If WoW were setup like FFXIV

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Those quests are horrible. I cant stand them.

Go to this guy to get one line of text, go to this other guy on another continent for another line x 200. You spend more time on load screens than doing the quests.

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Meh, when I was doing it I had a keyboard macro do it for me.

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Le sigh…

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Imagine being in charge of the story, crafting this elaborate over arching grand tale, and then being like “Oh, you know what we really need? To force the player to collect 75 mushrooms and beat up 50 whomp rats before the next story event”.

Ugh.

I’ve heard they’ve scaled this type of thing down from ARR, but when I played this was the worst. You were at a “level cap” after beating the launch raid and before you could move onto the next expansion you had to do a ton of fetch quests and collect boar flanks and what-not to move the story along. Just the worst. Absolutely terrible.

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Some people like boar flanks.

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Just the fact that you have to make a macro to be efficient shows it is more intricate than WoW’s, though. It is actually helpful to know math during the crafting process, to see which action is going to have the highest success rate.

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This was the funniest thing I read today.
Thank you for that, even if most everything in your post is wrong.

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Yoshida still won’t return your calls.

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I would hope not, would be a damn expensive call lol.

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Then you should know that you can get help from your fellow players, which again renders your entire complaint about “needing to omnicraft” inert. I only have Armorsmith leveled and I rarely buy materials from the market. I get everything else that I need from my FC mates or from some of the crafters that I’ve made connections with.

Yeah, “kernels of truth” is not something that you should be proud of. That’s like wearing a Fox News or MSNBC t-shirt.

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Everyone just uses the macro generator for crafting. :joy: it’s not that deep, just more relevant than WoWs crafting.

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They already have Lalafell xd

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If you use a macro, that’s on you being lazy, in my opinion. No offense.

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Yeah, but once you get the gear everything in the game is so choreographed that you can literally setup macros to get HQ items every time. It is absolutely more engaging if your not doing that. But once you make a macro, its pretty much exactly like wows, it just takes longer.

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They are precious, sure, but sorry. They are way too tall!

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Imagine playing a game where turning into a moth and collecting anima cones 4 times a week for 8 months is endgame content and complaining about a few story driven fetch quests.

But yeah, most of this was removed. The old design philosophy was “a quest should take 9 minutes of active play” with X quests per area to take Y amount of time. That’s no longer the case.

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Lazy like pressing the 1 key three times, then two, then 1 three times, then three…

Just automate like everyone else :joy:

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Imagine thinking WQs were endgame.

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Honestly I just like the fact that you actually sit down with your gear and have to go through a mini-game to craft things.

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WoW offers boosts. WoW’s boost to the top is $60. I believe FFXIV’s complete boost is about that, with a class and the story.

You gotta understand. People play FFXIV FOR the story, not to avoid it. I used to play WoW FOR the story, not to avoid it. Leveling is great content in a RPG for A LOT of people.

I mean, what’s your point here? You can pay to skip the story in both games. The only difference is that there’s actual meaningful content to do before end game in FFXIV. Should I imagine WoW was a good-feeling leveling experience again? I mean, I don’t have to, I’m playing the classic games.

If WoW Shadowlands did leveling half as good as FFXIV does I’d be leveling in WoW.

If you think the “fun part” of a MMORPG is just running the same few dungeons and one raid over and over again or doing the same few PVP maps that haven’t been updated in forever, then I suppose you’re not really playing it for the RPG. Yeah, FFXIV is a terrible game in that regard, because it’s not trying to be a ladder-based dungeon crawler.

But I’ve never played these games for that stuff. I wish WoW cared about the stuff you dislike.

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