If this game was like SAO

[Keife191]

this game is sao in terms of permadeath, the only reason we as the players arent killed when we die is because we have the protection of the crystal. early on in the main quests you meet a team of npc "players" who had a party member perma die. in order to raise a player they have to be in a form of stasis that only warriors of light are permitted. without that protection you cant be raised. and while you may think that ff14 is more brutal in terms of bosses having overpowered abilities its important to note that in sao less than half the playerbase survived the game. and there were rooms where if you walked into them youd be trapped and unable to get out without beating the overpowered enemies that were specifically designed to murder you by a homicidal maniac.

pvp would be the clincher, because in ff14 you have more powers and abilities players might become drunk on their own imortality and youd have a lot more player killers than in sao, but with the playerbase being exponentially larger than sao youd also have a lot more safe areas with clans that would fight against them and protect the weaker players.

[hynaku]

I would just contact Catian home world and head back there. Then go on nice long permanent vacation.

[Vallerie]

I would still try to adventure, though a lot more carefully than I do now (so no more "I wonder if I can kill this thing boss creature alone" shenanigans) and it would seal me as dps. I already dislike getting hit, and if there was an actual danger to it? You can forget something like tanking...and having someone die on my watch as a healer would be horrible thing to bear D: I imagine duty finder would be either completely, or almost empty as running dungeons with a group you have no idea how good they are could be seriously deadly.

On the plus side, I imagine we would have a lot higher survival odds between the holy trinity, self heals and no open world PvP.

[Satai]

We‘d never escape the game cause no group would pass certain raid bosses with permadeath - even if it were only permadeath on a group wipe.

Brute justice would be one of the mass murderers

[Jandor]

Well canonically you never really lose, a wipe is just an echo vision of 'what not to do'.

Assuming I'm trapped in game with that power I'd live it up as the demi-god I am.

[Reynhart]

If this game was like SAO, tanks would never leave their tank stance, everybody would meld tenacity or vitality in all their slots, and healers would not risk a single GCD on DPS

[Shibi]

Hmm, we are not just talking about permadeath, but RL death at the same time. The headset killing you.

Imagine the healer stress!

[Ntol]

I´d become a summoner: a dps that can self heal and avoid damage. Best chances of survival without being a healer and having the lives of other people on my hands.
Even with that I´d level to 70 with easy quests and grinding before unsyncing some bosses. And even with that I´d avoid Titan or any fight that can auto kill you no matter your level. If sometimes I panic and eat AoEs while playing this game from my safety I surely would be unable to move if it was real.

[Ilan]

If this game was like SAO we wouldn't need datacenter splits because not many people would be "playing" it anymore since they would be, you know, dead.

[Nyvara]

I would become an onion farmer and anytime I needed something I would hand out a an onion and a handful of gil to a passing adventurer, because we all know they do anything for money and a trinket.