Quote Originally Posted by Linnear View Post
If you only playhed WoW to mash through quests and not reading anything then this isn't much different then that, but personally I liked the flavor texts and story lines.
Actually you're given the background of FFXIV levequests, they are on the card and they are actually quite well written. So if you read the (absolutely sub-par and based on an half-copied, kiddish, cheesy and fruity excuse for a fantasy world) quests in wow, you can sure read the background of guildleves.

Levequests are not much different than quests presented in a different way. They featured very similar mechanics, and both can be considered as "directed grinding".

Now, this doesn't mean that having both wouldn't be much better.

Whirts thrid leg and dwarven fishing pole (stick of dynomite) is gold and something that SE doesn't do well.
Considering that even minor quests in FFXI absolutely obliterate basically every quest in wow, both narriation and writing wise, I would find the "something SE doesn't do well" part pretty chuckle-worthy.