Things about the game we like.

Yes, I have a list of things I don't like about the game. Outfits limited to class and level so I cant glamour them, and lack of exaggeratedly long anime hair styles....but, the forum is already filled with complains, so I decided to start a thread about things about the game we DO like and enjoy. So here are a few of mine to start this....

Favorite Enemy's: Two notable off hand that makes me laugh every time; Cactaur, when a fight starts they squeak and get into that stance. XD The other are those posing zombies.
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The Golden Saucer: A giant facility full of mini games. I love it! Well, maybe not that domino thing yet, I still haven't learned what going on with that.
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The Moogle weapons and Mounts: If it's one thing I love is "cute!" And the Moogle weapons are my favorite weapon designs! I have the katana for my Samurai and I'm saving for the book for my Scholar.
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I really love we have sync and unsync because new players and veterans can play together and both enjoy the game. I love a lot of things in ffxiv like the moogle wpns like you said but more importantly also is the lore, story, open world and characters. Ffxiv is the best mmo i ever played! : )

I like:

All jobs on 1 character.

So I don't have to pick one to main, I can just play them all! :3

Miqo'te.

They're just too darn cute :3

MSQ's

Very interesting and easy to follow (Unlike many MMO's where after about 5 minutes into the expansion it's basically "Things happened. Bad guys died. BUT NOT REALLY PREVIOUS BOSS OUT OF NOWHERE WHAM!" where half the time you're like "WTF am I even doing here?"). My only wish is that it could incorporate a bit more side content into the canon but I understand the barriers that prevent that (Inb4 retconning Crystal Tower raid into canon for ShB)

Items that stack up to 999

Even if you can only purchase/sell stacks of 99... Being able to go up to 999 is very nice and helps keep inventory more condensed (Y'all ever held on to over 2200 health potions in WoW? They only stack to 20. I had literally no inventory space ;_; Also, before anyone asks why I needed over 2200 health potions... It's like they say "Better to have 2200 health potions and not need them, then need 2200 health potions and not have them!"

The fact that there is very little, if any, grind until endgame. A lot of other MMOs I play force you into a wall while you're still leveling and at that point I switch games. The MSQ being decent quality is also helpful of course

The gathering and crafting system. After finally getting all my battle jobs to max and starting on my crafting and gathering jobs, I can see why a lot of people view FFXIV's "Profession" system as one of the best. I don't think i've ever enjoyed and been immersed this much into crafting and gathering in any other game as i am in FFXIV. I can't wait for the new crafter's endgame content they have in store for Shadowbringers.

This is the first MMO I stuck with for a few reasons:

1: Having armor/clothing options for my female character that actually....LOOKS LIKE FUNCTIONAL ARMOR. Seriously. It bugs the heck out of me when armor variations on female models is the "sexy Halloween costume" variant of the cool looking guy armor. Being able to deck my lady out in proper plate or in slick looking caster gear went a long way in endearing this game to me.

2: Knowing that I wouldn't be locked into a single class was awesome.

3: Story. Especially the little winks they give about how you end up in instances with full parties. "Warrior of Light, you always manage to find capable adventurers to help you in your fight!" I think it does a solid job of putting every player in the spotlight of their own story while explaining all the other adventurers out there.

4: Variety of end game content. Like to raid? We got raids! Don't like raiding? Well we have other classes, relic weapons, gathering, crafting, mini games, side quests, EX trials, achievements, and hunts! There's a little something for everyone.

5: Glamour (a bit different from my number 1 of how dear looks) is fantastic. It's so cool to see what people put together with all the different looking gear you can make and find. Walking through the major cities it's neat to see all the variety rather then a bunch of cookie cutter looking outfits.

Things I like about FFXIV -

The Music: it never disappoints me, and I'll buy those OSTs the second they're available for preorder. Absolutely love the music in this game.

The Zones: I love taking pictures in this game, and a lot of my screenshots are pictures of the zones. I can tell the developers put a lot into both the overworld zones and the dungeons, and my favorite part of new expansions is getting to explore the new zones. On alts, I explore them on foot to take in the sights again.

Ultimate: my favorite piece of content in this game. This game has stuff for everybody, and I really love that the developers took the time to develop a piece of content for the 1% that wanted something super hard.

The entirety of Heavensward: still my favorite part of the story thus far. I level alts just to do HW again.

Ability to have all jobs leveled on a single character: I like having options with regards to what I can play. With this game, I have a lot of options!

Job aesthetics and animations: I really like the aesthetics certain jobs have. BRD's original artifact gear is why I chose it when I started playing. AST's and DRK's animations are why I chose to level them after I finished leveling BRD. A lot of jobs have nice animations to them, and these animations sometimes attract me towards playing them.

Lore: I like how much lore is in this game, and how deep and intricate it can be.

DRK quests: favorite quests in the game. I like that they focus on our character for once rather than another character. And the Japanese translations I've read for a few of them have a much deeper way of conveying meaning than English localizations, which I appreciate even more.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

I level alts just to do HW again.

