Thread: 6.0 Hopes and Fears?

Originally Posted by Jirah

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

I don't see this way myself. From Heavensward onwards they put mobs in the most inconvenient spots possible which seriously gets in the way of on-foot exploration. And it feels like it only got worse with Stormblood and then Shadowbringers. I wish they either put less wild/aggressive monsters or just placed them in a less haphazard manner in the future. ARR had better mobs placement and not all of them were aggressive, so if anything it became less accessible.

All of these people hoping we get rid of Zenos should hope we deal with him in 5.5, because I don’t want to deal with him for another full expansion.

Updated & improved character creator- the FFXIV character creator shows its age & needs an overhaul & if Blizzard can update their character creator for WoW, so can Square Enix with FFXIV
Hilda's ponytail
Gaia's hair
Beards & stubble for males
Viera hairstyles
Hrothgar hairstyles

I would love for tweaks to be made to Elezen.

I want them to have slightly shorter arms and slightly bigger heads to make them more like the concept art (which have silhouettes different than the hyurs)



Another hope is to choose our character's idle stance which we can do in game through timing and /cpose it just doesn't show in cutscenes. It would be nice to select a a resting stance for cutscenes.

....more character customization tweaks in general, I guess I'm saying.

My hopes:
- a decent story after what ShB brought us
- more diversity in job rotations. Specifically in healers, but would still love more diversity in everything else.
- a new healer
- give some utility back to NIN and BRD
- more free inventory space
- brand new glamour system that is similar to the transmog
- fixed some of the housing problems
(kind of hoping for male vieras and female hrothgar, but I know that won't be happening)

My fears:
- jobs are going to get more simplified and dumbed down for the sake of "accessibility", as well as homogenized
- Fandaniel is the new Joker
- no inventory space
- housing is still terrible
- more limited jobs
- new gear still gets terrible dye options, and has undyeable black colouring somewhere.

Originally Posted by Kiurai

With the coming of the next Expac announcement presumably in February, I think it best time to start compling our wishlist for the coming changes. What do you guys want in 6.0 and what are your biggest fears about the coming expac?

I am hoping they will reinvest in FFXIV and give it an HD overhaul. The last thing I want to see is FFXIV given minimum staff for a by-the-numbers expansion. The outdated graphics seem like they're exponentially getting more noticeable every year. I don't play the game for graphics but there is a limit to how far behind a modern game can get.

Originally Posted by Lauront

I don't think there's a race with a bigger gap between the concept art and in-game models. They really deserved better. It's one of the only games where the elven race doesn't appeal to me.

I agree.

I think there's something to be said for having a unique take on elves vs. the standard 'Lothlorien'-type elves we see in a lot of media, but with Elezen it looks like they tried to have it both ways and... This is the result.

The female Elezen in that art especially looks nothing like how they look in the game with the slim shoulders and slightly larger head, it's closer to the proportions Viera ended up getting.

That said though I still think they can look nice in the game (though not as nice as the concept art) but once they start running it really is just tragic.