I miss HW

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

FF14 playerbase not crying when content exists that requires more than 2 braincells challenge (Impossible)

I've been doing savage since launch, have progged Ultimate, and never asked for content to be nerfed. I'm on record asking for min ilvl to be applied to alliance roulette so you can't outgear it, and I have yet to ask them to nerf any content. But sure.



My stuff is all public, I don't hide my character.

[Kaurhz]

Uhh, to be honest, I miss each of them for their own individual reasons.

HW - Because every facet of the endgame, regardless of which endgame you went for (be it raiding, crafting, gathering) each of them required a fair amount of interaction, and each was significant in their own right. Back in HW, you could sit there selling Titanium tools for a good 120K per piece, and that was even way later into the patches. I found that I had more of a reason to interact with everything else just because I was a crafter. Had to interact with e.g., Desynthesis, grand companies, fishing, and spiritbonding (it still is, but it was more prevalent back then)to name a few. Relatively speaking you had to work pretty hard, but was equally rewarding. In terms of effort:reward, IMO it was best here.

SB - Because to a degree there was a greater element of skill in the macros and rotations that you were doing. HW for the most part hinged a lot on RNG, but with the variable in stats in SB, you could really spend truckloads of time just optimising macros, especially if you wanted to wince out reuse macros, foodless, etc.,. Whistle While You Work also had a nice amount of engagement with it, and was exceptionally rewarding to master, even if absolutely busted once mastered

ShB - Honestly, Ishgard Restoration. I don't really need to say more... We definitely need more server-wide stuff, the communal aspect of this was just absolutely fantastic, seeing both gatherers and crafters come together for a common goal. Eureka and Bozja somewhat had this, but there was something special with the restoration, especially because of the scale.

EW - I don't think there's anything I'll actually miss if I am honest... I don't think it was a bad expansion, IMO, but nothing really had enough to bite into. Island Sanctuary is great on paper but needed so much more refinement.

[Theodric]

I miss that era as well. Back then, it felt much more like a fantasy game with plenty of intriguing plot threads playing out in the background.

[SieyaM]

For whatever reason StB is the expansion I remember most fondly, I do love a good resistance story.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I too miss my nostalgia goggles.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I miss 1.0







Actually I missed the chance to being able to play it. If I knew I would get so invested in everything FFXIV, I would've taken up on that experience no matter how awful it was in those days.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Also btw, hahaha.

I'm saving this thread. Because come 3 or 5 years later or so, where we bark this same conversation again about "I miss EW" You bet I'll be pulling up this thread to remind the wishy washy/nostalgia goggle nature of the average MMO player.

[ChrysOCE]

Also btw, hahaha.

I'm saving this thread. Because come 3 or 5 years later or so, where we bark this same conversation again about "I miss EW" You bet I'll be pulling up this thread to remind the wishy washy/nostalgia goggle nature of the average MMO player.

I shudder to think how bad it would get, to pine for the days of EW...

[Atelier-Bagur]

I shudder to think how bad it would get, to pine for the days of EW...

Naw, its just human nature to easily think back of one's past while cherry picking only the good experiences. Every one of us does this.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Naw, its just human nature to easily think back of one's past while cherry picking only the good experiences. Every one of us does this.

People tend to forget a lot of the things 3.0 didn't have. Like cross-world party finder, which wasn't added until 3.5. Or CD reset on wipe. Melee couldn't sprint without using up all of their TP, and being useless for a bit. Accuracy was still an annoying stat to deal with.