Final Fantasy 14's grinds feel horrible to midcore players

[Shougun]

Huge draw of Lost Ark was the combat gameplay. Even in dailies you farm for a month it feels fun.

Never liked the visuals but I felt GW2 combat was pretty fun feeling, and it looks like, you tell me as I've not played it yet, that Lost Ark is akin to a higher octane GW2 situation (improved). Absolute nightmare to do something so big for an existing MMO but I do hope for more action oriented for the next one, which I think will help keep FFXIV going at the same time.

I imagine, with the finest weed in the southfarthing, that FFXVI might even be the testing grounds for those systems- like FFXII was (slightly) for FFXIV.

To be honest I stayed away from Lost Ark because Korean MMOs are, stereotypically, ABSOLUTELY LEGENDARY GODS of grind, and I am a big pansy who wants to play about 2 - 4 hours weekdays tops, and maybe a little extra on the weekends, and still 'get stuff done' lol.