What do you like and dislike most in FFXIV?

[eternalstar01]

The graphics are pretty - this game looks incredible!

The music is amazing too
However, even though I have the music set to loop, there is a significantly long silence between the ends and beginnings of the world music. Please make it loop seamlessly forever... or shorten the silence. Also no night time world music :*( Gathering at night gets pretty boring.

I love everything about glamours
Except the restrictions. There's some amazing stuff for DoW that I would love for my AST to wear but I can't.

I love my miqo'te. She's so pretty and cute.

I love the cutscenes, thank you for all the efforts put into creating an immersive game for us.

Hildibrand quests! <3

I love my house - thank you for adding this feature!
However, I feel creatively stunted. I'd rather have mahogany doors over sliding doors, but I don't want mismatched walls or be forced to use Riviera walls... I'd love more variety of furniture. I'd love to change the lighting per floor.

Endgame for casuals - so much to do!

Tomestones are relatively easy to get, not too hard to keep up with the MSQ each patch.

Crafting/gathering - I love it. Thank you for the vast variety of options in which to level my crafts (especially since I'm an omni-crafter).
The time sink is a little heavy for a casual but I guess I can't really complain. That's how I stay subbed.
For god's sake, please up the drop rate on the hidden clusters in the mining/botany ixal dailies. I usually well out-gather the normal items required and am stuck mining shards until a cluster finally re-appears. If I want shards, I send my retainers out for them! It also really extends the daily longer than it needs to be. I have other things I want to do, and with limited time, I pretty much only do dailies these days.
I'm a bit peeved at the 40-50 stretch of crafting... As an omni-crafter/gatherer, there's a reason I chose this route... self-sufficiency. Why on earth are there level 50 items required for level 45 quests? It's either buy it on the market or suffer a massive setback in your flow (which for me, is leveling all 5 levels at a time). My miner is 45 and so is my BSM. I shouldn't need level 50 stuff til I'm in the 45-50 stretch.

Retainers are extraordinarily helpful in gathering things so I can focus on actually playing.
However... inventory space...

Stone Sky Sea was not what I hoped it'd be. I honestly don't give a flying rat's behind about how my dps is as a healer. If I have time to throw out deeps, I pop cleric stance and throw out deeps. But I'd rather hoped Stone Sky Sea was a bit more like WoW's proving grounds. I want to know how I'm doing AS A HEALER. However, for testing my BRD rotation, it has been excellent. So it wins points as a DPS tool.

The Hall of the Novice was so excellent though. My boyfriend is a new player and he was so happy this feature is in game.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

The music is amazing too
However, even though I have the music set to loop, there is a significantly long silence between the ends and beginnings of the world music. Please make it loop seamlessly forever... or shorten the silence. Also no night time world music :*( Gathering at night gets pretty boring.

If you listen to it on Youtube and have Chrome, you can grab this extension that lets you set specific time stamps for when to restart a song.

For god's sake, please up the drop rate on the hidden clusters in the mining/botany ixal dailies. I usually well out-gather the normal items required and am stuck mining shards until a cluster finally re-appears. If I want shards, I send my retainers out for them! It also really extends the daily longer than it needs to be. I have other things I want to do, and with limited time, I pretty much only do dailies these days.

You don't need to gather shards. A new node spawns the moment you check another one. So just run up, click to begin gathering and if you don't see the unique Ixal mat, click out and run to another one that spawned.