[Whitney]

I do NOT want to see...

1. The vast majority of methods in which you can advance your character being so dependent on large groups of players, many of which are after exactly the same piece of gear, which makes some people suffer simply because their job will not allow them to play at this or that hour range. So tired of everything requiring 18+ people, wanting this or that piece of gear for your entire playing career and never being able to have a shot at it, etc. More rewards you can earn solo, in other words. Not that the best ones shouldn't require a LOT of work- they should still be very hard to get- just shouldn't have to HOPE that one day this or that member won't show up so you can bid on something. One reason, other than job situations and impending homelessness, that I no longer have interest in endgame shells. Why bother at this point? It would take me another year+ to rack up enough points with a big endgame shell to even have a chance in hell at an e-body or ridill even, and I've wanted those two since I first learned of them way back when.

2. Timed HNM spawns. Really, really stupid. I know some people have a boner for camping them, but I fail to see the fun in waiting for 2 hours only to have the damn thing spawn already claimed 90% of the time. hundreds of people in a small area all greedily vying for the same thing, not my idea of fun. There should be a big, solid story line, the way they used to be in the days of FFVI, VII, VIII. THAT is what we should be working together to accomplish, NOT gear, so one or two lucky people can gloat about how great their gear is for the rest of their playing career.

3. Inaccurate strength counters for enemies- yes, a T mob in most cases is a very easy mark for a 75 Blm...HOWEVER.... a T might as well be Impossible to gauge for a 75 Cor in many cases. Likewise, a Pld/Dnc probably will have no trouble with a DC, but some DC's will whip the crap out of a 75 War, particularly one without bolts and depending on sub at the time. I think we all remember the first time an EP rabbit kicked our @ss. Don't act like you haven't had that happen;) And what is up with occasionally missing a lvl 1 rabbit when you have 300+ sword skill? yeah, that's happened. +40some acc and 300+ skill and I saw misses at times. That ain't right.

4. Events like besieged in which, if you fight for half an hour and then RIGHT before the end have a disconnect, you log back in to find you didn't get counted at ALL for any of it and just wasted a good half hour or so of your life for nothing. That happened to me a lot, back when I gave a crap about besieged.

5. Consistent mining points. If you're going to have mining in the game, don't put spawn points where an RMT can sit there til the end of time and monopolize the spot. I'm looking at you, Mt. Zhayolm. Points should be too random to predict and even if you could, there should be mobs patrolling all of them so that they would rape any RMT dumb enough to try to stand there for too long.

That, or, you know, require people to be lvl 75 (or whatever the max 'lvl' will be, or maybe just make it so that they have to have mining lvld to a certain skill lvl first) to mine in the higher tier areas. Be a little tougher for them to re-lvl a new character when banned and just post it there again within a day or two if they had to get to max lvl first.
And no farming endeavor should ever make you go 6 hours of constant work for very little profit. I've gone through I think 70 stacks of picks without getting a single khroma ore before. Now that's not cool. Rare is fine, but that's just retarded. 'luck' should be raised the longer you mine there until you get something. That way you won't go empty handed after mining all day while another guy walks in and gets 3 in 2 hours (seen it happen).

6. Every enemy having an irritating move. Some things are just stupid. Enemies should have strategies to defeat them, not be given this or that annoying move simply to make them harder, with no way around it other than 'dont eat food' or 'eat cheap food or be rich enough to keep buying 50k stacks or else keep missing'. If an enemy has a move, there should be a tactic to mitigate that. Am I the only one who feels that just about every mob in the newer expansions has some irritating move? lol Just saying

7. NPC's with insanely over-priced items. I understand the desire to create a player-driven economy, but why even bother having npc's selling low lvl weapons for freaking 80k or some such crap in that case? Nobody is going to buy them from the npc for 80k when you can get them for 8k on the AH. Potions in this game have always been such a joke- npc sells them for how much and they heal how much hp? Why even bother putting them in? Tease us? Is that it? "Hey, remember when these items were useful and didn't cost you your left testicle for no real benefit?" There ARE some things npc's sell that are useful and not expensive- just that many items are not only massively over-priced (especially considering that when the game was new many people had never even seen a million gil, or even 100k, and now that's chump change, but the npc's prices were already retarded high back then), but in many cases useless compared to synth items on the AH.

8. Coffers/chests that you pretty much have to die at after opening unless you manage the miracle of warping out in time once invis drops. Why? Just....why? That's not funny.

9. Weapons that dull/break over time. I hate when game makers think this is clever. Why work hard on achieving something only to have to pay to repair it later? Arent some of these weapons supposed to be mythical in properties? Isn't this Final FANTASY- not reality? What's next, electricity bills for our mog house every month? If Cloud and Sephiroth can slice buildings in half with their swords and never have to sharpen them, why should we? I really hope they don't do this.

