Originally Posted by
KrazyK923
Donno how constructive this thread will ultimately be but I wanted to make it nonetheless.
I'm a ~12.5/13 year old WoW veteran who used to hardcore raid vanilla (My guild was pushing spider wing naxx when BC came out), and I just finally picked up FFXIV and I'm having a blast with it. I'm level 52 atm, still working through the ARR MSQ, but I decided to give the Minstral's Ballad: Ultima Weapon a run through, since the game told me my ilevel was high enough to do so.
My group wiped probably 7-8 times, and I had an absolute blast the entire time. I felt like it was appropriately challenging while still being very exciting and I felt like I was having an actual impact in the fight with 7 other people. And, ultimately, the only reason we didn't succeed is, after the 7th wipe, one of the healers pulled prematurely and several of the other DPS died early on, and we wiped at about 2% when Ultima Weapon was casting Ultima. This caused the tanks to leave the group.
But I had an absolute blast the entire time. I'm honestly not even sure why. Maybe because it's Final Fantasy. Maybe because playing a Black Mage has been something I've wanted since I first played FF9 and fell in love with Vivi. Maybe it's because the animations look way better, frankly, than WoW's do.
World of Warcraft is like my rock solid bae, who I can always come back to and rely on, while I feel like FFXIV is an exciting side bae that I just discovered for the first time and is giving my rock solid bae a run for his money, causing him to step up his game. I haven't had this much fun in a MMORPG since probably Wrath, when my guild stopped raiding. This actually made me excited to try serious raiding for the first time in WoW in ~6 years.
Overall I'm loving how hard FFXIV is coming for WoW. It just makes WoW pick up its game. And, as a gamer, that's good for all of us. Thanks for reading, I just wanted to fanboy over how much fun I had in the last ~90 minutes of wiping in FFXIV.