Former WoW player: Suggested changes to FFXIV Raiding end-game

[Puremallace]

This FFXIV. Not WoW. It should stay FFXIV and not become your new WoW. I dont want that WoW-players now ruining this game, like they did with WoW before.

What is funny about this entire post is he stopped playing in Cata when they killed off deterministic gearing after that expansion when WoW and FF14 actually did play pretty damn close. Hell that was the entire reason why everyone laughed when you said you could play every character on one job.,

Apparently some people have memory issues but I remember WoW players laughing hard because it was SOOO easy to roll an alt in WoW and gear it so the FF14 system that is LITERALLY being praised now as amazing right now was deemed trash back then. It warped into the current monster of systems to try and keep reiterating on MMO fundamental design and human psychology.

I am not sure why it is mainly raid loggers that come along every 6 months and make this same post about the game being boring and wanting new toys to play with not showing any remote concern for how it affects the rest of the game population.

This simplistic gearing system and abilities is the entire reason why ilvl sync works and makes Ultimates the amazing content that they still are to this day. How would these ideas even work when synced down in Ultimate with stats that would need to scale also?

I started raiding during coil, and coil is still my favorite raid series. No other raid has measured up to it for me. The trash pulls and exploration bits aren't what made coil great. They really only added to the atmosphere, which they have used solo instances and secondary areas for now.

The reason why Coils seems so different to everything we have gotten since is because they were trying to copy WoW raiding. Just piece all of the Coil raids together without the stupid PS3 limitations and it is a WoW raid. Trash packs...boss...trash packs...boss...trash packs...boss.

The reason you do not see trash in FF14 raids is because they do not drop any Bind on equip items so the only purpose they serve is to delay you from getting to the boss you want to in the first place. I cannot count how many times over the year that Blizzard has nerfed then buffed trash alone in raids because people would farm them WHICH COULD BE HEAVILY ABUSED IN FF14 to flood the auction houses and further kill crafting in that MMO.

Any hardcore raider can tell you what would happen if 520 ilvl gear was dropping in FF14 from trash in a raid. It would cost MILLIONS on day one to try and get an advantage over other FCs who would farm the items just to sell. The world first race goes from being an even playing field to some lucky group having nice drops and nuking the boss quicker.

I swear does anyone in the MMO look outside these forums to how these train wreck of ideas have derailed other MMO's?