WoW to FFXIV transition guide..

[Keres]

Get a controller. If you try to play it like wow, it won't work. You have to play it like ff7-10. When I went to xi from eq back int he day, i struggled for a long time with the controls. THen my friend gave me a controller and said "pretend it's ff7" and BAM, right away the controls were perfect and easy to navigate.

Movement, I agree. Combat, though, I think is far more difficult with a controller.

In particular, selecting skills on the action bar by hitting LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT SELECT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT SELECT UP SELECT DOWN LEFT LEFT LEFT SELECT is really frustrating to me when I can just hit a few number keys instead.

From my own perspective as an ex-WoW player, I think the things that will take the most adjustment for people making the transition are:

1. Controls (stiffness of mouselook, buying/selling things, the overall menu-based interface)

2. Pace of combat (there's a slight delay before any action you select is executed, you can't move while performing an action, things are slower-paced in general)

3. Leveling experience (far more mob-grind-focused than story-driven in general, far less variety in the things that you do and far more combat-focused from 1 to 50)

All of these things (except perhaps #2) are likely to change in 2.0, though.