The Final Fantasy XIV killer that we deserve and need

>mmorpg
>small scale
fucking kill this joke of a genre

i mean there are 72 man ones too but that's not for me, i prefer being able to carry with maybe one other person

>copy FFXIV
NO because retarded wow devs interpret this as
>a hundred gay ass "cinematics"
>more troon characters

And also more retarded marvel-esque "storytelling".

retard small scale bg's have always existed

It would be only to their detriment if they were to copy FF.
They can't possibly hope to match FF's story. What they should aim for is a serviceable but entertaining story and great gameplay. Fewer mechanics that you have to spend a ton of time grinding through, and fewer penalties for not playing every day/week/month/whatever.

I NEED MY NEW ARTIFACT POWER NOW

Emmy wished on a dragon scale
And that's what started Dragon Tales
Around the room, the dragons flew
But Emmy and Max knew what to do
They climbed on the backs of their dragon friends
Now the adventures never end

Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales
It's almost time for Dragon Tales
Come along, take my hand
Let's all go to Dragon Land

There's Ord, he's the biggest
Not so brave of heart
There's Cassie, so shy
Oh, so very smart
There's Zak and Wheezie
In these tales of fun
Cause you know two heads are better than one
Dragon Tales, Dragon Tales
It's almost time for Dragon Tales
Come along, take my hand
Let's all go to Dragon Land

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>Fewer mechanics that you have to spend a ton of time grinding through, and fewer penalties for not playing every day/week/month/whatever.

So copy how FFXIV does it, got it.

it's actually baffling to me how people can force themselves to still care about this game

the WoW story even in its current state is better than that weeb garbage.

FFXIV will fade to irrelevancy as soon as WoW becomes playing again.

Lol name a single thing that equires grinding in XIV aside from relics that nobody needs. I know you can't.

That's what XIV does though. There's almost no grind there and every odd patch lets you catch up in ilvl to the poopsockers that did savage.

spacing gave you away faggot wow story only like by subhumans with no value

>They can't possibly hope to match FF's story
FFXIV doesn't set a high bar. WoW has always had better characters and lore, problem is, it has had better writers

That lore has been destroyed by endless retcons and all cool characters were killed off or made retarded on purpose.

WoW had been piggybacking on Warcraft 3's lore and characters for so long it's not even funny. WoW's only good original character was Garrosh and they raped him to death. Twice.

Blame danauser. Everything pre BFA is good
That is grossly untrue and you know it

>wow ever having a better story than ff
lol

Pretty sure any potential it had was run into the dirt about the time of wotlk

All WoW original characters are shit. WoW also destroyed Arthas, Illidan, Kael, Sylvanas and many others.

>Wrathbabies crying again
so typical

What WoW really needs from XIV is more straight-forward catch-up or gearing up for casual crowd that should be rewarded for doing anything instead of funneling all those activities into some temporary expansion specific power.
Return badges or make equivalent of tomestones to give decent gear that's preparing them for normal raid or above.

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Learn how to read retard

When people say "WoW needs to copy from XIV" they actually mean "WoW needs to go back to Mists of Pandaria catch up mechanics"

The main reason why WoW's writing will ALWAYS suck is that they never let the player be the fucking hero. No, it wasn't you that took down the Lich King, you just helped Tyrion. No it wasn't you that killed Onyxia, that was Varian, etc.

>Blame danauser.
Now guess who's got full control over the next expansion's story.

Anyone actually thinking this has been eternally mazed in Bobby's World with no hope of escaping.

Wrath should have been a symbolic passing of the torch from wc3 to wow in terms of lore, but we're still going on about muh sylvanus, muh illidan etc.

That's not going to happen though. And it isn't just because of corporate needs; a lot of wow players just feel that it's "too easy" if someone can come back after a while and "catch up" with them after just a week of work. The concepts of wow are so deep in their brains that they can't accept anything they haven't had to grind for over the course of months.

Illidan in BC was already completely fucking retarded. WoW story and lore was never good, it raped Warcraft.

You can't have story continuity when millions of people are responsible for killing one thing. Having, say, the heroes help thrall kill garrosh allows the story to make sense

Besides you have one side of the playerbase arguing that they want to be little adventurers again, and they're retarded

Its a compromise

I always hated that shit, the only notable thing we did was making WoD Guldan fear us so much that he didn't plan to betray the legion but its literally only that and that shit was outside of the game

Then it's ending up to become a maze that even newcomer can't get through entrance because of gatekeeping.

All of BC is just awful writing

>n-no this patch will fix bfa!
>...i mean THIS patch!
>no, THIS patch!
>w-what i meant to say was shadowlands will fix wow
>...by 9.1
>i mean its covid so you cant expect blizzard to operate like literally every other dev so 9.2 maybe?...
>THATS IT 10.0 BAYBEE, ITS GOING TO FIX EVERYTHING

imagine being a wowbuck trapped in bobbys maze in 2022.

You are pretty much incorrect. A good story has nothing to do with your character being actually important or not. You don't have to be THE CHOSEN ONE to be an actual character. But all WoW characters are simple mannequins that use other people's clothes and weapons.
Kael, Illidan and Lady Vashj we all killed in BC, tranny.

There's a ton of catchup gear every patch retard

it already has this and has had it for several expansions

That's what I keep hearing from newcomers to wow. Once someone tells them everything they have to do just to meet the bare minimums, they say, "that's ridiculous" and quit the game.

>You can't have story continuity when millions of people are responsible for killing one thing.
XIV does that and does it well, but then again there is no 2 factions there so maybe its that

You need to open more about this since I am unfamiliar what you are referencing there. If you speak about Valor it's just upgrading existing gear where item level cap depends on your M+ performance.

But these catch-up are post-patch zone specific like Korthia or Zereth Moris instead of using universal token currency you'd be able to use for character progression by doing anything by player choice.

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Is that weekly timegating I see?
Its catchup, tard. Once you have the gear you dont need to catch up again.

>Blizzard

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WoW doesn't have 2 factions anymore though. There's maybe 8 guys playing alliance left.

the weekly timegated currency provides gear that goes beyond the normal raid difficulty loot reward while the 2nd tier is most accessible catch-up that allows player engage with challenging content.
Let's not forget crafted gear that's same item level as the normal raid difficulty that also permits opportunity to enter harder encounters.

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The only weekly timegating is for the last tier of gear which is half catch-up, half actual BiS

is there an edward minion in the game?

>The Final Fantasy XIV killer
WoW always was better then FFXIV

Nobody cares about Blizzards turds anymore.

And IF someone should do they're so braindamaged that they might as well be classified as vegetables.

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I cant take this shit seriously with the little chibi character
What is wrong with japs

>What is wrong with japs
A lot, but that image is fan made.

there just pets in the game,you're choosing the dumbest shit to complain about

Spoony bard minion.

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didnt play a single hour of shadowlands
how bad was it?

forgot to add
>Redeemed through Mogstation from a bonus code inside Heavensward: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack.

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I still thank god everyday for the tomestone gear being literally only 10 ilvl's less than the literally endgame gear

It's over.

you dumb? this is what killed WoW writing. It was at its best in vanilla or tbc when we were just a random grunt hired to help kill bosses. Now youre the fucking chosen one every time.

yes they are called mobas or fighting games

>you get the catchup from actually playing the latest patch
How is this in any way an issue? So you can't hunt down some old efficient method and spam it nonstop forever?

Cash Shop ok when Japan

>buy physical thing
>get little bauble to go along with it

whats wrong with this?