Quote Originally Posted by Rhysati View Post
This isn't the case of every single MMORPG out there. That's nonsense. GW2's expansions and living story have been constantly adding new things and changing the formula up. WoW's expansions are vastly different from one another with whole new ways of playing each time. ESO has tons of character progression, etc.
I like your perspective because I've tried getting into GW2 and ESO after starting with FFxiv (backwards to what you have, I assume). GW2 had my interest but started to get overwhelming with how I wanted to progress my character as far as "what build would be viable", "what did i think i would enjoy". Areas were pretty, i ran through a few doing everything I could but did end up wanting more story related focus on what I was supposed to do. There was a huge gap between story and I got bored.

ESO on the other hand, I didn't make it very far simply due to how ugly the character creator forced me to be. character progression was surely there but nothing jumped out at me since I prefer 2-handed lance classes.

I feel spoiled by FFxiv, tbh. Homogenized jobs means I dont have to worry about builds, job stones means i dont have to worry about anything, really. And dungeons, while faceroll speed runs, are a lot better than the chaos I walked into during other MMOs instances.