Adventure mode-the solution

[FusiaRain]

So honestly with the news of hq removal, it seems gil will overall become more and more worthless. Most people will never obtain a house, apartments are running out of other limitations. Almost all items can be bought from npc so why would we buy from people on the marketboard when there is no High grade version with better stats/use more often. There is none that I can think of so I was thinking while playing Final fantasy 7 remastered we could use a new mode in the open world that could benefit all aspects of Final Fantasy ffxiv. The solution “adventure mode”


What is adventure mode?
Glad you asked, this mode would allow the open world all across the game to be made useful and into a mini game. Think of the bike chase in Final fantasy 7, the snowboard game in the original and so on.

How would this make gil worth something?
This solution would add a npc to all the starting zones so that when you buy a ticket (599k+) you will obtain a clear crystal. These clear crystals will have a charge amount based on the size you buy from the npc.

What would you charge it with?

You would charge these crystals with Aether based on the zone. Many zones could be wind, fire, earth, light, dark, ice etc.

How would you obtain the charge?
You would start a solo/or tag-team adventure mode at the start of the zone after both of you buy a clear crystal. Upon completion of “waves” you will obtain a charge based on how many kills you got.

What would the result be?
The result would be an Aspect Crystal; these crystals could be used as an addition when crafting in order to add glows/properties to the items usable on anything in the game that is craft able.

What about cooking/alchemy?
This would be where the fun starts upgrading potions/cooking to have a use across the board outside of selected content. I call this benefit of what you eat/drink.

For these lets say you charge or buy a fully charge crystal with Wind
Your food or potion will give you more healing, stats sure but it would also increase the timer of how long it lasts by 10 minutes. While decreasing the cd hugely.

[MilkieTea]

HQ is not being removed - HQ gathering is being removed.

[FusiaRain]

HQ is not being removed - HQ gathering is being removed.

According to the panel and all searchs it is.

Final Fantasy XIV is doing a lot right now. Between preparing to launch a new expansion, Endwalker, soon, dealing with server issues, and now, there are details on the coming end of HQ items and changes to gathering on the way.

[Xaphire]

According to the panel and all searchs it is.

Final Fantasy XIV is doing a lot right now. Between preparing to launch a new expansion, Endwalker, soon, dealing with server issues, and now, there are details on the coming end of HQ items and changes to gathering on the way.

You are mistaken. Gathering high-quality ingredients and materials is being removed. You will not be able to gather high quality items for crafting. Perception will not have a chance of increasing gathering yield.

You will still be able to craft high quality items.

[MilkieTea]

According to the panel and all searchs it is.

Final Fantasy XIV is doing a lot right now. Between preparing to launch a new expansion, Endwalker, soon, dealing with server issues, and now, there are details on the coming end of HQ items and changes to gathering on the way.

According to the panel, HQ gathering is being removed, and HQ crafting will stay with adjustments made to difficulty.

[Setesh45]

HQ is not being removed - HQ gathering is being removed.

Hahahahaha, doomsayer killed in one sentence. Well done!

However, I do support this idea:

What would the result be?
The result would be an Aspect Crystal; these crystals could be used as an addition when crafting in order to add glows/properties to the items usable on anything in the game that is craft able.

Having a way to add/modify effects on your weapon would be cool, it would really enhance the glam life. Better if we could use in on all weapons tho, not just crafted. It would also add some incentive to people to play crafters more.

[Nanchi]

I get where the HQ concerns are coming from but this sounds so random. Where is the link between crafting XY item and then going out to get an aspected crystal.
Also what does "Upon completion of “waves” you will obtain a charge based on how many kills you got." Will this be an instanced zone like those solo duties where you fight mob after mob after mob?
You mentioned two different uses of aspected crystals. Glows and properties. I think we can all agree that enhanced properties are way more beneficial for the rest of the content than glows. Also what element enhances what property?
Sounds convoluted to me.

[FusiaRain]

I get where the HQ concerns are coming from but this sounds so random. Where is the link between crafting XY item and then going out to get an aspected crystal.
Also what does "Upon completion of “waves” you will obtain a charge based on how many kills you got." Will this be an instanced zone like those solo duties where you fight mob after mob after mob?
You mentioned two different uses of aspected crystals. Glows and properties. I think we can all agree that enhanced properties are way more beneficial for the rest of the content than glows. Also what element enhances what property?
Sounds convoluted to me.

This would be like a crystal with built in enfire (appearence) for example when charged. Then when you go to craft you can select it as an additional material for crafting to any item in game.


Like an optional mat for extra effects

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

So honestly with the news of hq removal, it seems gil will overall become more and more worthless. Most people will never obtain a house, apartments are running out of other limitations. Almost all items can be bought from npc so why would we buy from people on the marketboard when there is no High grade version with better stats/use more often. There is none that I can think of so I was thinking while playing Final fantasy 7 remastered we could use a new mode in the open world that could benefit all aspects of Final Fantasy ffxiv. The solution “adventure mode”


What is adventure mode?
Glad you asked, this mode would allow the open world all across the game to be made useful and into a mini game. Think of the bike chase in Final fantasy 7, the snowboard game in the original and so on.

How would this make gil worth something?
This solution would add a npc to all the starting zones so that when you buy a ticket (599k+) you will obtain a clear crystal. These clear crystals will have a charge amount based on the size you buy from the npc.

What would you charge it with?

You would charge these crystals with Aether based on the zone. Many zones could be wind, fire, earth, light, dark, ice etc.

How would you obtain the charge?
You would start a solo/or tag-team adventure mode at the start of the zone after both of you buy a clear crystal. Upon completion of “waves” you will obtain a charge based on how many kills you got.

What would the result be?
The result would be an Aspect Crystal; these crystals could be used as an addition when crafting in order to add glows/properties to the items usable on anything in the game that is craft able.

What about cooking/alchemy?
This would be where the fun starts upgrading potions/cooking to have a use across the board outside of selected content. I call this benefit of what you eat/drink.

For these lets say you charge or buy a fully charge crystal with Wind
Your food or potion will give you more healing, stats sure but it would also increase the timer of how long it lasts by 10 minutes. While decreasing the cd hugely.

Just to add to this as the third in line, to be obnoxious, and to really drive the point home in the hopes that you'll do some advanced Google-Fu and read it up:

HQ gathering will be gone
HQ crafting will remain

[FusiaRain]

Just to add to this as the third in line, to be obnoxious, and to really drive the point home in the hopes that you'll do some advanced Google-Fu and read it up:

HQ gathering will be gone
HQ crafting will remain

Still regardless my point remains juat half true.
The point of hq gathering is to increase odds of making a hq item. Which gave readon to buy them over normal.

Still my point is overall gill is worth hardly anything. The need for a gil sink everyone can do without limits is still there.