I just got out of a dungeon where they just asked for me to slow down…so I did.
If I was in that boat I would stick to the roulette brackets close to my level and not dip into the kiddie pool. I get it though, roulettes are the fastest way to augment questing to level - but with the road to 60 (70 now afaik) leveling is super speedy anyway. My wife is always 10+ levels higher than the storyline quests she’s in the middle of.
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FFXIV gets way too much fanboyish praise around these parts because it’s trendy to hate on WoW these days. If a lot of those same mechanics were in place in WoW, heads would roll. One example was brought up with the Daily Leveling roulette and how the scaling takes away your abilities, and most of the time you’ll be doing really low level ones and you’ll have one or two buttons to spam. But since it’s FFXIV, it can do no wrong.
That said, I agree with everyone else who said that the community (particularly in the LFG tool) are generally much more social and better behaved. By a pretty significant margin.
Every now and then you’ll get a blatant tank bot though. Funny part is that most of them are adequate enough that you wont want to kick them.
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It’s always been trendy to hate on WoW - trolls will exist forever on the interwebs.
But I think it’s easy to praise FFXIV because it doesn’t have the arbitrary time sinks and layers of RNG that WoW has.
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There are dungeons in FFXIV ?
Heck, there are mobs ?
I installed that game once, created a character, some kind of humanoid looking thing, some sort of Archer class. I watched some long cutscene of a road trip, then the game finally dropped me off in a town to start, went to an inn, read a ton of exposition, got some guy to walk me through town doing “town chores quests”, walked around with him, did a bunch of town chores like buying things, talking to NPCs, reading even more exposition, cleaning up some kind of outdoor concert scene or party or something.
Then I realised it had been a whole freakin’ hour and a half, and I had not yet attacked a single mob, was already 4 or so levels in or something.
I quit and uninstalled. Rubbish game. I don’t get why we get so many people shilling that thing here, it’s trash.
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The tradeoff is that instead of those mechanics it has nothing. Once you finish the story part of the expansion (which are all wonderful) and do the current raid, there’s really nothing else left to do unless you like to RP. If there was a bunch of stuff to grind/work for I’d probably still be playing it right now. Instead I just come back for a week or so whenever there’s a major content patch or a new expansion.
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wait a minute, this post doesn’t fit the typical “FFXIV Utopian Community” narrative that people here on GD would like us to believe.
My server was always toxic.
You were really close to the part where you set out in the world. You should at least give it another try. It does start out slow but the story is worth it, and that’s coming from someone who hates jrpg stories post FFIX or so.
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Nah man, If after 90 minutes a game as failed to get me excited, it’s done. It’s already more time than I should have gave it.
And it’s not that I dislike narrative heavy games or JRPGs, quite the contrary, I’m a big fan of those. Heck, I hated PoE for the precise reason it seemed to be just mindless combat with no clear goal or story and quit that in Act III because of it.
But FFXIV literally bored me to tears.
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I got up to Heavensward before stepping away for a while and never had a bad experience in a dungeon.
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Well I kinda agree with you here and that’s why I didn’t like FFXIII. People were all “Just wait until the 40 hour mark or so, it gets real good!”
Well then it’s not good…
MMOs I think are a bit different though.
But on the plus side, you don’t have to experience the post-ARR content which is NOTORIOUSLY long and boring.
In end game instances especially Experts healers are loaded with on demand heals and tanks have multiple defensive cooldowns.
This normally leads to pull pull pull mentality. If you think ANYTHING in FF14 is fast you should see a +10 at end game in WoW with a timer.
One issue you have in pretty much any mmo is people who think just because end game plays one way that so does early game.
This is the first I’ve ever heard about FFXIV having a bad community, especially compared to WoW. I am fairly certain OP is making this up.
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I’m actually playing through it and that’s a great FF game.
The difference ? Right in the opening first sequence, you’re on a high speed train, crashing, fighting through some kind of established army as what is obviously part of a resistance. That’s exciting and hooked me right in.
He is referring more to the impatient people who expect a level 20 instance to be pulled the same way a max level dungeon is.
I mean, just like most people make up the massive tank abuse in WoW dungeons, which are majoritarily completely silent outside of a “gg” at the end ?
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They honestly should add a tab in LFG for “Legacy Content” for max levels who want to do lowbie dungeons. I mean, Party Sync is a thing now but I mean outside of party sync it would be cool. The tech is in place, they could do it. But then I guess that might be a conflict of interest with Timewalking.
Not sure what you are talking about here, FFXIV or WoW. Blood DK’s tank with 2h weapons though. Brewmaster Monk’s also IIRC?
That’s just being a tank in general. Not much changes at max level haha.
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It does have plenty of crab apples and granny smiths. Like most online games. But it is as stated, one always looking for offense, will always be offended.
I’ve encountered plenty on their Kujata server as a Seawolf Scholar, but for evry bad, I have four to five times more pleasant and helpful players. No real difference between here and there really. Experience more good then bad, but the bad, no matter how minor will be more memorable - and oftentimes exaggerated to make it more impactful.
This has more truth in it than anything posted on the forum in the last week.
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