Thread: 6.0 Hopes and Fears?

Hopes:
- Some kind of major improvement in the game's code, for a large number of reasons that goes from responsivity to better encounter designs;
- Not holding my breath for Blue Mages becoming a traditional job, but I'm hoping a lot that they get more love in what is considered their endgame content;
- I don't think the character models need an overhaul, but I'm really expecting more customization options across the board, and improvements to the ones we have such as Au Ra horns detached from the faces;
- Viera boys and Hrothgar girls. Also the improvements that we have countless threads about for them;
- Summoner being overhauled to ditch Egis for good and work just with trances and Demi summons;
- Scholar faeries, I don't expect the same fate, but something should be done with the responsitivity of the healing spells;
- Beastmaster added as a Limited Job with an exclusive pet-based collecting and combat system, with tournaments;
- Machinist having their 1-2-3 rotation visuals toned down. Now that we see them non-stop instead of procs, it's kind of exhausting;
- Chemist/Apotechary as the new healer job;
- Fix for the unhealthy housing situation and add a new vertical axis for furnishing. And Ishgard housing is almost a guarantee at this rate;
- Ascians, Zodiark & Hydaelyn arc finale;

Fears:
- More job homogenization;
- Ascians, Zodiark & Hydaelyn arc not ending and dragging for yet another expansion;

Hopes:
They fix housing

Fears:
They don't fix housing

Hopes:
- Missing genders for the new races
- New palace of the death content that is more tuned to those of us who try to solo it
- a great story
- more slots for the inventory and the glamour dresser
- new long time battle content that is fun on its own

Fears
- even less core content in exchange for something that will be death quite fast
- something similar to the Diadem
- another Ishgard that is nothing more than Rowena turn in with a huge boring grind
- another relic quest where you are forced to do the "new" content.

Biggest fear that probably will turn out that way:
Zenos being the big bad for 6.0 or even 7.0, getting his battle by eating Zodiark...also having to see more about this weak Emet-Selch clone and his punshable face...turning the end boss into another one of those uninteresting pure evil villian fights that you know that you will win anyways..

Originally Posted by Fayt1203

Correct me if I´m wrong

but i think Yoshida said that we would not finish the Zodiark & Hydaelyn arc in this expansion

I think he was just vaguely saying 'The Zodiark/Hydaelyn arc did not reach its climax yet'. But he never really said when that climax will be as far as I can remember.
I personally don't think it will end in 6.0. Maybe in 6.3....But, I can also see this whole story arc being put aside until 7.X to be honest... It is unlikely considering where the story seems to be going to, but who knows...


Anways, more Hopes :
- hard mode for single player instances (serving as a training ground before jumping into harder group content)
- add Bozjan type Critical Engagements in the open world FATEs (bonus point if they add duels in each zone, even though they'd probably need to be easier due to the lack of OP abilities)
- revamp the glamor system into an actual transmog system. I would be fine sacrificing a few patches worth of content for that
- a limited job roulette that rewards allied seals daily or weekly (Using DF for the weekly blue mage stuff is not convenient enough IMO. I'd like to have this as a roulette when they add a second limited job....maybe in 5.5...)
- having a Papalymo-ish cutscene in 5.5.
- SMN is obviously getting a rework, so I hope they make that great fun and don't ruin it

Fears :
- the community dislikes some of the changes and gets very vocal about it, which is something that will inevitably happen...
- Zenos and Fandaniel die without having their emotional moment like Elidibus/Emet-Selch did.

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Hopes:
-Healer gameplay is improved

Fears:
-Healer gameplay is destroyed

I have only fears and I fear “accessibility” as that’s the root of all of FF14 issues

Healers need to heal more to be “accessible”

Ranged can’t have complex rotations, they need to be “accessible”

Trash pulls are supposed to be easy, it’s “accessible” content

Tanks are scary...they need to be “accessible”

Savage is getting too hard, we need to make them more “accessible”

24 man shouldn’t be difficult and should be able to bounce back with very few party members, it’s “accessible” that way

Relic quests are a chore, being “accessible” is best

Dungeons don’t need to have many mechs and require more gates, to make it more “accessible” to new players....at lv80

Overworld needs less mobs and more easy to dodge Aoes, players will be turned off by the lack of “accessibility” otherwise and quit

Shinryu was way to hard, let’s make them more “accessible” with Hades. They seem to like it

“Raids” are already reduced to trials anyways. let’s make them have less mechs for NM to make it more “accessible”

Leveling sucks, road to 90 isn’t enough we need to make leveling more “accessible”