10. Actually this falls in line with #3- 'Impossible to gauge' needs to be more clear- 'Impossible to gauge' mobs can run from very weak, low lvl crabs (lol....bubbly) to Vrrtras and Fafhoggs. There's really no way other than poking and finding out, at least early in the game or if you've looked it up first, and sometimes there isn't time to when you see something...how strong that mob is. Imagine starting XIV and seeing something very similar to Bubbly Bernie outside of a town similar to Bastok, laughingly going up and trying to kill it... only to have it turn around and smack you for 3,000 dmg. Down a lvl you go. not so fun, right? Then again, perhaps that would take part of the fun out of adventure seeking. Leap first eh guys?

[Aark]

pointy feet.

[Brayker]

Aark, on 28 January 2010 - 12:08 PM, said:

pointy feet.

I prefer the clawed feet in Aion to the square toes of mithra in FFXI >.>;

[Eternalkaiser]

lol first off they said there will be no job lvs so you wont need lv syn.

second off take the3-9day HQ king pop away that is just a waste of time keep the sky/sea/salvag type of hnm system or

what i really wish is for them to have a build up system it would rid us of a lot of problems, for instance you need gear A and peice B to get Gear C and you need gear C to peice D to get gear E. such as crafting of a sort since they said ( at leat i thought i heard them say) they will be NO AH(auction house) and thanx god for that the AH is one of the things that fucked over ffxi, no ah means each person with help or not would have to get gear A,C and E and peice B and D them self. that way it we wont end up in a situation like in ffxi where leaping boots are liek +20 lv and shit but then again since there is no lv i dont know if it matters.

since they said solo will good in this game as well as parting you wont haveto wait and as no jobs in the game im at a loss as to how the"we need this set up" statement will work i mean they have the classes but so far the only real diffrence is mage and war.

lol yea timed birds were gay needs to be gone, oh and if they can get rid of the damn YOU CAN NOT ENGAGE MOB WHILE ITS BEATING YOUR ASS thing (sometimes i hit disengage when im fighing idk) that be a + to.

like i said ah needs to go i know i know im a crafter too and i like to play the market but if they take the AH andi hope they do they need to BEEF UP the bazzar system/craft system( so dont worriecrafters if i get what there saying with the whole story of the guy comming home and fixing his armor then weapons have durabiltiy on them and ppl will still need crafts to fix them for a price lol )



oh and uhhh

im not seeing a THF job in there as of yet and iv been a thf for more then 6yrs in ffxi so i hope it willcome be or a job has the steal function but i swear i dont want to see mug unless you make it usefull and or damagaing. i swear it dont even have to be money just like fur one of the posssable drops somethign that damn mob has even the mobs fucking weapon even if we cant use im just tired of mug in ffxi. oh and take Treasure hunter away since its a palcebo or make it actualy mean something.

[C.A.T.A.L.Y.S.T]

I dont wanna see the same use of the AH again i want to see something similar to WoW's AH where you can see the various prices of each items and have a set bid to start at and a set buy out price incase you dont want to wait and are in a rush.

[Sorai]

relying on other people to do stuff, I'd like some solo-ability
I want the summoner job back....with different avatars...stop making our avas into HNMs or quest NMs/ENMs
last but not least...I don't want there to be a rabbit that exists who can kill a high lvl that's just bogus!

[C.A.T.A.L.Y.S.T]

Sorai, on 19 February 2010 - 11:07 PM, said:

relying on other people to do stuff, I'd like some solo-ability
I want the summoner job back....with different avatars...stop making our avas into HNMs or quest NMs/ENMs
last but not least...I don't want there to be a rabbit that exists who can kill a high lvl that's just bogus!

lol no matter how bogus it felt when a low lvl rabbit whooped our asses you gotta admit along with the shock it was probably the funniest thing youve seen especially if you were maxed out at 75

[Corrderio]

They still don't got anything on the Monty Python killer bunny.

[Mialea^^]

"Synthesis failed. You lost the crystal you were using."
"A piece of divine lumber was lost"
"A piece of divine lumber was lost"




that is all

[PaladinAlik]

durabillity DO NOT WANT

[Venidar]

Any form of monster camping, it's complete fail.
Requiring any form of group assistance to level. It's 2010. Solo leveling to cap is an absolute must, anything else is just archaic.
Hidden stats.... like seriously.
Pointless Jobs/Classes.
A crafting system even remotely resembling the disaster that it is in FFXI.
Quests/Missions that require you to wait till JP Midnight to continue.
Quests with worthless rewards.


I'm sure there's more but that's all that I can think of atm.

