Post

ffxi ranked. okay I technically played it awhile ago and was hoping to get through everything, but I've fallen back into the FFXIV field ops grind and so it's gonna be awhile. so here it is, ranked through what I've played already. FFXI is real good.

quick note before we start: both mmos are really hard to rank. the era you played them in matters so much; it's why XIV is ranked highly despite disliking the plot of half its expacs. don't think too hard about the mmo rankings. is xiv better than fft? probably not. but i've played it since 2.0 so.

- the ui is a trainwreck but its a game from 2003 that also released on the playstation 2 so it's forgiven. - the tutorialization is a trainwreck, and this is less forgiven. this game is SO confusing. that said i got back into destiny 2 again recently, and its still better tutorialized than that, so

- wow players will probably be like 'this is normal' but the fact that all the different classes feel unique is such a breath of fresh air coming from xiv. i mainly played corsair and its really fun to do stuff nobody else in your party can do!

- my understanding is that the grind has been SIGNIFICANTLY reduced over the past decade, and that seems like it was good. i don't think i'd have gotten as far otherwise, as i'd be prioritizing ffxiv grind over it.