if you were a designer for SE....

[Mai Ikari]

Get rid of the ToAU expansion altogether

I dunno about you, but I like my merit parties getting 15-25k an hour, and I know pre-AU zones couldn't get that high without crazy shit like outside cures on a WAR WAR WAR WAR BRD BRD party in the Range. >_>


The complete revamp of sea sounds nice, though.

 

[Aaleel]

I would make it so that you could add stats to your AF armor like merits. That way people could wear their AF all game, and all the jobs wouldn't look so much the same endgame, they would keep their uniqueness. I see players in Haidate, Osode/Shura, Fuma, O. Kote and turban and I don't know if it's a Mnk, Nin, or a Sam unless I see the weapon.

Would still keep people playing and endgame all the jobs would still have the artifact look. People barely wear any artifact armor endgame now, cause they're better options in most, and in the case of some jobs all the slots.

 

[Bajaratt]

I would make it so that you could add stats to your AF armor like merits. That way people could wear their AF all game, and all the jobs wouldn't look so much the same endgame, they would keep their uniqueness. I see players in Haidate, Osode/Shura, Fuma, O. Kote and turban and I don't know if it's a Mnk, Nin, or a Sam unless I see the weapon.

Would still keep people playing and endgame all the jobs would still have the artifact look. People barely wear any artifact armor endgame now, cause they're better options in most, and in the case of some jobs all the slots.

I like this idea, personally, it'd be nice to see a little more variety in gear. They could revamp some of the relic to make it similar to the current endgame gear. Better yet, they could make the relic +1 not suck and give them those stats.

 

[Mai Ikari]

Better yet, they could make the relic +1 not suck and give them those stats.

Would certainly justify the ridiculous effort/reward of CoP Dynamis, and allow near-instanced access to endgame gear (without the bizarre methods of Salvage).

 

[Tagrineth]

AF+1 should've been given better stats. A lot of it is solid but not good enough to replace some of the better pieces out there...

 

[Litant]

I started to read all the pages but lost interest somewhere around page 28. If these have already been mentioned anywhere, I apologize.

Abjurations: Make the Abjs that don't drop from Sky drop in Sea and vice versa. SE is obviously trying to push more players into Sea as it is. That'd pretty much take care of it. I know that people will respond by saying making this change would make M.Abj Body "too common". We can leave the HNMs that drop these items the way they are now, just add them to Jailers as well.

Finish RSE: Self explanatory. The hands / feet / belt are a good start. Just finish what's already been started.

AF3 via Maat: AF3 would be the best possible gear for any job in the game. I'm talking borderline broken stuff here. You want to wear the best for your job? Prove it in the ring with Maat. Make no mistake about this one, it's for elite level players only. Subjobs are allowed for both you and Maat but he can use whatever he wants. AI is through the roof. Drop is r/e and then you select which piece of gear you want when you "trade in" the r/e piece to Maat after the fight. If you want all 5 items, you'll need to beat him 5 times.

Utsusemi Icon: For the love of god just make Ichi and Ni have different icons.

Ranged Weapons: RNGs should be shown wearing their ranged weapon (instead of daggers or axes). It only pertains to RNGs. SE changed them to make them back off of mobs. Let's be fair and meet them halfway. Let them be proud of their EBow or OBow by wearing it around town.

The "biased because it's my job" fix: Either give BRD another JA or two or give us a bit higher than a C in our Singing/Wind/String. Cmon those are our primary skills. At least a B would be nice.

Customization: People love the idea of being able to customize themselves. That's why so many players mess with .dats. We can dye our chocobos different colors but haven't figured out how to cut our hair, color our hair or get a tattoo? I think SE could open the door just a bit here to let us control things beyond day one.

That's all I have for now. Tear into them guys!

 

[Mai Ikari]

The "biased because it's my job" fix: Either give BRD another JA or two or give us a bit higher than a C in our Singing/Wind/String. Cmon those are our primary skills. At least a B would be nice.

There's a very good reason it's not higher, you guys are broken enough already, don't need you landing debuffs on whatever you want with less effort than a fully geared RDM. >.>

The rest sounds good... M.body should drop off of Jailer of Love if it were moved there, along with W.legs, just because Kirin's droprate sucks. XD

 

[Litant]

There's a very good reason it's not higher, you guys are broken enough already, don't need you landing debuffs on whatever you want with less effort than a fully geared RDM. >.>

Perhaps I should've added the word "blatently" before biased. I never said it was fair. I gave you AF3! Let me have some skillz!

 

[Skaw]

Customization: People love the idea of being able to customize themselves. That's why so many players mess with .dats. We can dye our chocobos different colors but haven't figured out how to cut our hair, color our hair or get a tattoo? I think SE could open the door just a bit here to let us control things beyond day one.

