ARR > Dawntrail

[Swad]

if you play just for the story only, then you can't use it for much, the rest of it is the actual game.

XIV dosen't do much well to be honest. The open worlds the worst out of any MMO, fates are just facesmash with random people you never talk to and hunts are lead by people who are mentally insane control freaks and attention whores. Crafting/gatherings just bots or macro spam, even bots can do big fishing. Gears just boring get more crit and hit harder with boring acquisition. Dungeons are cool the first time but overrated, 4 or 5 bosses out of 27ish is not good design and trash is even worse this expansion with 0 chances to pull 4+ packs. Housings a horrible mess unless you do glitches and I have a large on my main and a small(gridania 29) on this guy. The positives could be considered combat but the games got such robust cheating tools who knows if half your group who always parses 99s are bots who have cheats that auto figure out mechanics for you, PVP is no better full of cheaters. Games total shit outside of story unless you play it to second life sim with lonely men.

[LilaIronman]

XIV dosen't do much well to be honest. The open worlds the worst out of any MMO, fates are just facesmash with random people you never talk to and hunts are lead by people who are mentally insane control freaks and attention whores. Crafting/gatherings just bots or macro spam, even bots can do big fishing. Gears just boring get more crit and hit harder with boring acquisition. Dungeons are cool the first time but overrated, 4 or 5 bosses out of 27ish is not good design and trash is even worse this expansion with 0 chances to pull 4+ packs. Housings a horrible mess unless you do glitches and I have a large on my main and a small(gridania 29) on this guy. The positives could be considered combat but the games got such robust cheating tools who knows if half your group who always parses 99s are bots who have cheats that auto figure out mechanics for you, PVP is no better full of cheaters. Games total shit outside of story unless you play it to second life sim with lonely men.

I personally fall asleep when I enter a dungeon or a roulette. That is do be said that they can't even make a good randomizer. In Leveling you always
get Sastasha or other low level dungeons regardless of if you are wanting to level your lvl 90 warrior or go for tomes with your 100 picto where you don't even have AOE in low level dungeons, which also applies to most classes. Expert Roulette you only get the annoying dungeons which for me rn is the fucking circus first boss, its not hard per se.. just annoying.. but then none of the new dungeons are hard after running them a first time... Normal raid you get Alexander and Alliance WoD STILL MOST OF THE TIME very very very Sludge game design

[KooriGraywolf]

Dawntrail had its good moments, like the lv. 95 dungeon and the lore leading up to it, but overall I felt more engaged with ARR. My internal debate right now is whether Stormblood or Dawntrail is my personally bottom-rated story

[Coratanni]

Dawntrail had its good moments, like the lv. 95 dungeon and the lore leading up to it, but overall I felt more engaged with ARR. My internal debate right now is whether Stormblood or Dawntrail is my personally bottom-rated story

At least Stormblood had the Steppe. That's the one positive I can take from it.

[Evergrey]

At least Stormblood had the Steppe. That's the one positive I can take from it.

That was the worst one imo and I am already rating Stormblood as the worst expansion up to date.
Yes, with Dawntrail included. In fact I think Dawntrail is OK for what it is. It could be better sure, but so could any expansion.