FFXIV things that NEED to be changed

[@SuikodenGR]

I 1000% agree the glamor system needs to not only be dyeable, but have two layer dye options. Being able to dye just one layer is just not enough

[@PeterRedhill]

Guild Wars 2 has this, and it's awesome.

[@SuikodenGR]

@@PeterRedhill 😲😲

[@medivh1035]

Yeah... I want to dye the socks in the housemaid pump. Too bad l can't

[@Shinstuh]

How we feeling ab this now

[@SuikodenGR]

@@Shinstuh \0/ VICTORY!! 😁 At this moment, anything more is just icing on the cake🍰😋😁

[@ditzyhere3138]

For me it's the fact that you carry all those dyes around. My saddlebag is pretty much a dye bag. I can't understand why dyes don't get stored in the glamour dresser since 99% of the time I'm going to dye something while I'm using it.

[@SyphinPolaris]

@@Phoenix-cc7xb Yeah, once you acquire the dye and "apply it" to your account it is unlocked for use forever for the entire account, not just that character.

[@Silvershadowfire]

One thing I would like to see re: Dying is the ability to chose different parts or sections of the gear to dye. It doesn't have to be down to grandular detail, but nothing frustrates me like finding a piece of gear where I like the style but when you go to dye it, the one annoying part won't change colour.

[@0Fyrebrand0]

This is one of the things I love about Guild Wars 2. You can dye pretty much any piece of gear, and every piece can have up to four different dye "channels" that affect different parts. There are also literally HUNDREDS of different colours you can collect and dye your gear with. FFXIV's selection of colours feels disappointing, and I tend to stick with the same few colours a lot of the time.

[@ForgiveMyMadness]

100% agree. I get so frustrated when the gear has some specific colour on it and now you are forced to pick a dye that goes well with the undyable portion of the gear. Red is awful since unless you go for black white or gold you're pretty much fucked.

[@MahalGC]

@@0Fyrebrand0 often I think of how I wish GW2 got glamour plates that also save dye colors, it'd make it the best possible system

[@DiaAutomata]

@@ForgiveMyMadness oh my god right??? Monk is so bad for this, it's so hard to glam monk in job gear without being forced to include red, yellow or blue

[@tomoyaokazaki1000]

One of the pieces of armor thats guilty of this is the Late Allagan Coat of Casting.. The entire arms of the coat dye as well.. While the Late Allagan Coat of Healing has the exact same base model but the dyeability of the armor is better mapped. Instead of the entire arm, its the joints or little accents. It compliments the metallic pieces of the arms instead of dominating it like the casters set does..

[@HUNTERxROY]

In my opinion there is sooo much more that needs to be overhauled. For starters give us bigger inventory's. Instead we get more and more different types of inventory's which can only be accessed at certain places. Then the fact that housing items kinda suck. Like we have so many different fake wall designs, but only some come with a window portion, another with a door cutout, then there is only one type that has a curve and even that does not link nicely without flickering into other walls of its own type. They should release em in packs with each type of wall featuring a straight wall, a curved wall, a window-cutout version, a door cutout version. And then also make em drag-able so you can decide how long/short the wall is. Heck i even believe we should get a fourth gathering class called Hunter or something like that, so mobs stop dropping their loot randomly and instead you use em as gathering spots. Also would help with de-cluttering the inventory and reduce the frustration of trying to farm a certain material that only a few monsters drop rarely. And of course one thing i still think square needs to change is how you can block someone. People can super easily stalk you and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Even name changing and server switching does not help as long as they have your lodestone ID.

[@skylara_k]

For the inventory issue, for me personally other than just needing more overall, they can keep the different types, just make it so when you craft things you don’t have to pull all the mats out from many different places into your main bag. Have it recognize you have the mats in an inventory so you can craft, rather than first having to find all the mats in various place, then pull them out into one inventory, to then put back what you don’t use.

[@BlazeBuds]

For me they need to do what Elder Scrolls is doing, take a year to work on quality of life stuff. The game has gotten so stale, especially for the vets who have been playing for 10 years

[@Zavyyn]

Sure would be nice if Autocrossbow reduced the cooldown on Ricochet. When you started talking about learning MCH, I thought that was your segue into that point.

[@ryaiart]

Very true, it's such a weird interaction to not have it do that (the video would be 3 hours long if I went into detail like that so I had to keep it broad lmao)

[@Venosyne]

And also would be nice to make the automaton queen's attacks do splash/cone or any kind of aoe attacks wherein it does full damage to a single target but falloff with the rest around yknow, like Ravenous Hydra conal attacks in League of Legends if you know that But unfortunately what we have now is just we summon the queen during mob pulls and it just goes ham on a single mob, the AoE kit of machinist is very badly designed :/ and oh and also dont forget Flamethrower sheeesh

[@Kakashi20xd6]

@@Venosyne How about the ability to build battery gauge during aoe as well?

[@SniperKing-O]

This would be a huge improvement for Machinist!

[@MissLilianae]

As someone who's a multi-millionaire three times over I agree the gil issue is real, until it's not. You can hoard money for whatever reason you want, until you need money. Then you suddenly don't have enough for what you need. Example: I'm a Flex main, which I know is a far costlier way to play the game, but when Rinascita gear first dropped instead of waiting and making it myself like I did for Classical, I just went to the marketboards and bought full sets for all of my jobs. I went from 24mil to 4mil in less than 15 minutes. And the 24mil was from me constantly putting up items to sell on the MBs to make more money. I imagine it would be the same for people who main one job or one "type" of job (Tank, Maiming, Healer, Aiming, etc.), and assuming that person doesn't craft either. Doing what I did would be a similar situation: You wouldn't have 24mil, maybe you'd have like, 4mil, but you spend 90% of your 4 mil on a full gear set of craftable gear to get you started in the high-end raiding scene and now you're scrambling to make enough money to do that again before the next patch drops and the gear you're wearing/earned becomes invalidated by the power creep. But it's the moments like 6.2 to 6.3 where there wasn't a new i.lvl of gear introduced, just more ways to achieve the i.lvls we already had, where you're sitting on those multiple millions with nothing to spend it on and that's where I agree the gil problem is an issue :/

[@void9938]

All I want is a glam system like the transmog system. Please ffxiv I'm begging you.

