Overworld Design Rant And Feedback

[mallleable]

Yeah, the over world absolutely needs to be better. A strong, and fun overworld means every expansion has up to 6 zones of gameplay at launch, and the gameplay should be good enough to fill in the gameplay gaps between major patches.

Shameless self promo of my FATE improvement wish list: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ement-wishlist

[IvoryBadge]

Yeah, the over world absolutely needs to be better. A strong, and fun overworld means every expansion has up to 6 zones of gameplay at launch, and the gameplay should be good enough to fill in the gameplay gaps between major patches.

Shameless self promo of my FATE improvement wish list: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ement-wishlist

seems like i've missed it. really good wishlist, appreciate the promo!

[CVXIV]

Yeah, the over world absolutely needs to be better. A strong, and fun overworld means every expansion has up to 6 zones of gameplay at launch, and the gameplay should be good enough to fill in the gameplay gaps between major patches.

Shameless self promo of my FATE improvement wish list: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ement-wishlist

I skimmed through it and I like the ideas mentioned. FATEs could be a lot better, and I think these ideas are a step in the right direction. It'd definitely be nice if more chains existed, but I think adding branching paths whether one fails or succeeds could be fun

Because I recall seeing people talk about content that we used to have where we could help fortify and defend locations in the game
So it'd be cool to bring something like that back and have it make changes to the environment. Like having certain mobs 'take over' a place they conquered

More world bosses would also be huge, but I think that's what they see the big hunt marks as and they tend to die quickly due to being steamrolled by a lot of people
If they instead made it a fate so people would sync down to then it'd probably last a little longer than they do now

I also personally dislike the fates where you can't see the icon on the map
Typically people will call it out or you'll see it in PF, but they seem to happen infrequently and you're unlikely to know unless you happen to be in the zone or just happen to spot the parties for it in PF

I have very fond memories of farming Odin as a sprout and watching entire parties wipe
So it'd be nice if it happened somewhat more frequently, and having a tighter ilvl sync too so those bosses can really earn their title as world bosses