[C.A.T.A.L.Y.S.T]

Mialea^^, on 26 February 2010 - 07:11 AM, said:

"Synthesis failed. You lost the crystal you were using."
"A piece of divine lumber was lost"
"A piece of divine lumber was lost"




that is all

I dunno bout this one i think it makes sense it does suck dont get me wrong but its not supposed to be easy to create what your trying to especially if you got rare material so as much as its happened to me as well i hope they keep it this way just to keep it interesting and painful.

What i dont wanna see is have a damn Battering Ram spot you like a mile fuckin away and as you look that way it looks like a sheep walkin towards you til you lookin again an its sum bigass furry truck trying to run you down.

[soetkin]

C.A.T.A.L.Y.S.T, on 26 February 2010 - 11:13 AM, said:

I dunno bout this one i think it makes sense it does suck dont get me wrong but its not supposed to be easy to create what your trying to especially if you got rare material so as much as its happened to me as well i hope they keep it this way just to keep it interesting and painful.

What i dont wanna see is have a damn Battering Ram spot you like a mile fuckin away and as you look that way it looks like a sheep walkin towards you til you lookin again an its sum bigass furry truck trying to run you down.

I want Sprint. OH! Oh! and "jump" so addictive (yes i played wow...)

[Vangoh32]

Ok I know this is a "Things you do NOT want to see in FF 14" Thread but you can't help but to add/change things when you talk about this so Imma just spit it out on the things that I hate and love about FFXI all in random order

Mob Problems.

Bulky big and fat mobs running faster than you wtf?

And yes it is fuken ridiculous when a low ass lvl mob kicks your uber powered high lvl ass just because

Faken killing a sheep pwns me and shit right? Then a tiger passes by and just kinda stares at the sheep going "so what up buddy?" sheep goes "not much just pwning some noobs" WTF?! I mean wtf?! Faken tiger is a vegetarian seriously?

The idea of having NMs was wonderful I loved it. But it's just stupid to camp the same mutha faken NM for 1 year and be like 0/900 on drop is it just me or does that really pisses you off too?

OK after introducing Lamie(medusa/mermaid monsters) there were mobs that had that move that strips you off your gear pretty much disabling you and even resetting TP. Geez aren't we supposed to do something similar to mobs like...i dunno, break their arms so they can't attack lol? Something like that.

How about show wounds on the mob when you hit them just for visuals and like the arrows when you shoot them?

Events With a Large Number of People

NO MORE 5 HOUR DYNAMIS. With like 10% chance of having your AF drop and having to compete with 10 more ppl for it so you pretty much have 1% chance to get the drop IF it actually drops.

If they gonna do something like campaign/besieged again make it so you earn for what you did, and i mean this as in i participate in one of those fight and then DC and get no xp man that pissed the shit out of me.

BRING BACK PVP!!!!!!!!!! wtf man a large number of ppl actually enjoy this shit, and i hope is not some shitty "sport" where you have to reserve a stupid stage to fight wtf was that? If someone talks shit about you or you just wanna play rough with your buddies why can't you just do it like men lol? "Take it outside" town, ask for a duel and either pussy your way out or accept to fight for your life. (LOL that sounded so right) Of course there will have to be fair and even, SE will have to work that out (lol yeah right). But yeah man, PVP in FFXI was a joke, it was awesome IMO but not quite, in fact ppl thought it sucked so bad it practically died in most servers.

Speaking of crowded events, they gotta work on the lag issue man. It might be your PC's problem but if a game can't handle large number of ppl in the same place then what's the point? I can't afford a $2k PC just so i don't dc every time i look at a group of 5 ppl fighting something.

Yeah depending on a large amount of ppl does suck balls. But hey man life ain't easy and team work is fun. With that being said if you're a lone wolf they should add quests or something like that to get the exact same thing a large group is trying to get. But it wouldn't be just any quest, it'd be a hard ass and log quest but it would be soloable. Fair enough? I think so and come on man ppl got a life and gotta do shit they can't be spending that much time trying to get something, why can't we just work on our own time?. It's gay enough that some cock sucker in your LS gets the gear you want and they didn't do anything but suck your LS's leader dick while you're breaking your back for that piece of gear.

Social Life and Interaction

And i just sort of posted about this on another thread, there was practically no social life in FFXI. I said over there that all we had was this shitty ass hostel thing you'd rent and you had no privacy anyway that was really gay.

Then we have the outposts lol they're just there for OP warp and shit but can't even go in and have a jug of beer with the guys and girls (wink wink) that would be nice right? lol i laughed my ass off at the post of that other guy who said that he got pwned in front of an OP guard thinking he'd help him LOLOLOL, nah but he's actually right. They guards right they suppose to defend unless they don't got ethics and shit but come on it's a game and this goes for all npcs, wtf they standing there for? some are actually doing something but the ones at the shops are like "oh sorry we closed atm" then you're like "so wtf you doing standing there?" lol ya know what i mean?

