What does FFXIV lack?

[GraceHorizon]

1. Mid-difficulty content. Something between story dungeons and EX. Normal raids are pretty good but we only get four of them every eight months, and their rewards aren’t enough to get by on from only doing that content.

2. Mutually supporting types of content. Occult Crescent should be the best way to get relics, which you then take and use outside OC; stuff from outside OC should help you do OC better. Equipment and currency rewards should be structured to encourage you to do a little of everything, with synergy between all the different types of content.

3. Writers with the courage to write something tragic and make the story deal with the consequences. After we killed Sphene in 7.0 (which we had to do!), we should have had to deal with some negative consequences from it in 7.x as well as mourning someone who could have been our friend if not for her duty. Instead we got a replacement goldfish in 7.2, and all the sadness taken out of Living Memory in 7.3 too.

[Aidorouge]

Casual content and an approachable community.

[Underscore]

a glamour dresser in my house

[hydralus]

1. Mid-difficulty content. Something between story dungeons and EX.

EX are mid-difficulty content. What you're asking for is just casual content.

[Valence]

EX are mid-difficulty content. What you're asking for is just casual content.

They spelled it as clear as crystal: "something between story dungeons and EX".

It doesn't matter whether it qualifies within casual content or not for you, it's beyond the point.

[Diablo_Eichenwald]

Coming from a fan of Diablo III and IV, I think it would be great if they would explore creating dungeons with randomly generated layouts each time you enter. Monters' strength would scale up based on the "level" of the dungeon. The higher it is, the tougher the mobs are. Each of the party member would receive a "rating" at the end of the dungeon, based on certain objectives they fulfill during the fights. There would be no hand-holding, every entry is unique, you have to figure out yourself how to get to the end boss and beat him. There is also a time limit, where you would use the duration to "show off" how well you parse in comparion to other parties/people. Boss would drop very unique and "legendary" stuff, but the drop rate is extremely low, and even then, the stats on the item would be randomly generated, so it's super difficult to hit a legendary with maxed out stats. Oh man, I would love this so much hahaha

[Asdif_Laoeg]

Coming from a fan of Diablo III and IV, I think it would be great if they would explore creating dungeons with randomly generated layouts each time you enter. Monters' strength would scale up based on the "level" of the dungeon. The higher it is, the tougher the mobs are. Each of the party member would receive a "rating" at the end of the dungeon, based on certain objectives they fulfill during the fights. There would be no hand-holding, every entry is unique, you have to figure out yourself how to get to the end boss and beat him. There is also a time limit, where you would use the duration to "show off" how well you parse in comparion to other parties/people. Boss would drop very unique and "legendary" stuff, but the drop rate is extremely low, and even then, the stats on the item would be randomly generated, so it's super difficult to hit a legendary with maxed out stats. Oh man, I would love this so much hahaha

So you want to have Deep Dungeon with small modifications?

[Teno]

Actual gameplay, the literal turn-off for most people taking a look at the game, where most classes are bland or unrewarding save for a scant few.

[Diablo_Eichenwald]

I guess, fast paced, meaningful levels and not bullsh-- like "the first 50 levels are snorefests but after that it gets interesting!", also gears can be used outside too

[Aviatorhead]

Speed to fix problems. Feels like the only time we (sometimes) get fast fixes to issues is when they're so big it would be embarrassing for them to go ignored.