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Will you use NG+ or stick with alts?

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Originally Posted by linay

Will you use NG+ or stick with alts?

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It depends. I like the idea of reliving it on my main, but my alts also have characters of their own, and I like seeing them go through it as well. Each of my characters are different, so it’s a different sort of feeling each time for me.

First and foremost has to be the story. I am invested in my character as much as I am because I can’t wait to be apart of the next saga. Secondly has to be having one character for all jobs. It makes my character’s history and progression that much more meaningful.

Being able to play all the jobs on one character is by far one of the best things about this game.

Some of the small details like hats not butchering your hair, the way you sit differently on some of the mounts, being able to change your standing pose and sitting pose. All the little things.

I like the fact that each character has a given name and a surname, and it's just the combination of the two that has to be unique on your server. This makes it really easy to think of a good character name! No need to spend 40 minutes going, "Nope, that name's taken, and... nope, that name's taken, too..."

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Originally Posted by Angelov-Mercy

Favorite Enemy's: Two notable off hand that makes me laugh every time; Cactaur, when a fight starts they squeak and get into that stance. XD The other are those posing zombies.
https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...c33e0b00ef.png

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LOL, this is my FC mate, Drakon Macar, who styles himself 'The Cactuar King'. He's not subbed at the moment, but he asked me to pass on his consternation that you haven't credited him for this lovely shot of him hanging out with his subjects!

I like that the game is so casual i don't ever feel like i have to play it xD. Have not logged in in days lol.

I like that their is no 4th healer yet, so the vast majority of healers can spend more time learning how to play their own class........

...yes I am the devil.

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Originally Posted by Lukha

LOL, this is my FC mate, Drakon Macar, who styles himself 'The Cactuar King'. He's not subbed at the moment, but he asked me to pass on his consternation that you haven't credited him for this lovely shot of him hanging out with his subjects!

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I wouldn't wish to leave his highness dismayed, it was a random search on google images.
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lol

I like Roes.

As others have said. The MSQ. All jobs on one character. The dungeons for the most part. Professions are much more detailed and serves a purpose compared to other games. A raid finder system that doesn't nerf the raids to joke level. A gear system that makes sense. Character customization.

I'm sure there's more that just aren't coming to mind right now.

What I like?

- All classes on 1 Character.
- Miqo'te. Cats. That is all.
- Housing. I love decorating my house. I can dissapear for hours and forget sleep when I do this :P
- Eureka. A lot of people will disagree here, but I actually love Eureka (Except Pagos. Pagos can *bleep* off lol). I personally found this a more enjoyable way of getting my relic than the questline (them atma's and books man... *shiver*).
- Baldesion Arsenal. Being a part of Eureka, BA was actually quite fun, imo. I loved this design of a 56 man "raid" inside another dungeon.

There's probably more but I can't think of it right now ;D All in all I generally have very little to complain about in this game

Would be easier to state what I don't like because there is way less than all the rest that I like lol.

To pick some i'll use the other post to help me.
Miqo'te, Housing, All classes, my SAM job~, the world in itself, the musics and tons of other things.

The tanking classes are actually good. No, seriously. They are all very aesthetically pleasing to look at, have good move sets, their own flair. I really love the tanking classes in this game.

Weapons are designed very well, the raids I really like as well. Every job has its own identity, even if you don't like it, it's still unique.

I personally love the casual aspect of this game. I was a former WOW player, and raiding was THE game in WOW, so it's nice to be able to log in to this game and have plenty of other things to do that aren't raiding.

As someone who migrated from WoW, the gameplay.
The jobs in this game have so much depth compared to the cess pool of baby spoon fed garbage that is wow these days, i really appreciate how they did the pruning for stormblood- just removing redundancy to make room for new stuff rather than grinding a stupid necklace or artifact weapon to get boring passives.

Gameplay should always come first, and wow can take a note from FF14 that's for sure

Aside from the usual things like story, music, ability to play all jobs, etc, I also like how I can play a healer and caster in this game as a big race without being gimped by racial stats.
I'm happy not have to choose a certain race because said race has better stats for the jobs that I'd like to main in endgame contents.

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Originally Posted by Drayce1

I like that their is no 4th healer yet, so the vast majority of healers can spend more time learning how to play their own class........

...yes I am the devil.

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Then i have to wonder why we get a new dps class and a new tank because there are also way more than enough tanks and dps players that don't know how to play their class. Try again.

Crafting Crafting and Crafting!! Also not sure how big anyone is about farming items but I have always enjoyed farming ans stockpiling items for crafting / flipping on MB and its very rewarding to farm items !! Also did I mention CRAFTING!!!

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Originally Posted by Ilan

Then i have to wonder why we get a new dps class and a new tank because there are also way more than enough tanks and dps players that don't know how to play their class. Try again.

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We get a new dps class cuz dps sells, and yoshi admitted that healers are screwed up and too hard to play for most casual players anyway, Tanks are more needed due to few playing them because if anything goes wrong, "its the tanks fault", thus very few willing to put up with it.

