Suggestions and Improvements To the Game From a new player

[Sedalia]

I have recently joined this game because a friend asked me to join it and after playing it for a bit I have managed to make a few friends and I questioned them about a few things they would like to see changed or happen in FFXIV. After gathering all these ideas together, I have decided to come here and share them so I can find out what you all think about them.

[Sedalia]

Class Changes

Healers

White Mage - a lot of players feel frustrated with them because of one ability. One ability which has been around since the beginning. One ability that has been changed and altered and made almost unusable. I am pretty sure you know what ability I am talking about.

Fluid Aura

Here are a few suggestions that my friends thought would make it more useful:
Take away the bind. Make it do at least 220 or 300 potency and after 6-10 seconds detonate a heal that heals all nearby party members equivalent to Cure 3 range which will mostly hit the melee dps and tanks. The other one was making it to where it has a good cooldown and it makes the target monster take 3-6% more damage from all sources if it crits which stacks with Astrologian's cards.

[Sedalia]

Melee DPS

For all DPS but mostly the Samurai, as you play you will find yourself having to dodge or take damage that would otherwise kill you if you do not move out of the targeting box, however, ranged DPS seem to have an advantage in this and their numbers will always be higher because of the mechanics currently in the game.

Ranged DPS

There is an influx of unfairness comparing ranged DPS. Some don't do hardly any damage, while others spike up to unbelievable levels. Of course, this also means we are talking about raids, not dungeons or normal content. There is a massive difference in damage compared to a black mage to a bard and even as a bard at the moment people will always choose dancer over bard because the bard does not have what people want or need in certain situations. I understand black mages are meant to do lots of damage but the other classes who dedicate their time and effort deserve to be rewarded too and not feel defeated because another job has been made to outdo them in every possible way. Now saying this, I understand that ranged DPS can attack and move at the same time whereas black mages have to stand still but the big problem with ranged DPS at the moment is that their role skills are not very good in my friends' opinions and mostly used in PvE, PVP which they seem more suited to.

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[Quintessa]

Melee DPS

For all DPS but mostly the Samurai, as you play you will find yourself having to dodge or take damage that would otherwise kill you if you do not move out of the targeting box, however, ranged DPS seem to have an advantage in this and their numbers will always be higher because of the mechanics currently in the game.

This is wrong.

[gumas]

Melee DPS

For all DPS but mostly the Samurai, as you play you will find yourself having to dodge or take damage that would otherwise kill you if you do not move out of the targeting box, however, ranged DPS seem to have an advantage in this and their numbers will always be higher because of the mechanics currently in the game.

i dont get it? so... whats wrong with it?

ranged dps will always lower than melee dps because like you said, they can move freely and in situation where melee need to "bail out" from aoe, ranged still can dish out damage.

thats their advantages yes but their dps will almost always lower than melee dps no matter how hard they try (well unless the melee is sleeping or just doing 1-2-3 combo and nothing else yeah)

if ranged class can dish more dps than melee AND can move freely AND have raid wide support ability, iam so going to change to that class lol

[Mhaeric]

i dont get it? so... whats wrong with it?

ranged dps will always lower than melee dps because like you said, they can move freely and in situation where melee need to "bail out" from aoe, ranged still can dish out damage.

thats their advantages yes but their dps will almost always lower than melee dps no matter how hard they try (well unless the melee is sleeping or just doing 1-2-3 combo and nothing else yeah)

if ranged class can dish more dps than melee AND can move freely AND have raid wide support ability, iam so going to change to that class lol

So you main SMN now?

[Sedalia]

Tanks

I can go on and on about how powerful Paladins have become when a tank is so powerful in tanking and DPS that they don't need a healer or single party member to solo a boss in a dungeon equivalent to their own level. I think this needs to be addressed. I understand giving Paladins giving more DPS tools was a good idea but giving them too much is a bad idea. They also feel that Warriors and Dark Knights need a little bit more love. They do a lot of damage but when it comes to Savage Content they can't tank it. Surely not like a Paladin or Gunbreaker can do as well as having taking stats that don't seem to make sense other than for fillers. Similar to healers and piety which isn't bad per se it just isn't a priority.

Actual things they would like to see in the game with regards to quality of life changes
First Chocobo carriers should be removed or changed to Chocobo quests player can do to help level up their feisty Chocobo somewhat like Leves which you can only do daily but with the Chocobo music playing. Of course, we don't want to make Chocobo stables unusable so perhaps using some things for the stables for FC houses to compensate for their changes such as more and different types of food you can feed your Chocobo for abilities. Also, revisiting the Chocobo levelling system when you max all your levels to 10 will give you a skill tree you can level up by feeding them rare fruits the seeds of which come from rare boss fates.

Perhaps the chat system could be updated a little and a little love. As an RPer, the ability to mistell is easy to do and this gets people in trouble with others because you have said it in the wrong channel. There should be measures taken to update the chatbox window which stops people accidentally doing this.

I love this game, do not get me wrong, but there are a few things which I hope they will change.

[Anienai]

They do a lot of damage but when it comes to Savage Content they can't tank it.

Warriors and DK cannot tank savage content?

[Halivel]

They do a lot of damage but when it comes to Savage Content they can't tank it.

Pardon me? Tanks in ShB are the most balanced role, they can tank everything and everywhere if you know how to play your job. Doesn't mean there is nothing to improve, but survability is the not the issue we currently have.

[Solarra]

I think people have your proposed class changes covered so I'll just comment on this:

...quality of life changes
First Chocobo carriers should be removed...

I'll grant you that these are not used very often, but they are used. There is a point early in HW where you'll probably want to use one. Rather than removing them completely, I'd much prefer to see the places they can take you expanded, so they're more useful.

...perhaps using some things for the stables for FC houses to compensate for their changes such as more and different types of food you can feed your Chocobo for abilities.

We have this already. There are foods to increase your choco's xp gain, increase healing and increase dps. These can be bought off the MB or grown in any garden if you have access to one. Feeding any of these foods to the choco 10 times in the stable makes it his favourite food and that will increase the benefit when you use the food in the field (choco can only have one favourite).

Also, revisiting the Chocobo levelling system when you max all your levels to 10 will give you a skill tree you can level up ...

And we have this too. Max level is actually 20 and you get there by feeding the choco a Thavnairian Onion each time it reaches a new level after level 10. You can get 2 onions via sidequests and you can buy them off the MB or grow them in a garden. Growing is very involved and will take some time, though.
The skill tree is there as well and you should have been choosing skills for your choco already (assuming it isn't still level 1). You can choose to concentrate on healer, dps or tank (choco tanking isn't great though). When your choco reaches level 20 it will have all the skills from all 3 branches. You get a barding set every time you max out a branch so by the end you'll have 3 sets (these are auto unlocks, each set just appears on the barding list).

Mistells are part of MMO life I think, and I've made quite a few blunders in my time. However, if you r.click the person you want to send a tell to so their name appears in the text box and then press enter before writing anything, this will open up a private channel for you where everything you say will automatically go to that person until you select a new channel.

Hope that is helpful and glad you are enjoying the game.