A few reasons why WoW is better than FFXIV

[Sunzsu-alexstrasza]

This is why I use arabic numerals like normal people.

[Stradkiller-alleria]

Fabricated my observations, sure.

[Wasselin-thrall (Wasselin)]

A lot of this is just personal preference. I don’t think it’s worthwhile to debate which one is “better”. It’s like debating if hamburgers or cheesecake is better. It’s just going to be your personal taste.

[Kiereco-blackhand (Kiereco)]

@Tevan-draenor

Continuous world environment. No loading screens between zones (aside from instances and major continents)

With SSD’s nowadays, I can’t see this as a complaint. Also, I’m on an HDD and no loading screen is more than 10sec unless it’s to Limsa, then it’s around 20 on an HDD.

@Tevan-draenor

• Saturated Color Palette. The colors in FFXIV feel muted by comparison, and all of the shadows are a bland shade of gray. The visual silhouettes in WoW may feel “cartoony” by comparison, but the colors are vibrant and captivating.

I guess you didn’t play it long. 14 color palette is amazing, especially since it changes during weathers such as rain/thunderstorms/snow/etc.

@Tevan-draenor

Playable Race Variety. WoW has significantly more (and more diverse) playable race options than FFXIV. Yes, WoW’s character models, facial emotes, and customization options could use an update to help bring it up to par with FFXIV, but the overall character variety is still greater.

I mean, I’m neutral on this. I normally only play Elves so all these fluff races we have on WoW don’t overly appeal to me. Except Vulpera. They are cute.

@Tevan-draenor

Smoother Character Control. Tab targeting is horrible in FFXIV, often tabbing you to targets that are nowhere in range of any of your abilities. WoW works the way you’d expect it to, even prioritizing targets that are in the middle of casting (for interrupts, and so forth). The animations and the way in which your character interacts with their environment feels more immediate than FFXIV (FFXIV has this weird animation delay thing between when an ability is triggered, when the animation finishes, and when the results are displayed on-screen… even though mathematically it’s all determined at the moment the ability is pressed).

They actually have an option to toggle your tab target. Two modes instead of WoWs one, incase you didn’t know. It could be improved though, but just remember that WoW took a long time to fix this and I still tab target crap above me in Korthia.

Animations are meant to have “feeling” and “weight” to them. That’s why they have animations. It’s a huge plus to me. Do you know how underwhelming backstab feels compared to say, Aeolian Edge in 14? Night and day.

[Tacothebell-lightbringer]

A lot of the OP is subjective, esp. the first section.

@Tevan-draenor

Simplify Flying Unlock. FFXIV allows you to unlock flying per zone (in part because of the way their world is made). WoW could do something similar, such as granting the ability to fly for that zone upon completion of that zone’s “Loremaster” and “Explorer” achievements (even for new content). Reputation grinds are not fun nor meaningful to unlock this sort of feature. In fact, I find myself more eager to grind reputations when flying is unlocked rather than before I get the relevant Pathfinder achievement.

This is the most important point of the OP for me. There’s no timegating on flight in FF14. That’s huge.

More account-wide things would be nice as well in general.

[Frostyjawn-andorhal]

NFL doesn’t do it with the super bowls.

[Bruh-misha]

@Tevan-draenor

Diverse Class Fantasy. I’m not saying that the individual class fantasy is better in WoW than it is in FFXIV, I’m just stating that the array of different classes feels more diverse. This is perhaps due largely to individual talent specs and base world lore that the classes are designed around.

I disagree with this. I feel like FFXIV does class fantasy better. For example, playing a Bard actually feels like you’re playing a Bard with its songs–and when you’re not killing monsters you can pull up literally any instrument you want and play your own songs anywhere. There are videos of Bards performances orchestra style.

Each class/job also has its own set of individualized questlines and stories which further helps the class fantasy aspect.

A ninja feels a lot different than warrior or scholar or a white mage. Sure there are some similarities but the classes are actually more diverse in FFXIV.