NA FanFest Expectations?(Idea, or Hopes?)

[Elissar]

Fem hrothgar will be the face of the next Era for FFXIV (including graphucs update).

New exp tease.

I have some unrealistic expectations too like more open world content, grand company updates, dynamis-based job, revamp of key stormblood moments, better rewards for C&V dungeons and RDM rework.

My unrealistic+ expectations include marrying NPCs.

Never again put relics behind tomes multiples times, ty.

[DiaDeem]

This person on another website, Paul Zanes, made this comment which I thought was very exciting if they move to physical based rendering for ray-tracing in the future if they ever drop PS4 support hopefully. He said...

"The particular example at the top of the article is specifically of Material rendering and production changes. The team is swapping to (from my understanding) a PBR or Physically Based Rendering system. This means that materials won't be produced with certain lighting and color expectations predefined in them, and instead be made as a neutral surface for various lighting conditions to act upon. This dramatically increases the realism of an object or character when it is placed in a variety of different lighting conditions instead of requiring specific lighting conditions to look best. The reason the second image has a background is because that background is casting colored light information onto the character which is being used to inform the character shaders. This is a huge step up. It also allows them to swap to a ray-traced lighting pipeline somewhere down the line if they want to and see even greater gains.

This isn't the only change they're making, it's just the one chosen for the example. They're also increasing world detail significantly (much more props and foliage apparently) and are going to be increasing texture detail significantly from where it currently is. Certain gear sets are being remade to look much nicer, character models and textures are getting upgraded (cross your fingers that they give characters actual feet instead of cheese blocks) and I wouldn't be surprised if they reimplement physics for tails and hair. The latter would be really big for allowing more freedom when designing hairstyles and gear because hair could rest naturally on gear and not clip horribly the way it currently does. Right now we're restricted to primarily short hairstyles for this reason."

That sounds mostly great.
Currently I'm not a fan of ray tracing at all though. The changes, I feel, are barely noticeable in motion throughout prolonged play sessions, and it comes at a rather heavy cost to performance. That said, these are all improvements in the right direction. XVI apparently is using some weird tech for its shadows that could be rooted in some form of it.

We also need support for FSR, DLSS and XeSS.

[EstelleCere]

I'd hope for this to see some teasers on fem hrothgars and the graphics update, since I'm pretty interested in those two.

But I'd also hope (maybe unrealistic hope, idk) for some news on cross-region DC travel if it'll be a thing or not, or some updates on PF issues.

[Lufir]

Expansion name, new job t-shirt speculation, a bunch of SE store merch pre-order reveals. FF16 music album promotion, thank the fans for FF16 sales.

[GTK0HLK]

Yeah, I'm also hoping for a revamp/upgrade for the Grand Companies.
(Which Depending on where we going, can be for good or ill. or simply Expedition Support)

It's been idk how long since the last vague dev comment about Grand Companies future has been. But it has definetly been long enough to be considered an ask for the uninformed of whether they said anything of it in the past at all.

Nice to see some share their expectations.
Dynamis Job can definetly take a Shamanistic vibe if needed(from my idea example. Though I'd rather it not too, asides taking in local/personal Control of Dynamis with a Focus which if wanted too, can take shamanistic turn.)
[Mostly my ideas grew was from what anothers/a CCreators personal views were from a latest video of theirs.]

Our ideas will only change and switch over time and spread out.

One thing for sure, the poster job would have to be Heavily Lore Relevant/Fitting.
Whilst its easy for Me to imagine a Dynamis Powered(Caster or Melee) to be almost a Fit All class. If we're to be on an expedition. Too many classes fit an Expeditioners Kit.
Can Consider GNB for its large blade to cut grass.(though less likely, as it had half a spotlight in a Scions Class)
MCH/BRD, and maybe even DNC could fit.
[but, unless you've got a strong feel for the half spotlight MCH, or DNC may have had in their respective expansions. that leaves BRD, which could be used as a new Arc Opener, if you will. But sometimes we need a new onener.]
Can't imagine our current Casters to fit any bill.(BLM has been the longest Poster for the game on steam, til the recent adjustment)
Scouting armor has a hill to climb, but if it can make it, it has a fair place for the job.
Current Melee have the same issue with being Partial <-> Full Poster Jobs in previous expac.
So that leaves Healer, which with along a Dynamis Based Job, or a new job for ranged and scout. we got limited potential from my PoV of what could be the Poster job.(With struggle of course.)

