Wot in an Oppressed Nation

Wyrmrest Accord
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GW2 rp died due to a year of absolutely no content updates** leading into HoT, which had a difficulty level completely disconnected from the core game. Guild housing was supposed to be doable for smaller guilds, but turned into a nightmare with collecting and crafting furniture, so everyone piled into a few big guilds and the open world disappeared.

The mega server was never truly a problem. Guesting existed from day one and RP servers had guesting guilds set up for those who couldn’t get on the main shard. GW2 also used IPs to check if your shard was the shard everyone else was on.

** The last major update had completely destroyed Lion’s Arch, a major roleplay hub, too. You couldn’t even revisit the old version, like in WoW. It was flattened leaving roleplayers with less options for an entire year.

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Yes and no. There are hotkeys, but the regular combat is comparable, to a degree, to Skyrim. Just with mmo style abilities.

Otherwise, it should feel familiar

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It feels to me like Skyrim combat, but with a few hotkey abilities added because someone designing it figured that MMOs are supposed to have hotkeys going on. Unlike Skyrim, classes exist, and spells/abilities seem to be class restricted. Weapons and armor types, however, are not.

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Interesting. What are the visuals like? I heard someone describe ESO as “pretty.” Skyrim took a while for me to get into due to me being used to cartoonish graphics like WoW and Wildstar have; it was just so drab.

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Excuse me mr final fantasy but why would you give me so many cute boys and not put nipples on them

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It looks a lot like Skyrim, too – same general art style, similar lighting and textures, similar animations. I think the characters look a little better, except that a lot of the hair is disappointing. It not being as cartoonish as WoW makes it feel a little less … “full,” for lack of a better word? But I do find it pretty in its own way.

So far, I’m having difficulty making characters that look in the game world the way I thought they looked in the character creator. I’ll get it down eventually.

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So I was playing around on my Bard and recorded another thing.

https://youtu.be/38FeFX4Feac

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I know folks told me to hold off crafting till higher levels but I’ve been doing that all day and I love it. FF’s crafting is orders of magnitude more interactive than any other game I’ve ever played, without feeling overcomplicated or grindy. The design is genius. And the fact that I can level all the crafting AND gathering jobs on one character is fantastic. I think it’ll gonna be a while before I get back to doing Generic Fantasy Adventure, but when I do I’ll have some pretty sweet gear for my level.

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it’s also the best way to get super rich cause selling gear sets that people can buy to immediately catch up on current content is very lucrative

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So fun, useful, AND profitable? In other words, the opposite of WoW’s crafting on every metric.

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essentially

i believe you can even make housing decorations and crafting is the only way to get transmog prisms outside of straight up buying them

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Yeah, I haven’t gotten to the level of making any decor yet but I figured some of it had to be included, as robust as the crafting is. Every MMO I’ve played with actual housing had some player-made items for it.

I’ve heard housing plots are expensive and hard to get, though.

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yeah housing is very limited so generally the only ways to get it is to buy one from someone else for ludicrous amounts, hop from instance to instance in each housing zone looking through apartments (relatively cheap), or using Free Company rooms if you ever join one that owns a house

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Truth be told, I always loved WoW and it was like my first and greatest love of a MMORPG, but reading through all of this? Dang I really oughta tried ffxiv or whatever sooner.
Makes me want to jump right in. Maybe next week or so. I had just renewed my sub for 2 months before the news hit, so I was like double bummed out :frowning:
Can’t do anything right now tho, other than read + post on the forums. Ty all for the insight :heart:

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Another one of the things i’d recommend new XIV players to do is talk to every NPC when doing the MSQ you can get some great dialogue and some of that dialogue continues throughout the story to lead to some character building for some of the lesser npcs you interact with.

I won’t deny that XIV has faults but its the closest thing bar Private servers that gets to the old wow that I spent wayyyy too much of my longer life on.

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I started playing WoW shortly after WotLK went life, and I was so enchanted by it…oh, bring me back my days of noobness! :rofl:

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I also like crafting, and while I hate fishing in WoW for long - there’s only so much time I can spend getting everything but what I want with slow skill-up progress - I genuinely enjoy fishing in FF so far.

The only problem I have with my jobs right now is I need to put some more stuff up on the market board because I am rapidly running out of space in my bags, saddlebags, and retainer, and I doubt it’s gonna get any better as I get farther in.

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Twitch Prime has the Baseline game of FFXIV + a Free Month as one of its’ benefits right now. You can sign up for a trial of Twitch Prime without spending any actual money and still get it, I believe.

That’s running until May 3rd, for anyone who wants to hold off.

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:thinking: now this is what I really wanted to know…tysm :+1: :smirk:

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Surely they revoke your free goodies if you cancel after the trial. A corp like Amazon wouldn’t miss a trick like that.