Through some... heated discussions and some friendly ones I've come to get a feel for the particular attitude of the community FFXIv attracts, and I don't say that to be snarky, I actually like you people.
That said, I maintain at least one "foot" in WoW at all times, and I went back this past weekend to hang out with some friends. While doing so I explained WoW's most recent patch's core feature, gear corruption, to one of said friends, and in doing so I realized "oh my god, this would get universally dumped on in FFXIV!"
Gear corruption is a random possibility every time you loot gear that the gear will have dark void corruption on it, a stat that is tracked on your character that the higher it gets, the more messed up things happen to you, but in trade you also get extra power and damage. There is a counter-stat called corruption resistance that you can build up slowly, that cancels out all the bad happening to you while letting you keep the extra power... but the possibility is there for players to go beyond their resistance, by a lot, and be constantly dodging extra personally-relevant mechanics that are (I believe) invisible to everyone else.
Basically, any member of your party at any time could have 2-3 more mechanics to dodge/manage that can potentially damage/debilitate them above and beyond what's already in whatever fight you're in.
When I consider how mechanically and culturally hard FFXIV leans into making sure everyone in your party is "vetted to be here," adding an optional layer of difficulty that individual players can opt into for the sake of extra damage, problems heaped on the healer and the rest of the party that they have no say in nor can they screen or detect it... I can't think of anything more anti-FFXIV than that haha!
So how about you? Have you ever played another game that did something that made you think "Oh my god this would blow FFXIV's mind in the worst way" and what was it?
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That said, I maintain at least one "foot" in WoW at all times, and I went back this past weekend to hang out with some friends. While doing so I explained WoW's most recent patch's core feature, gear corruption, to one of said friends, and in doing so I realized "oh my god, this would get universally dumped on in FFXIV!"
Gear corruption is a random possibility every time you loot gear that the gear will have dark void corruption on it, a stat that is tracked on your character that the higher it gets, the more messed up things happen to you, but in trade you also get extra power and damage. There is a counter-stat called corruption resistance that you can build up slowly, that cancels out all the bad happening to you while letting you keep the extra power... but the possibility is there for players to go beyond their resistance, by a lot, and be constantly dodging extra personally-relevant mechanics that are (I believe) invisible to everyone else.
Basically, any member of your party at any time could have 2-3 more mechanics to dodge/manage that can potentially damage/debilitate them above and beyond what's already in whatever fight you're in.
When I consider how mechanically and culturally hard FFXIV leans into making sure everyone in your party is "vetted to be here," adding an optional layer of difficulty that individual players can opt into for the sake of extra damage, problems heaped on the healer and the rest of the party that they have no say in nor can they screen or detect it... I can't think of anything more anti-FFXIV than that haha!
So how about you? Have you ever played another game that did something that made you think "Oh my god this would blow FFXIV's mind in the worst way" and what was it?
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