I’m really enjoying FFXIV. The leveling has slowed considerably at 25-28 but that’s fine. It reminds me a little of the old Everquest 1 “Hell Levels”. One complaint is the map is like a single player Final Fantasy game with walls. I prefer Guild Wars 2 style or even Skyrim. I like games that you can see large castles in the distance and actually walk to them and scale them. The in game camera will not let you look directly up in first person mode either. These small things take me out of this world and remind me it’s a video game. I’m playing the game with a couple friends. One is playing a archer and the other a conjurer but soon to be scholar (healer). I love running dungeons with them as the dungeons are all 4 person and it just auto throws a random queued up person in as our fourth party member. Black Dolph is currently a level 28 Marauder. My plan is to get his Marauder class to 30 then switch to Gladiator class until level 15 and then become the Warrior job.
MMO Viking 
You didn’t care about walls in EQ1, all you cared about was loot!
How do you like the combat? From what I’ve heard, the dungeon bosses are fun, but the game has a 2.5s global cooldown after skill use, which seems like a deal breaker to me coming from EQ2. Does that bother you at all or are you incapable of processing anything besides the shiny terrain?
Comment by nindakin — September 27, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
Yeah having most the skills on the 2.5 cooldown kinda sucks but I have a couple that are instant cast with longer timers which mixes it up a bit. Like stun and mercy kill.
Comment by mmoviking — September 27, 2013 @ 4:38 pm