What are some things from other MMOs or games in general that you wish were in FFXIV?

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WoW raids are glorified trash packs in between bosses you are actually interested in. It is a blessing from heaven that a developer finally admitted this and just allows you to queue directly into the boss you care about. Forcing guilds to clear 8 bosses they can care less about just to get to the 9th boss with the gear and actual challenging mechanics is not good raid design.

Blizzard even admits the first 4 bosses are intended for the most casual people in their playerbase. Do you have any clue how much of an annoyance it is to do reclears of raids every week just to finally get to the one boss you want after a 2 hour raid.

FF14 is extremely superior in multiple ways but the WoW nostalgia makes people forget how horrible it was on farm doing the same trash and pointless bosses week after week after week.

Ah, good old blind WoW hatred on XIV forums, always refreshing /s


Now if you took a moment you would've noticed that I never mentioned that I want the XIV raids to exactly like WoW, I even gave an example of raids within the game that were, in my opinion, done better than what they are currently doing.


Alexander on normal mode had trash that took you maybe 2 minutes to get past but it made the whole thing a lot more fleshed out, almost as if you were traversing through parts of Alexander to fight the boss. It even solved your problem of "glorified trashpacks" because the savage version completely skipped the trash without making it feel like you're fighting a trial boss in the middle of nowhere. Your point about "annoying reclears until you get to the boss you want" is also not a WoW exclusive thing. In case you didn't know you still have to do E5-7S first if you want to kill Shiva until they lift the weekly restriction on savage.


If you want even more similarities then the "first 4 bosses intended for the most casual people" are simply the complete raid tier on normal.


Let me give you another good example from within the game, the 24mans. You traverse an internally consistent zone boss to boss until you make it to the end. The trash isn't there to challenge you in any way, it's a break between the actual fights.