Is Final Fantasy XIV a good game for a disappointed WoW refugee like myself?
Is Final Fantasy XIV a good game for a disappointed WoW refugee like myself?
Jonathan Turner
Grayson Garcia
fuck off we're full
Noah Hall
It's literally more casual wow but with anime characters
Hudson Cruz
yes but it's more story-focused than wow
if you do the wow mentality of "rush to level cap and then do nothing but raid" you'll hate it
Grayson Campbell
depends on why you're disappointed in wow
the core gameplay loops are the same just with a different pacing
Adam Clark
No. The game is too easy. You level a character, receive welfare gear at the end of the story and then you just buy 380 ilvl gear and then you only need to learn A4 to get 305 gear. Then you're practically done with the game until shadowniggers. The only people that keep playing after the initial 2 weeks are all the trannies trying to collect skins and shit for their ERP shit.
Jack Price
Mainly due to the large content draughts in BFA that are made worse by the lackluster patches with nothing interesting in them.
Jeremiah Brooks
What type of content do you like in WOW?
If you're really into M+ then FF doesn't really have an equivalent.
If you're a Raider than FF comes out with raids every other patch (every 6 months approximately) with difficulties that I'd put in between Heroic and Mythic, with nothing ever really reaching the difficulty level of a final boss of in modern Mythic raids. They're very consistent about this, but the raids themselves have fewer encounters (always 4) than a WOW raid. Then you have one off 'primal' encounters which are around heroic difficulty.
If you're a rated PVPer then don't bother, FF14 has PVP but the engine is very macgyvered together which makes it ill suited to be a replacement for WOW's PVP.
If you're a more casual player (I don't mean this in a derogatory sense) then there is a lot of things in FF14 that appeal to those types in every single patch and they are arguably the main draw of the game for a very large percentage of the playerbase. The dress up/transmog, housing, pet collecting/chocobo raising/etc.
Liam Cooper
Delete this thread please.
that way
Levi Bell
>chocobo raising
>casual
You need to have a deep understanding of biology to even attempt chocobo raising you fucking casual. Attaining a perfect pedigree 9 will deny you any contact with the outside world. Your entire life will be based around breeding and feeding your chocobo, if you have any social obligations kiss them goodbye.
John Price
It has better waifus
Lincoln Lopez
Tbh I always forget that M+ exists so that isn't much of an issue. I enjoy questing when the plot is fun and cohesive, which BFA isn't at the moment.
How would you compare the raid/dungeon between WoW and FF? Like are the FF dungs just the same shit, kill trash, fight boss, get loot, repeat, or is there more of a dynamic to their pacing? I don't hate the WoW pattern, but something new would be interesting.
Don't care in the slightest about pvp lmao. I did try the free trial a couple years ago and it just seemed very overwhelming right out of the gate, I understand all the features would soak in easily over time but it felt like you are dropped in at the deep end for the most part. I hear the community is a lot better than wow so I shouldn't have an issue asking for advice.
Noah Long
Does the plot and questing only get interesting once you hit Heavensward and beyond? I never really hear anyone mention the base game's content.
Dylan Walker
no its WoW in worse.
its railroaded, limited and a drag all around. it kinda exaggerates most of the issues with WoW further.
Thomas Campbell
It's built for you
Jack Harris
every dungeon in FF14 is a straight line with three bosses you fight in circle areas.
you also need to unlock every dungeon through the main story quest and you cannot divert from it ever.
Grayson Hill
base 2.0 is only enjoyable if you enjoyed the 1.0 storyline. Generally the story begins to deviate away from 1.0 around 2.4. HW is peak XIV story because the twists and turns are reminiscent of past FF games. SB had an okayish story, but compared to FF12's resistance story, the resistance in SB was very shallow.
Jace Morris
>I never really hear anyone mention the base game's content.
Because most of us played it once, like 6 years ago. There's no need to replay that part of the game when you don't need alts for other jobs. We talk about HW more because it came out more recently. ARR is very solid
Nathaniel Foster
Is the early game population alive enough for newer players to find teammates in the group finder?
Ayden Reed
ARR is decent but Heavensward is legitimately incredible and blows it out of the water.
Robert Robinson
Since there's no need for alts, is it possible to resdesign you character? I presume all can change except race and gender.
Jack Hughes
one actual good thing about FF14 is that you can join any dungeon if you are above it and you will scale down level wise but still get endgame level exp.
like there's a daily random dungeon option which gives you big exp and that will usually send you into the early babby dungeons.
doesnt always work though. I've been stuck on one story related one boss raid for over six hours because nobody joined it. thats kinda rare though.
Dominic Gray
It's the same fucking game but instead of being able to just jump in and play the latest content you have to set aside ~100 hours to go through every single main quest in the game. This is assuming you skip every cutscene, which you should.
Jayden Brown
No more news until E3 I guess? Or is there a chance we might get a zone overview/main theme trailer?
Jaxson Hall
yeah it's built for fucking losers
Caleb Gomez
If you hate what WoW is now you probably won't like XIV much.
Connor Thomas
Can change hair and makeup for a little gil. Anything more including race and gender is Fantasia which is microtransacion. Same as WoW really.
Nolan Brown
You get a potion by completing the base game story that lets you remake your character.
Angel Evans
you can change makeup, hairstyle, hair color, facial features, using gil. If you want to change your race it's $10.
Nicholas Campbell
Questing and Story I can't really comment on. I technically don't even have a FF character of my own, I just play my girlfriend's character with her guild when new raid comes out as that is the only aspect of the game that I really enjoy. I get to see the new encounters with a consistent group that knows me, my GF gets new things to play dress up with and I get to skip the rest of the game that I don't care for.
Dungeons are largely the same if you're comparing M+0 or lower with FF14 dungeons, although I'd argue that FF only has one dungeon that is reskinned ad infinitum. Very early on with the relaunch of 14 people were mass pulling every dungeon pack they could and AOEing them down with Whitemage Holy spam. Their solution to this were to put literal barriers that force you to clear the dungeon at a more 'reasonable' pace or whatever.
I will say that the presentation of FF14 is leaps and bounds above WOW, although they're getting better in that regard. The A/V team in FF14 is incredible and constantly blow me away every time there is new stuff to see.
Parker Thomas
>A/V team in FF14 is incredible
I unironically feel like Soken is being set up as Uematsu's successor in being the greatest composer in all of vidya.
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Joshua Rivera
XIV isn't good. HTH
Kayden Miller
Is genderswapping a gil or dosh transaction?
Caleb Adams
dosh
Robert Jones
Funny considering the huge number of wowfugees.
Brandon Phillips
Yeah nothing like stealing music for a video game!
William Powell
what did xhe mean by this?
Bentley Stewart
>Powerman still assmad about losing the court case three years later
Jose Green
Depends?
Do you pump back to back 20+s, know lfr/lfd are meaningless memes that affect nothing and that gear is irrelevant?
If the answer is no then you'll love XIV.
Leo Flores
>greatest composer
>compose that shit Alexander Prime theme
I agree that FFXIV has a great OST overall, but Soken isn't imaculate on his work though.
Joseph Lopez
>playing your girlfriend's character to raid and ignoring the rest of the game
I don't know why I find this so funny.
Logan Jenkins
>>compose that shit Alexander Prime theme
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Jose Garcia
>Alexander theme
>bad
Gabriel Long
>shit Alexander Prime theme
Andrew Collins
sounds like someone got gobbieboomed
Robert Scott
>leviathan, leviathan
Kayden Walker
Ethan Butler
BREATHLESS