What would you change?Follow

More PvP than just Balista. Just imo.

It takes too darn long to get to different places in this game. And I am a WHM w/ BLM subbed so I do not have a hard time getting around (I can even get to Windurst in under 2 minutes from anywhere which has to do with Teleport-Vahzl and doing the supply quest in Xarcabard btw) but when I go to level somewhere it takes everyone 30 minutes to get together, and god forbid someone should leave, it takes another 30 mins to get a replacement.

-Tweed

Another layer of sub-job, making it possible to sub a third job. Requiring level 75.

Upon doing this, a quest would open up to break the 75 cap, and move on all the way to 100.

So perhaps you might see something like PLD100/NIN50/WAR25 (arbitrary choice).

The idea being more customizability and room to experiment.

And of course areas and content catering to this level range.

Then, Advanced jobs beyond the Extra ones, requiring lvl 100 to unlock. And once you get an Advanced job to 100 quests become available to break your lvl cap to, oh, 125 or so. =P

You could do all sorts of things here really. Like a Necromancer. I wanna raise armies of the undead dammit!

Say a necromancer could raise maybe 5 undead. And say they have SMN subbed, so there's an avatar in there too. =P

Controlling an army of undead would require some fine macro skill, but if you've gotten to level 100, I should hope you possess some of this.

And just to make it require some strategy, perhaps unlike SMN which has a constant MP tick, NEC could have a constant HP tick, based on how many undead have been raised.

Geomancer offers some interesting ideas. Spells having the three-pronged effect of causing damage, creating or further exposing elemental weaknesses, and slapping stat effects on there too. Give them the weakness of the stat effects being potent, but having a short short duration. Maybe cause the GEO to have the same elemental weaknesses cast on THEM.

Blue mage. Everyone wants a blue mage, as far as I can tell. =P

Templar, with abilities that double or triple hate gain.

These are rough sketch ideas, and I'm thinking long term. Content added overtime to maintain interest in this game in the face of MMORPG competition. I'd like this game to stick around and remain popular for a long long time.

[Edit: Clarified some genkai-type stuff.]

Edited, Mon Nov 15 05:20:30 2004 by nataraja

More thoughts before I go to bed.

Leveling past 75 in an expeditious fashion requires link chaining. Taking on two mobs at once, and killing both roughly at the same time (requiring that you be working on both at the same time, i.e. no sleeping one off until you're ready to take it on.)

Two at once opens a whole new can of tactical worms. Say, link chaining pushes your xp gain up into the 500 range per linked pair killed. Then add in standard chaining on top of it, with say a 600 xp cap.

And I should think a link chain should only be possible when taking on mobs which con VT or above to the highest-level pt member.

"Spiked" hate-gaining AOE abilities. Those familiar with the more intricate areas of tanking understand that you have two ways to gain hate. Low hate, long burn abilities like White Magic and Ninjitsu, and High hate, short burn abilities like Provoke and Shield Bash. The ability to cause short-lived hate spikes on more than one mob would be useful if you need to start killing two at once at higher levels.

A quest specifically geared to allow you to make alliances of up to 24 rather than 18, available at, ehh, lvl 110 or so.

And start stepping up the difficulty with mobs so that xping starts requiring alliances. =P

Yeah, I know I'm masochistic. =P

I've got many more ideas, but to avoid turning this from a thread about all our ideas to a thread about my ideas, I think I'll refrain for now.

Feedback would be cool though. ^^

I'd like to be able to LFG with any job I want, so I would show up with my 55 WHM, 29 BLM, and 12 DRK all seeking party ^^

Problem with raising past level 75 is balance. You'll have every mages and their grandmother sub redmage at level 82 for refresh and convert, at level 100 throw in a level 25 bard or summoner sub for more mp refresh underneath that tripple layer sub. What are the needs for redmages and bards in a party then? What would happen to support jobs? in the end you get a party of uber 6 people that had so many extra abilities that instead of being a group dynamics which is already bad as is (only certain jobs get parties easily while the rest sits out). NOw you have even more jobs being excluded. That does not make for fun parties, it also left a large portion of the players who chose support jobs as our jobs to be forced to come back and level other things. Something dragoons knows so much about.

The last three new jobs that was added were 2 melees (dragoon and sam) that does not alter group dynamics much, and ninja which changed the way the whole game was to be play. Before Rise of the zilart there were no such things as blink tanking. The only tanks were the paladin and the warrior. To this day paladins and ninjas still argues about who's the better tank with the warrior on the side taking jabs. Its an example of how adding just one extra job can alter the whole structure of how the game is played. Square enix tried hard to have a balance of all jobs and though they did royally screwed up one, dragoon, the other jobs pretty much will have their moment in the sun but not for long if more stuff are added.

