Thread: 6.0 Hopes and Fears?

Hopes:
- new healer (chemist please)
- good story just like ShB
- lyse will make appearance (maybe even accompany us)
- improved character creation
- derplander's beard
- less scripted fight
- I know she's gone, but I want to see minfilia once again. Properly says goodbye to her.
- we don't actually deal with the Sound at 6.0, but it was kept for 7.0 onwards for plot
- they finally addressed the problem with ilvl cheese for alliance raid. I'm sick of CT.
- we go to Garlemad, and not sharlayan.

Fears:
- Zenos being the last boss, I much prefer if fandaniel is the last one
-Zenos somehow survive 6.0
- hydaelyn is secretly evil
- homogenizing jobs even further
- No drk and sch rework (they're too simple)
- more g'raha and alisae being obsessed with us (seriously, it's getting creepy). At least give us the option to tell them off.
- g'raha keep stealing the spotlight from other scions/characters
- more rework to simplify crafting

More Dungeons and Trials is what I'm hoping for, 5.X's lack of them really bummed me out.

Other ones? Chemist as a healer, healers being reworked to be more engaging, DRK being made into something unique and not just edgy WAR, BLU upgraded to a full Job, more of the special metallic dyes added a patch or so ago, like the bronze (should be the one in my char pic if I had it on when I logged off) and white ones, they look so natural on armour compared to the regular dyes.

My hopes have little chance to happen but well:
- One new healer, and a complete reconsideration of how healing works in FFXIV. LEt's just embrace the DPS during downtime path, and give healers somethings to do.
- Roll back some of the jobs identity / complexities. Just between 4.X and 5.X, DPS lost a few things to micro-manage (agro, apocastasis / palissade, mana shift) and while those were not essential, they were nice things to keep in mind, and it added up to more things to have in mind. Now we don't have any of that, AND most rotations have been simplified.
If this means only adding one new job with the remaining resources allocated to rethinking existing jobs, honestly I'm fine with that. I don't trust them adding new jobs without breaking others (like how Dancer came in with lots of support and Bard lost most of its support kit)
- Like almost everyone, I am not convinced by Fandaniel and Zenos. True, Solus was "meh" when he appeared in 4.4 and he was very well written in 5.0, but Zenos has been an empty lukewarm shell since his introduction, and Fandaniel just doesn't work, for me. I'd love some BIG SURPRISE where 5.5 trial is the WOL against them, and 6.0 is a completely different story. Yes it would feel rushed, but that is what these characters deserve in my opinion.
- Shaking the habitual cycle of content. Let's face it, Shadowbringers is the all time lowest on content. Ishgard is mostly reused assets, ever repeating the same content. We have one dungeon less in even patch compared to Stormblood. Relic first step was a joke, Bozja's first proper iteration was lackluster, Blue Mage is recycled content, so are Unreal trials, no deep dungeon, no sign of a second Ultimate fight (although it whould happen in 5.5). (But we had Trusts and Ocean Fishing, right). Everything wears out so fast.
- Not a real hope, but I trust them with 6.0 MSQ. I don't really care if it is not as good as 5.0, it should be good. Just like Stormblood wasn't as good as Heavensward, but still enjoyable anyway.
- While I'm not actually concerned, I think it would be fair ifViera and Hrothgar could finally wear headgear, and have their missing genders added. If no new race will be added as they indicated, they might want to consider updating the current races.

Fears (again, I'm pretty sure they will happen and I made up my mind, but one can dream):
- Another layer of oversimplification of jobs and overall content.
- Healing situation not addressed
- Launch issues for jobs. AST was cruelly underpowered, RDM could not keep its MP, SMN had an oGCD bloat for average damage, SCH lost energy drain, BRD lost all support...
- More and more visual improvements, but lackluster content with no replayability (see solo instances in Bozja and Werlyt, the Pixie extra zone)
- Personal opinion here, but I think the Eden raids were not that good, especially Eden's Promise. I get the "Final Fantasy fan service" can be annoying, but I think it worked fine in Omega, or Alexander 11, and these fights had their own identity. I didn't like the FFXIV primals revisited for Eden, it starts being too much "already seen". So a 6.0 raid serie with 100% original fights would be perfect. (I can say the exact same thing about the Trials in 5.X actually, the Weapons were boring and on the easy side. MSQ trials were okay at best. Story and visuals are great, but the gameplay, not so much)

Originally Posted by Rymi64

And the PHY Ranged pay the price for less complexity with lesser damage.

Listen I could care less about numbers but Complexity? Your saying Ranged jobs due to them being Ranged have to be less complex too? This is the most backwards logic I’ve ever heard in a while

“Ranged jobs have free reign, no positional, no cast bars, and no concerns about being close or too far, to compensate for this lets make them the easiest jobs in the game to a abhorrent level”

Already see topics begging BRD to be dragged to their level cuz they don’t have closed position and it’s numbers are 0.4716% lower than average. Maybe that’s my fear after all complete ruination of fun flowing jobs for Ranged.