Can we stop comparing the two at this point?

[Shurrikhan]

I personally am so sick of people telling me they have raid experience in WoW then think that it applies to FFXIV. I don't see how FFXIV raiding is comparable to WoW raiding, and I don't mean any offense by that but can please someone explain to me. It's quite frustrating not knowing! Halp a lala out.

They're both largely about "move here", "stack there", "dodge this", "spread these", "focus that", "absorb this falling AoE thing so it doesn't hit the whole raid instead of just you". More perhaps than any other two MMOs, the experience does overlap tremendously.

WoW has a few altogether different mechanics that might catch the typical XIV player off-guard while XIV has some slightly more complexly sequenced or less intuitive mechanics (these three things will chain, mirror, and then teleport, before doing their AoEs) that may throw off WoW raiders the first time or two, just as WoW players will be used to fighting in larger areas with more available shapes than just circles and rectangles while that would be heresy in XIV, but for the most part, they're highly translatable.

The only real shocker going from one to the other is that XIV tanks rely almost solely on CDs, rather than more frequent means of active mitigation, and healing requires very, very few actual healing GCDs (largely because damage taken is both less and more predictable and healing is so much more potent, especially in terms of oGCDs).