[@leatherDarkhorse]

Idk why the glamour cannot be using unlock sysem, once you got it, you get the skin unlock, instead wasting space. The dye could just become available base on the number on your dye bag.

[@MCG55SS]

For gearing I think that they should increase the number of books you get after you kill the boss probably 5 times. Don't make it a time thing because some people started late in the expansion and want to have the fun of chasing gear and progressing (like myself I started November and I've only killed p5s)

[@ailuron8100]

Justice for Hrothgar (and viera)! The whole fantasia problem and the lack of hairstyles and hats, begone! 😤

[@tennoscoom2312]

I HATE that earrings can't be seen on Au Ra. I didn't realize it when the race came out, I changed to it, and loved the cherry blossom earrings you can buy from the mog station, only to find that YOU CAN'T SEE THEM!! What a waste! A waste on a fantasia, then a waste on the earrings...

[@XernuhtZwei]

I really wish the Virtu PVP sets were omni-class gear, since they are literally just dyeable palette swaps of gear that's either not super-hard to make dyeable (SB/ShB/EW jobs) or now literally comes dyeable (HW relic gear).

[@Krionion]

Top thing for me would be to fix the stupid built-in delay. No matter how much people defend it, I will always believe it's counterintuitive as fuck. The artificial lag feels so weird... in raids, when doing dungeons, when chilling with friends and one of your friends jumps off his mount and you only see it seconds later....In absolutely every aspect of the game. No modern MMO has delay this bad...

[@matthewmatjatko4535]

Take something out of ESOs book. Have an inventory that has infinite capacity but only stores crafting items. Honestly nothing more frustrating than having a bunch of junk filling out your inventory when not actively crafting.

[@ahsidodna3355]

gil sinks are usually mats, boes, travel, consumables, mounts, glamour…, pretty hard to do something too different

[@gamermasterL]

Those are not gil sinks though. If the money goes to another player its still in circulation. Gil sinks examples are the luxury mounts and houses.

[@Feast_]

I really hate the dye system in XIV. The Peacekeeper's vest looks great, a sleeveless brown vest on top of a plaid shirt When you dye it, ONLY THE PLAID SHIRT GETS DYED. The vest stays brown... Who in their right might thought that was a good idea? Seeing the Relic axe they just added more fuel to the disappointment fire There's so many other pieces of gear that change multiple tints when you use dye, so why does a lot of other gear only dye one part? I'd love to dye the Lv89 Summoner chest all black, but only the parts that are already black are dyable... Edit: As for the Glamour prism to make a Lv1 glamour gear, I don't think they need to go that far. In Final Fantasy 11, this game's predecessor, As long as you have the requirements to equip the gear, you can "Lockstyle" it onto a Lv1 job. If you have Lv99 Paladin and Lv1 Thief, you can make your Thief look like a Lv99 Paladin. The only restriction is your weapon must be the same type of weapon (Dagger to Dagger, Sword to Sword, etc) because of animations, but the armor is so unrestricted it lets you great some really fucking creative sets, like my Blue Mage for a while was running around with White Mage pants If a much older MMO from the same company and a much smaller team can create a better transmog system then the new kid on the block, then XIV can improve their system. Class identity was already thrown out the window when you could glamour your tank gear into a bikini. Let me use my damn Paladin armor on my Sage without needing that one Bozja set for heavy armor

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrin]

7.0 better give us an overhauled dye system cause omfg I hate how we cannot influence the overall coloring of gear sets... not to mention the gear sets that dye in ways you absolutely do not want like for example you want golden medieval lookin armor for dragoon but the friggen cloth dyes gold as well instead of becoming black so it fits most colors better...

[@missingnoo88]

Honorable mention: Hrothgar/Viera hats Few things are as crushing as finding a cool looking hat only to realise you can´t wear it anyway...

[@StormierNik]

I know you're trying to give the other side credit for "Class identity" but that goes out of the window when you can tank in a bikini, DPS in an elephant suit, and heal in heavy chainmail armor. Class identity has long left the building. And on top of that, why COULDN'T my tank use Red Mage gear when he Canonically and mechanically plays as BOTH? The Job system for WOL is canon, they can be every single job and have changed throughout expansions even within the same trailer in Shadowbringers. What, is white mage clothtoo magical to be worn on a dragoon for some unknown inexplicable reason but a mog store outfit that looks similar totally works? There is genuinely zero reason for class specific glamour at this point. It only should matter if you can play as the job and are high enough level for it. That's it.

[@lolthesystem]

8:25 that entire excuse the dev team had went out the window the moment they decided to let tanks use bikinis, but refused to let healers wear heavy armor (granted there's a few heavy looking armors for them now from PVP series). Let's be honest here, nobody cares if a healer chooses to wear heavy armor just like they don't care about the tank wearing a speedo, just let us glam whatever we want already (and make it dyeable)! PS: If the problem is the role lock for stat purposes, just make it so if you slap a piece of gear (not a weapon, of course) into the Glam Dresser, it becomes a "neutral" piece of gear and you can use it as glamour on any job.

[@vento3554]

as a casual player gearing in this game infuriates me and i wish it was different, i dont want to just spam the new alliance raid and pray the gear type i need drops while also praying that someone doesnt roll high er on it

[@RenAsterion]

Crafting/Gathering gear being locked to crafters and gatherers is the bane of my existence. I miss early land/hand gear that was "all classes" so you could use the stuff for glam, but was stated for land/hand jobs. Unlock that stuff so I can glam with it, please. Heck,, I'd love it if they went back to that gear scheme in general. "Blah blah of Fending/Maiming/Slaying/Casting/Healing" whatever, but have it so everyone could wear it like they used to. Have it clearly labeled as gear for certain job types, but being wearable by every job of that particular level and above? *Please*. It's not like "job identity" really even exists anymore with anything but job gear. How many robe-like items for all jobs do we have now? And I have an alt that I've gone out of my way to make their glams the least matchy to their jobs, period. Dragoon was wearing what amounted to a ball gown for the longest time. lmao

[@bones2323232323]

I did something that changed my perspective. I played WOW for one year. The fact that I can even play tank and healer without getting absolutely flamed by an entire group of people changes the way I look at MMOS. Even been booted from a regular dungeon because you missed a mechani? A regular dungeon. Thats just playing the game. In WOW no gear is dyable... You know that cool piece if gear you'd like from that old raid? Want a specific color?You realize That all raids even ones 15+ years old are time gated... lol you have to wait weeks-months for brand new content glamours, try grinding for months potentially years for OLD transmogs. What about exclusivity? How much content has been removed from wow or made exclusive and now is unobtainable by the newer/younger generation of player? The amount of problems in WOW vs the quality of life, peace of mind and actual fun in FFXIV is crazy and I'll only ever complain at the most predatory bs in ffxiv. Try it. Go play another mmo for a year. I promise you'll see why FFXIV is so good. Not perfect but trust me when I say it isn't as bad as you think.

