Concepts from other MMOs that would be utterly anathema to FFXIV

[Kalise]

Any particular builds you'd want to go for, if you could have your preference?

What kind of stats would you go for and which jobs would you apply them through, and with which adaptations from other jobs?

Aww man, with that kind of system, I'd actually be able to play my go to D&D character...

Monk/Ninja that tanks because of ridiculously high evasion and reflex saves... Don't need heavy armour if you just dodge everything that comes at you!

Meanwhile, I'm also attacking really fast, either pummelling enemies down with my fists, or dual wielding shortswords!

But alas... MNK in this game is no tank these days... Also, SE don't know if they want MNK's to attack fast or to keep dumping their attack speed (At least Riddle of Fire no longer has the SkS down attached to it...)

I would so prefer that system over the extremely limited one we have now that makes me feel like I'm on a short leash and not even the good kind of leashing.

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City of Heroes - where a typical dungeon pull could have a mob stack size over 40... including multiple bosses...

Ahh yes, wouldn't FFXIV players love the old CoH dungeon runs, where you'd pull literally the entire dungeon and then AoE everything down.

So popular was this tactic that they eventually nerfed AoE's to have a hard cap of 20 targets they could hit per cast.

Which also then killed the Tanker archetype because its higher natural defensive stats then became obsolete when pulling more than 20 enemies wasn't worthwhile leading to Bruisers and Scrappers with higher damage being the new go-to Tanks...

[Tlamila]

I skipped many pages so forgive me if it's been said already but - Open World PVP.

[Veliena]

Well, as I learned in another... spirited thread, this actually permeates all levels of the game, which is fine, but it's not the norm on a game-mechanical level in the general MMOniverse. Case in point: role quests. You'd never get those in WoW, where you're actually skill-gated to go any further in the core of the game's individual storytelling questing. The playerbase of FFXIV has, understandably, come to rely on this trust that everyone who makes it to 80 has been gated and tested by the story and its content that they have a barebones understanding of their class. WoW does not do this, not so formally.

Since you specifically mention role quest I figured I'd chime in. In vanilla wow, there were role quest, where you had to do the quest to unlock abilities. Anyone who played a shaman back then can tell you the pain of the level 20 totem quest that made you run all over on foot to unlock the totem.

[Kalise]

Since you specifically mention role quest I figured I'd chime in. In vanilla wow, there were role quest, where you had to do the quest to unlock abilities. Anyone who played a shaman back then can tell you the pain of the level 20 totem quest that made you run all over on foot to unlock the totem.

In a similar vein, I remember in Pandaria and Warlords of Boredom they gated Heroic Dungeons in the LFD tool behind achieving Silver in the Proving Grounds for your role.

To which a ton of (Mostly DPS mains) cried about how it was too hard...

Meanwhile, I was able to get Gold in the Tank and Healer with Silver in the DPS as a Healer. I got Gold in the Tank, DPS and Healer ones as a Tank. While as a DPS I got gold in the DPS and Healer ones with Silver in Tank.

Due to how incredibly easy the Proving Grounds actually were... Which is a show in just how garbage your average PuG group was... (I also remember one person in my guild complaining it was impossible for her class to beat Silver... Then another of my, guild mates leveled up a character of the same class and found that you could complete the entire 10 stages with a single skill usage...)

[SamSmoot]

OP, thanks for the description of corruption.. It's another reason for me to not return to WoW... (Left in Jan 2019)

[SugarPuff]

The ability to join multiple guilds/FC. We have LS and now Fellowships but the other MMO's I've played don't insist on "loyalty" to one preeminant social group.
I have no experience with WoW though, it was just something that surprised me after playing FFXI. Since that was my first online game I chalked it up to FFXI being older and (so I was told) out of the ordinary, anyway. Then I dabbled in ESO a bit and it occurred to me that maybe I was right to be a little taken aback, after all.

[Divinemights]

Oh, to add the salt to the wound, do you even realize how retard it is for those “WoW concept feature”? For example, the new legendary cloak, do you the the performance difference between rank11 and rank 12 is huge in an awkward way? You basically forced to grind every dailles and assault in order not to fall behind in the perforamnce? Blizzard is the new punch bag for a reason and please stop so ask for WoW feature in FF14. WoW the king is dead, long live the king

[Bright-Flower]

The ability to join multiple guilds/FC. We have LS and now Fellowships but the other MMO's I've played don't insist on "loyalty" to one preeminant social group.
I have no experience with WoW though, it was just something that surprised me after playing FFXI. Since that was my first online game I chalked it up to FFXI being older and (so I was told) out of the ordinary, anyway. Then I dabbled in ESO a bit and it occurred to me that maybe I was right to be a little taken aback, after all.

I was under the impression that only being able to join one guild/equivalent was the genre standard, but I've only played a few. GW 1, WoW and FFXIV.

[Jimmymagic]

I skipped many pages so forgive me if it's been said already but - Open World PVP.

BDO has it

[Brannagh]

I wonder how much of those sweet extra retainer $$$s they'd lose if they us GW2's glorious crafting bank. I seriously have a hard time playing a crafter in any other MMO because of how smooth that system was.