Interesting Ideas I would Love. Please add to this.

[CelestialBlade]

Race Options / Clans:
Ishgardian
Garlean
Dwarves
Hume
Ronso
Mystel

Gear Ideas:
Dragoon spear that's smaller/ FFXI design
Cid Dark Knight armor to match helm
A F/C banner that's usable. Hold / carry

Cross over Ideas:
.Hack - Net Slum Dungeon / Raid
White Knight Chronicles/ Sun King Fight (Trial)
Log Horizon Akiba Raid (Abyssal Shaft)
FFXI Tavnazia battle a raid or dungeon
Abyssal Shaft could also be a deep dungeon

Open World Changes:
Open World dungeons
Secret monster lairs
Hidden quests
Lore scattered through areas
Hidden mini Bosses

Player VS Player
Arena in Ul'dah usable
Team tournaments 2v2 3v3 8v8 with standings
Frontline Mode 1 G/C vs 1 G/C

Classes:
Blue Mage changed from limited to full class
Puppet master or beast master for pet class

Limit Break:
New limit breaks for classes / effects.


I know it's just a dream list. But it's got some interesting ideas.

[MPK]

No more races....

[Enkidoh]

Race Options / Clans:
Ishgardian

Ishgardian elezen are literally just wildwood elezen with

traces of Ratattoskr's draconic aether in their souls

, so there physically is no difference to the 'regular' elezen clans the player has access to. For that matter, Ishgardian hyur are exactly the same, they too

share the draconic taint within their aether

so apart from that aspect there is nothing setting them apart as different to the player accessable clans. Also it would kind of derail the whole reason the player is able to be DRG and resist Nidhogg's will during the game's story, unlike Estinien, who is a pureblood Ishgardian. So that pretty much says a big "no" to that ever happening.

Garlean

Again, like the Ishgardian example above, the lore makes it very clear pureblood Garleans cannot use magic (well, in some extremely rare instances they can, but to allow a player character to do that would be stretching credibility too far). And really, how different are they from Highlander hyur other than that silly third eye? (which you can somewhat replicate during character creation anyway with facial adornments). This won't happen either sadly.

Dwarves
Hume
Ronso
Mystel

These are literally just what the Source races are called on the First, and as you can't start the game on the First, this makes zero sense (the player's ability to travel across dimensions was an exception that has now been disabled permenantly). If you want to roleplay as one, change your character's name to a First-centric name and say you're that race from the First. SE will never implement this I'm sorry to say.

Gear Ideas:
Dragoon spear that's smaller/ FFXI design

Smaller? I remember FFXI spears were rather huge and ostentatious, but more glamour is always good!

Cid Dark Knight armor to match helm

I.. take it you mean FFIV's Cecil DRK armour to match the Baron Helm. Which I agree with, but, you can sort of get the same effect with Odin's armour, although that prevents the use of handwear.

A F/C banner that's usable. Hold / carry

Now this I agree with! I'd love a customizable banner as a housing furnishing that could display your FC crest on it (there is already the sign above the entrance outside, but I'm talking about an indoor furnishing). The FC chest already displays the crest anyway so it is capable of being displayed indoors. An accessory to hold that displays the crest would be nice to have too.

Cross over Ideas:
.Hack - Net Slum Dungeon / Raid
White Knight Chronicles/ Sun King Fight (Trial)
Log Horizon Akiba Raid (Abyssal Shaft)

SE seem to be very selective with their crossover events - specifically they seem to pick licences that SE have proffesional connections with, or Yoshi himself has personal connections (such as the FFXIII event being a 'returning the favour' to Motomu Toriyama featuring Lightning gaining miqo'te starting armour and Grand Company swords in Lightning Returns). I'm not sure what sort of legal wrangling between the men and women with briefcases in boardrooms goes on behind the scenes to allow such crossovers in FFXIV with intellectual properties not SE's own, but I presume it's very complex.

FFXI Tavnazia battle a raid or dungeon

We have already had two special FFXI crossover events over the years, and none were dungeons or raids - they were FATES instead (the first featured a giant Shantotto, the second event was meant to emulate various battles in FFXI, such as 'dooms parties' against Robber Crabs, hunting Serkhet in Altepa Desert, hunting Kindred in Castle Zvahl and Xarcabard, and finally emulating the city mission rank 1.3 battle against Spotter and Dark Dragon). These haven't run for quite a while but it's possible SE may bring them back eventually, like they've done with the FFXV event that is currently running.

Abyssal Shaft could also be a deep dungeon

I... have no idea what this is I'm sorry.

Open World Changes:
Open World dungeons

Yoshi already dismissed this back during the Beta test as he wants dungeons to be instanced content (he gave his reasons for at the time, but I cannot remember them I'm afraid, I just remember he was quite firm on open dungeons not coming back). Considering FFXIV 1.0's public dungeons were generally just big underground expanses of nothing, save for an occassional NM, we're not missing much.

Secret monster lairs

We have this already, it's called Treasure Maps and the Aquopolis.

Hidden quests

Again we somewhat have this, there was that quest in Thanalan near Vesper Bay that gave you no assistance on how to complete it, and the ways to do it are completely random, so even online guides are no help. It's clear this was an experiment which SE considered a failure though (as you only got a tiny bit of gil as a reward, although there is an achievement it grants too), so I do not see doing this again.