[@kitsunekaze7831]

My one gripe so far as a new player who likes to try out a lot of classes, normal MSQ spam for Poetics is great cause good exp and you get good gear every ten levels but holy hell why do we have to sit through the cutscenes every. single. time?...like make it an achievement or something that checks if everyone has done it then allow for cutscene skip, no reason for something in ARR can't be skippable for a group who's seen it 100 times already

[@codediax]

Man you got games as old as Vindictus (2010) where you can dye every single part of your gear/weapon. XIV not looking at its peers and adopting things like that is wild to me.

[@Lrbearclaw]

7:54 - As a LONG time MMORPG player (since 2004) who has been both casual and end-game raider, this is a TERRIBLE idea. Gil is not easy to get. Not at the scale this sort of change would do to the ingame economy. You think getting BIS items is hard now. Imagine how much WORSE it would be. Gear selling at 100mil+ to start, everyone Needing on it (either for upgrade or to sell) not merely those who actually need it. This would kill the endgame outright.

[@tigrabelle]

I'm just a casual player, but I can see how frustrating it must be to try to get the Savage gear with the constraints placed on you. I agree that it would be great if the dye system was upgrade so that more (or all) gear is dyable. And if the colors on the dyable gear were always clear and not changed to a muddy color like it is on some. It would also be great if you could have a primary and secondary dye on the equipment or be able to choose certain areas to dye (but I would those are more wishlist items). By the way, why would you carry around ANY dyes unless you just got them as a drop or were on your way to purchase and immediately dye a particular piece of gear? Store them on your retainer or sell them then make or purchase them as needed. As for the gil sink options, I have no suggestions except maybe check the market bord. There are some very high-price options for armors and mounts that I have noticed. (Unless you already have these items.) Personally, I am perfectly happy sitting on 40 M and not spending it on anything. When I find something I want to spend it on, I will be able to without bending myself out of shape to earn gil for whatever new shiny I want. The bottom line is that none of these problems (except the tome issue with the Savage gear) really NEED to be fixed IMHO. They don't make the game unplayable or unenjoyable (at least for me). But as I said, I don't do Savage and no way will I ever be up for Ultimate, so for those who are playing at that level my opinion may not be very valuable. Good video, and you did bring up some good points.

[@Celis.C]

I only have a few demands: - A tackle box for fishing lure and bait - A glamour catalogue to coordinate outfits. How can I target pieces when I can't even coordinate an outfit in the first place?! - Glamour plates applicable everywhere. If it's a problem to do so in duties, then so be it, but everywhere else should be possible. - Dedicated storage for gathering items, including all items a Botanist, Miner and Fisher can obtain.

[@Ibukization]

Lack of tackle box has driven my inventory management insane for years, read my mind with this

[@Fierlyt]

Wait, so your issue isn't that Gil is hard to get, but that it's got virtually nothing for you to spend it on? Culture shock, considering the MMO I'm coming from has every gear piece tradable. The best in slot gear runs for literally billions of gold if you want to buy it from another player. I've been grinding the same missions for 2 years trying to get materials to craft a best in slot weapon, and I have 0 of those 16 materials I need as they're not guaranteed drops and have a super low drop rate (there's also no limit to how much we can run the missions, so we're talking thousands of runs of the same 3 missions with 0 success). 16 weeks to get best in slot sounds like a dream situation. Edit: Also a bit of a shock that I couldn't choose a part of the gear I wanted to dye. I spent 20 minutes trying to find the option to dye the other part of a shirt and eventually gave up. I didn't realize there was only one part that was dyable in the first place. That's weird to me, coming from a game where you might have 3-8 different parts of the same gear that can have differently dyed sections. On some outfits you can get specific enough to dye the aglets a different color from the drawstring on a hoodie.

[@red11rus85]

About glamming class locked things i absolutely agree. but about Gill tho... Well, i would say that if you doing Crafting in waves, when new stuff rolls in, you gonna be set, but if you're not using plugins for it, it gonna burn you out. Besides battle content pays less, i think, but if you just log in for roulettes, you'll have enough Gil to get yourself a gear you need for a tier+Resourses( or maybe get mats and craft stuff for yourself) and even have some Gil to spend on glam.

[@ThornedLily]

I think my biggest complaint about the glam system (besides lack of space, but I accept that I'm a hoarder so this is at least partially my own fault) is the lack of dye channels. Guild Wars 2 has my favorite glam system of any mmo I've played, and it's largely due to their dye system. Most pieces have multiple channels to dye so that you're able to get several colors on an item, and I desperately miss that in FFXIV. Sometimes the channels don't line up exactly the way I want, but at least they're there and I can get super close to the look I've got in mind when designing an aesthetic. I'd also like to be able to simply unlock the dyes permanently instead of carrying around pots of the stuff, but I think the current system works better as a very small gil sink where permanent unlocks might go against that a bit - although, buying and selling the unlock could be another way to go about it.

[@dilfappreciator2697]

As a hrothgar player, I would sell my kidney if I could be able to at least wear all of the job gear hats (as a dragoon I can't wear any of the helmets which totall sucks!)

[@ThatNormalBunny]

Same but as a Viera player although I'd like to be able to wear every single hat in the game just like the other races. Hroth/Viera players get shafted alot in this game when it comes to glamour

[@Kpsla]

How did the Portrait system not get mentioned? The fact that portraits break if you use a different glamour, or use the SAME glamour but the pieces you glammed over changed, or you upgraded an accessory that doesn't even show, or you dyed your glamour, or you added materia to your armor, or hid your headpiece, or raised your visor, or.... It shouldn't require you to lock your gearset to a glamour and STILL NEED TO UPDATE THE PORTRAIT EVERY TIME YOU QUEUE. Just add a toggle on the portrait that says "automatically update to equipped gear" and have the game do it it's god damn self.

