Thread: Suggestions about 3.0 expansion and beyond

More suggestions:

- More 'dungerous' areas/places (in open-world) in which monsters are really strong and not a joke like now. Also you should avoid them in some cases or make some surviving choises to not die.

- Less tomes farming doing the same istances more and more (boring) -> more variety and difficulty in the new dungeons. And really need more 8 player dungeons.

- More useful/hi-level craftable armours and weapons. Some craftable equip should be almost on par with the dungeon/tomes drop to increase economy and to make crafters more important.

- Add much more 'life' around... only see some few fishes and birds around now (add butterflies, jumping crickets and frogs, etc.). Also more rare/random natural events like shooting stars, auroras and so on.

I would suggest adding in some sort of bonus xp items like the heirloom gear from WoW or the experience egg from FF3. My reasoning behind this is because once you do a quest, it's gone forever. Right now there are 8 classes to level up. Down the line that number may double. Putting some kind of heirloom gear in via the GC would be a good use of the seals that I'm sure a lot of people have been building up.

Another idea would be set bonuses. The GC gear already has this. It would be nice to see it applied to the more high end gear.

Some content for 24 man groups that is not trivial like CT. Or at least 16 man. Maybe do what SWTOR did with having 8 man and 16 man versions of raids. Give us more reasons for being in a FC. Also, it would be nice to have content that isn't bound by strict 4 and 8 man groups. If 5 people wanna do something together or 7 or 10, there should be content for that. And not be forced to exclude people.

Please have set bonuses to gear. Gear is quite boring right now. Having to mish mash best in slot from different sources is silly. I should want to complete gear sets. Actually, it would be great if the idea of best in slot went away. Have a variety of gear come out at the same time.

More variety in the world. I understand and appreciate having north, south, east, west versions of Shroud, Thanalan and La Noscea after the BS zones of 1.0. But the game still is Shroud, Thanalan, La Noscea, Coerthas and Mor Dhona. 5 different lands. In the expac, I wanna be excited to go to each zone. See different things. I don't wanna see north, south, east, west versions of the same general zone.

Figure out what you want to do with crafting/materia. Either make them actually mean something or make them way more accessible. There is no need to pretend that they are their own class and have to grind out levels like real classes if they exist for pure novelty.

I came here with my passionate wishes and 2.0 regrets but the OP covers all of them. Great post!
If the devs used any of those methods the world would feel more alive.

Now the only thing actually "happening" in the world is fates which happen at clockwork frequency and are about as shockingly surprising as the sun rising in the morning.

Isn't the ongoing construction of Revenant's Toll enough of a World Event for now? They can't be dropping the moon on us all the time, there's only one left.

Originally Posted by FJerome

Isn't the ongoing construction of Revenant's Toll enough of a World Event for now? They can't be dropping the moon on us all the time, there's only one left.

Yes it's similar but always 'scheduled/known'. Eorzea needs also totally random events around without warning or hints.

Some OP 1.0 points sound interesting to have back in 2.0. Random events especially.