PvP Frontline, same old, nothing new

[jesseleewelch]

I don't know what the intended experience is supposed to be, but I don't think there's any getting around the fact that aoe is king in large scale pvp where you have that many people involved.

Truthfully, I don't really enjoy Frontlines myself. I view it as a grind to get through. I got mahjong master, I got my rival wings achievements done, now I am 1300+ wins into Frontlines and pushing. I don't really enjoy pvp, but I am an achievement completionist, so it will be liberating when I can finally say I am done with this content.

[Valence]

I don't know what the intended experience is supposed to be, but I don't think there's any getting around the fact that aoe is king in large scale pvp where you have that many people involved.

Truthfully, I don't really enjoy Frontlines myself. I view it as a grind to get through. I got mahjong master, I got my rival wings achievements done, now I am 1300+ wins into Frontlines and pushing. I don't really enjoy pvp, but I am an achievement completionist, so it will be liberating when I can finally say I am done with this content.

I'm not going to pretend that earlier versions of FL were better (before the pvp job rework of EW), because they sure as hell were full of their own issues, but there was no AoE concentration and stacking or very little because there was almost no AoE moves, or one weak GCD that was purely AoE, so AoE isn't king by default. FF14 history has been extremely scaredy about AoE, which was definitely a shame because cleaving brought a lot of great things in Crystalline Conflict, but since the devs didn't seem to think it would be a big deal in FL, here we are...

I'm a pvp aficionado, and while I've been enjoying FL as a casual chill side fun mostly during tome events, I can't say that FL hold up in comparison to the one pvp mode which the system is clearly designed around.