Thread: What are you hoping for/expecting from 7.0?

In agreement with a few posters here: We need more midcore content, or at least several levels of content to make the ladder climb from bottom to top more sensible.
Is it good for the MSQ to be very simple? Yeah, sure. I get that. Make that your baseline content level.
Is it good to have Savages and Extremes for more difficult content and high-end players? Yes, those are the people who stay subscribed more consistently, you want them playing your game.

Is it good to have this solid fucking cliff-wall between these two elevations of content design with absolutely nothing in the middle?

No.

I know better than to to "expect" something, anything really, of what I'd personally enjoy seeing come of this or any other MMO. This is just a foolish presumption, in my own honest, humble opinion.

Mostly I want 1. No more two minute burst meta and every job reworked accordingly, and 2. Good story that was as compelling as ARR -> SHB, since EW has fallen completely flat especially post-patches.

As far as 7.0,

Send us to a new zone, not as an overpowered god, or as the savior of the universe, but as a simple adventurer. Send us to Dalmasca, Meracydia, Corvos, "The new world." Replace the scions with the Students of Baldesion, and a new cast of characters.

Mid expansion 7.XX patches need to have more content, if they're going to use the excuse it takes longer to produce content. 6.2 - 6.4 (8 months.) saw little new coming to us, since 6.3 was a massive let down. This forced a lot of people to take a break from the game, and it damaged a lot of FC's, and communities overall. Telling us to go play Zelda is not an excuse as to why you can't give people an incentive to log in between mid expansion patches. It's not that hard to implement a real relic grind, in combination with the Island sancturay, and Critereon dungeons. It would be more rewarding then the welfare relic system we have.

Make healers matter. Give them more DPS abilities, make their classes more enjoyable to play. Give their job identity back. You shouldn't be able to clear ultimates without a single healer, and telling healers to go play ultimates for engaging content was insulting to say the least. Healers deserve an apology from Yoshi P. Give all max level healers the "Throw Rotten Tomato" emote.

More unique armor sets, less re-colors of existing sets. Healers sets don't need to ALWAYS have a skirt. While on the topic, remove class restrictions from glamours.

Account wide glamour, mounts, and housing. Theres no reason for them to be seperated, except to cash grab from people.

Instanced player housing, if not in the island, perhaps an instanced zone based on the currently existing housing wards. I don't see why any nation wouldn't want the WoL to be living within their borders considering all they've done. Allow people to construct a cottage/house/mansion on it. Obviously, they will not be able to function like the wards do for venues, or inviting people who you don't know, and the housing wards will not be replaced by this.

Massive PvP overhaul of the rewards, ranking, and matchmaking system. Introduce a mode for people to queue premade teams against each other. Perhaps an arena mode, and offer more incentives for people to PvP in general. Bump crystal cap to 50,000 crystals. Add rewards worth 50,000 crystals, or 20,000 crystals that are worth grinding PvP for. Armor sets, Mounts, Hairstyles, Emotes, portraits. Currently there is no reason to spend crystals on anything, and I don't know anybody who would spend a single crystal on the latest recolor additions to the store. Series XP rewards are not enough of an incentive to keep people grinding, especially when the gear/mounts are not attractive enough. Add previous series rewards to the crystal store. Rival wings needs a roulette, and Astragalos needs to be restored. Front lines needs maps what don't blantatly encourage PvE, and lets people avoid PvP. *cough cough*

I would love some sort of Garlemald Restoration. Garlemald is basically in ruins right now and its citizens deserve to get some help. We rushed through the story there way too fast in Endwalker.

Hats. Not holding my breath, but I can hope.

Hats. More attention to details.

better more detailed glam/armor - less ROBES (please for the love of god)
character creator add ons
all hats for vierra & hroth finally
more QOL updates
more fashion accessories

Originally Posted by BrokentoothMarch

I'll probably be gone by then considering the game refuses to course-correct.

We have a full year before we see any new raid content so a lot of my friends are going into extended hibernation once the farming is over.

I don’t include the 24’s in the raid category as it’s more of a 24 player dungeon.

I’m investigating other games right now as I expect FF16 to take around 60 hours and be done. Each remaining 6.x patch can be done in a few days.

If only we had a relic to keep me busy…something something journey more important than the destination…