Small QoL Improvements

[Esmoire]

Why can't I have the crafting gui open when interacting with my retainers. How am I to know what mats I need from my retainer when I can't open the gui to see what I need.

Lowkey one of the most annoying things in FFXIV is the way the crafting window hides when you check your retainers. To add insult to injury, even if you click the lock on the Raw Materials list... it still disappears when you go to manage your retainers, meaning you have to reopen the craft window, and then go back to your search, and then scroll back down the list to what you were looking at. Combined with the fact you have to cancel a craft or close the craft window to change classes means a lot of fighting the UX for even the most mundane of tasks.

[Brightamethyst]

Combined with the fact you have to cancel a craft or close the craft window to change classes means a lot of fighting the UX for even the most mundane of tasks.

I hate this so much... Why do I have to open and close the crafting menu a hundred times in order to craft a single item?

[WigglesTheWiggly]

A QoL improvement I would like is higher resolution Icons for those of us that use enlarged hotbars.
They just look so ugly when magnified because all it does is stretch the asset.


See how much crisper and more vibrant the standard size is?


Some other changes I would like to see.

- An option to set any UI element to hide/show itself automatically while either in/out of combat or while reading dialogue.
*Maybe even a setting to make them fade in and out, rather than instantly being shown or hidden.

- The removal of any mana/resource bar from classes that do not use them. (Why on earth my MCH has a mana bar is beyond me.)

- The following VVV

Please add an auto-chat log feature.

A Feature that automatically hides the chat log when its not in use, and then the chat log reappears when new text or messages appear.

This feature existed in 1.0 as well as exists in the other Final Fantasy MMO that is more than 11 years OLDER than this Final Fantasy MMO.

Having to manually hide, and "check" the chat log is not a substitute for this feature.

With an adjustable duration for chat visibility this would be fantastic.

[Brightamethyst]

I'd love more class specific UI settings. Let us hide the exp bar on max level classes, let us hide the MP bar on classes that don't use it, etc.

[heichoukun]

These are just some little QoL things I've noticed with the glamour system (aside from just logging every item we loot as a possible glam and not needing in the dresser/inventory)

Armoire

• Class Sets
  I wish I could store the armor sets that class quests hand to us at like level 50 and 80... For now they are just taking up space in my glam dresser that I would rather use for other items like dungeon drops or glam-only gear (which could also go in armoire in its own section but I digress)
• Mogstation Items
  Some of the clothing sets from mog are from past events and by that reasoning get a spot in the armoire anyway, but it would be nice if all gear from mog could go into the armoire, maybe as its own tab?
• Relic Weapons
  Again with the whole taking up space in my glamour dresser, getting old relic weapons that are no longer useful for stats is only for glam so.. why not? It'd be best if we could shove all stages of the weapon into there, but even just being able to put the final stage would be great

Glamour Plates
There is the option to link glamour plates to class sets (which is very nice!! I love it) But the issue I have with that is that there are not enough plates for every class..
As of now, there are 15 plate options. Which, if you go by role only, is enough for all roles and a little extra. But if you go by jobs... there are 17 battle classes, blue mage, 8 crafting classes, and 3 gathering classes. So (optimally) there'd be 29 plates and another for each added class. Even if there's just 1 for crafting and one for gathering that is only 20 plates, not much more than we have already! Just... please ;w; there is so much class specific gear

It'd be cool to have a glam dresser in house but iirc we can't because some server space / loading times issue

On another note: It would be nice if we could see an expansion to the Rising Stones, from the outside it looks as if it is multiple stories but we only get one inside, and no high ceiling to justify it either
I think it would be nice if we could see the private rooms of the scions, and maybe even throw in a room for the WoL. The WoL's room wouldn't be a place where other players could go into though. It'd be nice as a place where you could put all the random furniture you pick up from MSQ or events without having to fight for the private housing.
This could be back added into when the Scions get to the Rising Stones with shut doors to represent new characters in the Scions who join later and the doors open once you unlock them (ex: Krile), and maybe have a room for Minfilia even after she's gone as sort of memorial. The Solar should also get a rework as more of a meeting room than just an empty desk in the middle ;-;
(could throw in little references like a nutkin in Thancred's room hehe)

[Brightamethyst]

How about having the battle and crafting/gathering challenge logs reward tomestones/scrips instead of exp at max level? It wouldn't have to be a lot, but even if they only gave 5-10 tomes you'd feel less bad about accidentally running that third roulette or giving that fifth commendation on a level 80. It would also give the people who are capped across the board a reason to care about the challenge log again.

[Elkanah]

I'd like tabs to be able to sell multiple items at once, rather than individual clicks after changing 1 category item to xAmount before sell. Let me do multiple of these at once with check boxes or something, and a sell button.

I'd also like a retainer button that allows us to complete all (all those that are showing as completed) to give the items they possess all at once, and then the continuous assign button as well to send them back on their way (as long as you have the ventures for each npc you have), and their last current navigation of what they were doing (ie item they were looking for, quick exploration, long exploration, etc).

[Gula]

Please, an error message for sending /tells to trial players.

It will be a shame to assume someone is on a paid sub time at level 60 and they cannot reply. We get an error for inviting to FC's, why not /tells? They cannot reply and not everyone will hang around in /say range or accept random party invites. So an error message for trial players to clarify what happened.

[Gula]

View Search Information from character cards or selecting the individual instead of typing out a name in Player Search.

[Brightamethyst]

View Search Information from character cards or selecting the individual instead of typing out a name in Player Search.

This. A thousand times, this. If I am standing in front of a person, looking at their equipment and profile, why do I have to do a completely separate search to view their jobs and levels and stuff? It's not like that information is hidden or secret. Why isn't it all visible at once when examining someone?