Lore scattered through areas

There is lore like this, but it's very obscure, and hidden in places you wouldn't expect. Also it's sort of hidden in the sidequests in each area, but again you have to join the dots with a lot of things.

Hidden mini Bosses

We already have this. It is called The Hunt (specifically, rank A and S/SS Hunts).

Player VS Player
Arena in Ul'dah usable

This won't happen. SE doesn't want players idling around the GLA's Guild and adding to Ul'dah's already notorious lag, hence PvP is in the Wolves' Den, it's an entirelly seperate zone. Also the Colleseum is technically reserved for GLA/PLD's only lore wise, so yeah, if you're another class you're out of luck I'm afraid (the PLD Job quests have you fighting there so it's not entirelly wasted).

Team tournaments 2v2 3v3 8v8 with standings

I don't really do PvP but from what I remember the original Wolves' Den tournament was like this. Players hated it and so SE removed it. So I don't see this returning.

Classes:
Blue Mage changed from limited to full class

I'm pretty sure SE do have this as an ultimate goal in the future, but at the moment it's an experiment they're tinkering with so it's best to have patience.

Puppet master or beast master for pet class

Yoshi hates pet classes, as they're notoriously difficult to balance, which explains why the upcoming Reaper class's vaunted voidsent familar apparently is not actually a pet at all but merely a form of weapon/attack they use. And given the ongoing issues ACN/SMN/SCH have with their pets, and the degradation of MCH's turrets, it's clear SE simply are not interested in new pet Jobs being added I'm sorry to say.

[Bright-Flower]

I'm pretty sure SE do have this as an ultimate goal in the future, but at the moment it's an experiment they're tinkering with so it's best to have patience.

What makes you think they have plans to transition BLU into a full job rather than just keeping up the current pattern of occasionally giving it new content as a limited job?

If they were to make it a full job they'd likely not have added the stormblood stuff. There's no way they're going to let the job as is go into current content and reworking it into a normal job with a normal rotation etc would be doable but require a lot of effort and scrapping the systems they have in place for it now.

[Enkidoh]

What makes you think they have plans to transition BLU into a full job rather than just keeping up the current pattern of occasionally giving it new content as a limited job?

If they were to make it a full job they'd likely not have added the stormblood stuff. There's no way they're going to let the job as is go into current content and reworking it into a normal job with a normal rotation etc would be doable but require a lot of effort and scrapping the systems they have in place for it now.

You're right, that was just my own thoughts on the subject (hence why I said, "I'm pretty sure"), but, given it's pretty telling SE are not interested in expanding on the whole 'Limited Job' system - the sheer volume of vitriol on this very forum towards BLU's execution alone shows just how unpopular (or at the least, polarizing) it has been, and SE are probably keen to avoid repeating that whole can of worms again.

Either way, I concede that was just my own opinion there, and is thus subjective.

[CelestialBlade]

Thanks for ruining a fun post by destroying it. Considering the fact everything mentioned is do able.

[Iscah]

Thanks for ruining a fun post by destroying it. Considering the fact everything mentioned is do able.

No it isn't "all doable".

As she said, there's no visual difference in the majority of races you're requesting, with lore being the only distinction. Ishgardian Elezen characters ARE Wildwood Elezen NPCs in the game programming. Kai-Shirr is a Miqo'te NPC even if he'd tell you he's a Mystel. And so on.

It wouldn't make any lore sense to give players the choice of races by their names in the First, several expansions and a literal world away from learning about them.

And Garleans are their own thing but I personally doubt they would become playable. They are primarily modified Hyur and Elezen models in any case.

I'm not going to pick apart everything, but "I can imagine this being a thing" doesn't automatically make it possible.

[CKNovel]

Thanks for ruining a fun post by destroying it. Considering the fact everything mentioned is do able.

Because it seems good to you doesn't means it's good for everyone. You have ideas that does not change a things like PVP and Hume/Dwarves/Mystel races.
Then you have the idea of adding Garlemald race except it goes against the lore. Would you lock mages out of these races?
Just your cross-over ideas are purely based on your tastes.

What if I want to have an Arknight collab, a Berserk collab or a League of Legends collab?
Because I and others could enjoy it doesn't means everyone would. Nier has been a good example.

[Theodric]

Then you have the idea of adding Garlemald race except it goes against the lore. Would you lock mages out of these races?

That's a common misconception. It isn't impossible for Pureblood Garleans to be able to manipulate aether, it's just rare compared to being the norm for other races.

Though I'd argue that such a rarity isn't any more jarring than the player character being one of the very few White Mages in existence, or how as of Endwalker they can be one of the very few Viera men to take their leave of their homeland and venture out into the wider world.

The game boasts a sizable portion of role-players, at any rate - and of those, quite a few choose to role-play as Pureblood Garleans. I think having it be made into an official option would be pretty cool.

[MilkieTea]

Thanks for ruining a fun post by destroying it. Considering the fact everything mentioned is do able.

If you post your opinion on the forum, be prepared for others to not share your opinion and be prepared for them to have their own reasons why. JFC. If you didnt want anyone to disagree with you, shouldve just not posted it.