I wouldn't mind FFXIV becoming a WoW clone in the casual/hardcore appeal if...

[fusional]

Yo Cid, wtf is a "Starlord"...

so you conveniently missed this part directly after

maybe you should read it. you might learn a thing or two. but otherwise, you're right. no need for a wall of text here. no alone in the darkness achievement (not even three lights? come on) for 10 or 25, no firefighter for 10 or 25- not even any observed achievement for 10 or 25. if WoW was so easy, why didn't you breeze through these?

but no, you're right. kiting kirin around some pillars for half an hour is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder. my mistake.

which is important for several reasons, but namely-

thinking kara or gruul's or blackwing descent are equivalent to "WoW endgame" is tantamount to calling ifrit (hard) XIV endgame, or sky triggers XI endgame. you've only scratched the surface, and assuming everything from that point on is no different is absolutely foolish.

i spent 6 years grinding FFXI endgame, and i laugh at the stuff people say in these threads because 99.9% of them would've been absolutely eaten alive by Firefighter, Alone in the Darkness, pre-nerf Vashj, nearly anything in Sunwell (twins anyone?)...

it took the most elite players in the world weeks/months to even make progress on a lot of those bosses/achievements, much less beat them. meanwhile people were clearing Bahamut V.2 in a few days... clearing garuda and van darnus (hard) in a day or two, clearing ifrit extreme in a week...

don't get me wrong, i enjoy the fact that yoshi and co. are trying to give us some bigger challenges (they've really done well with rivenroad hard, considering the limitations of this client/engine), but the fact that people on these very forums are complaining about these being extremely difficult or even nearly impossible while saying WoW is super easy...

just lollllll

so. what's happening here is i keep referencing these specific encounters, right? and i'm doing it for a reason. and because you're being a moron, i apparently need to explain this very carefully to you. i'll even type it in capitals.

NOT ALL CONTENT IS CREATED EQUAL.

comprende?

so here you have me referencing specific bosses from specific raids, specific achievements tied to those bosses- and i ask someone if they've done these. i challenge them, if WoW is soooooo easy, to show me they've completed stuff that is actually considered hard in that game. because then if they've done it, and they had an easy time of it, calling all of WoW's endgame easy would carry a bit more weight, yeah?

and what happened was- they posted their character names, and upon searching them on the armory you can very quickly and easily see that they, in fact, *did not* clear this difficult content. they very clearly were a casual-to-midcore player who predominantly did some heroic grinding for wellfare epics then filled in the gaps in their gear with easy to get stuff from bosses people *pugged* in that game.

what does this mean?

they only served to prove me right.

why is this funny? because you know *so little* about the game in question that you think their proof is actually proof, without having any understanding of it and without actually looking it over and vetting it whatsoever.

and then when i reiterate my unchallenged position, you've the audacity to claim i dodged?

do you have any idea at all what's going on here, or anywhere for that matter? who are you and what have you done? surely you'll stop and ask me why that's important, and this is my answer:

because if you've done nothing, then there's a higher likelihood of you understanding nothing. if you understand nothing, you lack perspective and experience to give your arguments clout. if you make arguments lacking clout, i have absolutely no reason at all to take anything you say seriously.

now if you want me to take you seriously, how about doing that thing i keep asking about- providing proof. provide proof of your accomplishments in MMOs. show us what you've experienced, help us understand your perspective. give us an idea of how much weight your arguments carry.

because otherwise you're just spewing a bunch of baseless crap like the people you're blindly waving your flag for.

savvy?