Essential QOL changes for Dawntrail

[sindriiisgaming]

character limitations not withstanding

so, the obvios one. fix head gear for hroth and vierra. there is no longer any excuse.

Glamour changes -
job gear/relic weapons should go in armoire
- glamour plates should work like protraits allowing you to have as many reigistered plates as you want as long as you make a new plate for it (kinda like how you can register a new gear set for a new portriait)
- Gear that can be worn on every job that is currently locked on role specifics with reskins in other places
- dye/Materia Bag, bag that is seperate from the inventory. up to 999 dye can be stored there and can be removed into inventory and sold/bought. can also be added to bag from the inventory. does not need to be put in the inventory to use . materia holds all kinds of materia from ARR to DT in a quanitity of 999 can be withdrawn or placed in, option to automatically place it in the bag when optained should be included. can be melded from the bag.
- the ability to customize glamour plates anywhere that you can apply them. having to constantly run to a dresser to do this is annoying. this whole process needs to be removed to make glamouring more easily accessable.
- kinda nieche thing here but how about the option to save a preset hairstyle and colour and then you can change back if it doesnt go with a certian glamour. would be cool to see this on plates

Armour and ilevel - dungeon armour should be more useful than it currently is, dropping peices that legitimatly can get you ready to raid instead of just usless on arrival like most dungeon gear is. all of it is reskinned aswell essentially defeating any value it may have had. please add new dungeon armour to the game that is a legitimatly good alternitive to early patch gearing. how about some armour that is only available in certian each specific dungeon

Relics - right now in order to upgrade a relic you need a secondary weapon. this is really annoying and inconveient. please do something about this, just have the game remove and reapply it after the quest ends. if need be program a random item to be on your character while you do the quest and then make it automatically equip and that item delete. Please do not make them tome related again as this was not a change for the benefit of the game.

Combat system - im not suggesting an overhaul but how about something a little more interactive. how about reaction events where you can block the enemy doing certian things, unique field - boss interactions or the ability to break parts of it to change mecanics. wouldnt be a massive change really just some new kinda fighting style. if you introduced it only in dt it would incentivise people to push forward to new content and also make the WOL feel like hes actually learning new abilities. MHiceborn added the clutchclaw that wasnt in MHW and it didnt feel like it wasnt enjoyable without it. it made sense in progrression.

[sindriiisgaming]

Character limit go hit so adding more here

Currency - some items not counted as currency that should be
TOTEMS/SAVAGE BOOKS/EUREKA CRYSTALS/ALLIANCE RAID COINS/

Side quests - please some kind of achievment for every sidequest.. i have every one of mines done even relics and it sucks i get nothing for this it took ages and i have NOTHING to show for it

Leveling all jobs reward the endwalker one sucked. undyable out of place one peice that nobody wears. please make it something more interesting and related to the expansion next time

Overworld - it needs to be more interactive. quests and fates just arent enough neither is gathering. some great idea i once heard was special fates in every zone where a primal or boss is summoned and needs lots of people to kill. but imo the easiest way to make the overworld interactive is with a monster hunting/taming job like beastmaster.

Overworld aetherite transportation - i want to be able to use the aetherites to hop around the larger maps instead of paying money to tp to them. please introduce this

Gil please add some form of gil sink to the game because right now its essentially worthless and theres nothing to do with it.

Dungeons - please make dungeons interactive instead of the same continous hallways and bosses. options levers, secret pathways and optional treasure would be a nice start, perhaps having more than 1 route taken could be used to influence the boss mecanics.

Shared fate rewards need to be better in DT - in endwalker they were meh lets be real. either usless or sompletly slave away on the content for 50k gems. bring back how it was in shb

Linkshells and cwl - need to be increased in size dramatically. rn they only hold about 1.10th of the legeitimate amount of people interested in joining them. increase this and help keep the game social without the restrictions of FCs or discords.

