Bad Design Ideas Thread.

[nukemind]

Something I want but would be a horrible idea:

Merchant Class. Your entire combat job is being a merchant. Throw gil at your enemies. Maybe have a short sword for defense. Moves and even "pets" using your retainers. IE- you could have up to two retainers with you who participate as part of your moves and act as combat pets.

The balancing would be horrible, it could never work, retainer classes would need to change, etc. But I do want it...

[Shibi]

* Should the party wipe:- the entire dungeon and all mobs therein shall be reset, with the monsters now gaining a level. There is no upper limit to the level respawned dungeon trash can reach.

And less seriously:

* Last boss in every dungeon, even Satasha has an enraging 100 second active-time manoeuvrer between boss phases one and two, and two and three. The manouver is performed on mellee distance damage balls not a button to click. Manouver balls will emit random strength pushback water/fire/lightning/plastic hammers to suit the dungeon theme on each damage hit. The outer ring will be one-shot electrified in case you are knocked back too far. You will randomly be roleplaying as a scion from ARR with your hotbar only showing plain pink squares, so you have to experiment to find the one mellee damage spell that works. All four party members must perform flawlessly, or the boss enrages. It might not possible to solo the MSQ for this reason.

[GoatOfWar]

Warrior has to spend 50 beast gauge on bloodwhetting and the beast gauge is only refunded if Warrior doesn't overheal.

[UkcsAlias]

All debuffs you take last for an hour unless its clear condition happens (esuna or specific boss mechanic: A doom is also cleared upon death, a stunlock that requires killing an object is also resetted when the object is removed). Everyone will be walking around with vuln stacks in the overworld! And if you take a doom debuff... you will die 1 hour later far after the duty completed, or in the next dungeon. Boss mechanics that use magic vuln will (to make things clearable) be excluded from this and reset upon a wipe, but your vuln stacks are most likely still going to be a problem.

Now we motivate players to do mechanics properly!

[RinaB]

Snapshot aoe's.... oh wait

[SieyaM]

You have to complete every expansions ultimate before being allowed to play the next expansion. Then the few hundred ultimate raiders can stew together and make each other miserable.

[Local_Custard]

your character needs sleep and their hp bar will be far lower if their sleep is neglected. They are also slower and damage is much more severe. For every 45 minute day your character will sleep up to 20 minutes. Good luck to fishers who need to be up at 1 am to 5am Eorzean time

[Patesaupesto]

Melee damages are mob sprite dependant, you gotta litteraly hit the mob else it's a miss
Can't hit flying ones if lala or too small
Mob can dodge if his AA animation makes him dodge your animation depending on timing
Flying mobs can be touched by some skills only, like if you're raising high enough your weapon or making a big jump
better choose BIG A** weapon glams

[Shibi]

* No more duty finder. Dungeons can only be entered from the overworld gateway.

* Time to bring back naked death runs. Wipe and you are not returned to the start of the dungeon, you are returned to your home city, naked and without mounts, gil, or inventory. As in EQ you need to run (or swim, or call for your little branch, or whatever) back to the dungeon entrance, then to the coffers containing everything you own.

* Shared Dungeons. These are not instanced, but overworld caves that any number of parties can contest the mobs, and bosses, inside. If your party is not the lucky one to start the bossfight on the hourly spawn, you can watch the fighting party, then wait for the next spawn.

[TBerry]

Upon log out, you must roll a dice to rest, or you can't log out. On 1, your HP and Attributes are halved for 24 hours. 20 means you get double the HP and half more points on attributes. Effective immediately after roll.