Yes you clearly played a lot.
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XIV’s gameplay is why I quit. They can’t make their classes fun anymore without watering it into the damn ground. Give me HW AST back you cowards.
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Sadly, I’m one of those people who disagrees.
XIV story was boring to me. It didn’t move me like the stroy in FFXI did. XIV just doesn’t hold a candle to XI but I know a lot of people/new gen of gamers have never touched XI either to know that the story was amazing.
One thing I can only give XIV is the music. Soken is amazing!
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Heavenward Classic when tho 
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Notice all the ‘icy’ expansions are the best ones around here lol.
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FFXIV
- FAR better story
- Better art
- FAR better downtime activities
- Better raid bosses
- Better world
- Better lore
- Better devs
- Better community
- Better memes
- Better future
Both
- Dungeons about the same
WoW
- Classplay arguably better
- Better uh forums?
¯\_ 
_/¯
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Was having a debate a while ago with the FC where ShB was FFXIV’s Wrath in terms of numbers, but HW was its Wrath in just good design. They could never recapture the lightning in a bottle that was the Dragonsong War…
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I agree with this. I play XI classic era on private. It’s still fun.
However it has a wow classic domino effect where everyone knows all the information already. Fun but not as fun as the original experience.
But I learned WoW LFR have no loot in DF so I’ll probably be gone from here because at least FF14 don’t punish casuals.
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So true. Once FFXI fell out of it’s prime years, it wasn’t as fun anymore. I miss the damn parties in the dunes and getting ran over by goblins LOL sometimes the HNM camping, but not really still. 3 hours of sitting in one place made my ADHD a little out of control.
Nothing, not even WoW or XIV can fill that empty void though of XI. Played retail for 14 years before finally letting it go.
I just recently left XIV because it was to boring and I was being mentally abused by someone I called a friend 
So I came back to WoW to get away from everything. I’m holding some hope that the no loot thing is a lie or that blizzard going to find out quick that it wasn’t a good idea.
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You can play both, I do! They’re both great
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As far as the games are concerned, I play wow because of the combat, raids, dungeons, pvp. There are other smaller things like dismounting by pushing an ability.
I’d honestly rather be giving ffxiv my money because they seem to work really hard for the playerbase.
Wow just doesn’t give a hoot about us.
Alas, I play for entertainment.
You mean Ninja? This alone makes me doubt that you’ve actually played FFXIV as much as you claim.
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Welcome to the cool side.
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The 133 FFXIVV fanatics that live here just shat themselves.
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I mean.
I like the chain attacks in FF14, reminds me of Vanguard SOH when it came out.
That being said the flow of WoW’s combat is superior, MOST of the time* There are times that fast macros with a fast GCD make WoW a who has a better macro system where FF14 has more counterplay with their GCD.
That being said really, they’re pretty similar when it comes to classes IMO.
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It is a world known fact that The World of Warcraft is the key to happiness and I can see it is already having that affect on you in such little time~
Enjoy your time and may you and The World of Warcraft never part ways
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Eh, FFXIV has a superior story, crafting, raids, and most importantly sexier models and gear that shows off a lot. It is also better than WoW in many other areas that some people do not really care about.
The combat is about the same, learning snap shot mechanics a must in FFXIV though. Spells look better in FFXIV but WoW as a more fluid feeling combat system. WoW needs to improve its raid bosses, they lack spectacle but are otherwise usually good.
Most people like the little to no trash in FFXIV, as trade off you do not have a raid with different looking areas and trash mobs which can add to a raid but WoW overdoes it a lot of the time. FFXIV just has one arena for each boss that can change and the approach to bosses is different as well. Gearing is more simple in FFXIV which can be a good or bad thing depending on your point of view.
FFXIV music is a lot better, but that is personal opinion. PvP is PvP no mmo can ever do it well enough to please everyone. WoW relies to much on addons, some people love them and I get that but I find them annoying save of QoL ones. Sure damage meters are nice to look at how you are doing and both games have them.
They are both good mmo’s but FFXIV is far better at this point in time imo. We shall see how Dragon Flight truly shakes things up, I really did not play much of the beta save the Drakthyr starting area and a couple of dungeons and it was a blast but I did not want to spoil anything for myself and am hoping the story is better than the past couple expacs.
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I play both they’re different games basically.
But nothing will ever come close to how smooth wow gameplay is and wow’s raids and M+ will always make it my main game.
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Saying FFXIV is a far better MMO is like saying a steak is a far better burger.
Doesnt matter if FFXIV does certain things 100x better than WoW. It is an absolute dumpster fire of an MMO
-Instanced
-Horrible Combat
-0 PvP
-0 actual world events because its god damned instanced
-Raids are more like OSU and DDR and less like a video game
-Cool gear sets and transmogs need to be bought
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eh i like the combat more in WoW and the UI isn’t convoluted as all hell but otherwise XIV does basically everything else better.