Finally tried WoW

[MsQi]

Hunter being my personal favourite. The fact I can take almost any mob, tame it, make it my pet and take it through all content is super cool!

Hunter is one of the best things wow has to offer. Unfortunately they are constantly going back and forth on how much class customization they are willing to let you have, on every class.

...you do realize that racials are one of the most complained about things with characters, right?

Proves it's a good concept.

[Gortys]

Proves it's a good concept.

By this logic everyone loves DT then.

[Astronema]

9 days left on the mount event I'm tempted to go and farm some there.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I really wish Microsoft would have them make a console version of the game, mainly because I'm not confident in my PC's ability to handle it and I don't want to have to buy a new one.

I played a bit back in WotL and Cata, it was good times. (back in my FFXI days and when FFXIV 1.0 didn't pan out)

[Shurrikhan]

If you can run XIV, you can run WoW.

[Shinku_Tachi]

If you can run XIV, you can run WoW.

I play FFXIV on PS5.

I'm not confident using my PC to play anything unless it's old Ys games or FFXI & EQ or something.

[Shurrikhan]

I play FFXIV on PS5.

I'm not confident using my PC to play anything unless it's old Ys games or FFXI & EQ or something.

Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, you'd probably need to at least be able to run XIV on low settings to play WoW then, unfortunately. They have some (addon-based) controller support, but alas, no console version in the works.

[Gortys]

2. The customization is color and the chocobo has that. Some in WoW require certain items be turned in to an NPC. Most mounts in WoW are offered as reskins in other content or the cash shop so there are not that many customizable mounts. I think the variety of ways to get mounts is a better brag for WoW such as the Long-Forgotten Hippogryph.

4. The only people I know who did side quests were farming for reputation with a certain faction or an achievement.

5. Fully voiced, but horribly. It's like they are all exhausted and have to catch their breath? They have to... stress the same word in... every sentence every.... time with unnecessary.... pauses in the middle of sentences.

6. I just find these type of quests to be boring as well as the follow quests in FFXIV.

8. So you can finish your quest, but the rest of the group will be at the last boss before you catch up or may even finish it. If you are doing it with personal friends, that is fine, but not everyone is.

11. I would say that neither game is my ideal MMO when it comes to feeling like I'm an adventurer. Both have a "formula" that is easily seen if played enough.

12. TW can be great or completely broken. I started taking TW week off rather than wondering where my sub money was going. Sound familiar?

13. The glamour storage system is better, but dying is part of a glamour system and you can't do that in WoW. WoW uses recolors of gear for other content or on the cash shop. Other MMO's outshine both XIV and WoW in this dept.

14. I don't have alts in FFXIV. The fact that this is your plus says a lot about WoW's story. Why do you want to skip something that is so good? In fact, my FFXIV peeve is not being able to use NG+ to level jobs. Sometimes I just want to remember some lore or experience part of the game again and it would be nice if I could get some alt job XP at the same time.

15-18. These things never impressed me much either way I guess? I don't agree or disagree? As for a token to level an alt? I was able to level them typically and would often forget I had the token. It's super fast to level in WoW now.

I play quite a few MMO's I like for many reasons. They are all different and that's a good thing. Even now I can't say I will be permanently gone for WoW, but I also haven't seen anything to bring me back. Legion is what brought me back the first time. I think most people should play a variety of games to figure out what they would enjoy and not just stick to any one. This also means less "sunken cost fallacy". I guess from playing so many MMO's, including Wildstar, I've just learned to not get too attached. Even that unique mount? Blizzard may decide it's too unique so then you have a "water strider" you quested for and it can no longer "stride" on water.

[Gwenkatsu]

I think now is the right time to step into this thread and politely ask all participants to stop using comparisons.

Though I must admit: that last post made me laugh way more than it should have.

[mightyfineincredible]

WoW was always incredibly desolate, antisocial and boring to me. It's one of the few games that makes me question my own mortality and go "what am I doing with my life?", as I watch my character s-l-o-w-l-y jog her way through oversized forests and plains, just to kill and collect 6 bear-asses because some rando at the nearby farm told me so.
The entire irony of WoW being social by design, yet being an incredibly lonely leveling experience.