Just as an example of waves on water, in another thread, somebody posted this screenshot with waves on a smaller body of water.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...1302329265.jpg

Here are a couple more pictures of waves on water from the same thread:

http://i.imgur.com/uXXgP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rgFL8.jpg

http://www.otherworldonline.net/stuf...screens/01.jpg

http://www.otherworldonline.net/stuf...screens/04.jpg

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1058/marycielo.jpg

Does water look different to you? If so, it may be because of your settings, maybe?

By the way, if you folks haven't seen the screenshots thread yet, I highly suggest you check it out. Some good stuff there.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...eenshot-Thread