Quote Originally Posted by Dragonheart View Post
FFXIV 2.0 is an ambitious and big project that everyone hope in (i left my old FFXI - WoW friends for XIV) , it has to compete with upcoming major mmorpg... In a period while action mmo are becoming the standard... From the current game we get this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB30O...710GL65NHoPqw=

I know that with 2.0 will bring us new engine and server. But Ifrit, or even the old batraal got better and more modern mechanics...
Or even old WoW vanilla fights are more dynamic and fun, this looks like an XI fight in HD.. An encounter anchored to the past that looks kinda boring and lame (10 mins of spamming action and magic in the same SAFE point.. Is this FUN for you? )

It was so hard to let sand trap, spawn random in the whole area..? Or to make pop the thunder cloud random on 1 member of the pt? so This didn't penalyze the ranged vs melee war? I don't think that 2.0 engine/servers were needed for this... *mumble mumble*

Same is with the Ant and Mistress... (Only Coincounter feels a bit more "fresh" )

When my friends saw the chimera fight video they laughed at me.. (they're on SW doing nightmare mode now, and i'm the only one still on XIV ) .. And the only thing that i could do was agree with them.. after i did so many hard fights with them (like Lich King HM first italian kill on WoW) chimera looks simply "old and boring"

So devs, can you assure us that 2.0 will bring us more fun, challenging and fresh encounter? At least at the same level that old and current mmorpg offers? Please?

Please don't write replies like go to play wow again, or SW, or anything "white knightish" , this is a serious thread, and i'd like to know what this comunities think about this. Thank you!
I don't think I know the answer, but perhaps this will help, this is all 2nd hand info of course. I believe I remember YoshiP saying they were going to add in a dungeon finder + cross server dungeon finder. Which means more than likely every group will have a balanced number of jobs in it. Sure if you wanna get 8 archers together you can run to the dungeon. If you queue however you will have to have a tank, heals, dps etc. so parties won't have this luxury, for the most part 98% of players will queue into dungeons and experience the content in a balanced party as it was made for. Not exploiting a broken mechanic that is sure to be fixed by 2.0 anyway.

Once we get more jobs and higher jobs under our belts, this crap will more than likely be a thing of the past, on a side note though, this game is so different from WoW and GW2 and RIFT, those games will more than likely not take many players from this game, if anything the marketing team for SE knows what it's doing, they're going at 2.0 full force, i believe they're even shipping hard copies to stores for it though I have no proof of this, just kinda gleaning it from how SE has worded things. In short, i'm glad you made this post, it needs to be brought to Yoshi's attention, but do I think we have anything to worry about? Probably not, but i'm glad there are people like you out there who are making it known just in case. =)