QoL megathread, let's condense a few things down

[MicahZerrshia]

I have searched the internet, reddit and these forums to compile a list of QoL suggestions. So we can try to get away from 10 threads about the same thing.

Please let me know if you think anything should be added and I will try my best to keep the list updated but cannot guarantee everything will make it depending on the amount of responses.

But!

please refrain from debating the topics presented. I don't want to have to go thru 20 pages of "why I think this is bad/good" to keep the list updated. Take that to a separate thread if you feel so strongly about something, please.

And if you agree with someone's suggestion, just "like" the post instead of making a new one saying the same thing please, easier for me to keep organized!

(some of the commentary is not mine, I copy/pasted some comments I thought were funny, others I might have missed editing)


Housing

1 personal + 1 fc house per server per account

House sharing for chars on the same account. All characters on a single account should have access to housing purchased by a char on that account.

Ward restricted aesthetics. All houses and interiors should be usable by all wards. With the introduction of workshop housing exteriors having ward restrictions make no sense. This includes things like awnings, chimneys, fencing and such too!

NPCs, I personally like the mender, material supplier, etc. being NPC because I have a mansion and I can use them to make my house feel more alive. But ppl with small houses or who don’t want actual NPCs for w/e reason should be able to have a small wall item they can just click on instead. I know when I just had a cottage, I loathed having to put NPCs in.

Make some items interior/exterior. Like statuary and such. I would love to have the Crystal Tower in my yard and a carby bench inside my house, for instance.

New, non-cutesy (in horrifying in the case of the Piasa) housing exteriors. I mean keep making that cutesy ones, but please can we get some move variation in traditional house forms too? Especially if you are strictly against letting go of Ward restricted exteriors.

Instanced housing in addition to wards. At least larger apartments or varying apartment sizes. And if nothing else at least make an apt the same yalmage as a small house instead of a Roe’s shoe closet.

Give us 8 garden plots that don’t have that awful scarecrow.

Allow warping to and from your house without an aetheryte node. Or make the mailbox and aetheryte not count toward the item placement cap.

Give us access to our balcony without having to place furniture and play a jumping game. There is a door leading out to it after all…

More interior doors please.

Lift limits off items such as primal trophies.

Let us make our houses our homepoints.

Give us lighting options that are not connected to a chandelier or give chandeliers lighting options. The yellow, red and blue light can sometimes be jarring. Very few have white light and most of them have that awful yellow hue.

Non-interactive versions of housing items like food

Tend-All Garden option

Crafting

A universal crafter bag or at least a universal bag to share items/gil between chars on the same account would be wonderful.

Or just allow us to craft by using items stored on our retainers instead of having to shuffle them to and from our inventory.

Gathering

Remove the speed debuff when hidden

A “tackle box” to keep bait in so it does not take up inventory space or reduced amount of/or no bait requirements.

New way to get shards, similar to the ways to get bulk crystals/clusters

Jobs

Make pet jobs actual pet jobs. Give us more control over our pets and make the pet do the bulk of the heavy lifting. A smn should be about managing a summon, not cast it and forget it.

Either give all jobs directional requirements or none. They just make a job needlessly complicated.

Separate Tomestones by job type. The best part of the FFXIV job system is the ability to level all jobs, but what stinks about it is that gear becomes outdated so fast you can only gear maybe 2. Separate tomestone by job type, tank, heal, ranged, mage, melee. Keep the caps if you must but give us a lil more flexibility. Just make it drop depending on what job you run as. So like if you finish a dungeon on whm you get, Tomestone of Creation: healer

Autoset pets not to attack if player is mounted.

Make gauges more meaningful for all jobs since some have little use.

Free Company

Get rid of workshop restrictions, at least on older recipes and especially on small things like wheels.

Offer some sort of in-game FC recruitment system. A market board for all your FC needs, for instance.

Allow us to blist ppl from an FC not just personally so people cannot be reinvited by those who don’t know better, esp if they change the name.

Don’t allow people with promotion abilities to promote above their own rank. Officers should be able to promote someone but not to FC master rank.

More company chest space.

Glamour

Outside of JSE, the restrictions should be lifted off gear, including gender locks. I know a tank in a mage robe makes no sense, but neither does one in a bikini or vegas style bunny outfit.

Dyes, multiple dyes per article or just dying a piece. I hate it when I dye something multicolored blue and it turns the whole thing into various shades of blue. It would be wonderful to have the main piece blue and have the option to leave the trim red or dye the trim.

Attach glamour to the job crystal or inventory set not the individual garment.

Give us a glamour log to reduce inventory stress

Let us have bare feet.

Highlander ladies should be able to unball their hands and Miquote males to unfurl their fingers

Allow face items like glasses to be worn with hats and helmets

More facial hair options and removal of race specific hair styles

Eyebrows for Highlander males.

Battle

Our own dots and debuffs should be first on the list since in some instances there are so many on a boss that we don’t see ours at all so we have no idea when we should reset them.

Longer debuffs/buffs. Setting Twin Snakes every 15 seconds, for instance, is annoying. Just let us set it and forget it, like nins poisons or something.

When tab targeting, prioritize mobs on our enemy list instead of picking up every mob in our field of vision or things that are off to the side and not even displayed.

Allow undersized parties on 24 man raids.

Allow for randomized parties on floors 100+ in Palace of the Dead

Remove needless 2nd "leave" prompt from PVP

Remove Benediction lag

Savage content chest # messages.

Let party know who does not meet requirements for entry to a duty.

Misc

Allow quest and triple triad markers to be hidden. Some people don’t like questing nor do they want bubbles above everyone’s heads.

Or allow quests X levels below your current level to be hidden. Have the option to always show MSQ and blue bubbles

Remove my name from someone’s friends list when I remove theirs from mine.

Allow blacklisting while in a dungeon or the ability to just ‘mute’ certain players. This would silence a ton of trolls and RP players who insist on using /p /sh or /s instead of /echo on every one of their abilities.

Do not default to “No” on pop up commands for things like opening doors or entering housing. Or allow the option to default to “Yes”

Even out retainer ventures. DoW/M retainers should be able to bring back 30 of an item like DoL can instead of 10.

Bring back nodes to allow us to move quicker around the overworld, but use them sparingly

"repair all" option in addition to just categories

retain Gpose settings

Allow for the option for floor targets spells to target the players current target.

Back up local settings, including hud and allow all characters on an account access to these settings, including keybinds and HUD

Lord of Vermillion needs completely reworked

Primal/Raid, FATE, relic, etc., tokens, should be key items or currency not actual items we keep in our inventory

The ability to mail items to the characters on the same account ail items between characters

Remove Market Board limitations. Allow people to buy only the amount they need instead of entire stacks

An in-game calendar for FC

Stat filter on MB searches

Separate Aquarium fish on MB

"Remove All" option on blacklist