Essential QOL changes for Dawntrail

[Elissar]

I hate to be this person but nothing will change.

[Gemina]

I hate to be this person but nothing will change.

That's not necessarily true. However, the OP already makes this thread a tough sell because "Essential QoL Changes" is an oxymoron. Many responses within this thread are very impactful changes that do not qualify as a QoL update, and in that sense you are 100% correct. They absolutely are not going to do things like expand BLU, change the FATE system, make housing instanced, make the glamour dresser unlimited, etc. Even if they did do anything on this scale, it wouldn't be a QoL change, it would be a very significant change to the game itself. These kind of changes eat up resources like crazy, and take a very long time to implement.

QoL updates are never essential and their impact on the game overall is very minimal. Many QoL changes are unexpected, and no one was really asking for them. They kind of just weave them into the patch notes and players tend to have a lukewarm but positive reaction to them because they are almost always helpful. You can pull up any previous patch notes in the lodestone to find them. For example, in patch 5.3 they made it so you can abandon leve quests while on a mount, they added a timer so the player can see how much time is left on their invulnerability status when revived, and updated descriptions on some of the game's actions to make them more clear as to what they do.

I often get a kick out of these threads because players tend to come in to vent about major changes they would like to see, calling them "QoL."

I'll even add to the fray: I would like glamour plates to be updated so they include hairstyles!