What did FF14 have right, at launch?

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3. incaps mobs. the visual incaps on the mobs i absolutely loved. from knocking the head off a skeleton, to flipping a toad upside down, to visually seeing the horn break off the great buffalo. i really wish they had expanded upon that allowing additional drops when they were done.

4. material drops. the fighting nm's that had material drops where you had to farm additional parts to make that best piece in the game. it kept the crafters, gatherers, and fighting classes needing each other to get a final piece of gear.

8. the mobs. mobs special actions. sneaking by a mob and it would look your way because it was looking to see what disturbed it. that went to get near it and even though it has no clue what it is that was insta attack.

i'm sure there are other things that i feel they did right on release, but it's too late to think at this time.

edit: 9. battle regimens. his was probably one of my favorite parts of the battle system. if you took the time and was with a good group you could just destroy mobs using them. it also told you really quickly if you were playing with a good and experienced player or a not so good player.

Everything else you mentioned was either something that was decent but terrible for balancing or was going to keep new players away.

EDIT: Though the THM/CNJ thing could have been fine if they just made it so you need CNJ and THM both at 30 for WHM/BLM and WHM got all the heals/buffs and BLM got all the damage/debuffs. I actually would have preferred they make it so that classes are just collections of skills that were decent for general mobs, but that you would have to equip a job that would limit which skills you got from which classes in turn for highly increased effectiveness (For example, Curaga on CNJ being as effective as WHM Cure). Rather it seems you want jobs for their unique skills rather than increased effectiveness of skills you already have.