This forum often has a lot of posts asking for the developers to make this or that change, QOL feature, improvement, etc. After it's satisfied it can be easy to forget it was ever something requested. This thread is not really about balance changes or new duties. Think more options, quality-of-life, and more convenient ways of undertaking existing tasks.
As someone who started in September of last year:
Liberating Housing Exteriors
I love how they made it so we could use any house of any style in any residential area, with even the ability to mix-and-match the components for some original creations. I never felt it was necessary to limit certain housing styles to certain wards, and the argument of it not fitting became moot when you have stuff like the Paissa house or Shirogane castle. Housing (in the context of FFXIV) should never be about what your neighbours think is right or wrong anyway, and as long as it's in your property you should be able to have what you want, so I like this change.
Achievement Watchlist and Improved Filters
A lot of achievements have cool item rewards and titles, and I love having a way to quickly see the ones I am interested in, since a lot of the categories have become rather dense. Only thing I would ask for here is for some kind of toast to appear telling you of progress on ones you have on watch at an interval (say, every 10% towards completion), and maybe a more convenient way of getting your rewards.
Automatic Collectables
Speaking of dense, I am a bit of an airhead and have definitely accidentally HQ'd items intended for my weekly custom deliveries. If something has literally no value outside of being a collectable I do like that they are automatically crafted as one for clumsy folks like me.
Anyway, I just wanted to post some examples to get a conversation started. What features and changes have they made that you like?
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As someone who started in September of last year:
Liberating Housing Exteriors
I love how they made it so we could use any house of any style in any residential area, with even the ability to mix-and-match the components for some original creations. I never felt it was necessary to limit certain housing styles to certain wards, and the argument of it not fitting became moot when you have stuff like the Paissa house or Shirogane castle. Housing (in the context of FFXIV) should never be about what your neighbours think is right or wrong anyway, and as long as it's in your property you should be able to have what you want, so I like this change.
Achievement Watchlist and Improved Filters
A lot of achievements have cool item rewards and titles, and I love having a way to quickly see the ones I am interested in, since a lot of the categories have become rather dense. Only thing I would ask for here is for some kind of toast to appear telling you of progress on ones you have on watch at an interval (say, every 10% towards completion), and maybe a more convenient way of getting your rewards.
Automatic Collectables
Speaking of dense, I am a bit of an airhead and have definitely accidentally HQ'd items intended for my weekly custom deliveries. If something has literally no value outside of being a collectable I do like that they are automatically crafted as one for clumsy folks like me.
Anyway, I just wanted to post some examples to get a conversation started. What features and changes have they made that you like?
Continue reading...