Haha im french and i have no clue what u mean there
I’ve been really enjoying my time so far! I started last Saturday and am currently level 51.
Some pros
I found the combat started out slow but has improved the more abilities I’ve unlocked. The gcd is 2.5 seconds but you can reduce it with the skill/spell speed stat and there are some abilities not on the gcd that you can chain in with other abilities.
The community as a whole seems really friendly. e.g. people wait for you to watch your cutscenes in dungeons if it is your first time, I compare this to eso where you cannot listen to the quest dialogue in a dungeon because the groups wants to rush through it.
Travelling is also pretty nice, you unlock way points that you can freely teleport to for a small cost.
Every class also has lore tied to them and there are class quests and new abilities added each expansion.
The cash shop also seems to be more reasonably priced. I paid $10 CAN for a race change in FFXIV where as in wow it would cost me $32 CAN.
It was also a pleasant surprise to unlock flying as soon as I finished the main story quest.
Some cons
The questing is mind numbingly boring. I’m told this gets better once you get past their 1.0-2.55 content. A lot of the quests are fetch quests or the npc will have you walk a few steps to talk to someone only to send you back to the original quest giver again.
No mythic + - maybe this one is only a con for me but it’s my favorite content in wow so am sad not to have an equivalent in FFXIV.
Race variety - Most of the races look very similar to each other where as wow has a more diverse list to choose from.
All in all I am glad I gave it a chance, I don’t plan on quitting wow for it but will likely play less wow for more FFXIV/Eso once I am satisfied with my ilvl until the wows next content patch.
I kind of feel like WoW got it wrong with “permanent toys”. It’s a bit late to go back on that now, but it’s something I feel that professions could have provided, or been used as non-power rewards for things.
Like if you could go to the faire, and earn tickets to buy toys that were consumable it’d give a reason to do fun mini-games. Or professions could craft them giving them something to work on.
I like the [Prismatic Shard] for example. Letting me swap appearances. It has a limited number of uses(…though pretty high up there) but it’s something I find fun.
No need to freak out though, I’m not advocating for that, but just kind of think it would have been a more complete design from a gameplay perspective. Also you wouldn’t need silly cooldowns on them. Because you could instead limit them by inherent usage.
But it’d be something for people to work on and do from a long term view. Heck, I’d tack in gambling too though this gets kind iffy with tokens potentially legally. Maybe instead the faire could give tickets, and tickets could be used to gamble or buy toys with limited uses for.
Too late now though really.
So you’re having trouble adjusting to the GCD in FFXIV? Here’s a helpful link on how to play as a Lancer/Dragoon.
You’re welcome!
FINAL FANTASY XIV Job Guide: Dragoon
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My problem with final fantasy is there a story for everything try do a side quest and it like listening to your neighbor telling you their week’s going.
it is totally ok that it isn’t for you, it is fine for about 3M other players
wow ranges from 1-3M after its 4-5 month post launch massive drop so there is a TON of players that aren’t finding ‘that little magic’ in wow either
different strokes for different folks
the issue, and what is deflected or ignored quite often, is that a TON of players say the game is worse now due to the shift to focus on monetization metrics and minimum grind times
the game used to have 10M+ consistently, even late in an xpac - something chased all those players away and it was entirely new systems or designs in wow
wow kills itself
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I was going to maybe give FF trial a run this weekend, but their horrific account management system has resulted in me being unable to access and I’m not going to waste time making a burner email account just to get in. Maybe when their support team emails me back in a couple days.
Never thought I’d be as thankful for Battle.net’s unified account architecture as I am right now, lol.
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I don’t understand what players find so difficult, I had no issues. Seemed straight forward to me.
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Stop. Stop that right now. Stop trying to rush through FFXIV. There is no need to rush through FFXIV. Stop and smell the roses.
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You really think SquareEnix is paying Asmongold to play FFXIV?
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I can’t really get into it, either. Quite a few of my guildies are playing it. Even gave me some goodies… which I feel bad for not using because I haven’t found motivation to play the game.
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Yes, but I’m basing my view point on end game streams I’ve watched and discussion from others.
Ps: I always heal end game. And based on everything I’ve read it’s less about triage in FF which I’m not sure I’d like.
I’m actually enjoying the trial.
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That’s a heavy accusation. Do you have any proof of this?
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that “little magic” is created by 17 years of building a community. 
FF doesn’t have that yet.
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The problem is that SE has numerous different types of accounts. I had one such account created years ago from registering Rise of the Tomb Raider which also happened to create an SE Members account (what we would think of as the top-level account). At the time, I just let Chrome choose a password since I had no inkling of using it again in the near future.
Fast-forward to now. I discover that the FF launcher requires you to log in every time, so I decide to go change the password. Low and behold, due to the fact the accounts are all different, when I changed my SE Members account it didn’t change FF and I got locked out. Password recovery for the FF account turned out to be atrocious because they also inexplicably expect you to remember what secret question you chose back when you created the account.
All in all, their account system is reminiscent of a 2005-era system and is not modern in the least. If one thing goes wrong, it is way bigger a hassle than it should ever be.
There’s a video out there on how they fixed the auto attack to make it do damage when you did your animation and how much time they put into it for WoW. On FFXIV it’s all server side and it feels horrible to play. They don’t care about that tiny detail, but to me that tiny detail means everything.
And I’d rather fight big raid bosses in actual environments where you find them and not in the same circle for the 20th boss.
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asmon is actually my dad and he told me they r actually paying him
Ill be interested to see if the Big A hangs around once he completes the expansions, does what raiding or other group activity there is and then says…ok, what do I do now?
Streamers see games in an unnatural light. How many times do they get massive groups of people trying to friend them, give them things, hand them gold, carry them through content - the kind of thing that rarely ever happens to the normal players. Of course a game is going to seem fun if its content and benefits are handed to you on a platter and you experience it in a bubble of bling.
I didnt like FF, tried it for a couple of weeks and left being confused and disappointed. Sure, play any game if you enjoy it, but that one isnt for me. WoW came closer than any of them to the perfect game for me, and its decline has been all the more heartbreaking because of that.
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FFXIV is amazing ONCE you hit Heavensward. If you don’t get there you are just playing the game that originally failed. The second you hit Heavensward you will find that spark. And this is coming from a day 1 wow vet. I left wow for it and am glad I did
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Well he does appear to be having fun doing the colab streams with some of the FF CCers.
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