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

[Esmoire]

This forum often has a lot of posts asking for the developers to make this or that change, QOL feature, improvement, etc. After it's satisfied it can be easy to forget it was ever something requested. This thread is not really about balance changes or new duties. Think more options, quality-of-life, and more convenient ways of undertaking existing tasks.


As someone who started in September of last year:

Liberating Housing Exteriors
I love how they made it so we could use any house of any style in any residential area, with even the ability to mix-and-match the components for some original creations. I never felt it was necessary to limit certain housing styles to certain wards, and the argument of it not fitting became moot when you have stuff like the Paissa house or Shirogane castle. Housing (in the context of FFXIV) should never be about what your neighbours think is right or wrong anyway, and as long as it's in your property you should be able to have what you want, so I like this change.

Achievement Watchlist and Improved Filters
A lot of achievements have cool item rewards and titles, and I love having a way to quickly see the ones I am interested in, since a lot of the categories have become rather dense. Only thing I would ask for here is for some kind of toast to appear telling you of progress on ones you have on watch at an interval (say, every 10% towards completion), and maybe a more convenient way of getting your rewards.

Automatic Collectables
Speaking of dense, I am a bit of an airhead and have definitely accidentally HQ'd items intended for my weekly custom deliveries. If something has literally no value outside of being a collectable I do like that they are automatically crafted as one for clumsy folks like me.

Anyway, I just wanted to post some examples to get a conversation started. What features and changes have they made that you like?

[Yencat]

Glamours didn't exist when I started playing, that's a pretty big one

[Esmoire]

Glamours didn't exist when I started playing, that's a pretty big one

On that note, five more glamour plates. I can see why we can't have one plate for every job and class, but at least we can cover all the stat types, crafter, gatherer, and have a few plates to spare for your favourites or stuff like BLU.

[Yencat]

On that note, five more glamour plates. I can see why we can't have one plate for every job and class, but at least we can cover all the stat types, crafter, gatherer, and have a few plates to spare for your favourites or stuff like BLU.

From your lips to Yoshi's ears.. The addition of glamours in ANY form was great at the time but my dresser is filling up and there's just never enough plates.

[CazzT]

On that note, five more glamour plates. I can see why we can't have one plate for every job and class, but at least we can cover all the stat types, crafter, gatherer, and have a few plates to spare for your favourites or stuff like BLU.

I think 20 or 25 plates would be sufficient to cover everything. It would be enough for all the adventurer jobs, enough to cover all three land classes, leaving enough to have some for the hand classes. Or vice versa if you're on a crafting/gathering alt.

At the minimum it should always be enough plates to cover all the adventurer jobs plus two.

On topic -- As someone else pointed out, auto-gathering. I did some gathering before this was added so I got a small taste of the tedium.
Also, Glam Plates are an amazing addition.

But my favorite addition.... Being able to have my Midgy and Paprika out at the same time!!! Minion and Choco, at my side while I vanquish my foes!

[ElazulHP]

Auto gathering. That has saved both my hands and controller a lot of stress!

[Alaray]

the materia melder npcs

[TheMightyMollusk]

Adding red mage.

[MrKusakabe]

Adding red mage.

Hey....!! What do I type now?

Oh yeah, when I check my almost 6 year old video footage, I realized the HUD was unnecessarily cramped with stuff nobody needs to know:

TP as profession with no use for that.

Removed the role/bonus list into the party group. This was my first Aurum Vale run and it was fine, but made the tank to ragequit for no reason. Those were the days *melancholic sigh*

Removed the tabs "Resistancies", "Wallet", the weird BONUS chart (what was that for?) and "Profile".

Also, they added icons to the emote window and color-coded it (blue for sad, yellow for happy etc.)

[TheMightyMollusk]

Hey....!! What do I type now?

Oh, was this your Verthunder? I seem to have stolen it.