Ok, lets do it, WHAT is wrong with this game?

[Solarra]

A few things that have struck me:

The social aspect is undervalued

- eg. Anemos unexpectedly brought people together. We co-operated in there and helped each other, people enjoyed the social aspect. Pagos has trashed this mode of play in favour of a competitive grind that makes people unwilling to help others at best, to being downright hostile at worst.

- Free Companies seem forgotten. There is very little advantage in being in an active FC. There is no content for FCs besides crafting which has limited participation and not many rewards (house skins on the retainer loot list means they can be picked up at a fraction of the cost of making them, if you are prepared to wait).
The storage in the chest is pitiful and the organisation of the ranks frequently leads to 'theft' or griefing.

- Housing is arranged in wards but there is nothing in the game to promote interaction between players or to give the wards any individual identity or neighbourhood feeling.


Content has no longevity - I see this as a problem because it cuts down on things to do in content lulls. In WoW I spent a lot of time running old dungeons and raids for mounts, minions or glam.

- An achievement system that encouraged you to go back and do challenges would help, but then you'd need to add in rewards for this. At present most of the achievement rewards are things I've already got.

- rewards from old content frequently appear on the retainer loot list or in content like PotD or HoH meaning that I've no incentive to go back to the original content.


Existing Resources are underused

- There is very little openworld content and too many things are instanced for my taste. Everything feels tucked into it's own little box. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if we weren't so cut off when instanced, no tells, not able to see who logs on in the fc etc.

- I was excited when they said there would be a gather/craft component to the raid in SB but instead of being able to revisit the instance and maybe hunt for items to craft into something, it was just make or buy this item off the Market Board and turn it in once. Considering how long the unlock was for the Lighthouse that was a huge disappointment.