Thread: 6.0 Hopes and Fears?

Hopes:
More story regarding the Ancients. (what was the sound, more on the convocation, what the original star was like etc.)
Rework a proper one this time of healers and dungeon mechanics for healers. (tl;dr - if you're gonna force us to heal, give us more to heal)
Fix Living Dead and make DRK more unique from WAR.
Harder normal content, or some HARD versions of dungeons.
A new deep dungeon.

Fears:
No changers to healers: AST card system, WHM's lack of identity, SCH's everything, and/or fixing how much down time we have.
New healer introduced either steals previous skills from current healers and/or ends up in the same state of current healers.
Another expansion with Zenos as the main antagonist. Just... if we're gonna go that route can it be a bit more interesting than SB's?

Hopes:

• The classes I play will expand rather than being reworked (they're fine in their current iterations methinks)
• The story will continue to be brilliant and full of heart and emotion. That the next expac will be another HW or SHB rather than another SB
• More emotes and glams that aren't locked behind MTX
• Even more varied dialogue options to allow more character expression.
• More usage of established characters. (merlwyb's usage in 5.4 is a good start.)
• More beautiful and varied zones. (Rather than having 3 generic deserts and an empty ocean like in some expacs)
• Hildebrand, Godbert, nashu etc will get a voice, even if only for a single cutscene.

Fears:

• Zenos will continue to be a horrible villain.
• Fandaniel will be a generic, mustache-twirling antagonist.
• They'll inexplicably bring back palpalymo for no reason.
• Classes will get unneeded reworks that completely change how they play for the worse.
• Nomura.
• With the success of shadowbringers, that square will decide to 'coast' for an expac, and half-ass the whole thing.

My fear is that Zenos will survive to see 6.0...

Hopes:
-A 3rd free retainer or a Materials tab.
-Healer changes. Surely they'll have to look at Piety too now a crafted ring is BiS, it should give damage similar to Tenacity.
-Some new content. Bozja wasn't new, it was this expansions Eureka. If we're losing Hildebrand, several dungeons, new race headgear, new class primal weapons and deep dungeons it'd be great to see something in return.
-Hildebrand.
-One week delay to Savage.
-More difficult crafts besides spamming hundreds of one item in a 10 day window for next to nothing and a dinosaur for wasting 500 hours. Expand on the expert system and make Master Recipes a challenge. The 4 star set this patch was a small step in the right direction, requiring good food and some HQ mats.
-More of the same. I like gearing in this game, it's consistent and time friendly unlike other MMO's that shove you onto a constant RNG treadmill. Good job there.

Fears:
-Healers unchanged. WhM still a clipping, immobile mess, SCH's pet still clunky, Piety still a near-worthless stat over a certain amount/when you have a boss on farm.
-Crafting easier than ever, Fishing heavily nerfed to "draw more players in".
-Bots still rampant and untouched.
-No extra inventory slots at all and hundreds more items and materials added.
-The dungeon system untouched, no mythic+ or hard mode, just another set of worthless facerolls to serve as chores for leveling or tomes.
-Even more content pruned instead of more added. No primal weapons at all for the new classes.
-Dps nerfed to match the current "complexity" of tanks and healers.

Hopes:

A re shuffle of many rotational required skills to lower levels so that they are imprinted into muscle memory much earlier

As above but with AOE skills for some DPS classes so that they can use them earlier to help with trash packs in MSQ/Dungeons

Upgrade CNJ/WHM Cure 1 to cure 2 and maybe add a smaller chance for a free cure by using cure 2 or change the freecure buff to chance to freecure using stone and or aero

More MSQ voice acting and the WoL to have more selectable "dialogue choices" or even better a voice.

Remove the god awful default mount speed on a new area and make the slightly faster version default, now that +speed via maps is redundant after you earn flying for the zone.


Fears

They dont allow more skills into the lower ranges and we get yet more spread out due to the new level ranges because for some odd reason they seem to think 5+ decent rotational/situational skills for the first 50 levels is somehow overwhelming to new players

A plot armour baddy knocks the WoL on its backside once again early into the expansion and we have to power up for the finale

Poorly placed quests that makes us go back and forth for fake time padding

Even easier dungeons than 5.0 that are short and uninspiring

Immediate: Egi Glamours
Blue Mage Unlimited
Crowd Control and Utility to all jobs where applicable.


Over patch cycle:
Glamour System overhaul. Equipment Log added.
Reassessment of older content, lowering maximum ilevel so old content is still relatively challenging.
Overhaul Castrum Meridanium and Praetorium, end the Zergfest and give the dungeons some legitimacy if I have to do it every day.

Fears:
Failure to properly assess job updates and needs.
Inability to top that increasingly delicious ShB storyline.

Hopes:
-We go back to being an actual MMORPG with more job diversity, enmity and TP management, classic FF elements being brought back (Protect, Shell, Stoneskin, etc)
-Less scripted fights, more engaging dungeons and group activities
-Support going from ranged DPS to Healers so they can actually feel impactful during a fight instead of just spamming 1 spell between healing
-Jobs get their fantasy back (things like Leeches/Exalted Detriment/Esuna) with less general "role abilities"
-AST gets its original card system back FOR THE LOVE OF THE MOTHERCRYSTAL
-SMN goes full summoner with maybe a summon rotation? Also less dots, more summons
-SCH gets at least Bane back, more Fairy abilities to spend the gauge on
-BLM freed from Ice/Fire rotation
-New territories to the West and Sharlayan, explore more of Hydaelyn

Fears:
-None of the above happens
-Zenos doesn't get obliterated and/or shot into space
-The Ascian story doesn't conclude
-Everything stays the same