[@GizmoTheFFF]

Job specific gear makes no sense anymore and is an outdated frame of mind, especially when you can have people in your party wearing things like princess dresses, swim wear, frog/bunny/chocobo/elephant ect outfits, manderville maid servant outfits....the list goes on. Let us wear whatever the heck we want. Most people don't care about "job specific" gear looks anymore. Your idea for a special glamour prism that turns a gear piece into a lvl 1 all job glamour set is brilliant, send that idea directly to Yoshi P!

[@rossker123]

the glam prism idea is neat. I adore the lunar envoy hairpin of casting and would put it on every glam if I could.

[@RuneKatashima]

I don't like the idea of being able to buy your BiS because it's a rare drop. I hate drop chances. It's why I quit Diablo. What I would prefer is more glam class neutral gear. I wish the NPCs we could glam up could wear more stuff that isn't just "All classes". Idk why Makai gear even needs class restrictions. Fishers should be given a tackle box. Take two rows out of offhand armory slot and dedicate to fisher tackle box. I realize this is taking something from all players to appease *some* players but the offhand armory chest is severely underutilized anyway. However, as opposed to that, to increase offhand usage, allow us to glam offhand weapons. RDM's their crystal, Bard's a quiver, Rogue's their offhand weapon, and perhaps Machinist's their ammo box (which is currently the same for all weapons, but that can change, or just be allowed to be made invisible; I've seen people ask for it.) Dye regions. Scarcity should come from exclusive things for crafters. Make Soul of the Crafter actually important and make it so only they can craft certain [relevant] things. Boom, suddenly an active economy. It's literally that simple. Battlecraft leves are a waste of time. I'll stop here. I literally have a document with many, many things that need changing in this game.

[@DualXZ]

I feel that a traditional gold sink would NOT work in this game because FF XIV is not your traditional MMO. One of the main reasons why I believe that to be the case, is the fact that you can pretty much do whatever you want in the game. You can raid, you can focus on housing (good luck getting a house :u ), you can do RP/events/focus on building your FC, be involved in hunt trains, do Eureka re-runs, Bozja, ocean fishing, Mahjong... the list goes on and on on the different kind of things that you can do, and A LOT OF THEM do not involve raiding. This means, however, that the gil that you have may be completely unnecessary, or a pivotal part of your focus in game, and because of *this* , I don't see them change the fundamental way that it works. The reason for that is because pretty much no MATTER what you choose to do, you can still *earn* gil passively and get a lil bit of it, so it's impossible for people not to have lets say... 1/2million from passive play unless they're actively spending it, though you're not forced at any point to do that. I would completely *HATE* if they suddenly went Korean MMO grind path and make gil the most important aspect of the game just because, that would KILL the current balance that you have of gil being a *thing* you can choose to use to maybe speed a process up or get the glamours/pots/food buffs you want/need instead of something you HAVE TO farm day in day out JUST to be able to do the most basic of things in game. The golden mounts were a basic add to both get players that have OBSCENE amount of gil to part with it, and for the regular players to maybe have something to aim for. I'm not saying I don't agree with having more gil sinks, nor am I saying that I don't want them, because I do, but Korean type/following other MMO paths would be doomed for failure in a game like FF XIV. Instead, I feel a good way would be to leave gil as it is/tweak it with a few more ideas like the golden mounts, and instead in the future, create a second economy where they can mess around and try new things in the form of unique content like Bozja/Eureka but with a wider scope and it's own economy/hub, etc. Imagine how cool it could've been if with island sanctuary, you could've bred the different animals to create unique variants/races/mixes, the rarest ones only acquired this way, and then you could also sell them in a specific island sanctuary marketboard that would utilize the green currency. These variants could also give unique stats/drops, could have cool VFX effects like glowing when it's nighttime, cool idle animations, etc... the breeding system itself could be as simple as select X and Y, and RNG and a timer would do it's thing. All just ideas from the top of my mind but like, *THESE* type of things are the ones they could test new economies with while leaving gil in the passive role that it is. I want changes too... but I never want to see gil being the most important thing in the game, or I'll probably just stop playing it even if I have pretty much 100million in my wallet.

[@HoneyDoll894]

cool video but in what world do you need BiS in order to learn a new class

[@gani2546]

Just a small thing i ask for - ability to put all items in the inventory inside retainers at once instead of putting one by ones

[@Djax111]

Youre one of the few people Ive seen give good criticism on these systems. I wish they would also rework the tomes system. It is a shame they take forever to save up week to week to piece together one job. I hope 7.0 just is a overall change of pace. This content drip and droughts have been absolutely brutal. No incentive to play rn for myself and others I know.

[@kapified]

I agree. This content drought period feels extra bad, even with a new patch having dropped.

[@sirdamned9272]

Couldn't disagree more about BiS even though I understand as much as the next person about the pain of waiting. It's already been simplified and made quick/easy enough to get BiS, especially by comparison to the vast majority of MMORPGs... and we already have "placeholder" gear that is near equal item level that can be purchased with Tomestones, not to mention the crafted sets etc. which in a large way makes up for not having it. If BiS was a necessity that'd be one thing, but it's not: it's something you don't necessarily "need" but work towards achieving anyway because it means your character will be one of the strongest in the entire game, and it's extremely rewarding when you do get it for this reason. Progression and having something to work towards in an MMO is so very important and raiding + bis systems are the bread and butter of said progression.

[@MVimah]

@9:00 No absolutely not. I believe the artifact gear is the last bastion of class identity. Now if other gear that is "of maiming/healing/striking" just simply removed the ability to wear it to glam that's fine. We do not need more items to put into a glamour chest. That just needs to be a catalog check list like orchestral rolls and minions. Have you ever had this item in your inventory? Check. You can glam it. Be a warrior in a "of healing" set to show your healer you have better healing parses as a warrior.

[@alaineninmah7040]

Gearing needs a change for sure. I take xeno's point of view of end game gearing and like it. I am also a savage/ultimate raider. It would be nice to see horizontal gearing paths.

