Quote Originally Posted by Reiterpallasch View Post
WoW has dragons. We should get rid of dragons!
WoW has grass. Lets get rid of the grass!
WoW has magic. Abolish all magic!
WoW has clouds in the sky. There better not be ANY clouds in FFXIVs sky!
WoW has snowy zones. Coerthas is clearly an unoriginal WoW clone zone.

Seriously, do you understand how ridiculous the "WoW clone" argument is? As has been already said, just because it's in WoW doesn't mean it's the devil and a terrible idea. There are some absolutely amazing ideas in that game, some of which are this one.
i'm sure all of this was in FF XI before WoW came out ^^