Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
FFXI and FFXIV are two really different games, yes. But there's nothing to justify FFXI to be so slow paced. I went back too, thinking I'd finally level up my Rune Fencer, because I really liked the job for the little time I played Adoulin. Then I started to fight...8 seconds between each swing o_O
XIV is incredibly slow as well. 2.5 second GCD makes those of us who have played other games cringe.

Still, I was an XI player for the better part of a decade and I miss a lot of things from it. The complexity and attention to detail is one. I've been leveling bard and while I've resigned myself to the fact that there are only three songs (building an entire class around three songs is insane), the other day I was filtered into a haukke manor and thought "why aren't there different kinds of arrows?" I mean, it's a no brainer, right? We had all kinds of arrows in XI that did different things. Weapons had latent effects, not add effects and it wasn't clear what triggered the latent. We had to figure that out ourselves. XIV is a lot more accessible, but wow I do miss some of that old style JP complexity.