Why is FFXIV considered to be so hard/hardcore?

[Luvbunny]

I'm not saying FFXI is easy, just that being good at FFXI doesn't automatically makes you good at FFXIV. They're different.

FFXI in a nutshell: knows your jobs and its abilities, do have macros, be quick with status removal, and your stunner better be on top of things, and by the love of god, you better have up to date gears, merited correctly, and eat the right kind of food. Everything else in the game - you do nothing much, no dodging, no perfectly synchronized mechanic, no paying attention to bunch of mechanics happening at the same time. It's easy peasy if you pass all the checks above. Occasionally you must kite, or people need to watch their auto attack and not be a retard, and your team mate must dispel stuffs ASAP. But overall the game play consist of stun the deadly TP moves, be fast with hitting your macro for status removal and cures, as for the rest - just spams your WS and Job Abilities (really no different than FF14, our JAs is mere seconds, FFXI JAs are minutes). There may be a few of these: kill mobs at the same time, kill mobs with specific job abilities, kill mobs with one type of damage, kill mobs with elemental damage, mobs with weakness to certain type of damage at certain phases of their HP, etc.

You wipe if your teammates are under geared, your whm is too slow, and your support jobs don't do their rotation well. As for melee DD, just auto attack, spam your WS when its ready, and in the off chances, please try to skill chain with your other teammates. Ridiculously easy to be honest playing as melee DD. Hence FFXI is now suffering from the lack of Bard, White Mage, Stun Scholar, and well geared Paladin, everyone wants to play DPS. No different than in here, just less dodging and less one hit kill or dance-a-thon mechanic to watch out.