If Square-Enix directly asked you for suggestions...

[Linadae]

My suggestions:

Glamour Log

One personal house and FC house per ACCOUNT

Allow alts full access to fc room/apartment/housing options (essentially a tenant without taking up a space)

Expandable housing if not fc rooms then definitely apartments, currently we are paying half a million for something that gives us less access to content than a FC room which forces the playerbase to put a higher demand on the housing market.




My specific plan for apartments and/or FC rooms are as follows: (I also give SE full permission to take my idea and not give credit as I will just be happy that the housing crisis on Balmung would finally be ended.)

A three or four stage progression for enlarging the rooms. Each stage should require more money as this will be an excellent gil sink. FC rooms would be slightly cheaper to upgrade since you also run the risk of being removed from your FC.


Stage one: Standard apartment room, allows one tenant to be added. (inital cost: 500,000 gil for apartments, 300,000 gil for fc rooms)

Stage two: Adds small, instanced outside yard, and basement. Grants second tenant allowance. Apartment/room will be the same size as a Small House both inside and out and have the same furnishing allowances and permissions. (cost to upgrade: 2 million for Apartments, 1.5 million for fc rooms)

Stage three: Increases size of the yard and adds an upper floor. Grants third tenant allowance. Apartment/room will be the same size as a Medium House both inside and out and have the same furnishing allowances and permissions. (Cost to upgrade: 7 million gil for apartments, 5 million gil for FC rooms)

Stage four: Another increase to yard size, and larger interior. Apartment/room will be the same size as a Large House both inside and out and have the same furnishing allowances and permissions. (Cost to upgrade: 14 million for apartments, 12 million for FC rooms)

[Sekkei]

It would be handy if the gathering log showed you what time unspoiled and legendary node items spawn after gathering the item for the first time. Or the fishing log having a search function...

[K3KW4RCHILD]

I would suggest that they spend more resources on fixing the permanent lag they have inflicted on a large minority since moving their servers... I suppose there aren’t enough of us to matter. Who cares about minority groups when they’re so profitable anyway?

[AlexionSkylark]

• Make boss rotation speed adjust automatically in real time to the average DPS taken, updated each second, essentially making it impossible to skip mechanics with high DPS (this would actually cause too much DPS to make the fight HARDER, with mechanics coming sooner and more frequently).
  
• Revert the change to Cleric Stance and healer classes damage (change it back to scaling from INT), still making cleric stance a role skill. But make it work like nocturnal/diurnal sects, meaning you can only change stances outside of battle.
  
• Enhance the damage penalty on tank stances (Shield Oath, Defiance, Grit) to 70% from 20%, enhancing aggro generation accordingly. Also introduce a 30% damage taken penalty on DPS stances (Deliverance / Sword Oath / Darkside). Make it so Survival CDs can't be used while on damage stances.
  
• Nerf how VIT scale HP by about 10~15% of the current factor, effectively lowering everyone's Max HP across all levels. Also buff damage scaling at the root calculation for all enemies in the entire game by about 10%.

Those would be things I'd LOVE to see changed in the game right now.

[KrystalKandy]

I would suggest glamour for different classes as well.

I always wanted to make each of my class use different glamour. So now my SMN outfit would look different to my RDM and BLM! I can finally use the RDM class outfit! If the suggestion really did happen.

[Stormfur]

- Take real steps to fix PVP. The sub-forum is practically bursting with suggestions and comments on how to make it better - and most importantly fairer. Especially Feast but also the rampant frontline bots.

- Give red mage a stun when they do their close-quarters dps move in pvp. We're sitting ducks when we're in melee range and all the opponent has to do is just run away. We look stupid trying to chase them and finish our combo.

- Fix the size of the Managarm. He looks so pitiful, like the runt of the litter. For 12 gold chocobo feathers, he should look like he wants to tear the head off anyone who laughs at him!

- Allow us to water all/fertilize all in our garden. Tell us how much more time remains on each plant before it can be harvested.

- Allow retainers to bring back more of hunt items. Miners can bring back 10-30 of an ore. Why can't hunters bring back 10 more skins/hides?

- Allow us to break down clusters into crystals and crystals into shards

- Once I've gathered a legendary/ephemeral node, give me the option in my settings to enable a popup alert when it is available again. Don't just fill my gathering log with "???'s" as to its location. Make the gathering log more useful.

- Give us more tribal-looking gear -- tattoos and such like the South Sea talisman!

[MoroMurasaki]

Those would be things I'd LOVE to see changed in the game right now.

Not being devil's advocate but I actually hate all of these. Like, with a passion. Especially the bit about Cleric - it basically invalidates healer DPS. I think I would quit the game, at the very least I would stop healing and add to those sweet DPS queues instead of helping them.

[Keumjo]

- Add more throwback glamour/hairstyles from previous games.
- Particularly any gear/hair from key characters in FFXI would absolutely guarantee you get money from me.

- Add Viera as a playable race.

- Update the Mogstation more often with unique goods. A higher rotation with more content would give me a reason to check it everyday, get tempted, and possibly give you more money.
- Absolute guarantee for me to spend lots of money if those items are gear/hair/music/furnishings from FFXI.

- Add Dancer/Beastmaster/Puppet Master.

- Add more emotes.

- Make all event gear dyeable.

- Improve Triple Triad.

- Water/Fertilize all of a garden plot.

[Thayos]

- Integrate the game's various systems to let players hunt for pop items used to spawn notorious monsters that drop situationally powerful gear for non-savage content.

[AlexionSkylark]

Not being devil's advocate but I actually hate all of these. Like, with a passion. Especially the bit about Cleric - it basically invalidates healer DPS. I think I would quit the game, at the very least I would stop healing and add to those sweet DPS queues instead of helping them.

What that shows is how you rolled healer mainly for the queues, and that you're really a DPS at heart...