Imho the endgame blows but if your into story based cut scenes then it’s the MMOrpg for u. Played it for 2 months wasn’t impressed.
I do, but it doesn’t appear that you do. Throwaway account much?
Sorry but anyone that can sit here and say Blizzard fixes balance issues with the classes clearly doesn’t actually play.
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Except perform the role you want with the class you want. The FF14 classes I find most interesting, like Gunbreaker for example, are all locked in as Tanks with no option at all to DPS (and I refuse to tank, I simply don’t enjoy it at all). Yes, I’m aware that you can have every class on a single character, but that doesn’t solve my problem. I don’t just want to be melee DPS, I want to be melee DPS with the class flavor / class fantasy that I enjoy.
Way to dodge my point completely. But I’m done arguing with a xiv stan who’s prerogative is to go on a forum for another mmo and try to defend its piss poor design choices. Enjoy your one raid and running the same dungeon until december.
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I didn’t dodge anything, that’s what you said lol. It’s not my fault you have no clue what you are talking about.
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I’m currently playing FF14 and taking a break from wow, it is good. My only gripe would be that I would like to do more lol, there’s so. much. cutscene. You play a few min then watch a movie. Play a few min then watch a movie.
Not really, no. FF14 Paladin is basically like WoW Prot Paladin. Your generic Sword and Board tank who uses some instant cast holy spells sprinkled in here and there to generate threat. He’s basically purely a defender role. The fantasy of the FF14 Paladin is pulled from traditional Final Fantasy games. FF4 Cecil type of a character.
The lore of the Paladin has no relation to Holy Knights, whose archetype would have been more reflected in a damage-dealing role anyways. Lightning Stab was a god-like AE, Crush Punch can proc instant death, Split Death adds Countdown, if a Holy Knight was a job class it’d be a DPS, not a tank.
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In general WoW remains much better at making challenging content like mythic raids. More bosses, better boss design (mechanically), an actual raid dungeon and no BS meta like healers being 2-button DPSers that sometimes push a heal button.
Although I’ll give you that the hoops, systems and RNG that WoW high-end raiders have to grind through to prepare their characters (which FF has nothing of) sound pretty frustrating. We didn’t have that in my raiding days, sometimes you had a really good crafted item but that was it.
FF14 the new wow-killer that will die before wow?
The intro and early levels of ff14 are awful; and despite all that customization all the characters and NPCs look the same.
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I’m a PvP sort of player and I just enjoy the way WoW has PvP more than any other game.
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FF14 is good ONLY past A Realm Reborn. I mean, the story is fine and heartbreaking at times, but if you wanna get to Heavensward, you gotta put in the elbow grease and get through those darn pre-patch quests.
Hours. Of. Them.
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That’s what happens when you play 1 MMO too long. I kept my mind open about it and ESO and LOVED it, and realized how many negative things WoW had.
Ultimately I enjoy all 3 MMOs, WoW, FFXIV, and ESO. They are all unique in everyway possible and I do not hold any of them to any standards in comparison to another MMO, I just learn their individual gameplay and find fun in it.
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20 minutes in and I haven’t killed a single thing.
FF14 sucks.
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New patch is coming next month and it will shorten and fix the MSQ so you’ll have more fun with it. That’s one bad thing about it…the starting quests are running around and little to no killing, I hope they fix this since we don’t know how its looking like.
Its weird; it’s pretty standard for an FF game to drop you in the action first. This? This is just slow.
FF15 would be an exception in that case, since you watch Noctis leaving his kingdom then having car break down, then pushing his car to Syd’s repair then more cutscenes then pick up missions to kill stuff, then run to kill em.
you’ll mainly want to focus on main story and class quests. first time I started FFXIV it was slower than it needed to be, but it was because a lot of the early side quests open to you at level 1 are delivery missions
If I even get that far. I basically told the guy on the boat that I am a murder hobo, but I have to listen to everyone talk anyway.