If I'm being honest, I mainly play the game for Housing and Glamour...

[Terin]

I was thinking about it today, and you know, I imagine it's a major struggle for the Devs to decide where to invest resources into making whatever kinds of content. I do really enjoy the story, and I generally enjoy what little group-content I wind up running, although generally on a day-to-day basis, I only do content that I can either solo, or run with 1-3 of my friends (speaking of which; anyone know how difficult it would be to try and acquire the Ultima series weapons from Stormblood with just four 80's?).

What I LOVE most in FFXIV, though, is doing things related to Housing, or Glamour. And really, I imagine those are probably kind of difficult to convey in terms of "player data".

Now, if I'm being honest? My favorite job is still the DRK, but particularly after seeing hundreds of fellow DRK's in Ul'dah yesterday (paying respects to the man who created the GUTS manga, right?), I was kind of struck that a lot of DRK armor looks pretty interchangeable. Decent variety of weapons, though!

All that is to say, while getting Job-specific armor is clearly a TON of work for the artists... well, that's definitely effort well-spent. So *IF* the Devs wanted to consider, say, a second Job-set for the next expansion... well, I certainly wouldn't be opposed! (that, or perhaps a means of "upgrading" it, adding cool new visuals and particle effects, much like weapons traditionally get)

Although, maybe if there were a full "transmog collection" to choose from, people would branch-out a little more from just using the main Job armors?

As for Housing... I'm fortunate enough to not only have a house, but also a very desirable house (one of the beachfront ones in The Mist)! Having a house is something that GREATLY adds to my enjoyment of the game, and my heart really goes out to players still struggling to get a house.

So again, if any efforts were made to add more Wards, or even just improving the process of House acquisition (I've long held that it should be possible to sell or trade the "Deed" to your plot, even just via Market Board), anything to make it more feasible for newcomers to get into a House I think is a worthy investment, as I would *THINK* that like me, having a house would increase players' attachment for FFXIV (but then again, I'm sure the Devs have the data to know whether owning a house has any effect on player-retention).

Anyways, this is mostly just fluff, but wanted to make sure the Devs know that these are definitely some of my favorite aspects in FFXIV, so I happily welcome any addition work they're able to put into these things!

[MPK]

(speaking of which; anyone know how difficult it would be to try and acquire the Ultima series weapons from Stormblood with just four 80's?).

Impossible because thankfully they don't let you unsync ultimates

Nice bait post though 6.5/10

[Enkidoh]

Although we already do have Job-specific armour (it's Artifact Armour (AF)), unfortunately new Jobs do not get a lower level AF set added when each expansion is added, so the later ones seem to lack more options for this, so it's not something that SE seems to regard as a priority sadly.

[Shougun]

With the coming expansion they just need to close the chapter well and I'd be satisfied (that doesn't mean they slack just means they'd put a lot into making sure the story / presentation of it is well done) - which sounds like the case given that recent interview (after fanfest).

That said, for the next expansion and in general after the end of that story. . . I think they have a lot of house keeping they need to do. I'm not going to have a huge investment into the new story, doesn't mean I'll automatically dislike everything, that'd be silly, BUT just that there are a few things that were either implemented sketchy in the beginning or are just 'aged' now. I hope they are planning for this in advance, since many of these big systems would take a lot of that pre-planning and of course therefore have cataphoric results on the game if some key code failed ('try can't login for extended period of time due to unknown bug')... No one would want to be crunching deep system issues lol.

[Vahlnir]

Everyone's got their preferences. If that's what you enjoy then good for you! I enjoy housing and glamour as well, but I do dabble in almost everything to varying degrees. Everything could stand to be improved in some ways, so hopefully they do make adjustments to all of these things in the future that are beneficial to everyone.

[Kanehana]

I just want to swing a giant frying pan, just like the one from the Heavensward's Hildibrand questline. You know the one. I want it.

[Ayer2015]

I definitely play this game primarily for the MSQ. Sure I do my roulettes, EX trials, raids, and general MMO stuff. But, if the MSQ wasn't the quality it is I think I would have stopped playing MMOs entirely years ago now.

[Iscah]

Although we already do have Job-specific armour (it's Artifact Armour (AF)), unfortunately new Jobs do not get a lower level AF set added when each expansion is added, so the later ones seem to lack more options for this, so it's not something that SE seems to regard as a priority sadly.

I posted a while back that I'd love to see jobs get an extra set at that middle stage where everyone else gets artifact gear and the new job gets nothing. I understand that they wouldn't make an extra set from scratch, but recoloured gear like the starter sets would still be good, especially if getting a design that isn't normally available to the job.

[WhiteArchmage]

I WOULD like for a second set of Job-specific armor on an expansion's life-cycle. But I also acknowledge that this seems to be very difficult to do for the dev team. I wouldn't be opposed to an evolving set like the Eureka ones, either.

[Vahlnir]

I WOULD like for a second set of Job-specific armor on an expansion's life-cycle. But I also acknowledge that this seems to be very difficult to do for the dev team. I wouldn't be opposed to an evolving set like the Eureka ones, either.

Dyeable sets help with that somewhat, but I understand the request. I wouldn't be opposed to a second set either or one that evolves over time. It just probably won't happen.