Do the dev's actually play this game?

[Valoiz]

You must've FATE grinded to AST or never ever read Nocturnals tool tip or even bothered using that stance.
It has to be one of those three.

LOL no troubles healing ANY of the casual content atm, including normal Alex and Ex primal, i dont do statics but many AST clear A1 savage ATM while the SCH take care of DPS.

Simple mats: Cure I (potency 400) Benefic I (cure potency 380 + 5% = 399 / Nocturnal) Also lv up mostly on dungeon and only had problems when tanks sucks.

[Valoiz]

You must've FATE grinded to AST or never ever read Nocturnals tool tip or even bothered using that stance.
It has to be one of those three.

Tested - Ilvl 179.
Diur stance: Bene I = 2509.
Noct: Bene I = 2670.

Diur Bene II: 4280.
Noct Bene II: 4487

Weak shields don't save no one and runs out your MP. No thanks. That stance needs a big ol' buff.
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So which do you use more.
Dirunal or Noct? Because why would you ever switch out for
2 Regen's for weak shields? The 5% potency is nothing, at all. There's much more to it.

#1 You not always get the same numbers from the same spell. I am just making a comparison betwen WHM / SCH / AST basic spells. We dont have ADLO but a less mana cost/ less potency single target barrier.

#2 i like both actually, when i play on Nocturnal (i like noct for Alex4 for example) i usually focus on single target healing and feel the figh easier. Is still challeging cuz u need to be focus and manage mana really well.

[Kona_Nightwind]

They don't have time to play, they are to busy rolling around in big piles of money.

[Kaurie]

Interesting, I am not sure if we are thinking the same thing in regards to 'fluid combat', but the biggest reason I do not play wow is how horrible combat feels. I pre-ordered Draenor, resubbed and logged in with my jump to 90. I went out and started my way through the story. 30 minutes later I logged out and unsubbed. The only reason? Combat was way too clunky and it just felt very dated.

That said, when I did play WoW (years ago now), I loved the little things. The world felt alive and massive, much more than FFXIV. I loved customizing my traits to build my character. I loved the quest design system, especially how it made it easier to quest in groups (with the ability to track in your log who has the same quests etc) in addition to quest designed for groups. I definitely felt that WoW did a better job with gathering/crafting than FFXIV.

Ultimately, outside of story, combat and end-game, I felt WoW is superior in every other way. I play here, because the story and combat are deal breakers or makers for me.

[Ayuhra]

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Fluid in that I feel (personally, obviously some may disagree) that WoW combat is a bit less clunky than in FFXIV. Rotations in this game sometimes seem complicated and long just for the sake of being complicated and long. In WoW I didn't feel like I needed a multi-button Razer Naga with a side keyboard just to do my basic rotation. I feel that way here sometimes.

Warlords is probably a bad example of what I'm talking about, though, since it went too far in the other direction. To simplify rotations it gutted the classes abilities down to the most basic things and individual class identity was lost in the process so everything plays the same. I absolutely don't want to see that happen here. I'm not sure I'd call Warlords combat clunky (at least not on the classes I play) but it is certainly boring and uninteresting.

[Kaurie]

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Oooh, ok I get what you mean. I can agree with that.

[Duelle]

Right now, comparing Heavensward to Warlords, Heavensward doesn't play quite as well but is still the better experience by far.

Despite the problems Heavensward introduced, I'd say it's still a better experience than WoD by far. The only things that bothered me were how the Ul'dah thing was resolved, the mess with BRD (which doesn't bode well for the other jobs if the devs get it into their heads to change everything without prior discussion) and concerns over ability bloat.

[Gramul]

Considering the probably spend a minimum of 8 hours a day on it, I'm pretty sure they are fully aware of what they're doing.

We just happen to hate the ever loving life out of it.

[BreathlessTao]

Eeeh.... OP asks a valid question though. One I have asked myself, of no one in particular, when certain things frustrated me to no end and I let out a heavy sigh. However, those weren't exactly the same issues, not with the DoW/DoM jobs anyway.... Although I won't argue the fact that those too could use some tweaking, almost all of them.

My issues are the insane amount of RNG involved in just about everything; the blatantly non-existent actual rule system when playing TT with NPCs and the easy workarounds to tournaments; the non-accessibility of so many items and features; the incredible repetitiveness of certain quests and designs; the unbelievable time- and gil-sinks finetuned to the top few % of players who burn everything out faster than one could blink (cue non-accessibility); the whole housing fiasco................ I guess I could go on, or I could give a detailed list of these, but I think everyone has an inkling as to what I'm on about.

[Twilite]

I'm starting to remember why I didn't play very long during beta.