Adding new jobs will just take it all away. What is the purpose of a bluemage? This game is elemental based so what if the bluemage learn screwdriver and used it against a pug who's strong def is water? The bluemage jobs, to tell you the truth, is being taken by Beastmasters. And they DO work well it groups. Mobs are designed so lazily that the Robber crabs you're fighting at level 56 does the same moves as the snipper level 14. Being a bluemage definitely wouldn't be fun. How many mobs outthere do you fight with Meteor or ultima, those cool moves everyone wants to imitate? HOw many times can you do bubble showers over and over? since you basically leveled off like 5 kind of mobs the whole time.

This is Square's first time doing MMORPG and it shows in end game when the only fun is to camp the various HNM over and over or go back and level another jobs with the uber load of cash you made from HNM hunting. Some people found it repetitive and quit but adding new things to unbalanced the game would just make more people quit. With the subjobs system it created the fun of being able to mix and match abilities yet ultimately made the creation of a lot of jobs useless, since you can already do the samething with the current job mix. THe major thing I would want to see is better mob selections and levels correspondent. People fight onions in kazam after 25 because they are easy EXP. True there are other alternatives but they do not give the same "easy time" as onions. SO in the end, make the other mobs more productive or nerf the onions by making them harder, just dont' make it so pulling onions during peak time is like camping for lizzy.

I'm sorry for ranting but back on topic I would like to raise my own chocobo like a tamagotchi and whistle for it to come to me whenever I need. I also like wintaru's idea of being able to lfp with all my jobs. I like to make it so everyone can enter my mog house and see it. I would like the marriage system to be more refined and less difficult to sign up. I would also like the ability to BbQ a taru. Thank you.

Have a counter on top of the screen to show the performance of the party members. Its like a build in parser. Letting people know how they are doing.

1)total damage dealt to mob
2)total damage received from mob
3)total hp healed
4)total mp healed(refreshed)
5)hate time held in %.

This will show the effectiveness of the each player. It will also end the age old DD-job-A verses DD-job-B pissing contest. This system will truely show how good a player is or weed out the weak ones.

More Nomad Moggles. One should be in Selbina so when a gob train kicks your *** you can quickly change jobs and woop his *** right back. Plus we need one in Yhoater Jungle to keep the Smithy Population down.

Ill definetly have to aggree with you Nights, I tend to forget most of the story line due to it not being very constant. I can see where it would be quite tough to have a story as intricate as the other single player FFs, that is built for this many people to go through.

I would also love to see Blue Mage introduced...maybe as part of a set of more advanced jobs, that require lvl 50 or 60 maybe.
a Berserker could be interesting also. I do beleive it could be done and balanced somewhat recently, maybe by putting a level requirement on some of the higher level mob abilities.

Also I would like to add more character customization, yes running into my twin is cool sometimes...but I seem to look just like every 3rd Mithra.

The 'remote scan' interface sucks rocks. I need to be able to artifically 'turn down' the radius on my widescan or be able to filter the list somehow. A level 60+ ranger can dang near see all the mob on the map. Even at full scroll speed, you rarely stand a chance of claiming VE or Lizzy. Remote scan makes you have to move the cursor to the desired area (and it doesn't stick to the same spot, so you have to do it every time). This causes too much time to be lost as well.

That is all for now.

i strongly strongly agree about the slow travel time thing...

the transporation system should not be so elite. for example, i don't think a person should have to reach rank 5 before they can use the airships between cities. or even 20 to be able to use a chocobo. or, maybe with the chocobo, once a player obtains the chocobo license i say they should be able to use it with any of their jobs, even if they are sub-20.

it puts people with limited amounts of time at an EXTREME disadvantage. if you don't that much time to lvl, then you don't have that much time to travel to lvling spots, and you definitely don't have much time to organize and get together with people to do rank 4 and 5 in order to get the airship pass to make things go faster.

i think missions especially should be made more challenging maybe to keep the balance, but way less time consuming.

maybe basic teleport points should be placed around vanadiel. perhaps cash in exp points for teleports from area to area. so you're taking an exp cut to zip to another area, but the intention is to make it back once you get there. more advanced areas require a larger exp point payment. that would keep low level jobs from just teleporting anywhere, cause they'd take a big exp cut and probably lose a lvl or so.

more crags. the good ol method of paying a whm/blm to tele you works ok for most places, but not for everywhere. build more crags.

all in all, i'd like to see SE make it a little easier to get around Vana'diel.

Only two things really, in order of importance.

#1: To be able to send things to my mules or another player from within my mog. I hate having to send money I have made by selling stuff on AH from my mule to my main by always running to AH every single time. Such an inconvenience.

#2: Basically a RNG request...I want to be able to quiver arrows past lvl 29 Horn arrows. 12 Stacks of 99 Scorpion arrows plus a few stacks of Elemental arrows takes up way too much room in my inventory, and I have done all 5 Gobbie Bag quests.

The lowest level you can be to ride a chocobo is level 15. Even then you can only get your ride from one of the three major cities. Hopping a ride from the Crags is restricted to jobs of a minimum of level 20.