Finally tried WoW

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Okay, but then that is just paying $9 to skip 241 msq quests, but your still going to have to do 727 mandatory msq quests afterwards, their dungeons, their trials, and solo instances. At that point you might as well have paid $25 if your going to do a story skip.

Meanwhile, WoW? Oh yeah, you can power level from 1 to 80 in like 3 to 4 hours, then go grab some gear and already be doing current content.

Like you got 28 character on WoW? The equivalent in FFXIV, of grinding 27 more, even factoring in $9 story skips for ARR ($243 for all 27), that is still 19,629 quests that must be completed collectively. Like this is why even if you speedran from heavensward through dawntrail, your looking at a very long grind even if you cutscene skip.

And its only going to get longer of a grind for alts when 8.0 comes along and introduces another 100+ quests. Which lets say a person has 1 main, 1 alt. That is another 200+ quests they have to do. More if they more alts.

I don’t think you can really compare levelling an alt in WoW to levelling one in FFXIV. An alt in FFXIV is an entirely new character, whereas in WoW, it’s basically just another class—most things like achievements, mounts, and companions carry over. From what I’ve read, once you’ve completed the story on one character in WoW, you can either skip it on alts or choose to re-enter it at specific points, which makes the process a lot smoother

[Shurrikhan]

I unironically believe that the way WoW handles alts these days is better then the FF14 method of having it all on one character. Leveling the alt and getting them to the entry point for doing dungeons and such is incredibly easy, and then you can actually gear multiple alts at once. Reason being each alt has a different raid lockout and things of that nature, whereas in FF14 you can ONLY actively gear one job at a time until that job is capped out.

Pretty sure that's been the consensus since the leveling revamp and/or Chromietime, no? It's as quick to level a whole new character on WoW as to level an alt job with full Armory Bonus on XIV, after all. And then far fewer limitations thereafter.

[YovelaLindswood]

Pretty sure that's been the consensus since the leveling revamp and/or Chromietime, no? It's as quick to level a whole new character on WoW as to level an alt job with full Armory Bonus on XIV, after all. And then far fewer limitations thereafter.

Chromie time used to be cursed. Its way better now.

[BunnyBrat]

Can I play a bunny person in wow?

[Chasingstars]

Can I play a bunny person in wow?

No. If they had bunny people, it would be more bugs bunny less viera.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Can I play a bunny person in wow?

They do have a bunny race, but it’s not playable. Honestly, it looks like what you’d get if a Lalafell and a Viera had a kid… and that kid discovered meth

[BunnyBrat]

They do have a bunny race, but it’s not playable. Honestly, it looks like what you’d get if a Lalafell and a Viera had a kid… and that kid discovered meth

LMAO

[DBriggs304]

That is not a hot take, ffxiv is a slog on alts. As what your leaving out is the mandatory msq quests, the 6 mandatory crystal tower quests, and the 3 mandatory hard version fights of titan and garuda and ifrit. If WoW players had to go through that, I think it would be a different story of being "alt-friendly".

Like with speedruns of just trying to blitz through all of 2.0 to 2.55 of ARR, that is still like 20 hours on a healer.

This! They are too busy making you jump through hoops to play current content or bleed you dry with various boosts. I decided I wanted to boost an alt to DT. I (my fault) boosted a job instead of the story skip. I am not going through all that again on an alt. It was awesome, once, but not a second time. I tried to get my money back as I didn't realize I needed the story skip as well. For the past week, they have done nothing but loop me back and forth between se America and a "game master" while online. Each has been telling me to contact the other repeatedly. I finally said screw it and just cancelled the sub after 8 plus years. They just don't care about the players or think they are too big to fall.

[Raikai]

I would also like to point out a very positive aspect in WoW:

You don't have to pay a sub if you don't want, since you can buy game time with ingame gold. Kind of a currency sink, but I usually don't have a lot to spend in there, so it's nice.

[Uzephi]

I feel they will have to do some type of level squish and merge content in certain level brackets. That's how Blizzard fixed the leveling alt issue when levels ballooned over 100 and each expac had it's own level tier. Now most expacs are slotted between levels 30 and 50 or something like that. I could see that being a big change in the future to make the game more approachable for new players.