Yeah, I really wanted to like FFXIV’s combat… just could never get past the ridiculously long GCD. I could get used to it, but I never really enjoyed the combat.
I enjoy FF i haven’t tried dawn trail yet, and to be fair if all my friends quit wow, then i would at least consider making FF my main game, other than total war warhammer 3
Perhaps they would be more fun for me. Sadly, I do like to Tank/Heal… Paladin/Astro/Dragoon are my main classes. Dragoon has a couple of abilities off the GCD on long-ish cooldowns… but the fact there’s still has some degree of animation lock really is a frustration of mine. I know they mostly got rid of it, it was like 10x worse before, but it’s still absurd that it’s there at all.
in addition to those classes not really have a ton off the GCD, healing also started to get to this weird spot where 95% of the time, I’m spamming a single AOE damage… or my single target DPS because people just don’t need to be healed in most content.
I’m sure that changes if you push advanced end game (and in fairness to FFXIV, WoW’s base content also don’t really seem to know what to do with healers)… but it just comes down to which end game would I like to push? The one with fun combat/gameplay/class design, or the one with meh combat/gameplay/class design.
Nope. Wont even touch FF14 after what took place trying to play it again.
This is the first time ever, I have been this pissed off at a gaming company.