legendary items?

[Anthonywb]

Will we ever see hidden treasures throughout the game? Or rare monsters that drop gear? not including FATES.

Any legendary weapons or improved customization of skills?

Just been speculating about the things this game could use... or not? I dunno, whats everyone else's opinion?

[Tint]

The gear spiral rotates too fast for rare drops. Even the relic grind is barely worth the effort because the weapon is outdatet too fast. So every legendary stuff wich is added now is outdatet next month. Also running around like a headless chicken in the hope to find a rare enemy (before anyone else) isn't exactly what I consider fun content.

For hidden treasures we have the treasure maps. They only drop crafting mats and glamour stuff, wich keeps them relevant. But that's not the direction you are talking about, huh?

They could add rare enemys into dungeons. And special materia as a rare drop is something wich could stay relevant throughout a whole expansion. But when it is too good people may get excluded from raid partys when they don't have them. Yoshi wants to keep the raids accessible for people with not so much time for grinding and stuff.

[alimdia]

Any hidden treasure chest wouldn't be hidden after day 1, people would map them out and figure out their cooldown, or if random cooldown they would camp them and then there's nothing for you to find by exploring. All that stuff worked better in older MMOs because guides weren't as widespread as they are now.

Tint covered the issue of anything legendary, vertical progression would make them moot. Horizontal skill progression has been asked before, but their answer is that they don't want to make it too difficult for the mythical new player that has never played a MMO before.

[Anthonywb]

Thanks so much for the feedback, your replies make a lot of sense now that I think about it. Special materia would be a nice addition... basically I just want to feel unique. I guess? Maybe the way I’m phrasing it is wrong but I hope you know what I’m getting at. :-)

[ElazulHP]

I'd love some optional horizontal progression, but I don't think it's going to work in this game unless they make some bold changes. Gear progression is a hamster wheel in ffxiv. As soon as something new comes out everything before it is instantly trash unless it looks cool and can be used for glamour.

[Jandor]

It'd be nice to have some unique stuff, bit of horizontal progression.

They could always do it with accessories maybe? Shift some stuff around, adjust some costs, and make the left side gear the constant vertical prog we're all used to.
The right side meanwhile becomes horizontal progression, accessories with special bonuses hidden in the canals, at the top of HoH, from hunt mobs, etc. as well as the more standard stuff from dungeons, primals, raids etc.

[LastFireAce]

No lol , keep special bonuses out that game... glam is fine.

[Fhaerron]

You mean talents on gear / weapons that alter or change what your skills or spells do?

Pretty sure the 90's server hardware and spaghetti code won't really allow such deep customization. And even if it were possible the developers are not really that good at job balancing here if you add that talents on gear it will become even more of a disaster.

I do love such things in games but I don't want it in this game. Unless they can fix job balancing. Oh and upgrade server and fix the spaghetti code (meaning scrape it and start from zero).

[Zephanoa]

Until we have horizontal progression properly in this game or some kind of tree type system I doubt that will ever be a thing. Even then it's hard to implement such a tree type system with out content to back it up and right now the content allows for the meta to be heavy pushed upon so even if they made a tree, the meta would likely get pushed to a point where everyone would have the same build regardless which leads to discrimination, etc etc. Not saying those things will happen but that is a can of worms that has to be addressed should they decide to go down that path.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

Will we ever see hidden treasures throughout the game? Or rare monsters that drop gear? not including FATES.

Any legendary weapons or improved customization of skills?

Just been speculating about the things this game could use... or not? I dunno, whats everyone else's opinion?

Everything you just mentioned has been used in Relic weapons.