Discussing your 'unpopular' opinions

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

It would have been better if PvE was never implemented and all the development time spent on it went towards new PvP content and systems instead. The game should have been called Final Fantasy XIV Online: Heroes of Hydaelyn. :>

Give me XIV with a mix of the good aspects of 3.x and 4.x's PvP systems, with informed, smart, regular PvP support, actual handling of cheating/botting issues, and perhaps throw in that West Shroud idea of mine in several locations, and I'd sub to that. Hell I'd pay for yours too.

MCH at 3.0 launch was incredibly weak, and it was the hardest job to play all through the expansion because you needed to play piano with wildfire to get decent DPS. This wasn't controversial. It literally was all about forcing too many damage and modifier OGCDS into a brief window of time, and even though they slowly adjusted it, most people didn't seem to play it. New MCH was worse I feel because they tacked on heat gauge, when they just needed to spread its abilties out and reduce BS stuff.

Weak, and far in the shadow of the DRK hype and AST interest (yet played more than AST, surprisingly) at that time, but I'm gonna side with Yoshi P in that a lot of people just didn't know how to play it. It wasn't perfect. It's still not perfect. But with some QoL adjustments people figured out Wildfire and how to properly play it, and realized it could pump out numbers more titillating than Thancred or Aymeric wearing the elusive Male Bunny glam. First impressions last, unfortunately, and a lot of the XIV crowd shies away from complexity or challenge anyways, not to mention SE decided to reinvent the wheel with MCH one expansion after its introduction, thus the MCH remains a conundrum for many, a beautiful, ballistic pleasure for others.

P.S. Edda was hot even before all the crazy.

[Connor]

Give me XIV with a mix of the good aspects of 3.x and 4.x's PvP systems, with informed, smart, regular PvP support, actual handling of cheating/botting issues, and perhaps throw in that West Shroud idea of mine in several locations, and I'd sub to that. Hell I'd pay for yours too.

I'd love to see the good aspects of 3.X and 4.X PvP combined. I've always enjoyed PvP content, but unfortunately for whatever reason I never seem able to actually get in these days.