Blade and Soul or Final fantasy 14?

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Not a rant post . I am just tired of WOW and the direction where it going.

I never played either since i was never a big fan of Asian Mmos. I did play Aion years ago it was kinda fun but grindy. Loved solo dungeons over there.

I am more PVE player then PVP. I do like a good story. I am not into P2W stuff.
I heard BAS is P2W. I do like graphics of BAS little more since obviously its a newer game. Oh and kinda liked Tera mostly because of combat.
I can deal with toxic community as a Wow player obviously but having great Lotro type community would be a plus.
So what do you think?

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This is like walking into a store and asking everyone what’s another store you can go to. Just go there, don’t ask us.

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You should try B&S for its combat, then FF14 for story and crafting.

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Going off what you said I would recommend ESO.

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Not Blade and Soul. If you want another MMO that actually has devs putting quality work and maintenance into it, play FF14.

B&S is just another free to play gimmicky Korean MMORPG.

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Puzzle Pirates imo.

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I am trying them both atm, i kinda like them both thats why i am asking.
I Played ESO when it was released i used to love the game but hated combat and lack of classes , since they only had 4 classes at release.
So what so special about FF14 story and crafting?

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I wanted to play Blade and Soul badly at one point. For a long time actually, but it took forever to come over here and by then I lost interest. (Ah beloved Legion was released that year. Checkmate.)

I did finally get around to playing FF14 which for me was a better choice (for sure) being a long time FF fan. Kupo ~ :heartpulse:

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B&S is only for thirsty players

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Define thirsty?

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Gorilla.Bas

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FF14 has a main story progression that is mandatory to level up, like SL. Its latest expansion, Shadowbringer, is acclaimed to be the best story among all Final Fantasy games. It is definitely worth checking out. The only catch is that you need to be able to get through their first expac AAR, which didn’t have much voice acting and considered very much a slog if you are not into stories.

Crafting in FF14 has spell rotations, especially to make high quality (compared to normal quality) end products. It is not as simple as clicking a button as long as you have all the ingredients in WoW. You can have all professions on one character.

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Is that similar to VG crafting ? Dont know if u played that game.
Yes text in a cutscenes feels weird , i thought for a second something was up with my sound settings. They open their mouth , but no words come out.
I agree that WOW crafting is dumb, its the most primitive crafting i have ever seen , and i played a dozen of MMos.

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Wait is Blade and Soul still a thing? I remember when it first came out but it seemed to die out pretty quick.

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I personally like both plus B&S is free to play so there’s nothing stopping ya from trying both [loved my gunslinger and soul fighter]

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I’ve played both.

Only consider BnS if you love fanservice to the exclusion of absolutely everything else. The combat is slick, but the content is the pure distillation of the Korean grind.

FFXIV has good fanservice, though it’s nowhere near as fundamental as it is to BnS. The combat is much slower paced, but the whole rest of the game is vastly more fleshed out, like comparing Pac-Man(BnS) to GTAV(FFXIV).

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Iam not so sure what do u mean by fanservice. Is the game pvp or pve focused?
Hows community there? Any decent dungeons/raids?

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Blade and Soul has a better engine and more fluidity - don’t play it if you want to be competitive at anything though, due it’s F2P model it’s pretty heavily p2w and getting into it’s pvp scene is a literal nightmare. Full of exploits/clever use of game mechanics, clipping, and many years of experience. Visually I found it to be far superior to FF14 and overall more enjoyable until I got to endgame which petered out really fast.

FF14 has one of the best crafting/gathering systems of any game I’ve played, and I’ve played alooot of games, visually stunning but ruined by horrible engine/clunky movement, half the textures aren’t real, there’s delays and clipping abound (eg in WoW, aoe goes off in red circle, if you’re out of the circle when it goes off, you’re fine, in FF14 you need to be out a bit sooner, awkward adjustment) the terrain and movement is weird (alot of invisible walls, flying is gross, can’t fly over chasms/mountains/etc, doesn’t feel nearly as open) also the story in FF14 is a MAJOR hit or miss. It is incredibly long, and didn’t make much sense to me, and you have to do all of it to unlock content, I hated it so much I just skipped over it. Others love the story, up to you. It’s pve is neat, but the pvp basically doesn’t exist. Minecraft has better pvp.

Blade and Soul for 1-3 months of enjoyable time, beautiful scenery, animations, classes, and gameplay before the f2p asian grind takes over.

FF14 for 6-8 months of content(this was at 40ish hours a week, before the recent expansion, so probably more now), tons of classes and jobs, all of which can be played on one character (your race is cosmetic, you start with one class and unlock all of them, can change classes out of combat at will, levelings kinda slow but I honestly loved the leveling, going through the zones, clearing the side quests and the content was enjoyable, it was just the main story throttling that got me. Lack of pvp was minor, endgame raiding was really challenging, dps across all classes is pretty even, almost boringly so - there’s no op carry mode or anything, healers are expected to dps. The only reason I’m not still playing ff14 tbh is because the recent expansion made alot of changes I didn’t like (removed alot of the “skillcap” type abilities, dumbed down most classes and butchered my main class, Astro)

Overall I’d say blade and soul for temporary lulz and ff14 for long term lulz

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Idk i like wow

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FF14
Blade and soul is even more grinder than WOW and for certain weapon upgrade you.have to get the material in PvP zone I try it before and is not fun at max level. Not to mention a lot of stuff you have to pay to get ie inventory space.