Expansion Ideas: Systems, Features, and Content Types - What would you add?

[Shurrikhan]

I have a few ideas.

1) Instanced Dojo.
During prog for the latter phases of Ultima Weapon, my team started using Binding Coil Turn 4 as a practice area. This was possible because the whole arena is accessible without triggering combat, and its size was roughly analogous to Ultima's arena.

Instanced Dojo is a suggestion that sort of expands on that. In an instance let us place dummies that can act out mechanics, dps checks, set markers, set timers, etc so players can put together practice stages for fights.

2) Class Halls
Like in WoW; have class halls with associated class campaigns and other reasons for it to be a possible player hub. Past that the real reason for its existence is to be a hub for players of the same job to congregate. The hope and intent is to stimulate conversation between players ingame and provide practice dummies for players to help each other improve.

Back when I was assuming, late-Heavensward, that 4.x would be Ala Mhigo and 5.x would be Doma (and taking on more of a large-scale conquest aesthetic at that point), I had hoped that 5.x would bring the ability to create in-world instanced environments, sort of a mixture between GW2 housing, Pokemon's secret bases, and instanced PvP world seeds. I called the concept encampments. The idea was that an FC--or community of any sort, really--could craft, basically, their own training yards. Dummies set to particular health, placed on tracks with timed triggers to push them about. Automatons for tanking or kiting. Obstacles. Explosives. Whatever you want. Prep for raids. Prep for PvP. Teach people the coolest tricks about their jobs through, essentially, DM'ed environments (+ crafting).

Maybe even go a step further later and allow the community to create "prism worlds", where you can step from the FC house or wherever the community had decided to place a/the shared entrance into a little slice of anywhere's environments, even adjusting from the original open world area you took a chunk out of, and adding new environmental mechanics.

[DRKoftheAzure]

This is going to sound insane but, trick weapons like Monster Hunter's Charge Blade, Switch Axe, and Gunlance. Some jobs can equip specific trick weapons related to their role, i.e. WAR can equip both Charge Blade and Switch Axe while also being able to equip all 3 role weapons, PLD can only equip charge blade along with their standard Sword and Shield and can equip axes, and DRK can only equip the Switch Axe, greatswords, and axes. MCH can use use gunblades/lances and maybe turn their turrent into a second gun. BRD and NIN could probably use Bows that also double as twin swords, DRGs obviously get gunlances. Also RDM already have their rapier that doubles as a staff.

[Sylvain]

A rework of the cross role system to have more situational yet impactful passives. But nothing mandatory (like, no lucid dream/esuna /protect).

These could include traits altering skill.
For instance, a trait would refresh esuna upon death / grant u 50% total mp when being rezzed.
Or one could be a healer self rez once a battle.

Basically, things that would be situational, so that you could adapt them to your current progression or party. But there shouldn't be any clear winner.

I would also like some job related way to specialize. Again, the choice should reflect player playstyle and shouldnt be obvious.

[Duskane]

id remove the ability for gear to break
it feels more like a burden at this point
or let people repair gear in dungeons without dark matter needed

[Lambdafish]

id remove the ability for gear to break
it feels more like a burden at this point
or let people repair gear in dungeons without dark matter needed

If this happened I would not want it to happen without the devs putting in another gil sink. Thats the entire reason your gear breaks, so that gil is removed from the game, and inflation doesn't happen (which is already done poorly enough).

[Kabooa]

If this happened I would not want it to happen without the devs putting in another gil sink. Thats the entire reason your gear breaks, so that gil is removed from the game, and inflation doesn't happen (which is already done poorly enough).

Lolwat.

You can just reduce the end dungeon Gil reward by like, 30%, and the 'gil sink' cost removal is handled.

[Lambdafish]

Lolwat.

You can just reduce the end dungeon Gil reward by like, 30%, and the 'gil sink' cost removal is handled.

Thats not how a gilsink works. Its designed so that you have something to spend gil on so that it is removed from the economy. Lowering dungeon reward will remove opportunity to gain gil, and won't solve the problem of not having any way to remove it from the economy (of which there are currently 2: mending and teleporting).

Like I said, it is already done poorly enough that you think it can be flat out removed anyway. What needs to happen is they make MORE things to spend gil on, not less.

[Kabooa]

Thats not how a gilsink works. Its designed so that you have something to spend gil on so that it is removed from the economy. Lowering dungeon reward will remove opportunity to gain gil, and won't solve the problem of not having any way to remove it from the economy (of which there are currently 2: mending and teleporting).

Like I said, it is already done poorly enough that you think it can be flat out removed anyway. What needs to happen is they make MORE things to spend gil on, not less.

What else are you losing durability on?

FATEs? Overworld hunting?

What in the game outside of dungeons and raids has you killing monsters back to back (losing durability) or dying (losing durability) to such an extent where lowering Dungeon gil rewards -isn't- the obvious solution to losing the gil sink of repairs?

Is it Eureka? Are people just raking in so much game generated gil in Eureka that not having to spend the paltry amount on repairs would just inflate prices so much?

[colorbanditblk]

I would love to see SE make massively multiplayer content that’s more broad and for everyone to enjoy instead of it being super specified. (e.g.: Eureka being made for ppl who like the “ye olden days of grinding”)

[LalafellDown]

They need to hire one guy and one girl to do the voices for all the NPC’s like Guild Wars 2.