I am not expecting huge changes in 8.0, but what I would like to see is some player choice again.

When content had say, 2 tanks, one could have tank stance on, the other had dps stance, this was cool to me. Cleric stance was also cool. Instead of that return to old formula, let characters actually "specialize" their character some. Perhaps via a change to how materia functions or an actual "talent tree" system could work. Heck even old school FFXI with the merit system could be an option to look into. The stale "raise the level cap" system doesn't really tickle the synapses like it used to.

I would really like to see less bland use of "mp" tossed into the mix. Jobs that dont even use MP still get the standard 10k mp bar. That looks sloppy to me.

A true "conbat revamp" may not even be possible at this point, because it seems like they target any complexity and erode it away as if that is some root cause of corruption. Sad really.