Feedback from a new player

[VelKallor]

Ivtrix?

For gatherers, Gather Buddy is great for an ingame overlay that lists out the times for every legendary/ephemeral node, as well as a one-click solution for going to them (it marks the node's location on the map, changes your gearset to the relevant gatherer, and teleports you to the nearest aetheryte to the node).

If that isnt automation I dont know what is,. Id call that botting.

[Ivtrix]

Ivtrix?



If that isnt automation I dont know what is,. Id call that botting.

never used it so idk lol

but im inclined to agree with your assessment

[Tankymctankface]

Random thoughts:
I hope devs and story writers have a broad layout of the story, the antagonists and a vague idea of where they'll come from, for about the next 25 years.... You don't want to write yourself into a corner 10 years from now, and end with.... "Oh, and then there was this race of Pandas...." Or, "Ummmm yeh.... You know Palpatine? Yeh, he's back...."

And a way to keep players coming back and spending time in starter towns so they don't become ghost towns as more and more new zones are added.

Narrator:
The voiced Narrator added in Heavenward is a very welcome addition! Really nice exposition from a 3rd person perspective. Really lends to the story.

Voice Acting for myself:
Can I please please please not be a mute that just lip flaps and nods during voiced cut scenes?! Give me a voice too!!!!

Sorry for the long read. Here's a potato

Edit:
Changed my mind after watching this video, and specifically the section around toxicity:
Asmongold on "15 Years of WoW vs 1 Year of FFXIV" | By Jesse Cox

(5/5)

[SophiaDL]

I will pick tiny snippets because most of this is just opinion, but some things need to be mentioned

But it really feels like Wow back in 2005

No it isnt, WoW was never an absolute cakewalk as FFXIV is, and the leveling even less. Are you sure you played vanilla ?

I also appreciate that the Novice Network is firstly moderated

No it isnt lmao, you just havent encountered the toxicity of it yet.

So no RMT spammers and such stuff

RMT is everywhere in this game, flying lalas, party finder spam, teleporting lalas, spamming low levels in Limsa, or trading gil to other players in busy mode.

[Tankymctankface]

Sorry Sophia... I should've put "feel" in CAPS.... Yeh, certainly did die alot more in Vanilla. The NPCs could certainly use a buff.
I meant more just the feel of the game. It is decidely different than the other MMOs I've played, and feels like Wow.... Hard to define.... Maybe it's just the amount of reading text again.... Maybe it's the tab targetting.... It just feels... wow-familiar, if that makes sense....
It is a bit too easy, granted.

I should also say... Retail wow, now, like a month ago... Also easy as pie (Leveling).... Nothing out there is Classic or rather Vanilla hard anymore....

[SophiaDL]

Sorry Sophia... I should've put "feel" in CAPS.... Yeh, certainly did die alot more in Vanilla. The NPCs could certainly use a buff.
I meant more just the feel of the game. It is decidely different than the other MMOs I've played, and feels like Wow.... Hard to define.... Maybe it's just the amount of reading text again.... Maybe it's the tab targetting.... It just feels... wow-familiar, if that makes sense....
It is a bit too easy, granted.

No need to put feel in caps, was just saying that its mostly opinion which is normal, that's the point of the post, I'm just not understand the comparison from vanilla to FFXIV, FFXIV's leveling is an absolute cakewalk, the mobs hit like actual wet noodles, while vanilla had rough mobs that would kill you if you did a single mistake

Hell I remember when I leveled my main char, I could literally pull packs of 10 mobs and just aoe them down with a tiny tiny bit of kiting, that's why I'm not understanding the comparison

I guess if what you care about is the questing and stuff in itself I can understand, but combat wise it's like night and day really

[Snorky]

No need to put feel in caps, was just saying that its mostly opinion which is normal, that's the point of the post, I'm just not understand the comparison from vanilla to FFXIV, FFXIV's leveling is an absolute cakewalk, the mobs hit like actual wet noodles, while vanilla had rough mobs that would kill you if you did a single mistake

Hell I remember when I leveled my main char, I could literally pull packs of 10 mobs and just aoe them down with a tiny tiny bit of kiting, that's why I'm not understanding the comparison

I guess if what you care about is the questing and stuff in itself I can understand, but combat wise it's like night and day really

I don't know what you are remembering but I played vanilla wow as well as beta wow I came from daoc. Wow vanilla was easy to level in that's why it was so popular at the time that and the fame of the 3 warcraft single/lan games before it. Wow started off solo friendly and then came ghostwalker and turned it into a big pile of raid or die.

[Jeeqbit]

Hell I remember when I leveled my main char, I could literally pull packs of 10 mobs and just aoe them down with a tiny tiny bit of kiting, that's why I'm not understanding the comparison

I do remember the enemies hurting a lot and taking a while when going through Heavensward in quest gear on a tank, but that was many years ago and it is probably easier now with all the changes over the years. But even that probably wouldn't compare to it or even to something like Eureka or deep dungeons.

[Reap00]

I will pick tiny snippets because most of this is just opinion, but some things need to be mentioned



No it isnt, WoW was never an absolute cakewalk as FFXIV is, and the leveling even less. Are you sure you played vanilla ?



No it isnt lmao, you just havent encountered the toxicity of it yet.



RMT is everywhere in this game, flying lalas, party finder spam, teleporting lalas, spamming low levels in Limsa, or trading gil to other players in busy mode.

Good to see a nice post of negativity to refute everything the new player has to say. These forums are absolute garbage.

[SophiaDL]

Good to see a nice post of negativity to refute everything the new player has to say. These forums are absolute garbage.

Oh you dont like the forums ? See ya ! Dont worry we aint holding you back