General concerns, some of which need to be addressed:

[lukekaz]

3. This is the point I want to add my opinion to. Honestly, I think FATEs are, at the very least... okay. They do, in a way, replace quests. But only if you party. Unless you're a DoW DPS, or a THM with Swiftcast, you might as well give up trying to hit monsters and focus on healing instead. And I should mention, unless your party is pretty much the ONLY part at the FATE, you're not going to have much to heal. FATEs pretty much suck for casters, because the monsters are dead before our cast times finish. At least give each casting class an instant cast spell with short cooldown or SOMETHING.

5. No, the reward isn't enough. And I'm sure it's random, but dungeons almost NEVER drop DoM gear. And the exp reward does seem to drop dramatically after leveling once.

6. This goes with five. A lot of quests don't even bother with DoM gear. I'm starting to think the game is classist against casters.

[CannedToast]

I agree with you completely on all points.

I'm coming from a year spent on Guild Wars 2 (which I'm still playing, but not as hard as I used to). I loved leveling in GW2. I have SIX max level fully geared alts. I had all the crafting disciplines maxed before the most recent patch that bumped them up a bit. I did full map complete TWICE.

This game world feels small. I don't feel adequately rewarded for anything I do. The dungeon loot system is atrocious. The only way I'm guaranteed armor is if it drops? And then if I'm over-leveled it doesn't scale? LAME. The only thing keeping my interest is the story and crafting (and even now its waning due to the ridiculous amount of grinding necessary).

In GW2, leveling was an adventure. I wandered around and did what I pleased when I pleased and somehow gained plenty of exp. It didn't feel like a grind even though it took weeks and I loved that... and its F2P! At this rate, I won't be subscribing to FFXIV after the free period.

[casker]

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GW2 has it's own plethora of problems. If you can somehow tolerate GW2's gameplay but not FF14's you should just go back to GW2.

[CannedToast]

Planning on it... after I at least hit 50 and finish the story. After that I'm done.

[Shneibel]

Planning on it... after I at least hit 50 and finish the story. After that I'm done.

and that s where the fun begin, is a shame but ok, your choice