• fae/faer or they/them

fae otherkin in the streets, anthro red chocobo in the sheets


Playing with an alt in XIV has made me realize I genuinely do like the lower-level MMO experience

Like, I dunno. I like having to hoof it through the Black Shroud instead of just flying over or having all my fast travels unlocked already. I like having the chance of regular aggro. I like having a quest log that isn't full of things that are world-ending and not having a page full of timers and a personal to-do list sixty miles long. I certainly would love it if this level 17 Conjurer had more then two buttons in a fight but that's the tradeoff.

There is a fun balance in the MMO experience where you go from "this is a big world and with that comes certain things like needing to actually transverse environments" to "nah fuck it this world is a checklist and you just warp everywhere to efficiently make meters go up" and while XIV never hits all the way to the latter side, it does so enough that I kinda prefer the early phases where it doesn't. Like, I'd take a little inconvenience here and there: fewer Teleport locations, more actual threat from random mobs out and about, etc.


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