[@moosecat00]

Why does the Squenix MMO without tower mechanics reaffirms location data immediately upon pressing jump, but the Squenix MMO with tower mechanics only confirms location upon landing? Where the fuck do we go when we jump Yoshi-P? For those that don't know if you time the apex of your jump in the pillar-esque style tower you can actually not considered in the tower. This does not apply to Omega towers as far as I know, and I do not want to test it. However this is one of a long laundry list of problems that can be attributed to the network skeleton that was built in the early 2000's. Now if the guy responsible for maintaining XIV's network ever decides to not live in the 40k universe as a techpriest, maybe we will also see an upgrade to the dial-up speed friend's list.

[@Venosyne]

Oh my fking god yes say it louder, thr friend list in this game is so unbelievably horseshit like a 90s dial up internet that got forgotten

[@Crispierbug]

One of the things I wish they would change is making regular sidequests give decent xp, fates can be done faster and give nearly twice the xp.

[@o.s.95]

play road to 80 buff on prefered servers

[@nebula8851]

First fix would be to remove the tome cap and Savage lockout when an odd-numbered patch launches. Easy, low-effort fix, and there's data from Eden's Promise showing that interest in Savage increased when lockout was removed early, because people wanted to play other jobs, and didn't have to worry about gearing them. Second fix for me would be to slightly reduce reliance on supposedly 'big-brain' puzzle mechanics and aspects of jank such as gazes in Savage fights (that end up boring once they're cracked, and feel bad when you feel like the game's questionable tech isn't letting you succeed), in favour of tighter DPS checks and mechanics that test people in other ways. P7S was a snoozefest, and P6S was a glorified Extreme. Third fix would be to either remove the doorboss, or allow groups who've beaten the doorboss to immediately skip to the second phase for the rest of that weekly reset. This makes progging the fourth fight infinitely less stressful and obnoxious, and means the devs can go ham on mechanics. Fourth fix? Making Savage bosses omnidirectional, but reducing their melee hitbox as a tradeoff, and creating more interesting arenas for Savage fights. Force melee players to fight for uptime again, instead of gifting it to them, and free up creative space for the developers. (As you can guess, I have a soft spot for P2S as a fight) Now that Savage is out of the way, let's talk more casual content. First fix would be to implement a vendor that you can give a full set of gear to, that destroys that set and allows access to a buyable replica of each item at a set price (10k gil, maybe higher). This means that players can farm sets of gear for creating replicas (which adds long-term content to the game), and reduce reliance on the glamour dresser for storing items. Oh, and implement the Glamaholic plugin, where people can 'create' unlimited plates, but only 'set' a certain amount for active use at a time. Second fix would be to implement a personal workshop akin to those in Free Company houses, where people can craft materials, trade in tokens earned from PvE content, or purchase with substantial amounts of gil, but where the end reward would be fancier versions of existing glamour sets within the game. For example, having artifact gear that glows/emits particle effects. A sort of 'universal relic system', as it were. Third fix (small, but would measurably improve the game for a bunch of people, and probably reduce community drama long-term) would be to implement an actual chest slider for Lalafell, so shortstack enjoyers can do as they see fit without risking account bans for third-party tools, or being called slurs for playing their adult characters, while those who prefer a softer, cuter option also get to keep their current character as is. As a bonus, we can even call out the weirdos who do sus things with Lalafell without having to endure "She's actually 1000 years old officer" nonsense from the sus individuals. That, and please rewrite that one character creation passage about 'childlike countenance', Jesus Christ, so much fucking drama over a single line of text.

[@one_eyeddd473]

You coulda finished a relic in the time it toom u to type and edit this

[@rangersmith4652]

I main SMN, and I'd like to be able to be able to glam to WHM gear. It's just an appearance, after all, so why can't we glamour to anything we hold?

[@DigitalDeadBR]

You know what REALLY needs to change? The ability to play the entirety of the MSQ with your friends. It's a lot of content and it would be much more manageable if you could do it together. I know that it's cool that you can do it solo but why not have the OPTION of doing with other people? I don't know how many friends of mine were really excited about the game but ended up quitting because levelling, quite honestly, sucks?

[@javi7636]

110%. Even when you're doing MSQ at the same rate you're constantly forced to drop party for solo instances, the level sync system means the game becomes worse when doing lower level content (which as a new player, I have to do a LOT), and there's a ton of travel time between NPCs/locations but 2-seater and group mounts are locked behind a paywall (in a game where you have to buy up front AND pay a monthly sub). Not to mention that level sync feels bad even just playing solo. The stat scaling is good, but not being able to use half of your abilities is not. I've lost count of the number of times I unlocked a fancy new skill but I wasn't able to use it until I did 5 more hours of MSQ to unlock a level appropriate dungeon. And then roulette just puts me in Aurum Vale again. /rant

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

One thing I would change is giving a different bag for crafting material, another for bait and another for fish. If the materials were on a different bag than the general one, there wouldn't be any inventory problems.

[@nev2221]

The raid should be unlocked by the time the odd number patch comes out. This would help people play more than 2 jobs at bis per patch.

[@soldierorsomething]

The first 40 seconds was all i needed to know that this was worthy of a sub, great video and yes it would look kinda silly in my oppinion to see a dark knight wearing paladin job armor

[@aShadowWizard69]

I for one want the ARR and Heavenswards beast tribes to be updated. 30 rep per day (10 per quest because daily allowances) for the Amalj'aa, Kobolds, Sahagain, Sylphs, and Ixali is brutal when you need 5780 rep to reach max rank. That is 27 weeks of grinding PER TRIBE. Heavensward is not so bad but I would like to see their rep gain bumped to 60 a day instead of 50.

[@aShadowWizard69]

Also with the Ixali you have to wear a specific pair of gauntlets to even be able to take quests

[@providencebreaker1558]

Yeah, except Ixal goes really fast since you can use up your entire 12 allowances on them alone.

[@yamivkd]

A couple things I'd like to see is a Catching your breath system. When you leave combat you get a 10 second buff that when it falls off it ends all your cooldowns. I am sick of having to wait or people rushing so much I cant use half my kit. Next would be if you die to a boss, the respawn is just outside the boss arena, I'm so sick of having to trudge like a whole third of a dungeons layout to just get a new attempt. Another thing would be stop treating Materia and food as minimum for any content, crafting or combat stuff. Those should only be systems to give you an edge if you want it. So IMO a complete removal of pentamelding all together and the condition mechanic RNG shit for crafters need to get the hell out of the game, I have the levels, I have the gear so my skills are high enough just let me craft the goddamned stuff if I know my skills and how to use them.

