While the WoW stuff looks interesting it's not enough to draw me in. I tend to be a story first player. Hopefully it is a step in the right direction and they can start course correction on some the lunacy from previous expansions.
I have been working my way through the new content on FFXIV latest patches. The new Alliance Raid is fun but difficult, which is actually making it even more fun for me. I am still at that stage where learning the mechanics is slightly higher priority than DPS..
Did a solo run on Castrum Meridianum for Zhloe's book. My thinking was I could bail if it was far too long. For people who don't know there where thre set pieces that lead up to the end of the game made up of Port Westwind (notoriously the most difficult content in the game to that point
), Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium. To help out new players the last two where included into the levelling roulettes. The issue is they take between 40 to 60 minutes depending on which one you play.
Now Castrum Meridianum took me 5 minutes to solo run with a lvl 90 Dancer. There where a grand total of 2 cut scenes and much of the level has been cut out. I haven't tried the Praetorium but this has now been split into 3 parts, the main dungeon, a 4 man trial and then a solo instance.
As to Cape Westwind, it's notieriety has lead to it being cut altogether.
It was meme nowadays than anything else, it was so bloody easy
I have mixed feelings on these changes. I mean from a player perspective it is a lot more streamlined and a lot friendlier to your time. But I do think it has also lost some of the spectacle at the end of the game as well.
I am really enjoying the new PvP mode in the game as well. It's a 5 minute battle (sometimes doesn't last more than a minute others can run to 10 minutes in overtime) escort a crystal into the openents territory. It's quick, it's fun and most importantly chat is disable to stock phrases so there is no getting hauled over the coals for not being able to play as well as the others. The rewards are decent and there is a battle pass associated with each season. Generally just currency to buy frames for portraits, some cool looking gear and bits so you can actually buy some gear that was previously for the top 100 players. All in all a lot of fun. Even helped me do better in the "Feast" PVP.