Good Criticisms about FFXIV Leveling for Newcomers

[MomomiMomi]

Ability Count - A lot of MMOs do this. But why do we start with one ability at level 1? Am I the only one who thinks pressing 1 1 1 1 1 1 over and over is boring? I'm going to say this. The abilities need to be shifted. Take everything 1-15 at least and make it available at level 1. Then shift everything 16-50 down. There's absolutely no reason the 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rotation should exist. It makes the game way too slow for the new player.

I'm level 60 and that's still my rotation. But this really doesn't bother me at the start of the game. You're level 1 for all of 30 seconds.

And the biggest issue I have with FFXIV... the video author didn't touch on this because he played solo. This game is severely multiplayer unfriendly. MSQ outside Praetorium and such can NOT be completed in a group. The game actually throws up an error when you try to do a duty. I'm playing a MMO and the damn thing is telling me to go solo for a quest. That is literally the most asinine thing I've ever seen.

This was my biggest issue with the game as well when I started. I wanted to play with my friend and that amounted to them joining me on dungeons. And then dropping party every time I had to do a solo instance. It's an MMO and not only is it asking me to do things solo, it's forcing me to drop party to do it. This was extremely disappointing.

[dragonseth07]

Its not a bad rotation unless it gets you killed or wipes the group.

You make a lot of really good points. But, we all know this one is bogus. :P

[Miste]

8 hours to get to Satasha and claims the game is really slow paced due to that.

But no one should take 8 hours to get to Satasha on a fresh character....unless they were very relaxed and purposefully taking their time, but if they are choosing to take their time and pace themselves slower then it isn't the game that is slow paced...it's the player?

It took me 3 hours and 12 minutes to get a fresh character from 1 to 15 and unlock Satasha (you can probably minus 20 mins in there somewhere due to breaks like bathroom or getting a snack also). I didn't skip any cutscenes...the only variable not taken into account is reading speed which varies person to person and can't really be used to measure.



So why did it take him 5 hours longer? That's a massive difference.

He claims to be a very experienced gamer...but it took him that long? AND he didn't read tool tips so he never used proper abilities...idk how experienced he is then.

[SenorPatty]

Most of that review was not trying to be objective. I could clearly tell his gaming style didn't match the game. Especially when he talks about how long it took him to get to a dgn. An objective reviewer would've said "The game is initially very linear. This may or may not suit your tastes."

Instead he keeps making references about how WoW trumps the game in several aspects because WoW matches his gaming style.


Good for him, I guess? What he should learn to do is how to review something and try to be as objective as possible. Obviously, no review is 100% objective but a reviewer as to try to be as close. This was far too biased and he unfortunately outed himself by directly pointing out his personal preferences from pretty much start till finish.


There are some points I agreed with him on a graphical and technical standpoint though.

[xxvaynxx]

8 hours to the first dungeon? Talk about over exaggeration...

What's more funny is that he calms to be experienced in games period and doesn't even read the tooltips of his new skills, guess he was expecting hand holding in that as well :P....did anybody see him do heavy thrust from the behind like 5 time or just not use it...I normally wouldn't fault a new player for that but he did say he was "experienced" in games so I would assume~

He has a right to voice his opinion even though I don't agree with him, even more so with the graphic's. I feel he's more use to fast pace spammy mmo's where you mash a single attack in rapid succession.
I actually like the "slower" pace of FF combat though. FF14 is my first major mmo so what I think is a bit biased.