Quote Originally Posted by Kolsykol View Post
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  1. It might be better to judge less by forum echo chambers and more by the changes actually produced. In that regard, WoW has done more in response to player concerns lately than XIV has, and less in response to what they think their players are supposed to like.
  2. Demon Hunter is the WoW version of SAM. Its toolkit is intuitive and attractive. It does not, however, lack for complexity at the highest levels of play.
  3. XIV does not have any more "in depth" combat than WoW. The CD stacking, exact ability timings, raid buff multiplicity, and the like are all concerns available to WoW combat. They just have fights that are varied enough that such matters are secondary until the very highest levels of play, rather than -- due to fight predictability/simplicity -- being reached early on.