WoW to FFXIV transition guide..

[Keres]

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Man I wish I could like this post 10 times

[Molly_Millions]

Opinions are subjective, my opinion is that WoW sucks. I don't care how many people play it, imo it still sucks.

[lordvr]

Kids are learning and adapting machines. Old fogies not so much.

As far as them not liking the default control scheme tell them to "quit yer bitchen and fix it". The keyboard is fully configurable in game under the config menu. Outside of that just make sure they know the basics. But i don't know what the new user experience looks like these days. So I dont know where to start giving advice.

It is not, and that's a huge issue. There's really no way to hot key individual skills unless you use a macro keyboard to remap certain keys to ctrl / alt + # and use macros for every single ability. The ui is obviously meant for controller, and not keyboard.

[lordvr]

Tell them that everything in this game is like farming Ashes of Al'ar from Kael but with a group needed and they'll have the right mindset. Well, maybe minus the lockout.

So true lol

[Keres]

Opinions are subjective, my opinion is that WoW sucks. I don't care how many people play it, imo it still sucks.

Reminds me somewhat of this classic quote:

Your right, I don't know much about WoW, don't care to know really. I'll spit out info that I hear around the internet. I know for a fact for ME(aka opinion), WoW was made by somebody throwing up on a computer.

[Molly_Millions]

Reminds me somewhat of this classic quote:

LOL, the difference being that I actually played WoW. I quit because I didn't like the game or the community.

[Denmo]

Just play a white/black mage until 2.0 if using a gamepad is too frustrating for you.

Seriously, it's so easy. Click target. Hit number. Click new target. Hit other number. No movement involved, usually.

Melee combat is so distinct in XIV that (to me at least) it plays better with the gamepad. Currently, at least.

And my WoW girlfriend can attest to being a White Mage.

[Maxthunder]

I think the most apparent difference for me, between WoW-style MMOs (WoW, TERA, Rift, Aion, SWTOR, AoC, EQ2, LOTRO, GW) and FF14, is the questing system. All of the WoW-style MMOs have quest hubs. You go into this quest hub, pick up 8-10 quests, and you do a loop through the zone, and finally, the final quest leads you to the next hub. And then to the next zone. Your hand is being held the entire time through. When you logon, you continue questing. Usually these quests have their own mini-arch-plot. At the end of the zone, the quest usually concludes with defeating a mini-NM, or some group quests.

In FFXI and the current FFXIV, there is no such thing really. That's what they have to understand. They cannot expect to go to one quest hub, and pick up 8-10 quests. But this may change for 2.0? I don't know because Yoshida says he has been looking at WoW for their systems, etc. For me this is the major cultural shock.

I dont like how Yoshi is doing this, I prefer that the FF series be completely different from other so called MMO's. IMO Yoshi is borrowing too much from other games.

[Denmo]

I dont like how Yoshi is doing this, I prefer that the FF series be completely different from other so called MMO's. IMO Yoshi is borrowing too much from other games.

Good luck with that.

[TimonLoon]

Good luck with that.

Tell me about it... That exact mentality is what gave us shitty 1.0 in the first place. Let's live in a vacuum and not learn from other successful MMOs from this past decade.