My main gripes with this game

[Jojoya]

So, I‘m another new player who came over from THAT game, so far I‘m really enjoying it, but here are some of my main gripes with the game so far:

1.Mob leashing range is atrociously narrow, if I pull from max range with a spell or ranged attack then a simple sidestep to avoid an attack can be enough to make it leash back with immunity, this is especially painful with FATE bosses or huge HP sponges, which directly brings me to the next point:

2.Most of outdoor and solo-duty content feels to dull, and don’t get me wrong here, there’s a difference between easy (which story content has too be for obvious reasons) and outright dull. In General the whole questing framework in this game seems way too repetitive and predictable. Go to purple circle, kill 3 sponges, go to next purple circle, enter/leave hideout 20 times, next quest.

3.Getting skills taken away CONSTANTLY. Now this is what really annoys me to no end. Being level-synced to something every 10 seconds and getting anywhere from one or two to ALL but baseline skills taken away in the case you’re shoved into a 15 dungeon through LFD tool.
Naturally you could say that this will get better when you near endgame, but the sheer amount of time you will spend in leveling, or better said low to mid-tier content in this game, due to more than a dozen available classes, should have brought a better solution than outright de-learning of skills.

4.No one talks ever. Now I get that it’s a Japanese MMO (I know first-hand that no one talks ever in japan-centered MMOs) but still I’m playing on EU servers and it’s basically the same eerie silence everywhere. I don’t expect the 24/7 spam and meme talk of W*W, but this is kind of creeping me out.

Thanks for reading

You don't need to fear saying WoW. Many of us are former WoW players, whether we quit playing in Wrath, Legion or this summer.

1. Open world mobs aren't intended to be pulled for AoE chaining. Just attack them where they are. FATEs do have their range limits - use the mini-map to see if you're close to the edge and move back in if so.

2. So was WoW's outdoor content. It will improve as you get into later expansion content but it will never be great.

3. You're going to get a lot of conflicting opinions on this topic. Some players like it, some dislike it. In the end, it's a design choice by SE so low level players aren't at a disadvantage to high level players in content intended for the former. You can always choose not to queue for content that isn't your job level if it bothers you that much.

4. Thank goodness for no Barrens chat invading every chat channel in the game. There are plenty of chatty FCs and linkshells you can join, just find the social circle that's right for you.