well nobody said that FF14 is perfect. But it is a solid option and i understand that you do not like the art style. I played wildstar and i hated the art style at first but i played with friends so it was fine for me.

you should try to find a group. FF14 really shines when it comes to group content (savage or ultimate) and those fights will definitely challange you to your very limits i can guarantee you that.

I guess you are Max lvl? Which class do you play?

Well i disagree... FF14 has got insane Raids - way harder and way more fun (intermissions, mechanics, visuals and so on - Boss Fights really feel like actual Boss fights) than SW:ToR. Crafting is better, too. Story is nice with some cool plot Twists. To have all classes on one Character is also a advantage in my opinion. Iam not a Fan of 244323 alts (i have 322422 alts in swtor because i played all classes and there is no other possibility to Do so). Game looks great Overall. The combat is nice 2.5 gcd is slow but with all that weaving inbetween gcds you have plenty to Do. Some classes feel the same i agree but other MMOs are no exception here. The downside of FF14 is the community... absolutely passive aggressive cringe Mode here (Huge eRP scene for example)... you will definitrly Hit a wall if you play ff14 solo... savage and ultimates are fun but you need 8 really dedicated players for it. PvP is way worse than SW:ToR PvP in my opinion.

You have no clue how to play tank in pvp 🤷‍♂️ A good Tank who guards a Node is wasted potential...

They removed ranked long time ago (8vs8) not just recently (arenas) with 7.x Original rated was 8v8. Arena ranked never filled that gap ever in those 8 years (Player participation) - and yes i played 8vs8 AND Arena ranked. Now arenastars witness the same situation 8v8 ranked players/guilds witnessed 8 years before. Their favourite game Mode is removed and we have a decline in pvp participation- what a surprise 😅

I did 26k HPS with my mando heal in a voidstar and i guess that is almost the Limit...I do think that 30k HPS is possible but only under perfect cirumstances. TTK is fine now because in 6.0 you could heal a full Party alone in WZs without issues. Now in comparison you need a Tank and 2 healers to (like it was in 1.X - 2.X) keep a group alive against decent dps. about merc/mando dcds - srsly take away the defs and mando has not got anything left. You do not have the Best HPS Potential (unlike operative/scoundrel) and you Do not have instant aoe heals like sorcs. Trauma regulators are a joke anyways since it is nerfed (i do not skill it because it is terrible).... same for Adrenaline rush... reflect is strong against dumb people but thats it... i have an average of 4mil dmg taken in WZs (highest dmg Taken was about 11 mil) and i do not play with a Private Tank all the time (i wish i had one lol) - so if you take away defs for healers the situation will be worse and no one wants to play healer anyways because since 7.x it feels like a drop in the desert if you heal somebody (especially without tank)

I do not understand why people complain about premades. This is a MMO. You should be encouraged to play with friends or other people. Just form your own group and thats it. Interacting with other people is what brings an MMo to live - otherwise you can play a Single Player game or whatever. Or make Operations for solo players, too so everyone can obtain 340 🤷‍♂️.

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You guys made the right decision to let us queue with friends (more than just 4 people) That is the Best decision you made in the last few years (besides loadouts, cool Cartel outfits and secondary classes) i think the game is going in the right Direction now and this comes from a Person who critisized the Game and Staff over the years for Bad decisions. Keep it up Bioware you are finally on the Track. Really enjoy the game right now - thanks.

No they do not! 🤷‍♂️

Why you want to prevent that people play with their friends? PvP is not competetive anymore so why is there a problem for you? Srsly over the years you started the weirdest threads you can possibly imagine.... Just let people play with their friends it is a MMO after all. Edit: splitting the queues would increase q-times that is not an option at all without X-server! I do not want to wait hours to get a pop when i queue with friends

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Well it does not surprise me that always the same people defend this Arena PvP mess with all its garbage mechanics which can be abused very easy. Such thing never happened with 8v8 sorry guys i know the truth can be very annoying. 7+ years of garbage Arenas and there are still so many flaws to abuse the System, play unfair, balancing etc... - flyhack arenas by Jee**e - acid stealth abuse for years - only 1 OP class Combination with each balancing Patch =no diversity - wintrading Services by Ly**a - vote kicking - throwing - decreasing Population . . . Are you f***ing kidding me to STILL defend this garbage or its mechanics at this point? Btt: Vote kicking only works properly with x-server. If it stays like this, this little ranked cartel community will just vote Kick new/Bad Players they dont like to play with so those new Players are not able to ruin those cartel kids rating

all the time: blablabla 8v8 could not be possible because population is too low... Always the same argument.... Iam sick of this excuse really....Don't you have an other argument besides this one? Population is so low because of what we have now - PvP is a mess. That is the reason why the population is so low.... 8v8 population was way way greater than 4v4 - and there were no season rewards, no fancy flairs and mounts... but 8v8 population was kind of small, too thats true... BW sacrificed 8v8 for 4v4 because they thought there would be twice as many teams compared to 8v8 - It was not the case! Many 8v8 Guilds died because of this - population decreased by a lot... I would rather play a broken 8v8 (with all those super mario movement garbage and def cds) than this mess of arena pvp crap. If this is PvP for you .... you have pretty low standards... just bring back 8v8 - give us proper rewards for it - so people can choose if they want to play 4v4 or 8v8 ranked and for gods sake give us cross server. BW will not do it because they know people will abandon Arenas...

