WoW to FFXIV transition guide..

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When I came to XIV after playing WOW for 6 years. I completely pushed everything I knew about WOW and got to learn how to play XIV from a whole different perspective. If people try to compare WOW to XIV, it wont go well imo.
Playing with a controller and finetuning macros etc has made it so I dont want to go back to WOWs type of button mashing system.

In XIV, I love watching the animations as my character casts spells or goes nuts as Monk. Over seeing just flashy things appear, arms flailing hitting every single abilities on every GCDs as a Deathknight.

Just need to learn to time when to use the special attacks that locks you in place during the animation.

And yes. As someone already mentioned. This game will not hold your hands and always guide you to the next "questing hub". You need to explore, ask around ingame etc
I actually love it being like that too. As it makes me explore more of Eorzea. While in WoW its more fly/portal to next questing area. Love that there is also no flying mounts in XIV. Not being able to fly over everything really makes the world look big. A feeling that I felt was lacking in WOW, specially Cataclysm.