What I don't miss from xi:
Phone calls at 3 am for tiamat
Living at Khim
Darters(not my problem but you never know when someones gonna get trigger happy)
Ls requiring Bot DL's, disclosing personal medical information, and your soul(assuming the ls ldr doesn't find a new favorite cyber girlfriend to give all the gear to)

Things I loved about XI
Friendships
Multiple lands of every type of season/feelings
Traveling to fight in the past and on a alternate world where I didn't kick promathia's ass
Crafting and getting that one craft to 100
Fulfilling goals weather it be for rare gear/weapons, or a friends

Xi brought to me a higher sense of commitment, friendships and socialization then XIV has provided. I love that XIV is more laid back but sometimes it leans a bit too far back. Though I love and continue to play both games I wish XIV felt as emersive as XI did, that people would form bigger groups with high goals. In xiv it seems Linkshells don't get bigger in stride for these goals but more clique they break off, branch off into smaller groups and the core that is left there going wtf happened? XI seemed to bring people closer together, to make ls's larger, not smaller. Id like things to be a little bit easier then XI in it's prime, more like xi is today (minus abyssea leveling) and not as easy as XIV has been so far. On the plus I can balance the two by playing both but I do recommend to anyone who quit back when abyysea came out, give XI a try while we wait on ARR. I once swore off it too but things have changed a lot. It is still a incredibly emmersive game, even if your able to level so fast. Thats where ill be sending my ARR 5 year timeshift ^.-

P.S to follow the forum I would do the party system over like xi's was. it was much smoother to use more people used it and when I stand at a primal battle id rather have my party flag on my head then look like another afk person.