Aggro in WoW is and has been a joke for at least a decade. We don’t need the extra help. Threat is a total non-issue the second the tank learns an AoE ability.
The Tank Stances in FFXIV really just make tanking in that game go from “threat matters, target priority matters” to something more like WoW.
I mean, I wouldn’t quit over it. I don’t mind the aesthetic. But, like Worgen Tails, I don’t WANT to see it in the game. It doesn’t exist. The lore does not support it. It would be an asspull to try and draw in the weebs to pad subs.
I’m fine with this, provided it follows FFXIV’s example and has cosmetic/vanity rewards at various cumulative thresholds, as opposed to Overwatch’s example which would cause people to be excluded from groups for such an arbitrary and subjective rating.
Ultimately it’s a pretty minor thing. It doesn’t “fix” toxic people. But it does get some of them to pretend to not be toxic for 20 minute spans, and in a pug setting, that facade might as well be genuine. So why not?
I’d love Housing, provided they built it from the ground up to be of reasonable quality. FFXIV’s level of customization is like… bare minimum for me. I’ve seen worse, and I don’t bother with it then. But TBF, Wildstar set the standard of excellence for MMORPG Housing IMO. If we can immitate that, it’d be amazing. But I’d settle for FFXIV style housing.
Minus the Limited Plots things. Let everyone who can afford whatever the game sets as the cost have their plot. I don’t care if it does neighborhoods with limited plots and infinitely scaling wards (vs FFXIV which has finite wards) or if it does totally separated instanced housing with the option of manually visiting other players like Wildstar. Literally ANYTHING but the way FFXIV handles it. Once you’re in, FFXIV is fine, but getting started LITERALLY forces people to bot on high pop servers. No other way.
But as a final note – I think proper Housing would take a HUGE amount of resources from the Art Team, and Art is constantly a bottleneck in WoW already. I’d love it if we got Housing, but I don’t expect it. I don’t think they can pull it off without nuking the amount of Endgame content we get in whatever expansion it comes with. And I don’t think that’d go over well for the average player in WoW.
I’m of the opinion that if WoW was going to get housing, it realistically needed to be with TBC’s launch at the absolute latest, as that would have been the last release where they didn’t have a set precedent for expansion release windows.
Nah. It makes sense on FFXIV since you already do all of the classes on one character. It’d be silly to have to make duplicates on another character just to get professions.
As long as WoW remains a character progression game instead of an Account progression game, I don’t think we need this.
I quite like the idea of players needing to interact with other crafters/gatherers to get materials for certain things. I think we need some of that in professions – even with the limits we have now, we don’t really see it. The little of it we DID see back in WoD got removed early on, despite having access to literally everything because of Garrisons.
Modern WoW expansions start a timer when a node is harvested. You have a solid 15 seconds or so to finish your fight and then harvest. While I’m not opposed to converting to what you’re describing, it’s effectively the same thing. It just needs to apply to ALL nodes. I’m not sure if it works that way in old content or not, since I haven’t really bothered with professions since they took away the combat bonuses.
This doesn’t do anything. If someone has to leave, they’re just going to leave, whether that’s closing the game entirely or just AFKing. If they just want to “hurt” the group by pulling the dungeon, they can still do that. They’ll just die too, which isn’t much of a price.
In fact, they’ll probably just get naked and avoid the cost of death entirely if they’re just doing it to troll.
I agree with suspensions (or at least chat suspensions) for harassment. But harassment has a definition, and it is not “he called me bad!” or “he said a swear word!”. This is a topic in which it’s far too easy to go too far. I’d rather have chat be a little rough around the edges than be playing in a bubble where everyone is afraid to talk normally because a single overly sensitive player reporting them would mean a ban.
This is a fine mentality to have for queued content.
This is an idiotic mentality to have for organized / premade content.
I’m not sure if FFXIV makes that distinction or not, but I’d only accept such an addition to the rules if it only applied to queued content.
(Premade Group Finder and FFXIV’s equivalent would not count as queued)
FFXIV handles emotes in general much better than WoW. I’d love to have the depth they have in that department over here.