While I personally don't expect anything I said to be true.(and knowing that I can dip into hype pool, and not be too disappointed if nothing i hope for comes out as wanted/well.) It'll without a doubt been a short and arduous wait for those who've waited long.(First hill, is just on the horizon)For specific changes and additions.

Who is going to bother to set time aside for the stream, amongst those who are not Ticket Holders.

[Krokov]

Yeah, I'm also hoping for a revamp/upgrade for the Grand Companies.
(Which Depending on where we going, can be for good or ill. or simply Expedition Support)

It's been idk how long since the last vague dev comment about Grand Companies future has been. But it has definetly been long enough to be considered an ask for the uninformed of whether they said anything of it in the past at all.

Nice to see some share their expectations.
Dynamis Job can definetly take a Shamanistic vibe if needed(from my idea example. Though I'd rather it not too, asides taking in local/personal Control of Dynamis with a Focus which if wanted too, can take shamanistic turn.)
[Mostly my ideas grew was from what anothers/a CCreators personal views were from a latest video of theirs.]

Our ideas will only change and switch over time and spread out.

One thing for sure, the poster job would have to be Heavily Lore Relevant/Fitting.
Whilst its easy for Me to imagine a Dynamis Powered(Caster or Melee) to be almost a Fit All class. If we're to be on an expedition. Too many classes fit an Expeditioners Kit.
Can Consider GNB for its large blade to cut grass.(though less likely, as it had half a spotlight in a Scions Class)
MCH/BRD, and maybe even DNC could fit.
[but, unless you've got a strong feel for the half spotlight MCH, or DNC may have had in their respective expansions. that leaves BRD, which could be used as a new Arc Opener, if you will. But sometimes we need a new onener.]
Can't imagine our current Casters to fit any bill.(BLM has been the longest Poster for the game on steam, til the recent adjustment)
Scouting armor has a hill to climb, but if it can make it, it has a fair place for the job.
Current Melee have the same issue with being Partial <-> Full Poster Jobs in previous expac.
So that leaves Healer, which with along a Dynamis Based Job, or a new job for ranged and scout. we got limited potential from my PoV of what could be the Poster job.(With struggle of course.)

While I personally don't expect anything I said to be true.(and knowing that I can dip into hype pool, and not be too disappointed if nothing i hope for comes out as wanted/well.) It'll without a doubt been a short and arduous wait for those who've waited long.(First hill, is just on the horizon)For specific changes and additions.

Who is going to bother to set time aside for the stream, amongst those who are not Ticket Holders.

I'll watch the Keynote to get the information on What's coming? The other things I may get to them and then of course, there's the live letter For the 6.5 info. As for all the other events other than what I mentioned, I'll see if I watch them or not.

[Zarkovitch]

Ultimate copium, East coast servers.

normal expectation, fem horth and t-shirt for the new job

[GypsumFantastic]

My absolute pie in the sky hopes, but I know it'll be a very safe and typical FF expansion

Job and character progression
- No new jobs, we have enough
- Small skill tree introduced for levels 91 to 100 to provide player customisation for all jobs
- More focus on substats as a result of the skill trees which in turn is fed by more gear drop options in raids, more interesting materia melding (% chance for X ability to hit twice, % for next skill to have no cost etc..)
- Weekly capped currency tied to a relic weapon which drops in the 7.1 patch and improves throughout the expansion

Weekly content:
- Less dungeons over all each expansion, but each dungeon is a variant dungeon (possibly with less than the typical 12 paths if that's a bit much to churn out)
- Dungeons scale to level and item level, providing a challenge even to savage raiders
- Dungeons have a fortnightly/monthly theme or a refresh of mobs (dungeon overrun with notorious monsters, rescue the NPC found in a random place in the dungeon, complete a dungeon quest as part of your run)
- Random dungeon roulette picks a variant route but you can still queue in via the variant finder if you want a choose your own experience
- More gear variety with our weekly tomes, gear upgradeable a couple of times to give us something to chase for outside of savage grinding
- No more ultimates and instead we get more raid bosses each tier (ideally 8 rather than the current 4)

[Ishe-P]

My expectations for fanfest:

- Cool AF cosplays. Don't really care for anything else.

[Clover_Blake]

My biggest hope and expectation is an update to the character creation.
But I'll be happy with anything they give us, really, as new content is always exciting to me, especially if we get to visit new, unknown lands!

Also, I'm very eager to learn more about the graphic overhaul. I hope it'll be mentioned in this first Fanfest, though I don't expect them to show much yet.