Quote Originally Posted by derekx View Post
I have played wow since WotLK came out and this has not been my experience with wow. Some instances are zergable, but not to the extent you say unless you massively out level or out gear the instance. Instances in wow are heavily based on gear. Early instances don't really count because they are way out of date and are usually only done for content or bonus rewards. Level cap dungeons all have gear requirements to enter now, and before limits were system imposed they were player imposed. Many fights in end game are refereed to as "gear checks". Many fights require certain dps or hps to do them at all.

I'm not interested in these types of systems in FFXIV. There is skill to being a good dps or tank in wow, but not the kind of skill I want in FFXIV. If you ever have done much end game content in wow (or similar) and FFXI I think you can appreciate my last statement.
Each expansions "buffs" made talents and damage for abilities strong so it scales up for the end game. I'm sure you have at some point tried old content with "new content" gear for instance you can get Wotlk gear at Lv68 (including enchants etc) I'm sure that made stuff easy leveling there right? Its the same for Lv 78->80 it makes stuff really easy right.

Current talents/abilities are made to be "optimal" at Lv 85, so before that your abilities are somewhat overpowered. Blizzard even SAID in a blue post (before cata) that they may be removing/making harder to obtain some "hard mode special content because cata talents makes things way too easy".


Anyway I do agree with you I wouldn't want WoW heroic raid style stuff in FFXIV, the difficulty difference between FFXI/FFXIV and Wow content is miles apart, and would cause alot of rage most likely (that and the FFXIV team probably isn't used to making such content and would be all kinds of wtf going on).

I liked the ffxi "endgame" because its relaxing (and or a wipe fest but still relaxing!), I can sit and eat dinner, watch a movie on the side or something while tanking dodore/ buffalo/tiamat/niddhogg etc (or dpsing) in wow... they don't happen ;/