If the missing genders are not added: What would you like to see at fanfest instead

[GuyInDogSuit]

Be forewarned that my response contains some spoilers. Read at your own risk.

I kind of actually want to see more of mixed races since Hilda is like that. I wouldn't think it would be that difficult to do really since that would just require new additions to character facial choices (like replacing Hyur ears with Elezen Ears) as a choice or say a Hyur with some Roe traits or a Hyur with Miqote Tails and Cat Eyes.

One word.... "Roegafell." *shudder*
Besides that, there was a fanfest a long while back where they explained the lore behind children of mixed race. They're very rare. For one, procreation is considered taboo between races. While society doesn't bat an eye at relationships between races, having children is kind of frowned upon. Two, even if a couple does desire children, the chances of it succeeding are pretty slim. There might be complications or other factors that prevent a successful pregnancy. Third, in this universe, it is the mother's physiology that determines the child's appearance, while the father contributes the smaller details. Hilda Ware is a rare case of all three, as in her father's Elezen heritage gave her the notable pointed ears, whereas her mother's Hyuran blood lent her the overall appearance of a Midlander. (BTW, she has a half-brother from her father's side named Muscadain who she has a rather strained relationship with). Arenvald is another rare case, being of Garlean and Hyur descent, a result of an Ala Mhigan woman raped by an imperial soldier. He bears a scar on his forehead from when his mother, convinced he was developing the signature Garlean third eye, assaulted him in an attempt to cut it out. Hence he wears warpaint to hide the scar.
There are other cases of mixed-race children (you can see them in Ul'dah, the Gold Saucer, and in the Ruby Sea, for example), but again, the telltale signs are often not easily noticeable.
But I digress. I actually wouldn't mind seeing something like this implemented in the character creation tool. Would lend a lot of unique qualities to each player character. Not to mention IF they actually added some of the other changes people have mentioned so far in this thread (more specifically the unlinking of horns/scales and manes from Au Ra/Hrothgar faces and body types).

However they want to do it really; though such a request would be a slim chance since it looks like FFXIV is nearing the end (in my opinion, idk).

No, the only thing nearing the end FFXIV-wise is the Ascian/Zodiark-Hydaelyn story arc. 6.0 is said to be the final part of it.

Other than that the implementation of the Geomancer as the final Magical Ranged DPS (Healer doesn't make sense IMO).

I second the Viking Class from Arngrim's post as a DPS; it will be like a alternate Marauder/Warrior Job that isn't tank based.

How about the obscure Green Mage? Hell we got almost of the rainbow at this point that exists in the FFverse; lets throw in the Green Mage to complete the set.

Fairly certain they actually revealed at least one of the upcoming jobs, via the 5.3 dungeon. The final boss of it, to be exact.

[Infindox]

This is a crazy idea, but why not a character race that just straight up doesn’t do the MSQ. It only has DoL/DoH. No access to glamour.

It has access to all zones it can physically move to with ferries etc allowing transportation.

The only requirement being that to access an expansion, another character on the account will have had to complete the expansion.

I know this is dead on arrival, but I think it would be nice to have an alt that can go anywhere/do some gathering or crafting without needing to unlock a second time, especially if I want to be antisocial for a bit.

Could have some dailies tied into mail delivery (really just “go to this settlement and talk to this NPC”, no story, to get some small cash)

A Garliean? They don't have magic so most of our jobs wouldn't work with them, but possibly they could do all the crafting and gathering classes. Possibly be a sort of "rp" character you can be and do quests with and walk around as tied to your main character.

[Shurrikhan]

Top choice: A promise to design new features efficiently and comprehensively rather than either getting really smug over roundabout and fundamentally awkward solution (e.g. glamour mirrors as opposed to glamour logs) or half-assing them and expecting that people will love them for all that they could have been rather than their actual implementation (see: most side-content since Diadem).

Second Choice: Glamour log. If they can't come up with an efficient, comprehensive feature of their own, they should at least be able to steal one already well modelled instead of copying its same intent only to do a poor job of implementation.

[GrizzlyTank]

The removal of genderlocking gear/ Option to use male/female verson of everything.

