Just to be clear:
FFXIV is one of the most polished, stable, good looking and extremely comfortable MMORPG at the market. I would say, there is no other MMORPG which make anything better.

But there is still a lot of unused potenial here. Even there are still major issues, like the Anima-Grind, the boring Alexander Raid and/or the lack of great PvP, I wont stop playing. There is still a lot to do and other MMORPGs arent good enough, to let me quit.

Zones
I like the large areas from Heavensward. But I still prefer the 2.X-ones. The new areas have several problems. Their larger size force you to fly. They are looking not as good as the smaller old areas. There is not much variety within each zone. And some zones (Sea of Clouds or Azyz Lla for example) needs more aetheryts. Nevertheless, I would love to have larger areas for 2.X, like having Thanalan as one large zone.

Dungeons
Stop with whatever you re doing right now! Just give us something new.
All dungeons share the same formular: 1 Tank, 1 Heal and 2 DPS are fighting 3 bosses with trash in between. It gets even worse, when it comes to Expert Roulette: Why is it call it "Expert", when you just rush trough 1 of 2 dungeons within 15 minutes? And please stop making "Hard"-versions, when those dungeons arent meant to be hard.

Content
Stop with unneccessary nerfs. Please. FFXIV needs to be hard and challenging. Thats why many players came to FFXIV. Nerfing old content makes it mindless and useless. You killed Coil by extremely nerfing it and because of being able to join it unsync. Coil Unsync was the worst idea ever. On the other hand, crystal tower is not unsync... why?

Tomes
Back then, it was a good idea. But after 2-3 years of grinding tomes for better gear, it gets really boring. No one likes to farm tomes to reach the weekly cap. You can keep them in the game, but maybe change how to obtain/use it.

Character
Give us a bit more (not to much) options for our character costumization. A few more faces, additional sliders (butt-slider? xD) and more race-exclusive options (horns seperated from faces/hairstyles for Au Ra, elfish ears for Hyur, s.ol.). You can add Viera as new race, but its more important to have a deeper character costumization.

Items
Make a seperate face slot for glasses. Why cant I wear a hat and glasses at the same time? And I would love to have more options for dyeing (2 colors per item, more dyeable weapons, s.o.). And please remove the shared global cooldown for using an item.

Raid
Coil was awesome, Alexander is boring. Alexander Normal Mode is a joke. It was one of the worst ideas ever to add a easy mode of an endgame raid.

Misc
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...sh-new-content