Can we stop comparing the two at this point?

[OniKimoto]

I personally am so sick of people telling me they have raid experience in WoW then think that it applies to FFXIV. I don't see how FFXIV raiding is comparable to WoW raiding, and I don't mean any offense by that but can please someone explain to me. It's quite frustrating not knowing! Halp a lala out.

[Shurrikhan]

I personally am so sick of people telling me they have raid experience in WoW then think that it applies to FFXIV. I don't see how FFXIV raiding is comparable to WoW raiding, and I don't mean any offense by that but can please someone explain to me. It's quite frustrating not knowing! Halp a lala out.

They're both largely about "move here", "stack there", "dodge this", "spread these", "focus that", "absorb this falling AoE thing so it doesn't hit the whole raid instead of just you". More perhaps than any other two MMOs, the experience does overlap tremendously.

WoW has a few altogether different mechanics that might catch the typical XIV player off-guard while XIV has some slightly more complexly sequenced or less intuitive mechanics (these three things will chain, mirror, and then teleport, before doing their AoEs) that may throw off WoW raiders the first time or two, just as WoW players will be used to fighting in larger areas with more available shapes than just circles and rectangles while that would be heresy in XIV, but for the most part, they're highly translatable.

The only real shocker going from one to the other is that XIV tanks rely almost solely on CDs, rather than more frequent means of active mitigation, and healing requires very, very few actual healing GCDs (largely because damage taken is both less and more predictable and healing is so much more potent, especially in terms of oGCDs).

[Penthea]

I personally am so sick of people telling me they have raid experience in WoW then think that it applies to FFXIV. I don't see how FFXIV raiding is comparable to WoW raiding, and I don't mean any offense by that but can please someone explain to me. It's quite frustrating not knowing! Halp a lala out.

Having prior experience in a game of the same genre will help you play FFXIV whether you raided or not. All of the basic stuff you learn in WoW is applicable to FFXIV: how a trinity combat system works, knowing to be mindful of your gear, how to manage your money, how to navigate the world, how guilds/fcs work, and more.

As for raiding, if you have raided a lot in WoW well you already have quite the advantage because you already know how a good team works. It's one thing to be really good at your class, but it's another thing altogether to know how to be an effective team player. Raiding in general trains you how to spot mechanics and how to quickly learn to deal with them. And of course it teaches you that a lot of kills are designed to not come easily. Many new raiders get shocked by how challenging raid content is, but if you raided in other games already you know that this is normal so you are far more likely to have the patience and resilience to put in the work to master the encounters.

While the raiding environments are quite different in both games, there is a considerable overlap in what is considered useful knowledge and experience. I'm saying this as a person who raided extensively in WoW and now raids in FFXIV, while in a team of others with a similar raiding background.

[Ayuhra]

I personally am so sick of people telling me they have raid experience in WoW then think that it applies to FFXIV. I don't see how FFXIV raiding is comparable to WoW raiding, and I don't mean any offense by that but can please someone explain to me. It's quite frustrating not knowing! Halp a lala out.

WoW has more kinetic encounters and skilled play isn't always about standing in the right place, it's also about knowing your class well enough to get out of a tight spot and back into the encounter. It's less constantly predictable and more reactive you could say. The less persistently scripted encounter design means rotations are a bit simplified.

Which is all to say, yes, they're pretty different.

I did some Mythic raiding in WoW but I'm hot garbage at FFXIV.