[SpiralMask]

-new classes: we've got several candidates mentioned or alluded to ingame so far, and many more besides (my dark horse pick would be maiming DPS chocobo knight, aside from the telegraphed ones like non-healer geomancer (AST quests), chemist/apothecary-necromancer-berserker ([REDACTED]), and beastmaster (ivalice content, bozja/gabranth's legion))

-any word on a plan for how to address action clutter+homogenization: we're nearing the 'soft' action limit already despite the watered down class changes everyone got in ShB, and with another expac in the pipeline that's going to mean either gutting and re-kitting every class AGAIN in 6.0 to spread the same number of actions across 90 levels (making early game/leveling even more repellent/boring for new players and old) or finding some other solution. there's little to no room for classes to grow or have any unique expressions of their themes/identity

-healers getting... literally anything: we've been shafted with a year of radio silence and "your awful player experience is intended, why should your class be fun". give us something to do when there's no healing to be done, for christs sakes, you took away my DoTs and gutted AST's cards, and WHM's lack of downtime activity has plagued it since the class' introduction!

-a proper "Field Dungeon": a dungeon with a large open floor plan and several objectives that must be completed, albeit in any order (up to and including the main boss), rather than the usual series of corridors and arenas (the bozjan front is nearing this design, which makes me happy, but still appears to be too mired in eureka ideas to fully realize the idea).

-some more love/support for BLU: I'm fine with either a "real" class conversion or simply more limited job options (such as opening PotD, more party support/roulette options or general QoL networking options with as hard as it is to find similarly-skilled, -geared, and -spell progress'd BLUs to work with be it for learning new ones or tackling harder content)

not necessarily asking that these wants all get crammed in at once, but at least word on some of them would be a welcome change. i'd be happy with any one of them tbh

[Mirhd]

Already mentioned by others many times elsewhere, but just let me craft directly from my retainers' inventories... please. Since I doubt they'll ever do away with retainers entirely, If nothing else, SE, give us this, at least. Like many people, I keep items organized per retainer (BTN stuff on one, MIN stuff on another, vendor mats, etc), and this change would severely minimize the amount of clicking one needs to do to craft.

... So. Many. WINDOWS...

[Esmoire]

Redone inventory system. This includes:

New glamour system. No glamour dresser needed. Whenever you get something, either rolling for it or picking up and using some kind of option adds it to your Glamour Log (and consumes or binds it), allowing you to keep its appearances without needing to carry the item. You can basically change your Glamour Plates and apply them any time outside of combat.

Dedicated crafting items inventory. A lot of existing recipes have materials condensed/removed.

Current normal raid series is now just a weapon token and armour token. Old series tokens removed and you can just buy the old stuff with poetics, but for stuff earned from raids you must clear that series first to buy it for poetics.

Dyes no longer as an item you have to carry. You carry base dye items for all the main colours (eg. all basic blue dyes are just one dye), and they allow you to access any colour in that category. Pastel and dark dyes added to these dye pools. Premium dyes (metallic, jet-black, etc.) can stay as is or be condensed to Prismatic Dye or something. Now stored like crystals and don't take inventory slots.

[GuyInDogSuit]

Redone inventory system. This includes:

New glamour system. No glamour dresser needed. Whenever you get something, either rolling for it or picking up and using some kind of option adds it to your Glamour Log (and consumes or binds it), allowing you to keep its appearances without needing to carry the item. You can basically change your Glamour Plates and apply them any time outside of combat.

Dedicated crafting items inventory. A lot of existing recipes have materials condensed/removed.

Current normal raid series is now just a weapon token and armour token. Old series tokens removed and you can just buy the old stuff with poetics, but for stuff earned from raids you must clear that series first to buy it for poetics.

Dyes no longer as an item you have to carry. You carry base dye items for all the main colours (eg. all basic blue dyes are just one dye), and they allow you to access any colour in that category. Pastel and dark dyes added to these dye pools. Premium dyes (metallic, jet-black, etc.) can stay as is or be condensed to Prismatic Dye or something. Now stored like crystals and don't take inventory slots.

Oh, wow, now these are fantastic ideas! The glam system you described is similar to the transmogrification system in World of Warcraft, and I think that's one of the things that MMO has done very well. SE could learn a thing or two from other games, honestly.

Already mentioned by others many times elsewhere, but just let me craft directly from my retainers' inventories... please. Since I doubt they'll ever do away with retainers entirely, If nothing else, SE, give us this, at least. Like many people, I keep items organized per retainer (BTN stuff on one, MIN stuff on another, vendor mats, etc), and this change would severely minimize the amount of clicking one needs to do to craft.

... So. Many. WINDOWS...

YES.

[Kobalos]

More customisation options for the older races.

[MorionQ]

Instanced housing. Expanded apartments could work.

Chemist/Apothecary as a new healer. Expanded Blue Mage.

I feel like a bad person for this, but I’d rather see a NEW race instead of the gender expansions. I’m still a bit sad we have nothing between lalafell and miqo’te size wise.