Things that FF14 needs to improve upon

[Jeeqbit]

/autofacetarget can be both convenient and annoying. It's useful for most classes so that you don't press an attack and then it not hit because you are not facing it enough. It's annoying for healers though. On a healer, I macro my attacks like so.

/autofacetarget on
/action "Ruin" <t>
/action "Ruin" <tt>
/autofacetarget off

This makes sure that autofacetarget is off when healing so that I don't turn around while healing, which is a big problem if there is a gaze attack while healing, which actually happened in the one savage floor I healed. The problem with this is the attacks no longer queue, but it's something I'm willing to do so that I don't automatically face players while running just because I healed them.

PvP is already being changed soon and UI elements can already be changed, hidden and resized in almost every way. You can even use different UI themes including the traditional blue one from a lot of FF games.

[Shurrikhan]

To start with, they need to at least catch up with modders in regard to basic QoL:

• An animation lock procedure that doesn't (doubly) punish players for their ping.
• Additional option to only automatically face targets for actions that require you to face target, to hide your EXP bar at max level, and similarly obvious choices.
• Showing shield (and predicted DoT) values on any and all HP bars.
• Chat messages timing out and fading separately.
• Consolidating abilities that would not (or, especially, cannot) be options at the same time anyways.
• Improved targeting (especially, being still able to target enemies who are too tall for their nameplates to fit on your screen when playing in Ultrawide aspect ratio without having to back out the camera to max and aim up from the floor...)
• Other UI improvements, including improved retainer and inventory interface, better world map, status effect filtering and prioritization, conditional UI elements, etc.
• Job-specific, auto-swappable UI layouts.
• Queuable macros (at least to their first usable action), so we can set up targeting schemes as we like.
• ...so on and so forth....

Thereafter, the big stuff:

• Put in the time to develop systems to save time later (else we'll just end up with longer and longer delays between patch cycles). Challenge modes and developing a means of syncing old content up, for instance, could be huge -- as could be, say, player-made (obstacle/combat) courses.
• Seriously reconsider avenues of time-gating and gear-treadmills as compared to just letting people do whatever's fun for them. (I realize gear progression can be a factor in that 'fun', but it's rarely the sole one.)
• Take more risks, but only where willing to put in the full effort to flesh them out. Additionally, build those new things with an endgoal in mind (Step A prototyping for Step B, which acts in turn for Step C, etc.), but always in the interest of greater ambition, not to trickle out an initial plan over a longer amount of time.

[Izar_Chillen]

To start with, they need to at least catch up with modders in regard to basic QoL:[/LIST]

Big time




Currently we can because they dont


Add:

The ability to hide map/mini map icons of your choosing

The ability to shows your personal debuffs and their time counters on your target enemy list, target and faceplate/hp bar

The ability to make your debuffs on the target hp bar larger than others so its easier to see

The ability to auto attack your target when non selected actually work

The ability to auto dismount when using an action

The ability to move the individual bars on the parameter bar HP/Mana and the HP/Mana text

The ability to move the text on enemy/target cast bar

The ability to show the HP of your target and your focus target

The ability to show shields on your parameter bar and to choose the colour of the bar

The ability to show timers on the party list for buffs/debuffs

The ability to show with an icon size of your choosing who needs cleansing on each player on your screen, and to show how is raising who on the party/alliance list with the option to choose the colour of bar that highlights said raise actions over a party listee

The ability to move the "toast" and Battle" messages anywhere you wish eg: Battlemessages : White bar dialogue you see in combat like in praetorium in the middle and upper area of the screen or the BnW text (toast) you get when say a retainer returns

The ability to show the actual time left on your retainer ventures eg 24:00:00 rather than 1Hr it would show otherwise

The ability to show what role is required as the ADV In need and for which duty as a chat/system generated message



and many more


the sorts of things this game should have as option anyways

[kpxmanifesto]

I just wish SE would fix the server tick rate if anything.

[Striker44]

For people complaining about tab-targeting, it took me a disappointingly long time to figure out how simple it is, just different than how it's handled in many other games. Other games I play, pressing Tab cycles targets based on distance, with Tab going near-to-far and Shift-Tab going farthest to closest. In FFXIV, it's simply left-to-right instead. Tab targets the next creature on the right, and Shift-Tab targets the one on the left. Cycling in FFXIV became so much more sensible once I realized that.

[Kyragos]

For people complaining about tab-targeting, it took me a disappointingly long time to figure out how simple it is, just different than how it's handled in many other games. Other games I play, pressing Tab cycles targets based on distance, with Tab going near-to-far and Shift-Tab going farthest to closest. In FFXIV, it's simply left-to-right instead. Tab targets the next creature on the right, and Shift-Tab targets the one on the left. Cycling in FFXIV became so much more sensible once I realized that.

This is the default behaviour, yes. But you can change it in the character settings (control / target / target type) and it will behave exactly like these other games (tab to target nearest to farthest in front of you and shift + tab to target farthest to nearest). There are actually a few great QoL options that even some experienced players don't know about.

[Shibi]

Targeting needs work for sure. I ended up binding next/last target to my mousewheel. And alt-mouse wheel for zoom in/out. Still not perfect, and you still select that mob 150 yalms away, but it's faster for me.

I'd like crafting from storage, as in Rift. Want to craft something, doesn't matter which retainer has it, the mats are just grabbed from them by the system when you craft.

[Jeeqbit]

What I find the most annoying is being able to click other players or chocobos in battles. I have no reason to be able to click them in battle, but it happens while clicking my abilities on the hotbar and then I miss a GCD because of it.

The only thing that makes it feel unpolished is some abilities not being very responsive and others being too responsive, such as gap closers which executes two of them when I only intend to use one.

[ForteNightshade]

Focus more on developing content with longevity in mind. Be it on the easier or challenging side, arguably the biggest flaw FFXIV has (in my opinion, of course) is the utter lack of content longevity. Everything tends to have a finite life cycle that fizzles out within the same patch it's released. Eureka and Bozja have been the only real exceptions but both were a little too much on the safe side. Which segues into another problem: Take risks and innovate. While I actually liked Bozja well enough; particularly the Critical Engagements, it does boil down to yet another FATE grind. I'd like to see them be a bit more creative with this style of content. Take the upcoming Deep Dungeon. I really hope it isn't another reskinned Palace like HoH was but something a bit more expansive.

Suffice it to say, I'd just like more of a focus on content longevity to keep me invested in a patch cycle.

[Caurcas]

Giving jobs identity back.