New, so still is not in the way that is probably intended. Though I play because I enjoy the roleplay of classes, races, content, etc, I came from FFXIV and each patch felt more and more cans of paint on the same structure.
The movement, especially taking GW2 like mount movement systems, is also much better than FFXIV. So in a whole it helps create in general a more immersive experience. I miss the story a bit from FFXIV though, hopefully they can continue with improving story (without creating 100 forced hours per expansion, starting FFXIV now-- HAHAHAHA good luck catching up, if that was your mission).
Only role play that probably bothers me a bit is the profession and gathering being limited, adding a bit of a stilted growth and connectivity… Like in FFXIV I had all crafts maxed, but here I saw the system and was just like “…I might… but… eww…”. Which might just be a FFXIV perspective, it seems people here are used to that limitation, and I guess it helps with the bonuses of like engineer, alchemist, getting drops unique to you, etc, but my brain still hasn’t adapted.
I do hope the shattered timeline idea does great, and expands into old dungeon content though, as for both games I tend to play duty finder (LFR) content exclusively and solo content, but I don’t really want brain dead solo content, I just don’t like insane grind brand new content (that can be solo’d easily normally too). “to get max rep you will need to do 5,000 daily quests” and I’ll be like “yeah I’ll wait, that’s insane” lol.
I really like the delves, but I hope they can keep refining it’s space. Like any missed gilded crests are saved into next week, and like with visions perhaps some sort of parallel rising investments (so I can hop on an alt and very quickly get to a parallel power level, especially as I still am used to FFXIV’s armoury and find the warbound vs soulbound and “transferring” currency mechanics as an imperfection / more cumbersome variation… like… just give me one bank for all my currencies, and don’t give me transfer math lol).
If this game was my job I’m sure I’d do mythic, but it’s not and therefore I have zero interest in investing / dedicating my resources in that way, so I’m quite confident It’ll just be group finder (duty finder) and solo stuff.
The continual adjustments to UI and talk of continuing to improve the base game is quite nice, I did feel like I was uninformed with the base UI unlike FFXIV- and I ended up with 170 addons (just checked, actual number… surprisingly I almost never get an error on bugsack lol). Definitely need better default plater and combat info… another thing, especially with warbands, is quests need to be better informative, like if they provide features or other unlocks.