exactly - well those arena dudes think you need more skill - but imo 8v8 is way more coordination, movement and of course way more fun... everyone who played 8v8 says that 8v8 was way better than Arenas.... only Arena kids nowadays say that arena is better because they never experienced true 8v8 before... it is so sad honestly...

Ranked Arenas + Elo are garbage since its release period... would not be the case with x-server of course... The real popular PvP was 8v8 ranked. Everyone Who defends arenas at this point are the wintrading people who abuse this retarded System and never Played 8v8 ranked before. 8v8 was the most popular pvp - that is a fact even better than Arena in S1. Since Arena release the Population of ranked pvp decreased steadily over the years... Years ago we had good pvp Times but it is long gone. - Game turned into Super Mario Jump & Run BS... - Reg maps are too tiny for all the "new" movement skills. - Devs needed years to remove the stupid Arena acid garbage or to change matchmaking... - best and competetive pvpers and guilds are long gone - pvp comm gave BW a lot of advice (even in personal) and they still refuse to listen. - most content Updates are cartel market changes... - skill trees >>> current System - amplifier System... really BW??? - the only positive thing about the game is the gearing System right now but even this System has its flaws... some set bonuses and tacticals are way over the top compared to others... It is very sad what this game has become... it is only a shadow of its former glory (damn i loved this game in 2011/2012)... best advice i can give is roll it back to 2.0 and bring in crosserver. Or make classic Servers like WoW please...

i agree that everyone played pressure comps....but the meta healer ... come on cerasi and katrinka played them and those guys are very good on it... i have not seen an operative healer who was good enough to play in TR besides those players i mentioned before... operative healer were squishy as hell... in my opinion the hardest healer to play... and that is why only a few people were capable of playing them in TR but those are very good players.... rest were all sorcs... deny it or not your decision... but it is the truth... Iam not talking about Solo Ranked btw Solo Ranked is too random (class combos, different player skill levels and so on) but it is a fact that merc heals were literally not existent in TR... but yeah maybe we see an influx of TR and Merc heals now... and if that happens we can talk about nerfs....

I topped HPS records and Overal heal on 3 different servers with my Mandoheal in the 5.x era... i think i know exactly what a merc heal is capable of... Sorcs were not OP... are you serious? That is why almost all teams played with sorc heals in Team ranked in 5.X because they were NOT superior to other heal classes...sure.... only cerasi and katrinka played Operative heal... durwell+asana(sometimes)+me played merc/mando heal in TR on malgus.... and literally all other teams played with sorc/sage healer.... but yeah sorc were not OP....

Are you a sorc healer? Sorc Heals were OP for almost a decade... now other healers are on par with sorc heals and you ask for a nerf.... interesting.... btw a lot of Merc HPS (numbers) coming from DCDs do not forget that. Btt: I agree with Kre'a healing is way too low compared to DPS.. i mean TTK was way too high in the past but now....

Yeah i agree ;-) but they should fix the tactical Swap stuff in pvp the gearing system itself is not that bad at all but it is definitely annoying that you need to grind it out via flashpoints... It is not actually "Play your way" but we had worse gearing in the past... 1.0 gearing for example (totally RNG) or galactic command of course...

It is the same in every Patch since launch^^ The wheel keeps turning from one class to another ^^

I think it is a problem with EU Servers somehow.... because all new threads about this are either Malgus or Tulak Hord...

I had no issues for years... i simply do not understand what they messed up with the patch.... i mean EU Servers are in Ireland since release... never had any issues but since this patch my game is freezing constantly up to 10s from 30ms to 10k ms over and over again.... if it is a problem with routing i would have had problems like this in the past but i had not any problems until now....

I Think there is no such thread... Well commando healer Set bonuses are literally garbage. Tacticals are not even good aswell... Maybe the Kolto Bomb tactical is not that bad but why increased cooldown on Kolto Bomb? Tactical: HoT on Koltoshots.... why is it so weak? I mean i get it that Commando DPS was OP but Commando Healer..... was the worst healer and is still by far the worst healer.... Meanwhile operative have a tactical with +20% koltowave healpower And i do not even need to start with sorc heals...