Arthars: FFXIV should take a few hints from Dragonflight

[Theodric]

I'd definitely like to see an equivalent to World of Warcraft's trading post and more focus on exploration/puzzles out in the game world. I like exploration and unfortunately FFXIV has always struggled with that. Even to this day, one of the few hidden side quests in FFXIV is something added way back in the days of ARR and involves handing an item to a particular NPC in order to acquire a couple of minions. Which is neat and something I'd like to see much more of.

[TheOperator3712]

I'd definitely like to see an equivalent to World of Warcraft's trading post and more focus on exploration/puzzles out in the game world. I like exploration and unfortunately FFXIV has always struggled with that. Even to this day, one of the few hidden side quests in FFXIV is something added way back in the days of ARR and involves handing an item to a particular NPC in order to acquire a couple of minions. Which is neat and something I'd like to see much more of.

WoW's trading post can only work because that game has a collections system. Until XIV solves the issue of the glamour system, the trading post just wouldn't work in XIV. Would be neat if they ever did fix the system though.

[Raikai]

I'd definitely like to see an equivalent to World of Warcraft's trading post and more focus on exploration/puzzles out in the game world. I like exploration and unfortunately FFXIV has always struggled with that. Even to this day, one of the few hidden side quests in FFXIV is something added way back in the days of ARR and involves handing an item to a particular NPC in order to acquire a couple of minions. Which is neat and something I'd like to see much more of.

XIV's Trading Post is the mogstation, lol /s

Okay, I'd love to see that too, but what kills the Trading Post hype for me is because it's a big FOMO. Yes they said the items would cycle again, but we don't know when. I play WoW very seldom nowadays, just for story updates, and I missed the Blood Troll outfit from the August TP reward because I wasn't subbed, which is a shame. I didn't want to resub just for that... If XIV implemented something like that I'd love it to have a less FOMO-y aspect.

I'd also like to see more exploration, and at the same time, I'd love if the world could get more attention as well. Currently it's just a piece of nice-looking scenery (debatable in some cases) without anything else going on. The fauna is quite static and boring, there's no little things to uncover, or stuff that gets you to not just explore for the sights, but to actually interacting with the matter you're at.

One of the few things that, for me, WoW has done masterfully across the recent expansions, even the bad ones, is worldbuilding in the physical sense. The world just feels alive, you see a well thought collective of wildlife interacting with each other or the environment, and there's plenty of little reasons to be flying around a zone other than just gathering nodes.

What is one of my biggest wants for Dawntrail? (other than the 2min meta changed) Is that Tural gets to be an actual living world.