[@tomoyaokazaki1000]

One of the major points that i have is that i wish there was some better way to earn gil. As currently, you can.. sortof earn gil by running daily roulettes.. But the main function is to sell things on the market board... but if noone is buying the thing that youre barely scraping together, whats the point?? When youre too broke to afford maps or your crafters are too low level to craft anything of substance, youre kindof locked out.. Getting Gil is such a hassle when you need it.. I feel like they need to make some better way to get it.. Like.. Have some of those custom deliveries give you a decent handful of gil instead of just experience and scrips. It sucks to be a crafter and struggle to keep your gil up because it always feels like youre running out of Gil faster than youre earning it.. Especially in your early game of not having gatherers leveled very high.

[@Strykerx31]

Remember, "10 year old code", the same excuse they gave for ALOT of things, and the worse part people just accept it.

[@zackt3288]

The biggest changes 14 really really needs are proper pvp balancing, not this broken Dark Knight and Dragoon spamming that made me quit pvp. It needs to be harder, grindier, and make us work towards our goals. When they dumb the game down, it makes people lose interest. Also I wish the story got darker, but I see why they don't because of some actually GOOD games that actually hit you in the feels hard. Like Octopath Traveller 2 for example, and like.. anything made before 2002.

[@KaiSilverhawk]

I want DoL/DoH armors back being all classes! They've been making a ton of good looking sets lately and having them restricted like that should be a crime! (also a second/third slot of dying, some clothes have a main dye area and others following with darker/lighter shades or just straight up change colors, give us the option to dye those areas separately)

[@ForgiveMyMadness]

I totally agree with your final point!! I just hit 90 on dragoon, joining my 90 reaper... but if I share gear, I can't wear my augmented drachen gear on DRG :/ I've been wearing that glamour since the moment I hit lvl50 and proudly sourced all mats for and crafted each and every augmentation item JUST to be able to dye it. And now I can't fookin wear it unless I either double up on raid gear for both maimers, or just have a glamour-free reaper with weirdly dyed gear ;_; Straight up pain in the ARSE.

[@Winterrox66]

Glamour plates and class swapping macros help a lot with this! I have macros set up for all of my classes so I can switch between them and apply their respective glamour plates with a single button press. It’s unfortunately limited by the number of available plates, though-I believe there are just enough plates to have a custom glamour for each DoW and DoM

[@mikloskoszegi]

@@Winterrox66 You don't even need macros for it, you can link glamour plates to gear sets. Just have one for reaper and one for dragoon.

[@scorpiowarrior7841]

Tbh the current gear system is a large part of why I stopped playing 14. That and gear dosen't feel impactful at all, honestly. All other MMOs have gear that does stuff that can fundamentally alter how you play and interact with your class. 14? Number go up is all it does. The several weeks to grind for bis just isn't worth it imo and just dosen't feel like it changes anything. I know some people don't like how "oh I got this new piece of gear and now my entire rotation is different" but it breaks things up. Rn how it is, your class only changes if there's some weird optmization discovered or if SQE does a rework or for a new expansion. And that just dosen't feel great. In games like wow I *FEEL* progression. The rotation gets faster, talents change, I have to fit trinkets and such into the rotation and they all interact differntly. With 14 your class, bar intervention by the developers, does not change with gear or anything and leads to a genuine feeling of staleness that lasts a whole expansion and that really hurts my ability to actually enjoy the game. Also...the glamour system should just fucking thrown out and remade from the ground up imo. It's literally the worst transmog system imagination bar monetizing transmog. I don't care about dyes enough to ask for two layers, but what I do care about is how little space and having my entire INVENTORY filled to the brim with glamour. Steal ESO or wow's idea for a collection for the love of GOD. Glam plates also could you make them like 20 per class? Plz and thx. Add an option to make a few usable across classes for casual glams, that'd be great. But I feel like a big issue and why I left 14 is because so many systems are just not intuive whatsoever in terms of game design. Like housing. Yeah having a neighborhood is cool and all but if noone can even GET A HOUSE is there really even a point to it? I grind 3 million gil only to loose a house a thousand times. That's not enjoyable and it'd just be better for us to have an instanced housing system like....literally evrey mmo out there I can think of. It feels extremely counterproductive to have SQE spend so much time adding new features, items, and such to a system that so many people won't ever be able to experience because there's such a limit supply of housing. So what's even the point of it? Oh but that's not the only example. Class design is also just redudant at points and I fail to understand why combos can't be combined into a single button. And why we need so many spells on our bars to begin with. I'm a bloody paladin main and genuinely part of the reason I got a gaming mouse was so I could ACTUALLY PLAY MY CLASS without keybinding my whole keyboard just to fit evreything onto it. Now granted, for most classes it isn't that bad but for classes like paladin and dragoon it's god awful and I know people don't like homonigzation but I genuinely just want combos to at the very least become ONE KEYBIND, NOT THREE. Even irks me more that combos like gnashing fang and the sword combo for PLD ARE ONE BUTTON. Please let this be a priority for next expansion, please at least try and reduce button bloat and remove borderline useless keys like Shield Bash, or maybe even try to make them actually useful, idk. Last thing that irks me about 14 is how some content just straight up is left to rot and die. Examples of this are Eurkea (kind of?), Diadem, and instances such as DR, Castrum Lacus Latoria (I garuantee I didn't spell that right), Delirida (Also didn't spell that right lmao), exc. Content like this honestly should just be removed from the game and have their rewards added elsewhere....or have them allow it to be soloed or done in a small group sub 4 people (witch to be fair, CLL and Delrida are KINDA, but DR is in the exact same spot as Diadem last I checked because solo que dosen't exist! And noone is running it!) . But instead it's just left to rot for several years before eventually being removed anyways, and the rewards along with it. This is ALSO stupid considering diadem, before it was removed, had GNB and dancer weapons added to it (I believe samuari and RDM were too). Why? DUNNO. It's frustrating espically because in something like Diadem's case, the real anwser was just allow us to solo que it and give us a super echo, not just repurpose it. Altough tbh the diadem example dosen't really matter because their recolors were added in the same expansion, it still just leaves so many questions of "what, why?" in my head and a bad taste. Also makes me worry for future content that dosen't have apparent longevity past the expansion it was added in.

