one competitive gear class for the whole relevant portion of a tier regardless of their time and willingness to gear up other jobs. There is thereby more available to be done, and more vantage points from which to play the content that would tend to expect competitive item levels.

None of that reduces the time players would stick around. Quite the opposite. Nor is it some huge undertaking to simply add another means of purchase.

It may not a huge undertaking to add, but it's one that is unnecessary to add, nor is it something that is highly sought after. Therefore it is something that resources do not need to be diverted towards. The data the devs have available probably backs up this argument, otherwise this would already be part of the game.

[Shurrikhan]

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And, again, why is preventing players from spending as much time as they'd like on multi-gearing a bad thing? Why do we need to arbitrarily preclude players from rewards for playing the game, especially when that added time spent gives them no competitive advantage over single-jobbers anyways -- only an increase to their enjoyment and things available for them to do?

nor is it something that is highly sought after.... otherwise this would already be part of the game.

What even qualifies as "highly sought after" to you? You made similar comments in the past about suggestions for UI features that have since been added. Were they likewise a waste of development time simply because they weren't, at that period, already in the game?

[Cilia]

Rework 90 Roulette so that it's dynamic difficulty with iLv capping at EX's iLv minimum.

Make Poetics easier to gain, gearing up alt classes becomes a bit tedious since past 50 you're often outpacing Poetics gain.

Make mounts, minions, and hairstyles account-bound so if somebody wants to make an alt they still have access to those options.

Remove time-sensitive gathering materials for anything below the current expack. Leaving them intact is just an unnecessary, artificial barrier to reaching endgame crafting.

[RokkuEkkusu]

2) The Boss Trials

When it comes to Story Bosses they all have lost all their beastly teeth, and this is more of a design decision of CBU3 rather than a actual flaw which I completely disagree with.

The Fix:

I believe at the minimum the final bosses of each storyline final trial needs to be revamped in terms of difficulty, as it stands most are pushovers though once upon a time that wasn't the case apparently (I wasn't there, but I read things were different back in Heavensward).

Thordan story was ALWAYS easy back in base Heavensward, even with the minimum Item Level gear. Charibert's fight at the Vault was way harder.

[Cilia]

Thordan story was ALWAYS easy back in base Heavensward, even with the minimum Item Level gear. Charibert's fight at the Vault was way harder.

Nidhogg was a modest challenge.

Mostly because people didn't stay stacked for Akh Morn in the second phase since the "stay stacked" telegraph graphic didn't exist yet, but still!

[NekoMataMata]

Sooooo just curious, but what do people who want to remove the 2 minute meta want to do after that?

I dislike coordination, but isn't the 2 minute meta a necessary evil? Contrary to what the vast majority of ffxiv players think pushing your buttons is easy. You should naturally memorize most of your combos and even when to pop things like defensives because of how timeline based fights are.

Having to watch your CDs and make sure your abilities don't drift off the 2 minute timeline is something extra to keep you busy with. Assuming you could outright remove the 2 minute meta right now, what would you replace it with?

[Absimiliard]

Sooooo just curious, but what do people who want to remove the 2 minute meta want to do after that?

The heavy focus on the two-minute meta has resulted in the dumbing down of jobs, increased predictability in fights, and an over-reliance on other players for your own personal damage, so...

For starters; a nice dose of chaos, where everyone would blow their murder buttons at different times depending on the job they were playing. I would much rather everyone go back to having to monitor a bunch of different cooldowns and buff/debuff timers that don't necessarily line up with anythin else in their own kit, let alone someone else's. This would of course come in addition to rotational changes intended to reintroduce some of the complexity we've lost, and fights that would once again force melee to put in extra effort if they wish to remain in range or land their positionals.

I'll say, I feel like the defensive options of non-tanks should be scaled back to where they used to be as well. There is no reason for DPS or healers to be able to take mechanics straight to the face and actually survive it, and of course tanks should be getting hurt by failing mechanics a lot more than they presently are. Could probably just amp the damage up on everything instead of curtailing defensives. It would accomplish the same goal. Vuln stacks simply are not sufficient, so let's scrap those and go back to the days of getting deleted if you screw up.

[DrWho2010]

And, again, why is preventing players from spending as much time as they'd like on multi-gearing a bad thing? Why do we need to arbitrarily preclude players from rewards for playing the game, especially when that added time spent gives them no competitive advantage over single-jobbers anyways -- only an increase to their enjoyment and things available for them to do?

Because some people have the mindset that if the game allows you to do certain things, they will feel obligated that they have to do it. And sometimes (re: a lot of times) people need to be saved from themselves because they will go too far, and thusly as a result some community standards will be set to a level that will be too high in order to participate.

What even qualifies as "highly sought after" to you? You made similar comments in the past about suggestions for UI features that have since been added. Were they likewise a waste of development time simply because they weren't, at that period, already in the game?

I hold no expectations from what the dev team will or will not put into the game based on suggestions. If they deemed them eligible for resources to be put towards implementing them in the game, then I was pleasantly surprised. But said suggestions must come from a place of thinking that they will not be implemented unless they have been vetted from a developer/management/financial budget/operating standpoint first. And 99% of suggestions from the forums come from a selfish, individualistic, self-serving mindset that should absolutely not be taken at face value.

If it can be even slightly disproven and unneeded from this point of view, then it should not be taken into consideration.

What is the point of making suggestions then? More people need to think about what's realistically achievable instead of pie-in-the-sky thinking.