Things wanted for next expansion?

[Trunks]

I'd like to see a massive nerf to shielding / mitigation (esp. group-wide) across the board, and a significant nerf to healing throughput. Health pool ping-pong garbage like O8S just isn't very fun, and is a direct result of the existence of stuff like Critlo, Divine Veil, and Shake it Off. Getting to a new "extreme" primal and seeing their "ultimate" do 0 damage really ruins what SE otherwise does a good job of making into an immersive encounter.

[mirra]

OPEN WORLD PVP!!! NEW MAPS WITH OPEN WORLD PVP!!! OLD MAPS WITH OPEN WORLD PVP!!! A OPTION FOR PLAYERS WHO WHATS TO GET PVP ANYWHERE OR NOT!!! I DONT CARE HOW!! JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

OPEN WORLD PVP!!

[RareItems]

Improved Graphics .

Enable Multi-dye options for all glamour items.

More sexy outfits.

Voiceovers.

More Hairstyles.

FFXI style Trusts system.

FFXI style Campaign (Wings of the Goddess) system.

FFXI style Record of Eminence system

FFXI style Ambuscade system

Auto Fish/Gather/Hunt Function (kinda like sending your toon to a retainer venture before you go to bed)

Repeat Last Craft Function (repeats the last craft you did X amount of times using the recorded crafting steps you made, letting you auto craft while AFK X amount of times)

Enable us to rent more retainers.

[MOZZYSTAR]

OPEN WORLD PVP!!! NEW MAPS WITH OPEN WORLD PVP!!! OLD MAPS WITH OPEN WORLD PVP!!! A OPTION FOR PLAYERS WHO WHATS TO GET PVP ANYWHERE OR NOT!!! I DONT CARE HOW!! JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

OPEN WORLD PVP!!

And create player killers (PKs) and player killer-killers (PKKs) like in .hack//G.U. XD Please don't kill me. :|

Enable us to rent more retainers.

They already allow this, but it costs real $$. Doubt they'll make it so you can get more without real $$.

Auto Fish/Gather/Hunt Function (kinda like sending your toon to a retainer venture before you go to bed)

Yesss, pleaaase. Like crafting macros that let you do your crafting thing without you doing anything, but for gatherers... eugh. Gods. What I would give for this.


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Anyone know when the next expansion will likely come out? My guess is between June and August 2019, but there's so much talk about the next expansion already that... I was curious if there's been word on a sooner releasing??

[TheMightyMollusk]

As a contrast to the Au Ra, I want to see a new race with dainty and delicate males and rough and aggressive females.

[AncientCrystal]

Actual overworld content.

No seriously, REAL world content...

[polyhedral]

This game needs more than job changes and more jobs. This game needs a new rotation of content, or get rid of the typical rotation of patch content altogether. Surprise us with something different.

If 5.0 rolls around, and we get another 10 levels with a ilvl cap of 500, patches every 3 months that continue to same boring predictable trend we've experienced for years already, gear that we worked months for that becomes obsolete in months, with only slight increases in stats instead of maybe increasing weapon skills/ability recast times, well, I don't see myself being excited at all for more of the same bland predictable content.

This game needs new ideas and perhaps new leadership that isn't so stubborn about listening to all of the ideas we've already stated a million times over on these forums alone.

I myself grew tired of running daily roulette years ago, and I don't do them usually unless I really need tomes, which are pointless to collect for myself as the gear is obsolete so damn quickly. It's a boring ass treadmill I'm just not going to take part of anymore.

[Kohdo]

I'd like them to make the Hyur male undercut ponytail available for Miqo'te males.

[Okamimaru]

Have certain world mobs effect the market boards... goblin bandits seizing merchant shipments in the shroud causing increased taxes for gridania MB or no MB access until overworld mobs are culled... give people a reason to go out in the world and interact with the non instanced environment...

[Khalithar]

if they put SAM and RDM on level 60 any new player will be unable to play it until they reach lvl 60

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, at all.

Imagine a scenario where you unlocked the jobs at top level and were able to immediately take them into endgame dungeons etc.

I'm not proposing new jobs start at the new level cap. I'm saying sam/rdm should have started at 60 and that those ten levels to get to 70 is more than enough to determine if someone is good or bad at it.

Also, you argument about people still being bad at endgame despite the levelling process existing is a bad one.

Except it's not, it's true.

You are essentially saying that because a beneficial system is lost on a few players that it shouldn't exist at all, when it does serve a good purpose, and creates a good base for potential learning, which is something that the game currently doesn't have enough of, let alone removing what we have.

Nope, I'm saying 60 to 70 is more than enough time to learn sam/rdm.

Ultimately there needs to be a balance between sufficient levelling time to get to grips with a job (the varies from player to player, those 10 levels could be a beneficial difference to some players) and not too overly long that the experience feels drawn out, padded, and endless to the point that people give up with it.

I assert, again, that the ten levels from 60 to 70 is more than enough to understand sam/rdm.

One thing I want to make clear however, is that I only assert that point because of how well designed sam/rdm are to just pick up and get the hang of compared to Drk/Mch/Ast when they first came out. If whatever jobs we get in the future are as easy to pick and play as Sam/Rdm are while still being rewarding to the people that really get deep in to it and master all the little nuances, there's no reason why the new jobs we get can't start at 70 if the new cap is 80, 80 if the new cap is 90, etc.