For WoW refugees. What was not announced?

[linayar]

Dark Iron Dwarf?!?!? Furry fox guys!?!?? Little Elf from Legion content?!?!? All required you to grind rep on one character you may never have intended to ever play just to play what you actually wanted and it turns out faction changes are $14 so conveniently saves time. They never required you to grind rep in Burning Crusade to play a Blood Elf. Someone at Blizzard realized people would pay for race changes verses rerolling an entirely new character just to play what they wanted to in the first place.

The Allied Race content in WoW is a poor rip off of FF14 from Blizzard trying to apply thing from this MMO to theirs and not understanding the barriers to entry it creates because to do a different class in WoW you literally need to roll a new character not just click a button and switch.

Sage is a FFXIV job, so I assumed you would be talking about classes in WoW, not allied races. I also do not see what is it a rip off of from FFXIV, unless you just mean the new job requirement, which as I've said, already exists as hero class requirement in WoW since 2008 with Death Knight.

But yes, allied race unlock requirement is not something I would like in FFXIV and it's not even lore-appropriate in WoW.

That said, they have removed all reputation requirement. You just need to do the quest requirements, so it's easier/faster to unlock, but it's still bad as far as I'm concerned.

[Puremallace]

Sage is a FFXIV job, so I assumed you would be talking about classes in WoW, not allied races. I also do not see what is it a rip off of from FFXIV, unless you just mean the new job requirement, which as I've said, already exists as hero class requirement in WoW since 2008 with Death Knight.

Sorry I got the race/job thing mixed up. I was trying to get a point across that literally noone considers is an actual problem until you try to do it. My guess is Blizzard justifies it by the rush of Blood Elfs they saw during Burning Crusade and the race changes are just an extra incentive but they fail to understand the new player experience that Square Enix makes work with the system we have.

I did not expect Sage to starting at lvl 70 either.

[linayar]

I did not expect Sage to starting at lvl 70 either.

You should. It fits the pattern: HW jobs start at 30, SB jobs start at 50, ShB jobs start at 60, now EW jobs will start at 70, and unless they change either the formula or the level range for the expansion after that, 7.0 jobs will start at 80.