Open Letter TO the Producer and Dev Team (Warning it's long ; ;)

[AlexiaKidd]

Misc

• Accessory slots - I would like you to get rid of the limit on accessories you can equip or at least allow the number to increase as you rank up so that I could wear the best of everything if I so choose in every slot.

• Linkshell management - Allow Linkshell leaders to be able to remove inactive players from the Linkshell and also allow us to set a message of the day type of thing so we can leave a Linkshell message for everyone when they log on or equip the linkshell.

• Allow something like /cm L1, /cm L2 to switch between Linkshell chat.

• Market Wards - I like the changes you have mode so far to the wards what I would like now it an ability to sort items I search for i.e for weapons sort by rank, or for equipment by class and so on. Also stop them crashing please as I have to reset my retainer in Ul'dah all the time ; ;

• Gathering - Fishing allows you to pretty much fish anywhere there is water and then nodes allow you to catch better fish, it would be great if Mining and Botany were the same. So you could mine anywhere to get SP and rank up but then if you went to nodes you would have a better chance at getting rare ores and stuff.

• Add a <call> feature to alert other players, or wake them up if they have fallen asleep in party ^^

• Fix the lag when you have someone on auto-follow and if you can make it so you don't lose them when you cross an invisible zone line.

• Increase the length of time buffs like Protect and Shell last, unless you do my idea with the WHM and advanced classes ^^

• Lower the level you get Raise/Resurrect as it is too high and needed much earlier than that when you are out on grind parties and exploring.

• Why does every mob in the game have a damn Ranged Attack, what is the point in abilities and spells like Bind if they can still shoot you from a long way away for the same damage as what they can hit you from close range. Please look into this.

• A SP/EXP RIng - Please, please, please put some form of SP/EXP bonus item into the game that functions like Guardians Aspect but functions outside of Guildleves for grind parties.

• Stop hiding stats - With things like food I would actually like to be able to look at my stats and see what effect the food has had, maybe this will help encourage more people to use food if they knew what it did. This goes for +1,+2 and +3 gear too as you are not really sure if it is worth paying the extra for them as you are not sure how much better it is over the normal quality version. Also if I look at an piece of gear or weapon it would be nice to have another tab that could show me the stats if the gear or weapon if I equipped it onto a class or rank that was not optimal so I could see how bad the stats of the gear was effected.

• Repairs - please add a "repair kit" that would allow me to patch up any item to 75% or something like that even if I don't have the correct class to fix it. Maybe then to encourage proper repairs you could have crafters who fix item's using the correct materials could have a chance of +1ing the repair to 125% and giving bonus stats to the item until it's condition dropped back to 100%

• Gear and Inventory Space - Please make equipped gear not use inventory space, or better yet a separate inventory just for gear. FFXIV promotes you to be able to change classes quickly and to do so I need to carry around with me a fair bit of gear at all times. I have my DoW and DoM gear, my crafting gear, my gathering gear all of my tools and repair items, it all adds up and takes up about 75% of my inventory, which doesn't leave a great deal left for drops that I find on my adventures.

• Retainers - I know you recently added the ability to summon your retainer even if it is minding your bazaar but your retainer will not return to its bazaar when you are done and this kind of defeats the purpose of being able to access it from somewhere else.

• Player search function - I know the game launched with one and it was removed after but I would still like to know what area my friends and linkshell buddies are in if possible.

• Checking Bazaar's - I would like to be able to check bazaar's while on the move, as it is now if I am running by somebody and decide to have a look at what they are selling I come to a complete stop.

• Bot's and RMT - They are running rampant and unchecked, could you please get the Special Task Force to look into these suspicious activities.

• Setting abilities and moves - Can you please allow me to move the basic attack that is glued to 1 as very often I have no use for it and would like to remove it as it is taking up valuable real estate on my action bar. Also can you make it so that when assigning abilities to the action bar I can grab one that's already in place and swap it with one that it already on the bar somewhere else or drop it in an empty spot to save having to go through all my class menu's every time I need to reorganise it.

My thoughts on Eorzea so far

I have to say while I do enjoy my time in Eorzea I do not get the same feeling of achievement that I did in Vana'diel or even things to look forward to achieving. I feel like the game has been made too easy and that everything is just handed to me on a plate, I know you want to make sure that solo players will be able to enjoy all the story missions but does that really have to include the crafting and gathering classes? I see the crafting and gathering classes as something to do on the side of your DoW and DoM classes. I may be unpopular here but can a Rank 50 Weaver really be expected to topple the Garlean Empire?

On the side of things to look forward to I feel as though there isn't much currently in the game. In FFXI when I started I looked forward to getting to R10 so I could party in Valkurm Dunes with other people (some of my best and worst memories from FFXI happened in the Dunes ^^), R18 to unlock sub job's, then R20 and my first trip to Jeuno to get my Chocobo Licence, then 24 when I rode my first Airship to Kahzam, at 30 I could do the quests to unlock my advanced classes. There were always milestones to look forward to and you never went long periods of time without feeling like you were getting close to achieving the next goal. Even with gear and weapons you were never far away from hitting that next step so you could equip that piece of gear or wield that weapon you had been waiting for.

Like I said in my opening I have high hopes for FFXIV, I know it will need a lot of work and a lot of time but I believe you can do it and make Eorzea really special and a place that I look forward to having many adventures in. Just please don't rush it and make things worse, no matter what you do you can't please everybody and there will always be those that do not like whatever path you take and they will always complain the loudest, so please take your time and make sure whatever path you decide on is right for the game and the world of Eorzea.

{Take Care} ^^