Idea 3: Upgraded eternal ring

[SXTC]

The ethernal ring teleportation timer should be shortened to the length of a normal teleport so you can teleport to your partner more often (wich would strengthen the bond). Also, this ring should also make it possible for a partner to autojoin the game of their partner if for example someone left their game and they are in need of a replacement. Right now the eternal ring looks like a punishment where they let you know what "could" have been, but wich you aren't getting. That curse should be removed, afterall... marriage is supposed to be a blessing.

[LalaRu]

Making the cooldown the same as return will not gives any harm to no one.

[SXTC]

Aeoncs I thought about putting them all together, but that would make it hard to discuss them since I have like 20+ idea's. The only reason why I posted several at the same time is cuss I posted them in the wrong section, getting no replies. So don't worry about it. As I don't plan to repeat this amount every day. And thanks for your respect btw, I'm not asking anyone to agree with my idea. Although I wish to be free to share my thoughts on what I think could improve the game, even if in general most people find those idea's worthless. Freedom of speech is a wonderfull thing, I only hope that people like Crysten will never get a leadership role or that could soon change... I wonder what she dislikes most... Miqo'te or males... eitherways.. to stick to the idea.. Won't be spamming like this again, I promiss you that.

[Dustytome]

The other situation is this allows them to skip the queue. If they're a dps and #50 in line and everyone has selected to join a party in progress, they shouldn't suddenly get to cut in front of everyone else.

[SXTC]

I don't see the problem Dustytome because im talking about situations where someone leaves and no one joins the party (some dungeons have a problem finding members at certain hours). So this queue you talk about, it doesn't excist!

[Dustytome]

I don't see the problem Dustytome because im talking about situations where someone leaves and no one joins the party (some dungeons have a problem finding members at certain hours). So this queue you talk about, it doesn't excist!

Then they could just join a party in progress for that dungeon and it should put them in the group unless multiple groups for that dungeon are missing a member in which, first come first serve. If it's a completely pre-made group then I'd agree they should allow you to add members as you see fit to the run (out of combat), but in no way attached to a cash shop item.

[Kosmos992k]

Then they could just join a party in progress for that dungeon and it should put them in the group unless multiple groups for that dungeon are missing a member in which, first come first serve. If it's a completely pre-made group then I'd agree they should allow you to add members as you see fit to the run (out of combat), but in no way attached to a cash shop item.

The ring isn't a cash shop item, or have you forgotten that the base ceremony is free and the ring is made by the player during the quests that lead to the ceremony.

The other situation is this allows them to skip the queue. If they're a dps and #50 in line and everyone has selected to join a party in progress, they shouldn't suddenly get to cut in front of everyone else.

How does it differ from creating a partial pre-made group running in DF? I see no difference and no unfairness. If anything it might actually get people moving through the Q's faster since it might being more people to DF overall.

My join date is accurate. The community feels different these days. Or it feels so to me. Before Stormblood and its jobs were announced the divide between Healers, Tanks, and DPS never felt so problematic.

My join date is accurate also (well, would have been July 2013, but I believe that was the beta forum, and I didn't create my real account until the game itself arrived). To be honest, the tension between the roles has existed for some time. The worst might have been with the 1st tier of Alex Savage and the far too highly tuned DPS checks that made healer DPS and Strength tanks a thing. Before that though, there was plenty of tension in the community with the original Coil tiers, and then savage and EX primals, and let's not forget the Lord of the Crag himself Hard Mode Titan version 2.0 who was a total and complete bear to get by, producing much drama.

The MOAR DPS meta has been around since Coil, and the tensions are more or less the same as they always have been. Every now and again someone will post that the game is in decline and dying because of this, and yet we continue to lurch from patch to patch with a pretty steady player count. There are many posters here who have been here even longer than I, dating back to 1.X, who might offer more perspective. But in general, I don't think the community is any worse now than 1 year ago, 2 years, 3 or 4. It is what it is, a self selecting group with a critical interest in FFXIV. As you might expect that predisposition results in a decent amount of argumentative posts, not untypical of an online forum. Actually If I compare this against Reddit, this is a center of civilized thought and discourse.

[Vexander]

Wouldn't mind if the Ring itself could absorb the stats of other rings, that way you can update it to be on-par with the latest equipment and never have to take it off for the sake of functionality.

[akaneakki]

I wouldn't mind shorter time on ring but honestly the other ideas is a no for me. I get people want to spend more time with their in game partner or IRL partners more in game, by TP faster (less cooldown I guess) but replacing people inside instance? Wont happen, they actually need time and money for that like actually fix duty finder with other words, which wont happen.

[Khemorex]

id be just happy with having 2 function on the ring , one is a port to wife the other one would be summon wife :P