The battle system. I don't care if its slow or fast... it needs to be fun and engaging. Stamina and being able to spam abilites is boring. Where is the excitement like in ffxi where you were trying to kill a mob and hoping you'd get enough TP to kill it before it killed you?

I played ranger in ffxi, it was my first job to 75. You go out knowing you're going to party and you take arrows with you.
Then again if you ran out you could at least swing with your axe/dagger (pending level) though the damage was horrid. Of course in this game if you changed to a dagger you're suddenly a gladiator which is a bigger issue in my mind than ammo consumption. I started out as a ranger in 14 as well, yeah i occasionally ran out of arrows but that is part of shooting something at an enemy. Eventually you're going to run out. If you don't like it switch over to a mage class.

Why you have to stop running to change modes is silly. I'm pretty sure you can pull out a weapon while jogging. Hell, i'd even be up for having a /rest command to regen. The whole active passive mode is silly really.

Death in this game is a minor just annoying. It doesn't have much of a penalty and its almost pointless, with how easy they are making this game i'm surprised it doesn't just pop up a box that says "You have been KO'ed, try again or HP?" Then again the fact that raise is 12 levels from cap, yeah that is silly. But i guess it goes to show the vision that this game has. /sarcasm

Travel is horrible. Not only is it like driving through a desert (as you see the same thing over and over), but its slow. Teleporting just adds to the easy mode, and i'm not a fan. Especially since you can go anywhere with someone in your party even if you've never been there. Always having the maps is pretty lame as well... but i guess i like a challenge and not to have everything handed to me. Having chocobo's but saying they are on shortage is pretty lame, but SE has to have that carrot on a string to keep people going.

Levelquests.. annoying, repetitious and i'd be fine if they were just gone completely.

So much wrong, so little right. That is ffxiv for ya. And the best part, they add more stuff that is wrong than right. Yay agro icons! You're killing me SE.