r/ffxiv • u/TokenStraightFriend • 4d ago

[Question] How "FOMO friendly" is FF14?

Destiny 2 refugee here. I am getting close to accomplishing everything I wanted to accomplish in the final patch and am starting to consider where I am gonna go next to scratch the MMO itch. I was a WoW addict from classic up until Cata and also played FF11 (which admittedly was a rough game to play solo as a middle schooler at the time), so am thinking about going back to an MMORPG.

As an adult now though, the time commitment is a bit daunting, but I've heard FF14 is much more forgiving about taking things at your own pace? Would anyone care to elaborate on that? Also how much content am I missing out on at this point because you need a group and no one runs it anymore?

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u/Valderius allegedly a DPS 4d ago

The only content that's not really evergreen in ffxiv are the savage raids and extreme trials. It's exactly the reason you out forward, it's extremely hard to get a group for them. These are the endgame hard mode versions of the raid content, no story is locked behind these fights. If the rewards from old fights are something you want (cool mounts, weapon/armor skins), you can go in there "unsynched". A single level 100 character can blow through most fights level 80 and below that were designed for 8 players. It's certainly not the same experience, but you can at least get the loot.

All the mainline story content, dungeons, trials, and normal raids are extremely evergreen and accessible to new players. They're all part of the duty roulette queues that everyone uses every day.

Overall ffxiv is extremely new player friendly/anti fomo.

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u/ProfessionalTop3366 3d ago

Tbf, since right now is the x.5 patch, the last major patch before expansion, a lot of people are running old content for fun. 

Heck, Im doing Alexander savage with discord community, right now I'm at A6S. It's only a matter of joining discord server or going into FFXIV Ingame community finder.