Heavensward benchmark next month; no DX11?

[Wildsprite]

Think many of you are making the DX11 thing to be bigger than it actually is... I doubt there will be a huge difference, and I don't think a computer that runs FFXIV on DX9 fine, wouldn't run it on DX11 fine too.

Someone with more knowledge could correct me if I'm wrong though

EDIT: Btw, I'm not saying there can't be a pretty big difference, but I doubt there will be a huge difference coming to a game in an expansion...

perhaps you need an explaination
on windows vista and above DX9 is emulated using the latest DirectX available to it which on windows vista and 7 is directx11 and windows 8/8.1 is directx11.2 and DX11 does things in hardware that DX9 has a hard time doing in software.
if your system can handle directx11 you should get at the very least a minimal but noticable performance gain if they programmed it correctly.
tl;dr DX11 is a fairly big leap from DX9

should enough people leap to windows 10 and they take advantage of DX12 you will see a graphics performance(frames per second) increase but most wont see much of a graphics increase(dots per inch) because DX12 changes how the CPU and GPU communicate allowing more of the CPU cores to talk to the GPU at the same time