IS/Lifestyle content - i wanna try to keep this short but please dont impliment solo lifestyle content again like this. it only felt more isolating. instead introduce something that requires large scale player interaction

Ahievments - Some kind of reward for achievment milestones would be nice, to incentivise people to achievment hunt and make it more rewarding when you make legitimate progress. achievments should be sortable into the expansion they released on to help people keep track of how theyre doing for each and a new kind of glamour like a cape to showcase these achivements off.

housing system it needs to be more restrictive on the account holder. having multiple characters in 1 datacenter with a house is exploiting the limited rescources. i know people wont like this.. but i dont think its fair you should 5 houses on a dc

Criterion remove savage. its not being done. just make it normal and ex and put a weapon/gear in it

Content retention - using about things i listed like adding unique capes, a new limited job or some kind of change to combat might be a good way to keep players
engaged in the game during downtime

PVP - fix crowd controll/stuns so they cant be mass applied. please make trophy crystals have actual use and value too, maybe you use them to buy the series rewards instead of on the side

if anything you want to see hasnt been listed feel free to add. if you dont agree id be interested too in seeing why

[Swordsman]

if anything you want to see hasnt been listed feel free to add. if you dont agree id be interested too in seeing why

Improved player position update rate and netcode. I know it's asking a lot for SE to make such a change, but it's something I really hope for nonetheless.

[Gember]

Ahievments - Some kind of reward for achievment milestones would be nice, to incentivise people to achievment hunt and make it more rewarding when you make legitimate progress. achievments should be sortable into the expansion they released on to help people keep track of how theyre doing for each and a new kind of glamour like a cape to showcase these achivements off.

I am sort of on the fence about this, only because I went out of my way for achievements on my main. I don't want insanely grindy achievements to have a very big reward at the end of them because it actually causes a lot of players to abuse and steamroll through whatever content to get it, or they play the game at a unhealthy amount of time to get it. The 2000 Mentor rolo achievement is infamous for this because it has a neat looking mount. (I know you also got this mount too. Late congrats from a stranger.)

If anything, tone down achievements that are incredibly time gated, and only make certain achievements grindy if they reward the player on the way there. Spending 7 years to grind out levequests is asking a lot out of anyone. I'm glad the reward is actually the payment of doing the levequests and not something at the end of doing 5,000 of them. Custom Deliveries take almost 3 years to cap all of them now if you start from scratch, and grinding out 20,000 accursed horde is absurd to the average player.

They made plenty of achievements that would tie a player down to the game for years now, so I suggest SE to really tone it down because there are players that do take this serious and its concerning.

I do agree with you about the rewards, but as I stated above, respectfully. Also no more titles. We got over 600+ of them in the game already.

I think what would be a good idea is to have a little corner of the adventure plate to display the player's achievement score. (optional of course) Its not intrusive because people would have to go out of their way to see it. I noticed that there is no way to check anyone's score in the game, so that would be my QoL for achievements.

[Raikai]

Improved player position update rate and netcode. I know it's asking a lot for SE to make such a change, but it's something I really hope for nonetheless.

Lol, that's not a QoL, that's an essential, but yeah... this is so overdue. I hope the Fall Guys event brought this under a spotlight for them, because it was really egregious.

[Musashidon]

IS/Lifestyle content - i wanna try to keep this short but please dont impliment solo lifestyle content again like this. it only felt more isolating. instead introduce something that requires large scale player interaction

i dont fully agree with only adding large scale having a nice little cozy thing for yourself is nice what truely hurt it was your friends joining meant absolutely nothing that is the part that really needed work they could have had it so we can ship supplies to each other/ friends water your plants / pet and feed your animals for nice little buffs like extra animal drops and extra crops have them oil/shine your mammets for extra workshop items i mean just about anything that would have made it have even a bit more interaction but wasnt a complete force you to have to play with 30 other players like ishgard restoration or exploration content where you basically handicap your self if you refuse to play with others.

a little extra tidbit is i had the idea of if they even just added like a community board that could show your friends first maybe link shells next and like a everyone option where you could share pictures of your island to show off and have fun with the community would have greatly improved the thoughts on it.

[Kuroka]

Character limit go hit so adding more here

Currency - some items not counted as currency that should be
TOTEMS/SAVAGE BOOKS/EUREKA CRYSTALS/ALLIANCE RAID COINS/

YES. So much... at least the current raid stuff...

Side quests - please some kind of achievment for every sidequest.. i have every one of mines done even relics and it sucks i get nothing for this it took ages and i have NOTHING to show for it

YES. I usually do all of em, everywhere and besides the exp it feels so... meh.