And seeing the colossal epic fails done by healers and healer bots alike in rival wings lately....lol...yea...only 1 in 50 have the nessecary healer skills called positional and situational awareness. Likely due to healing being too hard for them.

Try again.

I just love the glamour system and the many outfits and what not that I can put together. Honestly I could spend hours just messing around in character creation or mix and matching outfits. I just recently started getting into crafting and gathering and I really love that a lot so far!

Visuals
Music
Story
Nostalgia

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Originally Posted by Drayce1

We get a new dps class cuz dps sells, and yoshi admitted that healers are screwed up and too hard to play for most casual players anyway, Tanks are more needed due to few playing them because if anything goes wrong, "its the tanks fault", thus very few willing to put up with it.

And seeing the colossal epic fails done by healers and healer bots alike in rival wings lately....lol...yea...only 1 in 50 have the nessecary healer skills called positional and situational awareness. Likely due to healing being too hard for them.

Try again.

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Dude the only thing you put up here is your hatred for healers. If you think they are all bad, play one yourself and show people how its done. Healers are not too hard to play also not for casuals, yes healers are not balanced properly but that doesn't mean they are to hard or "screwed up". If just 1 in 50 have the necessary skill to play healer than its probably 1 out of 100 dps that have the necessary skill and yeah tanks are probably also around 1 out of 50.

Nice things you try to pull out of your head but you didn't show ANY evidence that confirms your fairytale but you've tried.

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Originally Posted by Drayce1

Tanks are more needed due to few playing them because if anything goes wrong, "its the tanks fault", thus very few willing to put up with it.

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Actually, if something goes wrong, people will look at the healers first, regardless of whether it was their fault.

Tanks are second in line for mistakes.

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And seeing the colossal epic fails done by healers and healer bots alike in rival wings lately....lol...yea...only 1 in 50 have the nessecary healer skills called positional and situational awareness. Likely due to healing being too hard for them.

Try again.

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90% of the playerbase lacks positional and situational awareness. This is not an issue that solely lies with healers.

Anyway...

I like lalafell; they add an element of silliness in the MSQ, even when it gets serious.

As someone who gets bored doing the same thing over and over (especially when its very simple, like ex primal farm runs), the ability to change jobs on the fly is really nice. The fact the jobs themselves are fairly easy to learn is really nice too.

The 8-player raid content is excellent. I took a break for Alphascape, but I'm really looking forward to Eden Savage raids. I might try Ultimate in ShB depending on time I have; I really enjoyed my old static's "prog" of UCOB, even if it took a whole raid day to see Nael lol

I love how even though I am playing support jobs, I can still put out massive amounts of damage. it definitely makes healing and tanking a lot more interesting.

The music is really good, but like I mentioned before, I need variety or I'll lose interest. So after about 2-3 weeks of new stuff, the BGM goes off, sorry :P

The music and scenery in this game is amazing—one place that comes to mind is the HW Coerthas zone. It captures so much emotion and elements of the story through the music and environment. It’s very nice :)

I also like how much thought is put into the animations for some of the skills in the game (like tornado kick, wheeling thrust, earthly star... there’s so much more).

And I love the minions. I fall in love with a new one every time they release a batch! They are so cute ^^

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Originally Posted by Tlachtga

Actually, if something goes wrong, people will look at the healers first, regardless of whether it was their fault.

Tanks are second in line for mistakes.



90% of the playerbase lacks positional and situational awareness. This is not an issue that solely lies with healers.

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I've developed my own personal view on the roles lol:

DPS - Artillery
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Healers - Support
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Tank - Team Leader
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The tank is basically the team leader, it's his first job to make sure people are ready and coordinated. I have just started to play a tank, to find out why they don't seem to be able hold aggro and why the role seems to make players under appreciate their healers. So far, it's not too bad. It's actually easier then DPS! You aggro, attack, then aggro again before the time runs out on the pulling power. I have not found a purpose as of yet to run away from my healer or pull the whole map, we still clear them in good time...the tank really does set the tone for the group. Once I finish the practice queues I will have a better understanding for them, and perhaps become good enough to lead the difficult ones later on. But this has also given me an opportunity to make a Link homage from an idea I found on the cosplay thread. ^^

What I like in no particular order:
1. Music (Hells Kier in particular is my fav)
2. Storyline with little to no farming (only after the end of MSQ)
3. Good side stories
4. Epic trials
5. Beautiful dungeons
6. Multiple jobs
7. Very well done jobs system and job skill
8. Glamour (yes, I love those Moggle glamours too)

What I hate most currently:
1. Tank proceed to do big pull without consulting healer
2. Tank dies
3. Tank: "Why don't you heal me, stupid" then leave the group who then have to queue for 30 mins for a new tank

edit: basically a rude player.

The 1# that I like the most in FFXIV is the music. While Stormblood story was meh and character customization is still lacking, the music is the one thing I know will always be superb.