As far as MMO's go, with FFXI's population about to be shot in the leg even more this March, XIV being in a insane content drought, and TOR being TOR, the only ship left standing is the one that considers itself a failure despite having 5x the active subscribers (and daily populations) than the previously three mentioned titles combined.

Try and convince me that I'm making a huge mistake.

FF XIV is way cooler

trufax

I'm not disagreeing with you on that, I'm lvl 60 on DRG, BLM, PLD, WAR, and BRD. But you can't deny that there's fuck all to do at lvl 60 except tomestone grind and smash your dick against Alexander Savage every week.

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FF XIV is way cooler

trufax

You know what's sad? I've been playing FFXIV since day 1. Still, quite a lot left to do. As far as ARR goes. I've barely touched HW. I unsubbed to WoW. Will be back around for Legion. I have some medical bills to pay so I'm not trying to spend money only like 2-3 MMOs all at once anymore. You should enjoy WoW. It's a bit smoother and faster paced than FFXIV. Plenty of content to roll through to obviously. Get with a guild. It will make it more fun.

I'm not disagreeing with you on that, I'm lvl 60 on DRG, BLM, PLD, WAR, and BRD. But you can't deny that there's fuck all to do at lvl 60 except tomestone grind and smash your dick against Alexander Savage every week.

Quote from: Kiwicake on January 30, 2016, 07:56:11 PM

FF XIV is way cooler

trufax

To be fair, I haven't gotten that far in

And I don't have Heavensward yet, I've only reached level 50 in one thing

you need to find a friend to do refer-a-friend with. 300% leveling xp. grinding from level 1 until around wrath/cata (70-80) is gonna be a nightmare for you, especially without heirlooms, unless you're really into the whole solo progression/grinding thing. i would offer to do it but i cant guarantee my availability- ive baited like 4 people into refer a friend benefits with me in the past and have never helped them much at all.

my advice: choose a class that can offspec as a healer (druid, priest, paladin, monk, shaman), learn to heal and queue up as a healer in dungeons. dungeons make levelling a lot faster and healers get quick queues. this works for tank specs as well but i would recommend that you not play a tank spec until you learn the basics well, people will rage and wont hesitate to kick you from a dungeon if you dont know how to tank.

you're gonna need addons too. blizzard has made it so that the community can make a lot of great improvements to the game through addons. get curse client to download them; i recommend at least these addons for barebones- DeadlyBossMods, GTFO, bartender, tidyplates, skada (for damage/healing information), healbot (makes healing much simpler, there are better addons to do it with but ive always healed with healbot).

go horde on illidan and i might be convinced to give you some gold. feel free to add me on battle.net, Liramuza#1300, and ill be glad to answer any questions you might have.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/illidan/Liramuza/advanced

^ my main toon

https://realmpop.com/

if you dont want to play on my server, use this website to find out about the populations/faction ratios of various servers. my server, illidan, is one of the highest population servers in NA but has a MASSIVELY skewed horde/alliance ratio, like WAY more horde. having such a high population makes it so that our economy thrives very well, but we've also attracted a lot of chinese progression guilds and chinese gold farmers, so a lot of people have an addon that blocks chinese characters in chat.

I was tempted to play WoW when Wrath of the Lich King came out because the trailer looked so kickass.

you can level to 20 for free and get a feel for it. i was addicted the second i started playing the trial. id recommend giving it a shot when youre bored one day and have nothing else to do.

If I use refer-a-friend, do I need to do stuff with my friend to get the 300% boost or can I just do my own thing and not bother them?

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you need to find a friend to do refer-a-friend with. 300% leveling xp. grinding from level 1 until around wrath/cata (70-80) is gonna be a nightmare for you. i would offer to do it but i cant guarantee my availability- ive baited like 4 people into refer a friend benefits with me in the past and have never helped them much at all.

I've tanked in XIV and while I am good at it, it simply isn't for me. I'm aware that DPS queue times are going to makes things a slog, but I really don't want to deal with the pressure of healing or holding aggro.

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my advice: choose a class that can offspec as a healer (druid, priest, paladin, monk, shaman), learn to heal and queue up as a healer in dungeons. dungeons make levelling a lot faster and healers get quick queues. this works for tank specs as well but i would recommend that you not play a tank spec until you learn the basics well, people will rage and wont hesitate to kick you from a dungeon if you dont know how to tank.

Aee any of these necessary for leveling? I use a DPS parser for XIV but I only use it when proging in Alexander Savage. I wasn't planning on worrying about the meta until I reach the late game.

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you're gonna need addons too. blizzard has made it so that the community can make a lot of great improvements to the game through addons. get curse client to download them; i recommend at least these addons for barebones- DeadlyBossMods, GTFO, bartender, tidyplates, skada (for damage/healing information), healbot (makes healing much simpler, there are better addons to do it with but ive always healed with healbot).

I was going to go Stormrage since according to realmpop it's the most active one for NA.

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go horde on illidan and i might be convinced to give you some gold. feel free to add me on battle.net, Liramuza#1300, and ill be glad to answer any questions you might have.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/illidan/Liramuza/advanced

^ my main toon

stormrage isnt a terrible idea if you want to be alliance scum, its the PVE equivalent of illidan (which is a PVP horde dominant server.) alliance is OP in PVP right now, i must add, because humans have a really OP racial active.

healing is pretty low-pressure during levelling content tbh, i took to it like a fish to water and i had never played any MMOs before. none of the addons i recommended are necessary per se but they definitely help clean up your UI and make things much more manageable across the board. playing without addons in wow is like intentionally gimping yourself.

compare this screenshot to your default HUD and decide for yourself which UI seems better.

FF XIV is way cooler

trufax

triggered

You should play Blade & Soul.

all i can say is that its boring beyond tears

I will never understand the appeal of MMORPGs

Ever consider playing on private wow servers? I've been doing it whenever I get the hankering, it's nice not needing to bother with pesky subscriptions.

Alright, how do I install bartender? This UI is disgusting.

you're gonna need addons too. blizzard has made it so that the community can make a lot of great improvements to the game through addons. get curse client to download them; i recommend at least these addons for barebones- DeadlyBossMods, GTFO, bartender, tidyplates, skada (for damage/healing information), healbot (makes healing much simpler, there are better addons to do it with but ive always healed with healbot).

You should play Blade & Soul.

Oh my gosh the fanservice of that game

WoW is good and fun if you take your time and listen to all the story and such for your first character. Might want to get some parties to help you through some raids that wrap up expansions so you can experience the story of them first hand. Current end game raiding is apparently really fun, however the last patch was on 22nd June, the content drought in that game when you hit the end is outstandingly bad.

However, I'd say it's still enjoyable first time for one play through.