My excitement and my concerns

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Holy crap! Hello everyone! I wasn't able to post this past weekend. Actually this is the first time to post in the Lodestone forums. Hello!

Man it was a good time to start following the forums during Gamescon!!!! Yoshida has totally given the game a facelift. He seems a little more upbeat than our last producer Tanaka, tehe. My hope, is that Yoshida really listens to our feedback with the up coming beta. I personally felt like I was being kicked in the balls for being a loyal fan. I really had high hopes for the game. Tanaka, to me, felt like he was on his high horse watching us all from below. I'm enjoying Yoshida! I mean the guy threw off one of his shirts to give to the crowd. Lets all hope Yoshida sees eye to eye with us during beta.

So, I have a lot that I wanna throw at to you all. First I'm going to vomit all the excitement out of me.
Patch 2.0

The Good:

• Jumping~finally!!! Being able to jump over some objects in game is a relief.
• Implementing classic iconic places from old FF titles is amazing and brilliant!! I don't even know why FFXI didn't do this (if SE did I left FFXI before then).
• Limit Breaks?! Yoshida is tapping into our nostalgia. Its a good marketing move.
• Action Bars is going to make a huge difference. Click and hit.
• UI looks functional now, lol. Looks a little drab BUT I hope all the tech people start making some cool UI mods.
• Summoner/Arcanist leakage. Always been a fan of the SMN class. All I ask is that I'm not a "sub" healer this time around. Please and Thank You.

The Bad: (just speculation due to lack of info we have and beta is beta)

Healers I haven't Healed past 30 but correct me if I'm wrong but the first instance is going to be around lvl 15-20? I'm sure abilities are going to be tweaked and new abilities added. Which I hope they do! But Cure alone is boring. Listen, I'm a healer and have been for the past 10 years. I looked at the whm abilities. You got 2 AOE heals(which one is on CD), 1 Regen, 2 single target heals and some stuff, lol.

Classic abilities are fine with "some" classes. White mage to me seems limited on what they can do. Look at Rift and Secret World, both games are more action based healing. Player can actually hit the mob and heal. Not saying that SE should do that but the tempo in healing needs to step up a notch. How about a Dark White Mage that uses holy and dia to heal the party. hmmmMMMMM?! Add some spice to my life SE!

Cross Realm grouping This is probable THE biggest issue that I have. FFXI had the best community I've ever run into. It also strives in FFXIV. This is where World of Warcraft messed up royally. The community WILL suffer with cross realm pugging.. Its like stepping onto an airplane, you'll see this person once in your life and never see them again. Why should I make personal connections with other players? I don't want to que up for an instance and be with mindless drones where no one is talking.

Secret World actually handles Cross Realms beautifully. If you meet up with someone you like in TSW you can friend them, join the guild, party up and do quest....EVEN if both players are on different servers. TSW still restricts you from just jumping by yourself. The player needs to be in the party to zone to the another server. The way that WoW handles it has killed the guild's/servers community. Its almost like playing a single player game. I play an MMO for a reason and that's for the community!

You all have probable different experience other than my own but this is what I've noticed. I feel that cross realm instances WILL cripple the community and bring about selfish behavior in your LS. Prove me wrong Yoshida.

My main plea for Yoshida is make the community strive with the content he adds.