Final Fantasy 14 Players trying WOW?

[Vahlnir]

While that may be true, people can choose what hills they stop supporting. I never owned anything blizzard and have no plans on owning anything of theirs. It's the same with CDPR. I will NOT support them because of how they lied and bought so many youtubers for that broken over hyped game. Yes you can point at SE and say " They did horrible things too" But Everyone has a line. SE hasn't crossed mine where as Blizzard and CDPR have. It's all up to the person.

People are free to do as they wish. It's their business, really. But at the end of the day it's usually a pointless effort when it comes to the bigger picture.

[SturmChurro]

PvP in Legion was fun, and they provided some pretty decent incentives for players of all skill levels to do it. The newly added Demon Hunter was what I used most, though I had (well, wanted) to do it on my other characters for the artifact appearances. That's probably the last time I actually enjoyed PvP at all. The only real "rush" I've gotten since then was declaring war on others in War Mode with a group of hunters on the Timeless Isle when I was trying to get a pet tame. lol Many people learned what hunter justice was that day.

Yeah, I played some with Demon Hunter, and a free boosted paladin, hunter too, priest, shaman - I did a lot of lowbies. That's probably the last time I have enjoyed mmorpg PvP in any game. I kind of miss PvP. Still, I didn't think it was enough to justify spending sub money on it, to be honest. Not that I'd really want to have an ongoing sub for two games. Probably a good thing I got out early. I have heard some people say Legion was the last "good" expansion.

[Melorie]

While that may be true, people can choose what hills they stop supporting.

That's true. I dislike the idea of supporting Blizz as well... But not because their games are made by "toxic machinery" or "evil people" or "sexual abusers".

The discussion here started because of people pointing fingers to someone playing the game and saying that "they're supporting sexual abusers" when the thing is way more nuanced and that is a huge stretch. A lot of people come here feeling like they're in a sort of higher moral ground for playing FFXIV and not WoW, when this mindset helps literally no one. Specially not the workers that are the biggest victims.

[Vahlnir]

Probably a good thing I got out early. I have heard some people say Legion was the last "good" expansion.

It was definitely the last time I actually enjoyed the game.

[Gameovers]

People are free to do as they wish. It's their business, really. But at the end of the day it's usually a pointless effort when it comes to the bigger picture.

yeah everyone and thing has dirt on their steps sadly. But we really couldn't live if we stop supporting everything you know. The food inc is just one big example. So yeah, you're right on that front sadly. you won't get me disagreeing with that.

[EzekielBook]

Ok...setting aside the sexual harassment from management, and the toxic culture, both of which are supposedly being worked on...

The Trial version of the game won't take long to get through, and will get you to level 20. Unfortunately, level 20 isn't very far, but will give you time to get used to the questing system, the keybinds, the UI, and, more importantly, the general feel of the game. It's actually very similar to FF in that regard. The art is more cartoony, but it grows on you.

Based on the original post, you want to play a Warlock. They are the class of spellcasters with DoTs. Feral druids are your choice for melee chars with DoTs (bleeds).

One thing you'll notice pretty quickly is how little instancing there is. You can pretty much get through the entire intro scenario, without ever having to wait for a loading screen once you're in. WoW flows.

The other thing you'll notice is that if you want to try a different class, you'll have to create a new character. You can send a lot of stuff between your characters, although not character progress stuff (reputation, etc), which is part of the time sink people have trouble with.

As for people complaining about WoW, I feel most of those issues are overblown. It's totally possible to have a good time playing without feeling like WoW is a job, that you have to keep playing at every moment. And there is a lot of good story, and a lot of fun places to explore. The plots don't hang together the way FF does, but that's because the plot is the main focus of FF.

Anyway, I guess I'm saying "Don't let the naysayers here keep you from trying WoW. There's a reason it's still around after 17 years, and with more players than most others out there."

[KizuyaKatogami]

Anyway, I guess I'm saying "Don't let the naysayers here keep you from trying WoW. There's a reason it's still around after 17 years, and with more players than most others out there."

Very well said, also nice of you to give some tips! I made sure to screenshot for when i start my character soon

[linayar]

I started playing FFXIV in 2017 and I played WoW on and off from 2018 to 2020.

I think what ultimately made me take an indefinite break from WoW is the QoL features. As they exist now (Endwalker vs Shadowlands), the QoL features in FFXIV are more useful to me over WoW's without using addons and using addons is an overkill solution. These features should be standard.

Of course, there are some WoW features that I would like to have in FFXIV, but the list would be longer for FFXIV features that I would like in standard WoW.

At the end of the day, though, they are different games even with some commonalities. Certain features could be shared, but others might just change the games too much for those who like the differences. I see this more clearly when seeing people's wish list of WoW features to add to FFXIV and was guilty of doing the same thing to WoW with certain FFXIV features.

In the end, it's a balancing act for the devs of either/any game to please different types of players and I don't envy their task.

So, with that, feel free to try it out if you want. I certainly didn't regret my experience in WoW as it made me know more about how I like to play games and I still keep up with the news, so I may return any time I want.

[Ransu]

Pumped breast milk from the fridge they were stealing it so much they had to put locks on the fridges. Thats how bad Blizzard has gotten.

They were also drinking in the office and doing "cube crawls" groping women. How it stayed under wraps for so long is a testament to how useless their HR was.

[AlyaNimfa]

I tried wow before coming here, it was my first online game. I lasted about 12 weeks.

Cruddy game by a cruddy company.