for Wow to have a baby with FFXIV. Both games do certain things so amazingly and others so bad. If both were merged it would be the best mmo alive.
FFXIV could bring it's crafting, it's quality content , It's guild housing, it's complex and engaging classes and rotations, it's gearing and loot system, it's tmog system it's dungeon differentiation.
Wow could bring mythic plus, raiding, pvp, class/spec diversity, addon support, and story and lore.
perfect game right there.
-FFXIV continuously adds content without making older content completely invalid. Bringing that strategy in would help keep the whole of the game active instead of just the last expansion.
-They have a progressive gearing system that rewards your efforts by letting you choose what gear you want with in game currency. (not like gold currency, more like, imagine sanguicells being used to trade in for gear).
-Professions that are treated like actual classes that take months to master and actually have a solid use and monetary reward once you master them. And the amount of tmog and guild housing decorations items crafters can create is insane, and a lot of the rarer items required top end content to get.
-Guild housing that would allow guilds something to work toward together and help crafting flourish.
-Classes that are so complex they require deep analysis and thought to master but are easy to pick up.
-Dungeons that actually change based on difficulty. Normal dungeons are completely different and have different bosses than hard dungeons.
-And a gearing system that is fair and rewarding to those that put the time and effort into them. There's always that top (mythic raideresque gear that can only be obtained by the skilled) but most of the other gear that's second best can be earned through tomes that are rewarded by doing content.
Meanwhile WoW could bring in:
-Raiding. Because wow raids are always more in depth and fun than ffxiv. Wow has always excelled at raiding.
-Mythic plus dungeons because even in ffxiv the hard dungeons eventually get stale with the constant syncing of levels.
-Warmode Pvp and pvp balance and arenas in general cause ffxiv has like 0 competitive pvp.
-Spec diversity. Wow classes having 2 specs each is nice. Even though ffxiv doesn't have a limit to what characters can be (one toon can eventually master every class and profession), wow has a lot more diversity within the class.
-The story quests and the lore. As fine as ffxiv is, wow's lore and story is so much smoother and better. FFxiv is a cutscene machine and it draaaaaags. Although the quality is still good. Wow's is just better.
-the addon support.... can't even say how much i love wow addons.
FFXIV is a good game for sure but a few things kill it for me.
- Story quest. (Not really wanting to watch a movie while trying to play an MMO).
- Lack of addson (No DPS meter is not so much)
- 2.5s GCD (nuevo WoW GCD haters wouldn't last in that game)
- Weird loading barriers and zone design (You never feel like you're in an open world)
- Story quest. (Not really wanting to watch a movie while trying to play an MMO).
- Lack of addson (No DPS meter is not so much)
- 2.5s GCD (nuevo WoW GCD haters wouldn't last in that game)
- Weird loading barriers and zone design (You never feel like you're in an open world)
10/29/2018 09:01 AMPosted by TherricFFXIV is a good game for sure but a few things kill it for me.
- Story quest. (Not really wanting to watch a movie while trying to play an MMO).
- Lack of addson (No DPS meter is not so much)
- 2.5s GCD (nuevo WoW GCD haters wouldn't last in that game)
- Weird loading barriers and zone design (You never feel like you're in an open world)
that's why i want the two to merge!! I dislike those things as well. That' why i said wow does it better.
Add some ESO into this equation and im sold!
10/29/2018 09:12 AMPosted by SloppythorAdd some ESO into this equation and im sold!
never played ESO so i couldn't comment on it. Anything in particular you'd like to add to this god like mmo baby :)
Throw some EQ in there and now you got a game!
10/29/2018 09:14 AMPosted by InayiaThrow some EQ in there and now you got a game!
WHAT PARTS OF EQ...... I KNWO NOTHING OF THAT GAME :(
I've been playing FF14 some and really liking it.
Agreed on some of the stuff though, the "zone barriers" and such things were very hard to get used to.
"But I can SEE over there, so there must be a way for me to GET there...."
Wow feels VERY "open world", by comparison.
MSQ(Main Story Quest) is kind of bad, since I fell WAY behind on my now level 55 Dragoon. So though I bought the complete edition, I still can't even go to the FIRST EXPANSION areas. It is just hard for me to bear down and crank out the MSQ quests.
This was my fault, though, for ignoring that little MSQ "DO THIS QUEST NEXT" thing up in the corner. I also don't like that you can grind a bunch out, but then at some point you are forced to queue for a dungeon to proceed beyond that.
I think you could "paid boost" your way through that, kind of, but as a new player I wanted to experience the whole FF14.
Both games have good and bad things, which would make the other game "better." I was thinking this same thing, before I saw this thread!
Agreed on some of the stuff though, the "zone barriers" and such things were very hard to get used to.
"But I can SEE over there, so there must be a way for me to GET there...."
Wow feels VERY "open world", by comparison.
MSQ(Main Story Quest) is kind of bad, since I fell WAY behind on my now level 55 Dragoon. So though I bought the complete edition, I still can't even go to the FIRST EXPANSION areas. It is just hard for me to bear down and crank out the MSQ quests.
This was my fault, though, for ignoring that little MSQ "DO THIS QUEST NEXT" thing up in the corner. I also don't like that you can grind a bunch out, but then at some point you are forced to queue for a dungeon to proceed beyond that.
I think you could "paid boost" your way through that, kind of, but as a new player I wanted to experience the whole FF14.
Both games have good and bad things, which would make the other game "better." I was thinking this same thing, before I saw this thread!
10/29/2018 08:58 AMPosted by PlayerSJCLYJit's complex and engaging classes and rotations
10/29/2018 08:58 AMPosted by PlayerSJCLYJcontinuously adds content without making older content completely invalid.
These were the two things that had me try FF14 last week. Looking at their class pages online really inspired me to give it a shot. Cool classes that seemed to have interesting mechanics...
Then I got through what felt like an hour of setup and cutscenes. Had to deal with Moogles explaining to me I must be special because only special people could see them. The movement and pacing felt clunky and slow. & I hate anime cutscenes. I really don't like moogles.
Stopped playing immediately.
But the 2 things I quoted above are the two things I would most love to see WoW improve on. Sadly it seems low priority for them. WoWs gameplay is just so much more dynamic, and feels so much less dated than FF. Even with my complaints found the competition very interesting in theory, very uninteresting in practice.
10/29/2018 09:52 AMPosted by Gorodan10/29/2018 08:58 AMPosted by PlayerSJCLYJit's complex and engaging classes and rotations10/29/2018 08:58 AMPosted by PlayerSJCLYJcontinuously adds content without making older content completely invalid.
These were the two things that had me try FF14 last week. Looking at their class pages online really inspired me to give it a shot. Cool classes that seemed to have interesting mechanics...
Then I got through what felt like an hour of setup and cutscenes. Had to deal with Moogles explaining to me I must be special because only special people could see them. The movement and pacing felt clunky and slow. & I hate anime cutscenes. I really don't like moogles.
Stopped playing immediately.
But the 2 things I quoted above are the two things I would most love to see WoW improve on. Sadly it seems low priority for them. WoWs gameplay is just so much more dynamic, and feels so much less dated than FF. Even with my complaints found the competition very interesting in theory, very uninteresting in practice.
Even the variety in abilities in that game doesn't make the classes feel unique. They all seem the same. They all use the same color schemes. Even though they're different they still all feel the same to me.
FFXIV can keep its cringey anime cat girls tho.