The game and its current state

[Fersaken]

To start this I will fill readers in on who I am.

I am a very old school mmo player. I started back in Everquest 1, where I was a healer at first, and a tank later. From everquest I went to Everquest 2 where I was a wizard, then I moved to World of Warcraft, where I found myself playing a tank in a top 50 world guild called Conspiracy. After World of Warcraft I came to Final Fantasy XIV, it was terrible, I had nothing but love for the final fantasy series, but seeing this game made me want to vomit, but then a realm reborn released and I played as a tank until I quit to play Rift, where I played a tank for a little over 2 years in a guild called Negative Ghostrider. Then I went back to Everquest 2 ( i loved the housing & crafting the raiding sucked ), then back to here.

I plan on staying with this game and I understand not everyone shares my opinions or my ideas. But, just because you do not agree with me, doesn't make me wrong.

Needless to say I came back to this game mainly because I had 2 friends playing. Before the expansion I had a 50 warrior, paladin, blackmage, armorer. The first thing I did when I came back was find out where I was in the story quest. I had to spend close to 8 hours catching up on just the story quest, I know most of you have done this at some time or another. But, for someone who has always skipped the cut scenes these quests became rather redundant. Regardless I completed them until I was able to catch up to the expansion.

However I had a friend who began playing, leveling for him was easy, however the only grip he had was the 6 million story quests you have to do in order to even be able to play the expansion. This problem will only grow in the future. My friend loved playing the game, the combat system, crafting etc. Sadly he ended up quitting because of the story quest.

Though this is only one person's outlook on the game, I would imagine the odds are in my favor that he isn't the only one who felt to overwhelmed.

I continued to play once heavensward came out, really like the game. The graphics are crisp, the combat is fun to me. Even the grinds are fun, mainly because I miss games where achieving anything took a massive amount of time.

Once I hit max level, as a paladin, I started to grind away. I tried to join fc's or statics, but it was always harder than the previous mmo's I have played ( mainly because everyone was a tank ) at this point in time I decided I would work towards getting everything to 60, a goal which I am relatively close to obtaining. I also managed to join a casual fc which only raids 2 times a week, which I am more than ok with because it allows me time to reach my primary goal of leveling everything to 60.

This is where I am currently at. I have been raiding for about 6 weeks now, thats a combined total for 48 hours of raiding. I have nothing to show for it. We simply do not have the dps ( we lack about 200 dps for a kill in AS1 ). With that being said we have decided to raid 1 day a week run a couple of attempts if we get close the we will try again if not, well, we just won't bother any more that night. I understand some of you may say, get good, learn a better rotation, and the millions of other comments which could be said. But that isn't the point. Sure, we could find the weak link remove them from the raid, get someone else and possibly get a kill. But what if that player or players who are the cause of our 200dps short are my friend? Not to mention these are flawless attempts, not a single person is dying.

Fair enough remove them I get it. But then again I am sure there are people out there who only play to be with friends. Saying remove them is great and all, but really wouldn't that ultimately hurt the game? Wouldn't people, quit? or just not play? Me personally I am staying until I manage to hit 60 across the board.

My next gripe is indeed about dps. Back in the everquest days the game was designed for everyone to work as a team. You brought certain classes for certain buff, no one cared about dps as long as the bosses where dying, as long as they were getting debuffed, as long as the tank was being healed. We worked as a team to accomplish a great goal. 1 person couldn't do much alone, however we all worked as one collective group. Unlike today, where everyone is all about their own dps. I have been turned down from groups as a paladin because I can't push the numbers that a warrior or dragon knight can push. Not because I am a bad player but because I chose to play a paladin, even with full striking accessories, which by itself is a dumb concept in my opinion.

My next complaint is every single fight in this game is the same, dodge this, dodge that, tank buster, beat enrage timer. I mean jeez even destiny has harder boss mechanics.

What happened to dungeon crawling, what happened to trash loot?

Moving right along, to housing next,

As I said above I loved the housing system in Rift, EQ2 etc. In this game, I can't afford a lot ( though money is fairly easy to make ), but even if I could I couldn't buy one because there are not enough lots. I pay monthly for this game yet I can not enjoy one perks of the game, because the developers are to slow at releasing plots, or allowing people to own multiple plots, or allowing people to unsub and keep their plot. Oh well I guess housing just isn't for me.

I will add more later but I have to get back to work. I don't feel like me posting this is anything but a waste of time, however I hope a dev sees this and realizes these are serious issues, mainly because I know I am not the only person which feels this way. In fact, I would be willing to wager money, there are several people who feel the exact same way I do.

[DawnSolaria]

This post offers no insight to the current state of the game whatsoever.

[Yaichiro]

We don't even know your opinions on realm reborn so we can share them or not

[Anubis_Nephthys]

I thinks he is ignorant about the edit function.
I thinks he typed just his first post and is now taking a very long time typing up more.
But seeing this, I thinks I won't agree with his opinions.

[CGMidlander]

To start this I will fill readers in on who I am.

I am a very old school mmo player. I started back in Everquest 1, where I was a healer at first, and a tank later. From everquest I went to Everquest 2 where I was a wizard, then I moved to World of Warcraft, where I found myself playing a tank in a top 50 world guild called Conspiracy. After World of Warcraft I came to Final Fantasy XIV, it was terrible, I had nothing but love for the final fantasy series, but seeing this game made me want to vomit, but then a realm reborn released and I played as a tank until I quit to play Rift, where I played a tank for a little over 2 years in a guild called Negative Ghostrider. Then I went back to Everquest 2 ( i loved the housing & crafting the raiding sucked ), then back to here.

I plan on staying with this game and I understand not everyone shares my opinions or my ideas. But, just because you do not agree with me, doesn't make me wrong.

[Colorful]

Why is that even a gif?

[Yaichiro]

I thinks he is ignorant about the edit function.
I thinks he typed just his first post and is now taking a very long time typing up more.
But seeing this, I thinks I won't agree with his opinions.

His last statement seems a closure so I think he actually finished his post.

[Canadane]

Why is that even a gif?

He could have just typed "What?" and had the same effect.

[Nalfein]

Sorry i really don't understand what you're trying to say....

[Kaurie]

Guys, it's pretty clear. He's played a lot of MMO's and doesn't care if you share his opinion, and that is the current state of FFXIV.

Unfortunately, I do not share his opinion and think that isn't the state of the game, but he doesn't care.