Feedback from a new player

[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.

[Snorky]

OP that was very well thought out feedback thanks for posting it!

[Tankymctankface]

2 more additions that I forgot about:

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!!!!

[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.

[ZephyrMenodora]

So glad to see you enjoying the game!

My advice for the forums is just take what you read here with a grain of salt. Lots of extremely jaded people here who have played for years and years and will probably come by to tell you that you are wrong.

Game is great - hope you enjoy your time to the fullest!

[caffe_macchiato]

I run a reshade firstly, to make the game more vibrant. So I run a couple of plugins that increase vibrancy and over-saturates the colours a bit, along with some plugins that remove the white haze, and adds clarity and definition.
Then, I run the 4k texture pack. That alone currently stands at 372Gb worth of modification.
Then, just about every nsfw add-on I can find. It's how I prefer to play. Over the top boob sliders, the npc dancers in uldah are topless, my own character is anatomically correct when naked. Bust multipliers beyond the body replacements. Breast physics jigglers to the extreme etc etc.
I prefer a square minimap over the round one.
ACT for emnity or aggro management.
Hunty, because on one of the mobs the ingame description of where to find it is wrong.
Death Recap so I can figure out why I got 1 shotted
GatherBuddy
Globetrotter
Item Vendor Location
Market board
Party Icons
Male Paladin idle pose for female Paladin
and Simple Tweaks

(4/5)

Y’all, come on now, this is taking the piss and I couldn’t have done it better myself. Can I give Reddit Gold to this poster?

[Tankymctankface]

So glad to see you enjoying the game!

My advice for the forums is just take what you read here with a grain of salt. Lots of extremely jaded people here who have played for years and years and will probably come by to tell you that you are wrong.

Game is great - hope you enjoy your time to the fullest!

It's pretty much what I expected. All MMO forums are the same, FF XIV is no exception. But the ingame community has been nothing but kind to me so far. Even when I watch cutscenes, I've had nothing but "Take your time", "Enjoy it" etc etc.
But the forums is not where I plan to spend my time. Beyond today I'll probably never visit again. In previous MMOs they tend to put a dent in my ingame experience, so I've given them a wide berth for a lot of MMOs in the past. Just wanted to make my main post here, hopefully for staff to see, mostly as a thank you for a great game. I just saw the Mailie Vidofnir cut scene, and man oh man.... I was cheering so damn hard!

[Monokhrom]

As somebody who recently caught up with MSQ, I really think SE needs to go back and adjust the combat in ARR, both for multiplayer content and solo instances. I get that new players need to learn, but what’s currently there is not engaging at all. Doing the mechanics and following your rotation was incredibly easy and often pretty boring. It’s definitely one of the big reasons why ARR feels like such a slog to new players.

[Renathras]

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 ?

You can't just tell someone that their subjective opinion is wrong. Your "absolute cakewalk" is wrong. How about that?

I played Vanilla, it was a bit more dangerous, but it was far easier. Job rotations in FFXIV are about two orders of magnitude more complex that Vanilla WoW. Recall in Vanilla, Hunters' rotation on Molten Core was literally press autoattack AND NOTHING ELSE. Most bosses had some fire or some adds that might have done a cleave. That was really the extent of "mechanics". FFXIV's combat, both player Job rotations and boss mechanics, are far more challenging than Vanilla WoW's until at least Blackrock Keep, but the open world is generally easier, so it, on balance, comes out to a similar overall difficulty. More of FFXIV's difficulty is in combat and class design/rotations, Vanilla's was more in the dangers of the world and lower player power relative to enemies. Did YOU play Vanilla?

And no, those things didn't need to be mentioned.

This kind of post is what makes people think folks here that want to be negative just want to be negative. The right response to this post:

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OP, I'm glad you're enjoying the game! Welcome.

[SophiaDL]

You can't just tell someone that their subjective opinion is wrong. Your "absolute cakewalk" is wrong. How about that?

I played Vanilla, it was a bit more dangerous, but it was far easier. Job rotations in FFXIV are about two orders of magnitude more complex that Vanilla WoW. Recall in Vanilla, Hunters' rotation on Molten Core was literally press autoattack AND NOTHING ELSE. Most bosses had some fire or some adds that might have done a cleave. That was really the extent of "mechanics". FFXIV's combat, both player Job rotations and boss mechanics, are far more challenging than Vanilla WoW's until at least Blackrock Keep, but the open world is generally easier, so it, on balance, comes out to a similar overall difficulty. More of FFXIV's difficulty is in combat and class design/rotations, Vanilla's was more in the dangers of the world and lower player power relative to enemies. Did YOU play Vanilla?

And no, those things didn't need to be mentioned.

This kind of post is what makes people think folks here that want to be negative just want to be negative. The right response to this post:

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OP, I'm glad you're enjoying the game! Welcome.

Yeah nah, I aint a toxic positive like you are I am afraid, nor will I just stay quiet if I feel someone said something wrong, but hey, thanks for your input, not that it'll change anything as to what I think

also now that I read the OP again, they admitted to using plugins and reshade, while it is.. ToS

Idk about that one, it seems genuine but the oversharing regarding addons/plugins and reshade, idk.

wanted to add as clarification, I agree with your stance regarding addons/plugins and reshade, I think they should be allowed, but oh well.