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

[Shurrikhan]

... this is, once again, blatantly untrue. M+ is cited as one of the better aspects of WoW and has been routinely asked for in FFXIV. What WoW players dislike about M+ is how they're expected to farm for upgrades that are entirely RNG, and that it's the only way to improve their gear. A FFXIV comparable would be the Atma step except you have no other alternative; not Savage, not dungeons, not raids, nothing. You either farm for an RNG drop endlessly or your progression grinds to a complete halt. Oh, and the next expansion will completely invalidate all that work.

But, but, the people who pride themselves on having barely touched it, if at all, tell me it's horrible! It actually killed this one guy's neighbor's goat and badmouthed his cat. /s


Really, though... it's nearly drool-inducing to imagine scalable content without all the WoW-wrapped BS:

No keys. No weekly affixes (outside of maybe light bonuses during Relic grinds, but that'd be dungeon-specific). No Vault. No ilvl crawl.

Just pick the dungeon you want to do, at whatever difficulty level you want to do it. Add, if you want, whatever "Trial" (i.e., a cohesive set of dungeon-adjustment or "Affixes" actually tailored to feel cohesive together) to make some things easier and other parts harder, but generally just... fresh/different. Use the rewarded currency to actually buy the pieces you want, instead of being forced to wait on RNG. Unwanted drops get automatically converted into currency.

/chef's kiss