What XIV can take from XI to make it better

[ShivenCasull]

Fits with the original RDM in XI, had access to x-bows and some guns lol.

Rapiers and pistols would be fitting for musketeers/red mages.

It's too bad the armory system won't allow for a choice of weapons.

Edit: unless RDM was allowed to dual wield them instead of using a shield. (This would kill any hopes of RDM's tanking out-right)

The thread just lost a couple pages... lol

[Zantetsuken]

Rapiers and pistols would be fitting for musketeers/red mages.

It's too bad the armory system won't allow for a choice of weapons.

Edit: unless RDM was allowed to dual wield them instead of using a shield. (This would kill any hopes of RDM's tanking out-right)

The thread just lost a couple pages... lol

Noticed that..


Anyhow, I'd like to see some longer quests like the explorer's etching quest in FFXI -- something that requires you to travel to all corners of the map, but can't be done in a day. ('Livin' on a Prayer' was along the lines of what I'm thinking of, but make it take much longer to finish)

Make the reward something benign yet relevant, like a globe or framed map for your house.

creating a sense of national pride.

I think they intended GC to do that. But without a central hub city like Jeuno, everyone just picked the most convenient one of the three starting city-states and hung out there.

Content Finder + linked AH (this confirmed?) + Player Housing, is the main plan to battle this in ARR.

If they really want people to hang out in their home town, they can do it best by adding the following:

• More lively cities - NPCs bustling about.
• More guild-centric content - creating 'request boards' where players can post orders and rewards for crafting and gathering.
• Restrict teleportation only to aetheryte you've physically visited before.
• Competition for control of regions (ala FFXI)
• Bonuses which are only active in regions you control (ala FFXI)

That's off the top of my head.

[Valmonte]

Rapiers and pistols would be fitting for musketeers/red mages.

It's too bad the armory system won't allow for a choice of weapons.

Edit: unless RDM was allowed to dual wield them instead of using a shield. (This would kill any hopes of RDM's tanking out-right)

The thread just lost a couple pages... lol

this is not necessarily the case, there are ways to allow more than one weapon per class. a class select box pop up for weapons is just one way to solve this issue.