Awesome changes made that weren't there when you started playing?

[NessaWyvern]

Being able to change your hairstyle without having to use a fantasia. Back when I started playing, there was no aesthetician, and I had burnt through 9 before they released it. How do I know it was 9? Because fantasias used to be account-wide, and every character I make starts with 9 fantasias.

[hynaku]

Wasn't able to be aura and couldn't fly with a mount.

[Crushnight]

B ranks respawning after a few seconds (for those that don't know when hunts were released in 2.3 B ranks gave tomestones and seals outside the weekly hunt, they also had a 1hr respawn timer, this combined with A ranks meant hunts were better than anything else for tomestones and upgrade mats, this single handedly almost destroyed the duty finder as so very few people were queuing for content as it required both more work and gave less reward to time investment) then the subsequent notification of a general direction where it is

[MOZZYSTAR]

Ditto to housing exteriors and that auto collect thing for gathering. I really appreciate the former. If I knew about the latter, I wouldn't have spent the 2 mil to change housing locations.

[Alestorm]

The change that made it a single glamour prism. When I started playing mid-Heavensward each DoH had a prism that could make and rated from 1-5(?) and took a lot of space to keep them handy, then it was slimmed to remove the rank and then it became just a single prism.

[Jennah]

Whatever they did in late Heavensward to stop gil sellers from spamming everyone with tells. It used to be that you got at least one every 5 seconds.

[Silverquick]

Whatever they did in late Heavensward to stop gil sellers from spamming everyone with tells. It used to be that you got at least one every 5 seconds.

I never did get that.

Back in FFXI at least there was a reason gil sellers were the dirty little secret, it was impossible to make money in that game outside of some seriously boring grinding on gray mobs for like 10 gil per drop. And the high level things in the market that were seriously required for high level character effectiveness in a game that played more like old Everquest than it did FFXIV, used to cost millions.

Not so in FFXIV, at least after ARR. I have never had need of gil in this game for anything that wasn't frivolous or just eye candy. Everything else in this game that you need is buyable and at reasonable price... and they throw gil at you left and right from the MSQs and side quests.

I remember wandering through the Marketplaces in ARR going.... dudes what's the point of selling gil here? Its pointless, everyone has enough to buy whatever they need and the high level effective stuff is all no drop no trade anyway.

[tdb]

I remember wandering through the Marketplaces in ARR going.... dudes what's the point of selling gil here? Its pointless, everyone has enough to buy whatever they need and the high level effective stuff is all no drop no trade anyway.

Houses. Though you have to be lucky to find one of the larger spots unoccupied.

The gil sellers also sell loot runs of high-level content in addition to gil.

[Anienai]

Fell Cleave

#thumbsup

[Iscah]

The alert message when you're close to your hunt mark is very nice.