WoW vs. GW2 vs. FFXIV

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danasider said:

I'm a beginner so I don't know exactly how easy everything in FFXIV is, but I will agree that the mobs that I have taken on are pretty easy so far.  I've seen videos and read wikis on higher level stuff (primals) and heard those fights could be fairly hard and require a good deal of tactics, but I don't know how that compares to WoW nor do I have first hand experience myself.

As for re-rolling a character, you can do the same thing in FFXIV if you want a different looking character albeit with a few caveats.  Either pay extra for a character (like a buck or 2, I forget) or I've read if you agree to pay 12.99 for 6 months (the normal monthly rate, but you're locked in for 6 months as a catch) you can have 8 characters and 40 max (versus the standard 1 character and 8 max) so rerolling on that scheme wouldn't cost you anything.  Even so, I get that WoW has more variation in its character design, but FFXIV is still young and has time to add more if it ever does.  Oh, and I was basing my comment about race stats on experience in FFXI.  Don't know if it will pan out the same way, but I can tell you for a fact that when a character reached 75 (and past with merits), the small base stat differences built over all those levels completely dictated how much better a race could be at a certain role (lalafell like race were superior mages, roeguhdyn like race were superior tanks, etc) with compariable equipment and player skills.  But if a player was really good at his/her role and had stellar gear, that'd negate the race advantage.  I'm guessing FFXIV wants to do something like this otherwise they'd not even bother having different base stats, but it's still early in the games life cycle and Square's got to get more content/polish/balance before they bring in more challenge.  Hopefully they do.

I'm not talking about paying for an extra character. I'm talking about the lack of support to reroll in the first place. Aside from what I mentioned, you can't even add your own characters to your friends list, meaning that you can't even send items to them. For example I wanted to have a blacksmith alt, and I plan to send him materials that I mine out in the world, I can't do that. It shows that Square has no plan of motivating you to reroll at all. I mean, in a game like this, why should you? You have all the classes in one character anyway. It's a rather silly enterprise that limits replayability.