Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW!

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make FFXIV more like a Final Fantasy game and less like WoW? Id sacrifice more mounts for more jobs personally, i mean throughout the series maybe have we ever seen characters use a handful total different ways of travelling.welp gonna get the flame retardant suit ready :x

[bass9020]

make FFXIV more like a Final Fantasy game and less like WoW? Id sacrifice more mounts for more jobs personally, i mean throughout the series maybe have we ever seen characters use a handful total different ways of travelling.welp gonna get the flame retardant suit ready :x

I wish we had less aetheryte camps and actual airship/boat rides that took time and weren't instant. Though I would rather them be available everytime and not on a timer like in XI, waiting for that damn airship to get back after just missing it was horrible lol

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I wish we had less aetheryte camps and actual airship/boat rides that took time and weren't instant. Though I would rather them be available everytime and not on a timer like in XI, waiting for that damn airship to get back after just missing it was horrible lol

never played 11, but did watch a video of a boat ride and monsters show up, looked kinda fun to me id dig it.

[Tracewood]

As much as I enjoyed XI, there are things I do not ever want to see in XIV.

Like NM camping, pop NMs with an item that drop loot is fine. Not liking the idea of waiting for a timed spawn and losing claim to a bot or bad luck. Diadem could of been the "Sky" endgame activity where you have to work to spawn NMs and HNMs via pop items (or the ZNM system which was pretty nifty.)

Unpopular opinion, but I liked Abyssea. It gave other neglected jobs a chance to shine, before the meta was top geared SAM x2-3 (one DRG) BRD, and RDM killing pink food stealing birds for hours on end, no other jobs were allowed and even if there are alternate camps most of the playerbase wanted to copy what's popular or adapt. Diadem should of been something like that, where you could enter with any premade you wish, farm time, and farm loot.

It took me some getting used to the whole idea of raids, in XI there really wasn't raids just open world hardcore content. Though I suppose Dynamis would count as an instanced raid. Feels like everything in this game has to be locked behind a timed instance. They need to mix things up a bit. Destiny raids (talking about the FPS) weren't timed, you go in with a party and try your hardest to beat it and get the weekly lockout for loot.

[dinnertime]

make FFXIV more like a Final Fantasy game and less like WoW? Id sacrifice more mounts for more jobs personally, i mean throughout the series maybe have we ever seen characters use a handful total different ways of travelling.welp gonna get the flame retardant suit ready :x

This game is becoming less and less Final Fantasy in my opinion. The last time it felt like a true Final Fantasy game was in 1.x to 2.1. I don't know, I think the amount of FF fanservice it gets makes it feel like a spin-off game and the ridiculousness of some mounts, gear and items irk me. Not to mention there's no such thing as adventure in this game, which Final Fantasy was mainly about. The zones all felt so tiny and there's not much mystery in them. Maybe I just think FFXIV isn't that FFXIV anymore and the game feels so unoriginal.
I guess the music is a factor since it's not Uematsu anymore but Soken is pretty good anyway, but not better.