Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

Bad things about FFXIV's graphics:

Water
Texture resolution at far distances
Spell and skill effects (just awful)
No shadows

Those are the main things.

I like this water:
http://tagn.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/evendim.jpg

The Lord of the Ring Online water is surely one of the best i ever seen.

Hmm, I do think the walls of LL should be less copy pasted.

Small sugestion about Taunt animation.
Taunt animation looks just the same as Provoke, or any other selfbuff. Whats about some moves like Dante did in DMC3?
Just as exemple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWaIC2rZWM

Lord of the rings isn't that great. Go watch an Archeage video or something.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Interesting. Where exactly are the shadows on that extremely simple water model that doesn't even feature realistic ripples?

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Might want to actually take a look at the water since the Cata upgrade since it's pretty damn realistic, and has realistic ripples when you move through it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnbAGt_cdKs

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Originally Posted by giftforce

Lord of the rings isn't that great. Go watch an Archeage video or something.

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Archeage looks nice, but LotRO has some of the best landscapes in any MMORPG I've played, which is amazing considering that the game is like 5-6 years old.

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Originally Posted by Dreamer

Archeage looks nice, but LotRO has some of the best landscapes in any MMORPG I've played, which is amazing considering that the game is like 5-6 years old.

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We're talking about water.