The one thing I truly, truly want is WoW in a FF setting. And I mean that with zero sarcasm whatsoever.

WoW is an extremely polished mmo - but the graphics are 10 years old and I'm a bit tired of the lore.
FF14 is chock full of lore and childhood memories, and absolutely beautiful graphics. But the 2.5 sec GCD kills me. Animation locks kill me, and zero gear choice kills me too. Gear bloat, and massive grind are very reminiscent of Vanilla WoW.

We take a lot of WoW's innovations for granted...but seeing how not a single new MMO managed to emulate more than Vanilla and maybe BC at best...well, its sad. Maybe FF14 will become that in another 5 years.

But that is sort of off topic.

I would very, very much like tanking "skill" to be being able to mitigate the most damage possible, to make those clutch plays and save the raid. I want my survivability to be in my own hands, instead of a glorified meat shield that relies 100% on healers to survive.

I think tank stances are stupid and the idea of tank swaps needs to be better done. I think VIT needs to be solely based on ilvl and more interesting stats should take its place. I think class specific gear is well and good but should be on the token system a la WoW instead of solo buying with esoterics, so we can have more interesting raid drops. I desperately want this game to have some degree of actual randomness and procs - bring in trinkets and set bonuses, please...we've been playing the same class for years and years with no change other than our numbers go up.