Wishlist for 8.0

[Underscore]

- A grounded and mature fantasy story with political intrigue and quality writing that respects our intelligence.
- A return to Final Fantasy aesthetics, no modern or sci-fi stuff unless it's something fitting like Allag/Magitek.
- Some jobs restored to their best prior forms, some made more interesting, and others left alone if they're fine already. No unnecessary new actions or dumbing down.
- Core MMO gameplay in the new zones to both tie the game together, give us something (fun) to do between patches, and make gearing worthwhile.
- Expanded character customization
- End the obsession with formulas, just do what's best for the situation
- No more duty support, design the MMO for players instead of compromising the game and story for the sake of bots
- More glamour plates and dresser space
- Remove job restrictions from glamour (minus DoW/DoM job artifact gear)
- More housing wards, ideally an infinite number, and auto demolition either greatly relaxed or removed entirely.
- The ability to place a glamour dresser in our houses, and no more getting kicked outside when logging back in or returning from a duty
- Remove flying from most zones (and design them to be richer in depth and exploration going forward)
- Better rewards for content, including evergreen rewards to keep it populated
- More of the money we give them invested back into the game and expansion of the dev team

[Khryseis_Astra]

- SMN finally gets Levi, Shiva & Ramuh, with accompanying Carbuncle color options, and a button that lets us switch between teams of summons (for example: splitting them among astral/umbral elements) to add some customization to the rotation. Still a beginner friendly basic rotation, but with a higher skill ceiling for those that want to optimize it.

- Instanced housing… I don’t care where they put it, on the Island, on the Moon or one of the planets we explore, whatever. Just give us a plot that works the same as a ward plot, inside and outside, just off by itself somewhere with some generic background scenery that changes based on the neighborhood you pick. Bonus points if different backgrounds are added from time to time so you can eventually make it look like you live anywhere on Etheirys.

- Failing that, make Old Sharlayan the new housing district, with heavy emphasis on its trees, streams, ponds and rocky beaches, and less on the marble.

- At least one glam plate for job. All the jobs, including limited. Ideally the Armoire would be reworked to be a glamour catalog instead of storing physical gear: you unlock by getting a dungeon drop, crafting the gear or purchasing the outfit on the mb or online store. (But that would probably take a lot longer to implement.)

- Unrestricted glamour. My character masters all the jobs, she has all these things in her closet, she can mix & match. Bare minimum, at least let Disciples of Magic and War share within those groups!

- More character customization… whether that’s something like adding more clans to each race for more variety or introducing sliders, or simply just giving more a lot more options for facial and body features.

- More frequent hairstyle additions… we have so many winners from the last contest, and even more entries that didn’t win that would make amazing hairstyles.

- Better balance each patch between more casual and more high-end content. Each group of players should have something to do each patch. Shake up the schedule to make that happen. And anything that levels jobs should be out on release or first patch at the latest.

- Learn from Forked Tower, and never again make an exploratory zone dungeon without a “Normal” mode. This was one thing Bozja got right: CLL, Dalriada and DRN were still challenging at first, but able to be done with random groups in the instance, and the harder version DRS was direct entry with PF. OC would’ve been almost perfect otherwise.

- On a related note, relic grinds that aren’t based on RNG. It’s not a grind if you can’t measure your progress, and when luck decides when it’s done.

- Finally, focus on the story… in many respects, Dawntrail has so far failed to set up the next big overarching story for the next batch of expansions. Personal pick for next expansion: Meracydia and surrounding areas. We need another Heavensward: heavy on fantasy with lots of dragons!

[Supersnow845]

- Learn from Forked Tower, and never again make an exploratory zone dungeon without a “Normal” mode. This was one thing Bozja got right: CLL, Dalriada and DRN were still challenging at first, but able to be done with random groups in the instance, and the harder version DRS was direct entry with PF. OC would’ve been almost perfect otherwise.

Honestly I don’t think FT is even amongst the top 10 worst things about the design of OC

OC is basically a step back in every sense of the word from Bozja

[SeriousPan]

- More frequent hairstyle additions… we have so many winners from the last contest, and even more entries that didn’t win that would make amazing hairstyles.

My wish in that regard: Stop giving so much of a crap about clipping and give us more unique hairstyles. It didn't stop them in Dragon Quest X where things clip like crazy but we look amazing. lol

[Asari5]

a glam collection / storage / catalogue / wardrobe. which enables us to collect it all without having too little inventory space. its frustrating and unsatisfying as it is now.
make it shared between characters.


at least one glam plate for each job (including crafter and gatherer) + a few extra for special occasions.

[Volgia]

For the MSQ, I want more story instances, I felt like Dawntrail had way too much dialogue.

[CidHeiral]

All I care about in 8.0 is making the jobs unique and engaging again. When the jobs are boring 90% of the game is boring.

[magitekwitch]

I consider myself a big casual since I don't even do Extremes, so I care more for the story, glams, housing and QoL upgrades than battle content. Some of those are already mentioned, some of these might be delusional, but here go some of my wishes:

- An engaging MSQ with more well-grounded and lovable characters and less Another End Of The World plot twist. I don't need higher stakes every time. I'd love to see more cozy scenes with our npc friends like that dinner gathering at the Baldesion Annex in Endwalker.
- Finally clearing those big clouds that cover Ilsabard and exploring the continent.
- I'd love to go back to past areas on MSQ. It feels like a waste to create a bunch of new areas every time only for them to be forgotten once the expansion is done.
- Smaller map zones and make all of them accessible since the start like ARR. Instead of 6 zones with half the map locked until MSQ forces to go back to it, split these into 2 areas each. Let us explore the world at our own pace.
- Bring back job quests. Or at least an extra job quest at the X0 level like in Shadowbringers. Job mentors appearing in role quests would be nice too.
- More glamour plates, at least one plate per job (crafters and gatherers included).
- Outfit glamour for dungeon drop gear. That would help a lot for clearing space on the glamour dresser.
- More NPC gear and hairstyles (the Forum Attire... please...)
- Unlock gender restrictions on emotes and gear. Add a toggle button to change between both gear designs, and the change pose option to switch between male and female poses.
- More housing areas. I'm hopefully waiting for an Old Sharlayan residental area but I'd love to see housing districts on the not-main-HUB cities too (Ala Mhigo, Eulmore, Thavnair...).
- Add an extra axis to float furniture.
- Rework gpose like it's on Mobile: full freedom on character movement, sliders to pause and freeze emotes, manually adjust time and weather...

[Shialan]

I am once again asking square to fix healers

Just create another 1000+ pages thread. Maybe it will help this time.

[Gwenkatsu]

- Remove flying from most zones

I nearly liked your post, until I read this line.
Flying is pretty good as it is, the last thing I need is another game where the developers start a 10 year war against flying - and loose it.