That's all I have for now. Tear into them guys!

Chocobo dying doesn't alter anything though, it's basically an automatic .dat swap, but only for your bird. But as far as I can tell, it lasts Forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Evvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, because I'm on week 4 of my chocobo being red, when it's a natural yellow. It still shows up yellow for Racing, however.

 

[Celvantes]

AF3 via Maat: AF3 would be the best possible gear for any job in the game. I'm talking borderline broken stuff here.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Ares's_Cuirass_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Skadi's_Cuirie_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Usukane_Haramaki_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Marduk's_Jubbah_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Morrigan's_Robe_Set

SE beat ya to it, I think. Not via Maat, but I think this is the closest to broken that SE will ever let us get.

 

[Bajaratt]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Ares's_Cuirass_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Skadi's_Cuirie_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Usukane_Haramaki_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Marduk's_Jubbah_Set

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Morrigan's_Robe_Set

SE beat ya to it, I think. Not via Maat, but I think this is the closest to broken that SE will ever let us get.

Yeah, I just wish the Marduk set didn't suck so much for whm, unless you jack off to +mnd. It's got great pieces for almost every job, but some jobs barely get any use out of the gear.

 

[Negorissimo]

For most jobs, yes, it's as close to broken as SE has ever made before. My point was the set blows for whm though, unless all you care about is +mnd. They're getting us to play by making the salvage items take a long time to get, that doesn't have anything to do with making one set useless for a job.

Although being one of if not the best looking set it really sucks for WHM. There is better equipment for them that have +Healing and faster Cure casting. But this is pure secks for SMNs and BRDs! =D

 

[Isac]

I dno if this has been said threw the 64 pages that im not willing to read but for fun ill post my idea.

Id like to make a fairly difficult quest to unlock a 2nd 2hr ability, sort of like obtaining your "ultimate power" for the job after say, caping all merrits of said job or something. As overpowerd as it sounds i think id be fun to have another super ability ^^-b.

 

[Isac]

sry double post

 

[Celvantes]

Yeah, I just wish the Marduk set didn't suck so much for whm, unless you jack off to +mnd. It's got great pieces for almost every job, but some jobs barely get any use out of the gear.

Let me reiterate my main point:

SE beat ya to it, I think. Not via Maat, but I think this is the closest to broken that SE will ever let us get.

This is the same SE whose sole purpose in life is to make us play this game as long as possible.

 

[Khajit]

IThe "biased because it's my job" fix: Either give BRD another JA or two or give us a bit higher than a C in our Singing/Wind/String. Cmon those are our primary skills. At least a B would be nice.

That's all I have for now. Tear into them guys!

You know or probably should be told that when you sing a song the two skills combine if you are using an instrument.(please correct me if im wrong. this was the impression I got when reading about songs a while ago.)
You essentially have a 450 skill cap at 75 for landing songs. Somehow that makes me think you dont really need any help with that.

 

[Bajaratt]

Let me reiterate my main point:



This is the same SE whose sole purpose in life is to make us play this game as long as possible.

For most jobs, yes, it's as close to broken as SE has ever made before. My point was the set blows for whm though, unless all you care about is +mnd. They're getting us to play by making the salvage items take a long time to get, that doesn't have anything to do with making one set useless for a job.

 

[Raesvelg]

I'd still be fond a "training" system for characters where you could simply buy skill levels up to your normal cap rather than having to slave through the process of skilling up weapons and spells after the fact. Hell, I can think of a few ways to do it that wouldn't even need gil, specialized Assault missions for one.

 

[Litant]

You know or probably should be told that when you sing a song the two skills combine if you are using an instrument.(please correct me if im wrong. this was the impression I got when reading about songs a while ago.)
You essentially have a 450 skill cap at 75 for landing songs. Somehow that makes me think you dont really need any help with that.

Bard songs are kind of like weapon skills in a way. Some weapon skills have a single modifier and some have more than one (like STR 50% / DEX 50%). Our songs work similar to this. It's a combination of Singing, Wind and CHR in most cases. It's not the sheer total of both that matters, rather a even mix of the two.

To have a legit chance at sticking songs on gods and HNMs, BRDs need to clear around 100 total CHR and somewhere in the neighborhood of 245 on both Singing and Wind skills. Ideally you want to be over 255 on both but then you're talking about getting into some elite level gear. The only way you can clear 260-265 on both is with Gjallarhorn, very good gear and merits. To put that in perspective. RDMs at 75 get 275 base Enfeebling before you add gear and merits into the mix.

Anyway, like I said, it's a pipe dream of mine to catch a break from SE without working for it. In all honesty Mai Ikari is right when he said it'd probably break the game to have us landing Elegy on anything and everything we wanted. It's just me dreaming!