Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
Say what you will about FFXI's complicated affinity for elements, at least they MEANT something. The offering FFXIV has is barely a footnote in comparison.
When you look at it, FFXI had a much more complex battle system than FFXIV, you really had to learn how to fight. Some mobs like skeletons took less slashing and piercing damage but more bashing damage while most birds took increased piercing damage. Also certain weapons changing the base type of damage, like monk weapons normally doing bashing, but claw types did slashing or the rapier sub class of swords doing piercing instead of slashing. This is something I miss in XIV, it feels so simple in comparison, but then again I don't miss having 3-4 equipment sets and 8 main weapons on my BLM back in the days.