I tried out Mining in Final Fantasy 14 and it blew my mind how much more involved and creative it was in comparison to World of Warcraft. It amazed me that the FFXIV developers are probably listening to feedback from the WoW community. Well done on this one!
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Still miss the old FFXI crafting style with the actual crystals exploding and shit.
Curiously enough i known people who their endgame was crafting and mining they did only the msq but their thing was the marketboard selling their ore or crafted items from clothes to weapons to just crafting materials
Crafting and Gathering are integral to the game, so much so that they have their own end game content and their own relics. It's definitely a rabbit hole of content, and each have their own stories and characters!
The coolest thing here is that, being level 25, you've only learned the extreme basics of the job and it just gets way cooler as time goes on. Gathering and crafting can get so deep and engaging that there's many people who are just fulltime crafters and will only really do combat when absolutely 100% required for something lol
4:58 i start to clap alone in the room. Wow man, i don't like FFV, but someone ever had to start moving the nails well, if it's not WOW, a shame, but let it be someone else, after all FFV deserves all the applause.
Been enjoying your content, thanks mate
in FF14 gathering is not something on side its literally a job with career opportunities lol
It's one of the very best crafting and gathering systems in all of MMO's.
I'm not a huge fan of 14, but if other developers only take one thing away from 14: I certainly hope it's their profession system.
14's crafting and gathering profession are better than most stand alone RPG's, let alone the MMO RPG genera. It's an outstanding set of professions.
Max level gathering/crafting have their dedicated gear and rotations. The better your gear the more effective/better your rotations are. For example you may can get 10 items but only 4 of them are High quality (HQ). With better gear you may can get 8/10 HQ or more normal quality items. HQ helps you in crafting, it basically makes it easier to craft HQ gear and stuff. Finally, the special veins spawn at specific Eorzean times and it's only you and the vein. In other words there are no 8 druids multiboxing that will eclipse the map and you have to spend hours and hours without getting almost any ore/herb. I believe that one Eorzian day is 70 minutes and most special veins spawn once or twice per Eorzian day (mostly twice).
How does it fit with the test of the game. Is there a market for the materials?
Most of the bones of FFXIV's gathering and crafting systems were created by the original 1.0 devs, who were definitely not looking at WoW in any way. Their refusal to acknowledge any MMO other than FFXI to decide what they wanted to do when they were making XIV is well known. Everything the current team has done since then has been based on improving and reworking the systems that already existed to make them more friendly and interesting for the players.
So no, they weren't looking at complaints from the WoW community. It just worked out to address the things that bother you!
I miss mining, gathering, and crafting in Wow.. I remember just killing mobs and skinning them or what not. I wish FFXIV was like that
You do not need to buy the Mining Pick… you dont need the pick to mine, just as you dont need a fishing rod to fish
Crafting and gathering is like an own game inside of ff14
oh yes the comparison we all been waiting for. zzzz
I love all these wow players 🤣 reactions on how much better ff does things but if blizzard really cared about there player they would do things like this but all the do it pit stuff in store and get whales
As someone who really enjoy the idea of crafting gear and stuffs in all games (give me a game that crafting is the main goal and ill play that asap) i fell in love of 14. Im still leveling, just ending stormblood but instead of doing MSQ i was almost an entire week leveling all my crafters and gatherers, and i enjoy every second especially since you can just chill with a controller. The only think i didn't like is that fishing can be very annoying with moshing i think it's the name but overall you can play as a gatherer and crafter in this game… It's amazing
You know the system is broken when people make guides to OPTIMIZE MINING lmao. This is where wow has died off with the crafting/gathering systems!
I wanted to watch this but my ears blew out.
As someone who’s only played ffxiv, wow gathering sounds kinda similar to gathering in the diadem below level 60 (diadem is an instanced zone you unlock after finishing a certain way through the heavensward story, which gives items used for crafting for ishgardian restoration which is a way to level crafters as well as get specific rewards) higher level gathering outside of the diadem uses your skills in a lot of interesting ways to try boost chances as high as possible and get as many chances to get high quality mats as those make crafting easier, and at higher levels the difference between nq and hq is so significant nq is almost worthless for crafting gear or food or pots or stuff like that.
Who tf mines in WOW . Mining and crafting gear is totaly usless in WOW .