Quote Originally Posted by hobostew View Post
MoP was awesome though. EW feels more like a WoD.
It's really difficult to do direct comparisons to WoW expansions as FF14 has a very set in stone patch release schedule and WoW did not, especially in WoD. You can't really compare the gameplay content lost in WoD to side projects to FF14 as we are still getting a full alliance raid tier, a full savage raid tier, and presumably a full set of trials (just set in the MSQ instead of creating a new story for them).

As for the loss of a BA or DR "Raid Tier" you can directly correlate the loss of that content with the gain of criterion dungeons. We didn't get a new large scale raid but we did get new variable difficulty dungeons that we will, iirc from the LL, get a new set of before the end of the expansion.

I think if you want to say we lost the exploration zone content, that is a real argument to be had as SB had both HoH and exploration zones, and ShB had covid difficulties to deal with for creating content.