Leveling all jobs reward the endwalker one sucked. undyable out of place one peice that nobody wears. please make it something more interesting and related to the expansion next time

I had to look up what it even was lol. Sure you cant have an Amaro on every patch but yet... at least something more substantial...

Gil please add some form of gil sink to the game because right now its essentially worthless and theres nothing to do with it.

IMO that ship has sailed, too much gil is around and too much is horded, plus rmt still is around... yes it sucks how nothing has value - like when crafting i spent more buying the mats then just the thing i wanna make...

Dungeons - please make dungeons interactive instead of the same continous hallways and bosses. options levers, secret pathways and optional treasure would be a nice start, perhaps having more than 1 route taken could be used to influence the boss mecanics.

Id love that, but paths need to be randomly decided by the game so players cant mob others into doing it their way.

Shared fate rewards need to be better in DT - in endwalker they were meh lets be real. either usless or sompletly slave away on the content for 50k gems. bring back how it was in shb

Those huge crystal sinks need to go anyways, not even when id level all my jobs with fates only id get enough lol

Overall the "do 10.000 xyz" archivments need to stop, yet also i want more of em.

Like 1000 S hunts makes me just stop even trying, its not something i cant control too well unless i literally dedicate my whole time into it. Yet id love to get new ones for "kill 10.000.000 enemies" etc...

And more for having all songs or 300 minions/200 mounts... all those things, i kinda miss em.

Linkshells and cwl - need to be increased in size dramatically. rn they only hold about 1.10th of the legeitimate amount of people interested in joining them. increase this and help keep the game social without the restrictions of FCs or discords.

I fear thats too late too, too many settled into discord etc... they should have waited with cwl's until they figure out at lest 1-200 members...

IS/Lifestyle content - i wanna try to keep this short but please dont impliment solo lifestyle content again like this. it only felt more isolating. instead introduce something that requires large scale player interaction

Id object. We need and i want both - stuff for casually doing while alone or with friends, not depending on each other.

Not as grindy as the island, but still, it wasnt too bad. just so... passive?

Yet i love eureka and bozja, but, you either did it right away or you were screwed. Back then on pagos i had to leave so many fc mates behind as they could not join me due our levels being too different, or them needing the exp from roulets while i was done just by doing eureka... jet you must not make the large scale content to level - whenever theres cheap exp, the content suffers imo...

housing system it needs to be more restrictive on the account holder. having multiple characters in 1 datacenter with a house is exploiting the limited rescources. i know people wont like this.. but i dont think its fair you should 5 houses on a dc

YES. And revistit the rules for FCs... like the house infront of me, the player has an shell fc, 4-5 ppl, no one ever around (its next to the mb so id see em) and no decoration + its locked. Others would die for the plot and redecorate it 5x a year, like my neighbors did before they moved to an L.

Grandfathering houses back then instead of making an hard cut was a huge mistake. But also all my chars should be allowed to use my private home.

Criterion remove savage. its not being done. just make it normal and ex and put a weapon/gear in it

So much... and if you need to keep it, give the gear an auto sync so its only a skill matter, not, if im doing savage or not.

PVP - fix crowd controll/stuns so they cant be mass applied. please make trophy crystals have actual use and value too, maybe you use them to buy the series rewards instead of on the side

Yeah give us the old pvp mounts - half the players might have cheated and most likely half of those who earned em legit are still playing. In the years ive played i did many many hunts, eureka etc... i think i can count the pvp mounts ive seen on two hands lol.
(i think ive mostly only seen that chair from Ala Mhigo)


Id also add:

STOP GIVING US RANDOM MATERIA REWARDS. Its clutter, half of it ill never use. You made those token to exchange it - USE EM. Give us those, give us fewer if you have to.
Or if you insist on keeping it that way - let us fuse em ourselfs without visiting that Goblin...


And for the love of god Increase the Poetics and fate tokken caps.

[Mosha]

- glamour plates should work like protraits allowing you to have as many reigistered plates as you want as long as you make a new plate for it (kinda like how you can register a new gear set for a new portriait)

[Boblawblah]

MHiceborn added the clutchclaw that wasnt in MHW and it didnt feel like it wasnt enjoyable without it. it made sense in progrression.

[Avenger]

I am still waiting for a chat log autohide feature/timer, for page up/page down (keyboard or d-pad) in the expanded chat log, and for party level sync (esp. in eureka/bozja.)