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.

[CelestialBlade]

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

[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.

[Theodric]

Between Viera men and the Reaper job, I'm inclined to believe that if enough people ask for something and in a persistent manner then there's a decent chance that it could be added to the game at some point in the future. Ultimately the lore will be tweaked as needed to accommodate such elements, or a new point of entry might be added to the MSQ's with less restrictive conditions.

Either way, the game is supposedly locked in when it comes to another ten years of development which means there's going to be plenty of opportunities for neat stuff to be added in the coming years.

[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.

[Theodric]

Eh, I don't know...

A group of players insisted that we wouldn't be going to Sharlayan anytime soon because it was sealed off to the outside world and had a strict policy of isolation even harsher than Ishgard's former stance. We're set to visit the place in Endwalker.

A similar group of players claimed that we'd never get Viera men added to the name because of how restrictive their lore happened to be and the fact that they were described as never being seen by outsiders. They're also set to appear in Endwalker - as a playable option.

I recall pushing many times over the years for a 'darker' job along the lines of a Demon Hunter or Warlock from World of Warcraft. It was proposed by some that it'd never happen because the player character would supposedly never, ever make pacts with Voidsent. Yet again, as of Endwalker we're getting the Reaper job with such a premise.

I think there's a pretty good chance that the development team will just add whatever proves popular, ultimately. Even if it involves tweaking the lore to accommodate such additions.

[Coletergeist]

Didn't they say they weren't adding races anymore? Why are folks still asking for more races when SE said no more?

[Theodric]

Didn't they say they weren't adding races anymore? Why are folks still asking for more races when SE said no more?

That was stated before the game was confirmed to be set for additional expansions. Yoshi-P has since spoken up to state that it is no longer an impossibility.

Besides, even when a business claims that they're not going to do something it need not mean that circumstances cannot change or demand can grow for the position to be reversed. It's precisely how many of the game's additions over the years have come to be.