Immersive and deep, or archaic and annoying?

[Kitya]

Weather types effecting combat (Thunder damage is increased during rain etc)

I would love this. I already think the immersive weather effects are awesome as is, this would just be icing.

[TaruPower]

Pretty much everything listed is in XI. So..."Make the game more like XI"

Not that I disagree. This game could use some XI-ifying

[Klefth]

Pretty much everything listed is in XI. So..."Make the game more like XI"

Not that I disagree. This game could use some XI-ifying

Most of that was in 1.0 as well, but it had to go because absolutely everything 1.0 had had to be changed for some damn reason.

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

Well that's the kind of issues that come from changing elemental damage spells to just gimmicky stuff.

Since when does hurling lightning bolts at a target just deal damage over time and no burst whatsoever? Why the hell would ice deal laughable damage and serve only to recover MP? Why the heck would they make fire the only big source of damage for BLM? You know in 1.0 we complained about BLM because it was essentially Thunder Mage. You wanted to do damage? Spam thunder. Not enough damage? Spam thunder some more. Now with their genious changes in 2.0 we've gone from thunder to fire. Seriously, SE? Are you so bent on implementing that weird gimmicky approach to BLM that you don't even dare change it despite the complaints? Even if it takes removing all elemental weaknesses and advantages, which has always been almost like a trademark of the FF series, only to accommodate it?

[WellFooled]

I can't agree that Eorzea comes off as sterile, but I would defiantly love to see almost all of these implemented. The monsters being given personalities seems particularly fun.

That said, I'm not sure some of these would add enough to make it worth it. For example in FFXI the varies ways a monster could aggro you were deathly important to memorize and counter because monsters were so incredibly difficult. To aggro even a single elemental or undead could spell your doom. However in FFXIV most monsters you'll ever encounter in the open world are easily dispatched. Does it really matter how they aggro? Speaking for myself I don't think I would give it a second thought if a particularly monster smelled me or saw me to attack. It wouldn't matter like it did in FFXI.

[Vaen]

These are all great things I would love to see in added back in. Small "inconveniences" that make the game more immersive and interesting aren't actually inconvenient at all if the goal of the game is to be immersive and interesting!

[Sanchezz4387]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

[WellFooled]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

Its only common sense because we're so used to the idea and the mechanic in RPGs, but a commonly used mechanic is all it is. In real life if you ram a rock into another rock it'll do damage, fire fighters start fires to halt the spread of other, more powerful ones. It seems to me that the current system is just as much common sense as anything else.

Not that I wouldn't want the old elemental wheel back, I enjoyed it

[Remilia_Nightfall]

totally agree with Op....i personally found it laughable and embarrassing that fire was my main damage dealing spell against Ifrit!!!!!! I mean COME ON SQUEENIX, wheres the common sense?

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

[darkm0d]

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

Right, because BLM's should totally only have one main elemental nuke. Makes total sense. Lets literally change the way a CORE job works after it's worked the same way for 25 years. Casuals have completely ruined multiple aspects of this game and the elemental wheel is such a perfect example.

[Tupsi]

Yeah, sure.

Make a mandatory boss immune to a specific attack type.

Next: deal with the whining and screaming of classes that are not accepted in raids because they deal that particular attack type.

Oh you mean like how people already try to exclude summoner, in a final fantasy game because they're "the weakest DPS"? How people sometimes immediately drop out of a DF raid because we have a SMN? Yeah that won't exclude people because the DF doesn't exclude anyone. Being immune to an attack just means it has a gimmick, much like "melee DPS is worthless in Chimera circa. FFXIV 1.x", all you had to do was break his tail and learn how to not stand in plumes.

I agree with OP, XI and 1.0 had so much more life in certain aspects - the liveliness they did with monsters was just their own emote..that's cool, but I prefer when I cast magic near sprites or elementals that they want to eat my face off for doing so.