Things wanted for next expansion?

[Vhailor]

Very mild QoL change to add on: could auto-run please function like every other movement key and move forward relative to the camera position, rather than which way the character is facing? It's rare I run into the behaviour, but it's always jarring when I do.

[Timmyz]

A new healer and a new tank.

This Guy. This guy gets it

[Ceasaria]

- Character Creation improved
- Free Company largely improved (alliance between companies, real exclusive content [not airship management], more bonus, Ishgard when ?, etc.]
- At least 1 new tank job and 1 new healer job.
- Need a new difficult 4 man content (not PotD), or why not try 6 man (kind of evolutive living trial/ real evolutive dungeon)
- New areas : Cave (impossible to fly), Jungle (impossible to fly), Desert...

[Dragon_punch]

Some of these have been mentioned already but at the top of my head I'd like to see some of these:
- Color wheel / or more colored dyes
- Ability to dye more than one part of a gear piece.
- More Open world things to do.
- Queue as "Fill" for Duty Finder allowing you to fill any role that's needed.
- Add NM's in dungeons with unique special drops
- New healer and tank
- More community world events maybe have some kind of City Siege happen. (ex. Beseiged)
- Grand company Rank Increases / add new ones (Garlemald , Isgard)
- More achievement rewards

[LalafellDown]

Meaningful dialogue: (This is the video about the Light house raid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzUK3q2yAM

What Zelpa brings to light is that for the most part, whatever you choose doesn't really matter. Either the outcome is the same regardless of what you choose.

What the heck Zenos, I wanted to join you. I agree with everything you do why wont you let me join you? T^T

How much of your people must I kill until you accept me?

[Tint]

a new standard song for the flying mounts that will come. never liked the HW song and the still stuck with it...
relic quests wich starts earlier (best thing would be right with 5.0) with more steps strayed over the smaller patches to stay on a relevant item level (like it was in 2.x)
new exclusive stuff for fisher desynthesis.
new feast of famine like quest for big fish.

i think my expectations are low... can't wait for the disappointment...

[KisaiTenshi]

Or.... (c) don't excessively rely upon server-side execution of every action. Latency is 'felt' in FFXIV (and FFXI before it) far more than any other title I've ever played. This is something SE can change, and it's of particular importance since a key reason for GCDs in the first place is to minimize the feeling of latency. They're failing in that regard with FFXIV because of their network code. Making this change could also ease the amount of data transmitted between client and server, which could potentially allow SE the ability to reduce the actual GCD.

A MMORPG is required to rely upon server-side execution of every action because otherwise players can just roll over other players and monsters in PvP and PvE content by turning nagle off. That is what happened in Mabinogi.

The server has a timestep. The sever queues everything received, sorts it into half second timesteps, and sends player "update movement" steps every half second. Meanwhile it updates player stats, and the results of actions every 3 seconds. So a 2.5 second GCD is 5 timesteps on the server at microsecond precision to allow spell speed and skill speed adjustments. If the client commands could be trusted we wouldn't have a bot problem at all. So that is why everything is done on the server.

And believe me, some companies have already tried and failed at the "render everything in the data center" already.

http://iphome.hhi.de/eisert/papers/sigmap07.pdf

And nVidia is also still pushing this cloud gaming stuff http://www.nvidia.ca/object/cloud-gaming.html

The reason FFXIV is "laggy" at all has more to do with the nature of the north america internet. Korean and Japanese games aren't routed half way across the world, thus they don't experience anything like North America does. The fact that FFXIV works at all with the current choreographed battle dances is something of a miracle. Games with better "real time" play, simply don't work in North America because the NA's internet is rubbish-tier compared to Japan and Korea. All NA internet is good for is watching cat videos.

[Brightshadow]

I want several things next expansion:

Jobs:

1.) Dancer (Melee Healer) (Tessen Weapon) (Japanese Themed)
2.) Blue Mage (Magical Tank) (Gunblade Weapon) (Steampunk Themed)

New Race:

1.) Viera (Has two very distinct tribes) (One a teenager looking tribe, the other the regular tall viera)

Zones:
Somewhere in these zones will be the Thavnair City-State (Cherry Blossom Forest?), and the real Sharlayan City-State (Proper Jungle?)

1.) Wasteland (The burn) (W/ Grey Sand like in *spoiler*)


2.) Proper Desert


3.) Proper Jungle


4.) Cherry Blossom Forest (Pink trees forest)


5.) Underground Railroad Zone


6.) Highland Zone with train tracks all around, and a huge bridge in the middle splitting the zone in two.


Enemies:

1.) Technological Advanced enemies (FFXIII & FFXV as inspiration?)



2.) Assault Carrier (Random Attack vessels similar to FFXV, that drops off garlean enemies.)


Expansion Gimmick

1.) Campaign (Special Fates/w different color maybe orange? that are in the zone to fight against the garleans to reclaim zones in their control. A Campaign happens randomly every (30 minutes to an hour) in new zones and even old expansions zones like Ishgard, Ala Mhigo, and Doma to bring some life back to these zones. For completing these campaign battles you get many special perks such as increased exp for killing monsters in these zones/dungeon of the zone, special items that can be bought from vendors of the area like minions or rare items, prices go down, tomestone gains increase, and you can unlock a mount after alot of campaign battles. It'll be like the MGP of the open world.

To see where a campaign happens there will be a special headquarter where you can go to talk to the NPC to see where the current/next campaign battles will happen, and if you are afk in this zone you will receive an alert saying when a campaign has started. Campaign messages are also received if they begin in a zone you are in, and the music changes when entering the campaign fate.

When you attain a certain rank in campaign you will be able to receive campaign messages anywhere you are via a unlockable linkshell that you can buy with campaign points. Of course there will be a filter incase you don't want to see campaign messages.

-Note: Campaign battles would be a way to encourage people to go out to the zones.

[Rowde]

Besides the expected additions of story and blahblahblah

1) Graphical updates
2) Expanded character customization for EXISTING Races, so no new race because of this. (A free fantasia with expansion would be appreciated too...)
3) New Jobs... no specific... but I feel like we should either get:
1 Tank, 1 Healer and 1 "Physical Ranged DPS"
-OR-
2 "Melee DPS" (one to share maiming gear with DRG and one to share scouting gear with NIN) and 1 "Physical Ranged DPS"
**additional bonus points if one or more new job inflicts blunt dmg so they can be buddies with MNK.

[Soge01]

More summons for Summoner. The addition of Demi Bahmut was really cool but we really need to stop focusing on this one primal and start adding in new ones.

Updating the egi for Summoner so they actually look more like their primal counterparts and contribute more so we don't end up forgetting they exist when fighting. The summon and summoner should be working together and supporting eachother and not just the Summoner doing all the work while the ego make only a few minor contributions.

Changing some of Summoner's stand alone spells into egi spells. Basically, allow us to temp summon a new egi like King Moggle Mog to replace both Physic and Resurrection for a strong single target regen spell and instant revival spell that both take a good decent chunk of MP to use.

Arithmetician as a new job class that's an upgraded version of arcanist that relies on an upgraded version of Carbuncle. Basically, like Alphinaud, except our Carbuncle functions purely as a Tank and we support them but actively using spells to upgrade our Carbuncle's powers over time in battle, changing their color with each upgrade and them gsining access to new abilities and spells/skills. Rainbow Carbuncle!