[@Gyropat]

Can I just get helmets/hat for Hrothgar and Viera already? That's just my only complaint.

[@Zantetsudex]

The loot lockout altogether needs to be removed. After all, the game literally has the ability to switch to any job as a core feature and it's going to take you weeks for one job. ONE.

[@soranortthirteen561]

Abyssos Savage should have been unlocked when the new ultimate came out tbh

[@sadgirlhours4088]

I'm very suprised that there was no mention of the male au ra walk/run cycle. It's the worst walk/run cycle in the whole game, imho. It appeals to very few people, since the vast majority of its players dont play them as a joke. As I've said about my own character, "hes a 10 but why do he run like crash bandicoot?"

[@Nazuiko]

The Glamor Anvil is a thing in Maplestory; Creating a Fashion-slot copy of any item you use it on. In XIVs case they could make it either a built in feature of Glamor Plates (which is what they should be ideally) or as you suggested, maybe something purchased from an NPC vendor for 50k gil or something. Not in the level of millions though that would be kinda... overkill.

[@Max-ep5ir]

One thing I'd like to see (that will probably never happen) is an overhaul to the character creation system. I'm talking face sliders, body sliders, more color options, more options for everything in general like hair, tattoos, makeup, etc. Something like that + the abolishment of job-specific gear when glamouring would be a huge boon to customization freaks like me.

[@KindredEmotions]

Class exclusive gear is absolutely a bane for me as a caster who can’t wear any of the vastly superior healer boots, skirts and tops. I am not a black mage so stop giving me crakows, robes and wizard hats in my caster sets.

[@TheDaxter11]

I think the transmog system needs a big overhaul. Keep the transmog dresser or armoire, get rid of one or the other. Let us put ALL pieces of gear in the game into it, including class specific gear, relic weapons (removing the need for the replica's) EVERYTHING. Remove duplicates with different colours and add multiple dying channels into the game, (3 total dye slots at least) then let add a storage section for dyes, that way you can buy dye in bulk and store it in the same place your transmog is stored and you can dye your transmog from there. (Better yet make dyes a one time permanent unlockable thing but if it HAS to stay as it is then fine, whatever) Also, like ESO, when you're trying something on let it be on your actual character model, that makes things way easier to see whether they look good or not when its your character model and not a small picture frame of it. I also think they need to remove racial limits on things. For example, give us the ability to pick what walking animation our character uses, what idle pose it has, and /cposes. Add a new customisation slot called "personality" and shove all race and gender animation sets in there (and don't gender lock this shit either) so you can select, say, male Viera animations on male Hyur, so you can give your character the m Viera walk, run, sprint, idle, cposes and animations for emotes that the m Viera use. Another thing which is fucking stupid is the lack of account wide unlocks. In _any other MMO_ when you unlock things like mounts, emotes, transmog, whatever, they're account wide. I know FF14 has less excuses to make alts when you can unlock all classes on one character but what if you one day accidentally delete your character, or someone hacks your account and deletes your character, or just something else happens and your character is gone? Not only is the character, story progress and gear gone, all your achievements, mounts, minions, emotes, everything is gone. *_INCLUDING_* store bought stuff. If anything is gonna be account bound it has to be the god damn shit you pay real money for, come on now. And if any of this stuff isn't currently possible because of "muh sphagetti code" then they need to take time to *_fix_* the sphagetti code. I doubt simple cosmetic options and lack of transmog storage slots are the only things to be impacted by sphagetti code, either that or the sphagetti code excuse needs to be called into question when you look at damn near everything else they've been able to do in this game.

[@providencebreaker1558]

I think the lack of things to spend gil on may be intentional to stem the tide of RMT happening in game.

[@Angarato86]

im so happy they didnt listen to your gil suggestion. cause even back in the day it would just make people buy gil. ffxi was riddeled with garbage players with the insanely expensive items. the worst part is sometimes it wasnt even the best gear for them. people just bought gil and bought the most expensive shit they could find and it wasnt even the best. you had ninjas rocking up with like 50 million gil worth of evasion gear and they couldnt keep aggro to save their fucking lives (yea ninja was tank in ff11) even worse you had an army of gil selling bots and whole gilseller FCs that used every hack/cheat/exploit they could find to claim raid bosses and world bosses and special loot bosses were camped 24/7 by at least a party of botters it would be cool if RMT didnt exist. but since it does and people cant help always cheating and paying 2 win. so happy you cannot buy abbyssos gear

[@markup6394]

Gear system: big agree. Dye system: super big agree. Take the 24man raid: it might not dye well, but it at least it does! The new dungeon gear might work for some jobs, the caster ones are really nice, but the colors are... meh at best. And its strange, too: every dungeon we had this expansion had dyeble gear. Economy: mmmmyeah...ish...? I think, the problem you describe is that of a nieche part of the playerbase. I play this game 3 years now and though I dont have "gil problems", I'm far, far from being considered "rich". So, even though I see your point, the problem itself is limited to too few players to really matter for the whole community. - At least thats my impression. As for gil-sinks in general... whoo boy, that problem is so, so far away from me, I cant be bothered to think up a solution XD I mean, seriously, I cant. Also, I think its great that gil cant buy you everything here, especially gear. Sure, you get your crafted gear, which is some cases is better than raid gear, since you can pentameld it, but other than that... In rl, if someone has to much money, he donates it... Cant think of any ingame, player-run charity but that would be its equivalent...

[@redlunatic2224]

Don't worry, I'll take that gil from you so you don't have to suffer ❤️ Unironically, though. The problem with gil sinks is that most casual players will not be able to access that content. That's why it's mostly tacky mounts and such. Uf you have so much extra money, it's probably because you're playing a lot more than the average player so you may as well make ul'dahn propagandists proud for once and be one of those rich kids helping the poor.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

Honestly, I'd like some of the untradable, unsellable shit currently locked to Quick Venture to be accessible via the Achievements man. yanno, stuff like the Peregrine Helm or the Onion Doublet Set. I don't care if they're worth more Achieveo-Points, just...make them accessible outside of pure RNG grind for something that literally has no value on the Marketboard?

[@alexvandal4094]

About selling BiS for Gil - I don’t think people would like their MMO being turn into WoW

[@Kalishta00]

i'm glad more people are talking about the gear system problem, like ffs it's been 7 months and loot still locked lol

[@Paraguai123]

I dislike the idea of a BiS The devs do not use that term, and you can clear high end content purely on TomeStones / Crafting gear.

