Thread: Wishlist for 8.0

I have just two simple requests

1. Make an alternate version of blue mage for normal content. After all if we can have pvp and pve versions of the same job that are similar but different, why can't we have carnival-pve and normal-pve versions of blue mage?
2. Same thing for making a non-limited version of beastmaster, after all it shouldn't be hard to necromancy and blend all the various old versions of Summoner into something resembling a non-limited beastmaster.

I would like to see some love to pre lvl 70 crafting. I miss the guilds and stories. I wish for more crafting guilds (or something new to replace that) related stuff in 8.0!

Originally Posted by Goemoe

I would like to see some love to pre lvl 70 crafting. I miss the guilds and stories. I wish for more crafting guilds (or something new to replace that) related stuff in 8.0!

Yeah guilds, job storylines and more were neutered. Makes the world feel less alive

Wishlist for 8.0:

Square Enix goes bankrupt and releases source code from 2015 because of Stop Killing Game and someone makes a HW private server so I can finally experience peak one last time

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

- SMN finally gets Levi, Shiva & Ramuh, with accompanying Carbuncle color options, and a button that lets us switch between teams of summons (for example: splitting them among astral/umbral elements) to add some customization to the rotation. Still a beginner friendly basic rotation, but with a higher skill ceiling for those that want to optimize it.

Hard agree. I love the switching between summon teams. It could be astral/umbral, it could be between the set we have now and the set we don't have. I think it would be cool to see it set up to rotate in between the summon types - so Ifrit-Titan-Garuda to Bahamut ; Leviathan-Ramuh-Shiva to Phoenix.

We already have the Leviathan blue color model with the new plain "Carbuncle" we got in 6.0, the deeper blue color version we got, so that could be named "Sapphire" or maybe "Lapis" Carbuncle. And we have "Diamond Carbuncle" as the giant quest one, which we could use shrunken down for Shiva. All we'd need is to add an purple one named "Amethyst" or "Iolite" Carbuncle.

(My pie in the sky idea is we could maybe have a proper true green-colored like the green aether currents or green Garuda carbuncle as an option we could use to color over our blue-green so-called 'Emerald' Carbuncle, just as an option! Using a different name! I know Peridot is the mini-summon, so maybe we could use Beryl, or Malachite, or Jade, or Turquoise.)

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

- Instanced housing… I don’t care where they put it, on the Island, on the Moon or one of the planets we explore, whatever. Just give us a plot that works the same as a ward plot, inside and outside, just off by itself somewhere with some generic background scenery that changes based on the neighborhood you pick. Bonus points if different backgrounds are added from time to time so you can eventually make it look like you live anywhere on Etheirys.

I love this because then I could finally set myself up living in Ala Mhigo.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

- Failing that, make Old Sharlayan the new housing district, with heavy emphasis on its trees, streams, ponds and rocky beaches, and less on the marble.

I want Ala Mhigo, but if I can't have there, I want Sharlayan. Even if they're all touchy about outsiders. Maybe they have an island they abandoned after a research experiment gone wrong that they're willing to quarantine adventurers off on after we clean out the monsters.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

- At least one glam plate for job. All the jobs, including limited.

As long as it's all DoW, M, L, H, and limited, yep.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

- More character customization… whether that’s something like adding more clans to each race for more variety or introducing sliders, or simply just giving more a lot more options for facial and body features.

- More frequent hairstyle additions… we have so many winners from the last contest, and even more entries that didn’t win that would make amazing hairstyles.

I love the idea of them adding a new clan for each race if they won't add new races, which would have new options for tattoos and skin tones and horns and scales and other types of modifications.

Originally Posted by magitekwitch

- An engaging MSQ with more well-grounded and lovable characters and less Another End Of The World plot twist. I don't need higher stakes every time. I'd love to see more cozy scenes with our npc friends like that dinner gathering at the Baldesion Annex in Endwalker.
- Finally clearing those big clouds that cover Ilsabard and exploring the continent.
- I'd love to go back to past areas on MSQ. It feels like a waste to create a bunch of new areas every time only for them to be forgotten once the expansion is done.

I'm with you on all of this. What I liked about the beginning half of Dawntrail before Alexandria and the twist with Zoraal Ja's army was that it was exploring a new place and it was about something that was important to the local region but not critical to the entire star. It let us get to know new people and bond with existing friends, and learn about new places. I crave more of that level of storytelling.

So I'd love to have 8.0 be a "return to places we've been and tell new stories there" expansion. Like you said, let's uncover more of Ilsabard and remove those clouds. Let's check out Corvos, which we've heard so much about. Let's see other areas on Ilsabard we've heard about - Dalmasca is there, and Garlemald ran over some other un-named nations, yes? There are more areas of Othard that we haven't touched yet in-game like Nagxia, and there's Hingashi. Let's actually get to go inside Ala Mhigo, the city proper, and have it as a Real Hub City we can enter that's restored now. We could go find the Roegadyn homeland of Aerslant. We could easily get new 6 areas from this.

Originally Posted by magitekwitch

Bring back job quests. Or at least an extra job quest at the X0 level like in Shadowbringers.

Yes to having an extra job quest at the max level, I'd like a chance to just catch up one more time with those NPCs!

Originally Posted by Underscore

- A grounded and mature fantasy story with political intrigue and quality writing that respects our intelligence.
- A return to Final Fantasy aesthetics, no modern or sci-fi stuff unless it's something fitting like Allag/Magitek.
- Some jobs restored to their best prior forms, some made more interesting, and others left alone if they're fine already. No unnecessary new actions or dumbing down.
- Core MMO gameplay in the new zones to both tie the game together, give us something (fun) to do between patches, and make gearing worthwhile.
- Expanded character customization
- End the obsession with formulas, just do what's best for the situation
- No more duty support, design the MMO for players instead of compromising the game and story for the sake of bots
- More glamour plates and dresser space
- Remove job restrictions from glamour (minus DoW/DoM job artifact gear)
- More housing wards, ideally an infinite number, and auto demolition either greatly relaxed or removed entirely.
- The ability to place a glamour dresser in our houses, and no more getting kicked outside when logging back in or returning from a duty
- Remove flying from most zones (and design them to be richer in depth and exploration going forward)
- Better rewards for content, including evergreen rewards to keep it populated
- More of the money we give them invested back into the game and expansion of the dev team

Oh be still my beating heart!
You had me at Remove flying.

Thank gods there someone else in this game who thinks like this. agree with everything else.

An additional/only alternative to removing flight, would be to increase the map scaling so that crossing a zone takes considerable time even while in flight. (i.e. maps can currently be crossed in about 1 minute. increase map scales to 7 or 8 times so that flight takes 5-10minutes)

Originally Posted by XiaoShengwu

Oh be still my beating heart!
You had me at Remove flying.

Thank gods there someone else in this game who thinks like this. agree with everything else.

An additional/only alternative to removing flight, would be to increase the map scaling so that crossing a zone takes considerable time even while in flight. (i.e. maps can currently be crossed in about 1 minute. increase map scales to 7 or 8 times so that flight takes 5-10minutes)

A lot of people claim to want to "adventure" and being "adventurers" but shy away from even walking for 2 minutes in the game world, and would rather teleport or zoom fly in. It's honestly sad.

Screw more glam slots, overhaul the entire glamour system to make it a catalogue with appearances you learn just by obtaining the gear. WoW did it.
That's #1 on my list of hopium.