jawaX wrote:My thought process right now about returning to FFXIV:
> It's complicated but I'm enjoying it!
> But I have vague memories of bad stuff...
> ...ah, yes, battles where you have to team up with other people and some folk are pretty mean
> ...and that aspect made me stop playing
> Do I really want to carry on with this as I'm gonna get to that bad stuff?
I dunno. Will need to think about it.
Instanced combat is pretty unavoidable by the looks of it, a lot of story beats for your main quest sit behind dungeon content. That being said, I've not come across anyone giving any others a hard time in any of the dungeons I've run up to lvl 31 so far.
I'm usually wary about this kind of dungeon running with PUGs, largely because I've had bad experiences in other games, running with people who are trying to rush content for farming, and they've not been interested in dealing with newer players, but FFXIV seems pretty accommodating, and I've had groups where people are perfectly happy to wait for those doing a dungeon the first time to sit and watch cutscenes before they charge ahead. I also used to hate that I might start an instanced event with a fixed group, only to have to step away from the game for whatever reason, and end up abandoning others and spoiling their time with the game, but again, what I've encountered so far has generally been of a pretty brief length. I always favoured Guild Wars 2 its non-instanced world, where events were open to all on a map because of my reservations, but I've really enjoyed my time in dungeons here so far.