Next you got a mutha fuken bed in your mutha faken mog house wtf? You can't use any of your furniture you own lol?

Speaking of social life, what about families? It'd be nice to have brothers/sisters/parents and shit no? What if you wanna be brothers with your best friend? or whatever....you could have a last name next to your first. They are gonna give us something like that after all. Then your character would have an actual background for all those hardcore role players and shit.

On the interaction side, it would be nice if we were able to interact with objects and stuff like climbing ladders, maybe opening doors I dunno.

I'm not saying we should be able to jump or swim or anything like that but there should be times where you are required to do so like on FFXI you'd "jump" and All you'd see is a black screen and you'd reappear in another location or something.

I'd like to see A LOT of emotes, for EVERYTHING. A lot of emotes were just "X person is happy" and he'd just stand there doing nothing, even if you can't see the expression from afar they should let you see the character smiling or something, and omg what about /hug? or stuff that ppl do /em a lot for, /greet (would be like shake someone's hand or something like that you know interacting with other players as well. You would do /gree <t> then you'd get a message like "Warrior would like to shake your hand and hit "interact" or just type something like /agree I don't know but I think that's a good idea. We also need a /sex emote just for shits and giggles hehehehe.

Customization and Looks

To me the main things that make a game (specially rpg) a great game is storyline and customization with that on mind, I would like a very vast and extended selection of customization of all kinds starting with character customization. We know that SE doesn't want to see nudity or shit but they should let us decide how tall we will look, how fat we will be, how big our muscles look, a very important one is our facial traits, even though most games suck at detailed facial customization they should just let us adjust a few thigns on our face nothing major (nose, eyes, mouth, scars, tattoos(omg tattoo customization and design PLEEZ), make up, piercing and such), for the ladies or ppl who play female characters they should let them choose how big their breasts want to be and their ass too of course (that one goes for men too lol), it's not for pervert purposes but stetical (sp).

To have different models of armor, omg in FFXI there's a shit load of armor that looks the same just different color lol or at least let us choose the color for god's sake, all the cool armor with good stats have the frutiest colors it makes you look totally gay.

While we're talking about armor here wouldn't you love to see your characters' back gear (capes, cloaks, whatever) to be shown on your character? It'd look wicked awesome and cool to see your characters cape to be moved by the wind or some shit like that.

Weapon grips, pouches, arrow cases, guns, bows (even though we saw they have that already). I want to see them on the character.

Miscellaneous

I'm sick of all the LOLjob/class. I wanna be able to play any class and not have it bashed 'cause the class itself sucks ass. I love pup and it's my 2nd main, but it takes skill to be a good puppet master and no one wants pups in their pt 'cause ppl gave it a bad reputation. I want to see all jobs have a crucial place on every situation. We don't wanna sit some place and wait hours to get invited 'cause it's not a popular job. Nuff said?

Beastmen...do they just fight for the sake of it? I know some are savages but some are quite intelligent yet they fight for no reason. As far as I know in FFXI only the mamool ja had a real reason to fight, they were trying to keep the peace among their tribe and keeping the empire from taking over the world. I might be wrong but that's what I've understood.

Make it easier to make gil or not have stuff cost shit load of gilz, Or at lest do something from keeping the economy from crashing, we got enough to worry about with the RL recession to worry about an in game economic depression.




Ok I've probably said enough, but there's so much that needs to be improved and..........yes i blew out some steam already and feel better lol. > .>

BYE!

This post has been edited by Vangoh32: 29 March 2010 - 12:55 AM

[Albela]

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Bulky big and fat mobs running faster than you wtf?

Rhinos are bulky and fat, but they run faster than humans.

[MattelotLeviathan]

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its not supposed to be easy to create what your trying to

Says who?

Not only were some materials ridiculous for most to acquire but losing them when you were trying to get a .1 skillup is just asinine. Crafting should be something that anyone can do without the effort that many I know had to put forth. I'm not saying to make it super easy, but WoW had a good idea when they implemented daily quests to acquire certain recipes, etc.

[thunderblazeFF14]

WhiteMageUla, on 01 December 2009 - 12:47 PM, said:

How about it not being only on Blu ray.. that would blow my computer doesn't do blu ray and i'm not going out and dropping 600 on a blu ray opti drive.

I got a bluray drive months ago for 100 or under from newegg. OEM is your friend.

[kingM]

No to playable male Miqo'te.

[Tachibana]

To be honest I liked everything in XI except for Level Sync...That is the only thing I didn't like about it. But thats just me so meh.

[conran]

edit: i'll play nice today i suppose

This post has been edited by conran: 14 April 2010 - 07:14 PM