[@ryaiart]

Things like most recent Ultimates (e.g. TOP right now) do require BiS though unfortunately and are tuned for that purpose. If you don't plan on progging an ultimate on release then I agree that its fine to just clear the content with whatever gear you want, but not having BiS for a new ultimate can be the difference between clearing or not.

[@apathy2454]

A lot of people are with this but a lot of people also are against this (which oh I don’t get because they don’t HAVE to do it if they don’t want to) is a hide tail option I would like to be able to wear cape gear or hard armor gear without my tail clipping ridiculously lol And no I won’t change to another race with no tail because they’re not my taste.

[@ThatNormalBunny]

and on the topic of tails I'd like a tail. Miqo'te have tails, Au Ra have tails, Hroth have tails yet Viera don't which makes no sense since unless I'm crazy rabbits in the real world have tails

[@xL0stKIlah]

They need to make the BiS slot gear unnatubale so you can chose which class you want to apply it to when you open it.

[@Magnarmis]

Tomestone cap should increase every odd patch.

[@ThatNormalBunny]

Tomestone cap should be removed. If I grind for it I should be able to store 1 million of each tomestone

[@samontebanks410]

The should increase the amount the gil we earned from dungeons, quest and raids, etc

[@Magemaddd]

Gear isnt really a problem when you consider augmented tomestone gear, its baffling how quickly you cam get tomestones of astronomy so getting 620 gear at minimum isnt too hard

[@ninjaguy8519]

Alright, literally 3 seconds in and I've realized we have a palette swap of our characters

[@darkchaozbringer785]

That bit about the PvP armor is too painfully true. I waited to see others with it so I could "try before you buy", and boy was I pissed, so much so that I decided to skip out on this season of Crystaline Conflict. There's no point of me going through the cancer if there's no reward for it.

[@AC-cb1oe]

i hard disagree with getting rid of job specific gear. if a non dragoon could wear dragoon job gear, it totally ruins class identity for certain players. and totally interferes with final fantasy tradition of each job having a unique look

[@Geekezf]

Job specific gear no, indeed, i'm against the idea of a white mage wearing the lvl 90 Samurai job outfit. But, let's say, a lvl 90 armor compatible with every tank class, could be compatible with every class as a glam (and a glam only). Like, most of the SAM/MNK gears are clearly oriented toward the MNK in terms of look. While a tank oufit would look good on a SAM imo .

[@ojosama]

Even though I am in the early game. I am dreading endgame. I don't even like playing the same class per raid wing. I love switching up roles. It helps the raid feel extra fresh. And in a game whose appeal is playing multiple jobs, why shouldn't I play multiple jobs in the end game?

[@MondyTS]

I just want to be able to skip all cutscenes in the msq roulette

[@RoddyMcKev]

hi its the mandatory comment about: Hrothgar hats and hairstyles as well as their compulsory fantasia situation 😤

[@punchybot3403]

You don't need to be bis. That's just stupid that you don't think you can play a job because you don't have bis.

[@kaltar4656]

Dye storage and storage or more armors in armoire.

[@shiranuiraccoon7521]

Would be really cool if you could pay a monthly subscription with Gil honestly, WoW used to allow for that. I legit only spend gear on glamour, and i usually go for our friendly neighborhood omnicrafter lala rather than the Market for it

[@ahsidodna3355]

paying for ultimates is a gil sink

[@GutsOfRivia]

The thing that's making me wane on playing FFXIV is I feel classes are slowly losing their identity.

[@l.k.2355]

They need to get rid of class glamour restrictions for non raid and artifact gear.

[@zanejarzombek2781]

need to know what the glamours are at 6:11 onwards

[@ryaiart]

it'd be too much to list every piece of gear but most of them are a mix of either 80 or 90 artifact gear (sam/rdm, ninja gloves), drg has omega o12s body, ninja has paglthan body, summoner has vanaspati body

[@MrPetpet111]

I rather had them add a system to certain roulettes that specifically based it on who's queuing longer for a duty. Or like prioritize it on the level because there's already a lot objectives thrown to Crystal tower such as MSQ requirement, leveling 50-59 jobs even though higher ones still enter most of the time and Resistance weapon materials.

[@StormierNik]

Honestly so many people love the gearing system because they DONT play at the highest level. I'm mostly fine with the gearing system, but that's because I don't play savage a bunch. So hearing how long it would take to gear one character, let alone more than one potentially, that's awful. It shouldn't be like that at all, and its no better than other far worse grindy MMOs. It shouldn't be the case of "oh yeah gearing is fine except for the people who take it the most seriously." Oh yeah here's this amazing job system where you can play anything you want on the same character! Unless you play at the highest level, THEN you're not allowed and you have to slave away for that opportunity.

[@Sammysnows]

meanwhile Hrothgar and Viera enjoyer When we will able to use a Hat

[@medivh1035]

Well... My issue is that when next set of raids come out, current gear is outdated. So l don't want to bother farming them. I wish it is a horizontal system like guild wars 2. Yes, ultimate and Savage definitely should have a chance to drop a tradable version of totem or book alongside guaranteed the soul bind version drop. That will definitely act as gil sink And curb raid selling rmt.

[@cortes_da_direita]

I completely agree regarding the gear system. Tanks and healer always get it very late.

[@1YCARADOFACAO]

I come from a weird place as i do enjoy everything about this game. The gameplay, the balance, the mechanics, the way all classes are active and playable, the graphics, the music. There's only one thing i dislike about final fantasy, and it's final fantasy. The generic anime aesthetic, the weird technomagic, the nonsensical lore, the races looks, the gear. If that game was in any other universe i believe I'd be it's top 1 fan

[@sirdook2761]

I agree with you about the aesthetics. BUT with a little bit of effort you can make some truly badass glamours. Shame most people prefer to run around with mediocre early 90s fashion clothes.

[@DICEBOY22]

This may be a stupid suggestion But let Red Mages be able to use Shields. Just play Palidan lol... Just cosmetically I think Sword and Shield magic Hero looks more appealing than having to carry some hovering doo-dad in my hand.

[@dhzsquared6]

God dungeon/raid gear on marketboard would suck