My Final Fantasy Christmas Wish List

[DexteraDomini]

I already feel like we got Christmas in July but while we're at it, a few more things I would like to see in the near future.

1. Housing: Please Yoshi P. this is the very top of my list. Every adventurer worth his or her salt needs a good place to lay their heads at night and to display all the wonderful rewards you're going to be offering for events.

2. Job Specific Equipment: While the equipment we have is visually stunning it's stylistically a little vanilla. I want something only my class can have, and more rank required gear, awesome 1.18 addition.

3. Mob Ranged Attack: Is it really realistic that every mob in the game has some sort of ranged attack?? In America it's considered offensive to throw nuts at someone, even among enemies.

4. Japanese Influence: I would love to see a city or even a settlement with Japanese styling. It's a beautiful country and culture I would love to get to know more about through the best MMO produced in Japan.

Some or all of these may already be in the works but the more people who voice their opinions the more likely we will be to get what we want. Plus I like to hear others opinions on the things I feel are important for the game.

Great job on 1.18 keep up the good work!

[Cairdeas]

I just want Female roegadyns so I can start playing again.

[Rimmer]

I just want Female roegadyns so I can start playing again.

Awww, you really want them dont you! I hope Yoshi-claus will deliver your christmas wish! and everybody elses!.

I'd like a rewarding, lore-filled, exciting, content-rich leveling process for christmas. Pretty please!

[Ferth]

3. Mob Ranged Attack: Is it really realistic that every mob in the game has some sort of ranged attack?? In America it's considered offensive to throw nuts at someone, even among enemies.

Yeah... It boggles my mind that every mob gets a default at range attack... and to make matters worse, most of those at range attacks can't be blocked, parried or evaded...

[Lucinda_Lecore]

I would say a definate yes to points 1 and 2

Not too fussed about points 3 and 4 tho. But I think I would be happy to see them none the less.

I would like to add a couple of points myself, being the spirit of xmas and all hehe

5) more veriaty in zones, like snow peak mountains and dangerous volcanic landscapes. Something to break up the grass/forest/sand we have.

6) vanity outfits. Just for fun but would be great if we can have something to wear when "relaxing" or something. It's very hard to relax when in plate armour head to toe hehe

Lucinda x

[DoctorMog]

7: My two front teeff

[Alexis_Arteme]

Two words: Epic Loincloth

[RabidSquirrel]

Male Miqo'te, mailbox, auction house (just something so we can put the wards to bed) and a more PC focused system of controls. I want to bind any key and any key + ctrl, shift, and alt to anything. I really hope they're reworking the required macro shortcuts while they're reworking the controls.

[Nabiri]

Mine would have to be...

1. Male Miqo'te

2. Housing. Preferably upgradable in size... something you could work on improving over a long period of time. Would also be more fun to build them ourselves/have crafters build them.

3. Personal chocobos. Preferably with much customization in colour, size, etc.

4. A teleport system (in place of anima) that makes more sense than anima. Being able to be anywhere at any time in an instant close to kills the game for me. I would at like to see some changes to it and some damn good lore.
I wonder what most roleplayers do about anima... ignore it? I imagine if two characters got in a fight it would be a little strange if one person just teleported away to safety. O.o
I would like if anima was changed to something like outpost warping from FFXI. It could make more sense, still be a super fast way for casuals to get around, AND take gil out of the game.

5. MORE EVENTS and more fun outfits for us! (And more inventory space/a separate inventory to hold them?? lol)

[Kio]

Oooh Christmas in July.

OP had some really great ideas so I'd like to comment on them.

1. Housing: Please Yoshi P. this is the very top of my list. Every adventurer worth his or her salt needs a good place to lay their heads at night and to display all the wonderful rewards you're going to be offering for events

I also want housing, along with an array of crafted furnishings to decorate it with. I hope for housing to be a bit more than the basement studio apartment in FFXI.

2. Job Specific Equipment: While the equipment we have is visually stunning it's stylistically a little vanilla. I want something only my class can have, and more rank required gear, awesome 1.18 addition

My ultimate wish would be for them to put rank and class restrictions on the original gear sets that currently do not have them. It feels awkward to have them remain the way they are when the rest of the game is going forward in a different direction. Sure, it may aggravate a few newly nude players after a change, but most of us have an abundance of gil and the game offers several free ways to obtain new armor.

3. Mob Ranged Attack: Is it really realistic that every mob in the game has some sort of ranged attack?? In America it's considered offensive to throw nuts at someone, even among enemies

I've never had someone throw a nut at me in reality, so I can't say I've been offended or would be. More like startled and confused? The ranged mob thing really does have to go though, it makes exploring and party battle exceptionally difficult for no true benefit to the game itself. Why, so we can't pull mobs to a camp? Why not? What's wrong with camping? Instead, I think they should program a little bit of AI to their mobs which if the mob cannot attack a player due to some geographical exploit, then the mob could and would use a ranged. But just merely passing through an area with an aggressive mob in it shouldn't allow for it to range attack you from yards away.

4. Japanese Influence: I would love to see a city or even a settlement with Japanese styling. It's a beautiful country and culture I would love to get to know more about through the best MMO produced in Japan

I love this idea! A city with traditional Japanese architecture, gardens, garb and music would be so welcomed. I'm not entirely certain how the Japanese player base would feel about it though. Might not be fantasy enough? There was a ninja town with heavy asian vibe in FFVII so it's somewhat cannon.


And yes, as you have also mentioned I do realize most of these things are being worked on or are in a planning phase. Doesn't hurt to reiterate what excites us though.

For my wish list, aside from my agreeance with yours:

1) Dragoon to have FFXI style wyvern and pet classes in general. I understand there are a few people who want to see a classic FF dragoon with just jump and a spear to it's name, but to me that's rather simple and dull for a MMO. I kinda see the class to job system as a unique opportunity for players to decide which variety of the lance wielder they want (with or without wyvern), if dev plays their cards right.

Pets in general are what I'm most anticipating.

2) Piggy-backing off the previous, I wish for dynamic chocobo rearing. I want to be able to breed, raise and outfit my chocobo. Also, have alternative uses for them such as digging, racing, travel, battle, etc. I hope for a rearing system that's far less punishing than what was in FFXI. I don't want to have to throw out a chocobo because one day the random number generator gods decided some ailment would inflict it and basically forever ruin it's stats.

I would like for armor or riding gear to be availble to display on your chocobo. I envision a world where a high ranked gladiator could have a knightly looking steed, or a traveling crafter could have a work horse looking chocobo, or a lady botanist could have one with flowers flowing from its reigns.

3) Ultimate weapons that aren't impossible to obtain, just extremely time consuming. I'd like to see some sort of upgradeable ultimate weapon made for each of the jobs that requires turning in meanial tasks that are randomized. I believe FFXI eventually created something similar to this but made it extremely too difficult requireing rare nm battles and drops and the sort. I envision something more in line with lu shang's wherein the npc once a day or week requests a random number of a random item to be turned into that npc. Like 40 rat tails, or 1 willow wand. It would remove a lot of items that are usually just npc vendored from the game and stimulate the economy by selling more consumed products. The idea being not to alienate players whom don't have a lot of friends in high places, but reward people for being dedicated to it. Maybe toss in an NM boss that has to be beaten at the end of each stage, but once again, not making it rediculously hard.