The exception is healers, though they still spend a lot of their time doing damage (heals are big and impactful at higher levels, so you try to minimize time spent healing and maximize time spent dpsing). Any buffs or debuffs are sort of incidental parts of your dps rotation (though using them optimally and timing them with the rest of the raid is an important part of optimizing dps windows). I cut my teeth on MUDs, FFXI, SWG, pre-Trammel UO, and other old-school MMORPGs. I left (after buying them an upgraded house in the most sought-after weeaboo-themed player housing town with all of my game bux) because the gameplay is one-dimensional and extremely dumbed-down. After this, there are these scripted public raids that you can do for various daily rewards, most of which have become outdated (due to being the cutting-edge of older content) and trivial, but still you have to follow the gimmicks and waste your time doing them for the rewards.īy the way, I not only joined a big clan/linkshell/guild, I actually poached all of the good people from it and founded my own, and then we bought player housing and eventually played through a bunch of the endgame together. They are required in order to progress, unless you go to the cash shop and pay Square-Enix a bribe. PvE consists of doing solo fetch quests (there's absolutely no benefit to being in a group) for literally hundreds of hours, with an incredible amount of backtracking and interspersed with dozens upon dozens of stupid cut scenes.
These gimmicks become more complicated and demanding in the absolute endgame, but they remain gimmicks. Other than mashing buttons in the correct order to DPS, since everyone is DPS in this game, there are gimmicks to follow during "raids" and such, for example standing on the correct symbol when a boss shows a certain tell or reaches a certain phase. In FFXI (shortly after its release) there was an incredibly wide variety of buffs, debuffs, utility skills, crowd control, etc., all of which had their uses those don't really exist in FFXIV. Most buffs and debuffs also simply increase DPS. Even the healers mostly exist for DPS in this game crowd control is nonexistent, and buffs and debuffs are almost unnoticeable afterthoughts. The combat, including right up to the end of the endgame, involves DPS "rotations" (which means mashing buttons in the arbitrarily correct order). (This initiative resulted mostly in disappointment.) I played this game for a few months in 2018, as part of my "say goodbye to MMORPGs, because they won't even exist in an another decade" initiative. Not to suggest metacritic is a great way to evaluate games, but the trend in scores sort of speaks for itself in how the game has evolved. Older content is constantly played because the game incentivizes doing so with dailies and a fairly robust (though definitely not perfect) gear/level scaling system. being notably better or worse than it's "supposed" to be given the non-dps related value it brings to a party) while being different enough to be worth trying multiple out. Jobs are insanely well balanced (median dps of the worst and best jobs are within 10% of each other on end-game content), with usually only one job per expansion being "wrong" (eg. Due to this I can't quite say "just pay money to skip the story" or "just don't play it". The problem is that it does setup a lot of characters, events, and concepts that are important for appreciating the main story quests of the expansions, which are faster, have less busy work (less and less each expansion), and some solid payoffs. It's like actually brutal to force yourself through it.
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I don't recommend it to friends because the main story quest of the base game (A Realm Reborn) is just so slow, full of busy work, and has nearly no pay off. There's an overarching "main story quest" line that is simultaneously the most awful fucking thing ever and yet also an extremely solid story (at least by jrpg standards). It's a game that has progressively become better over time.
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