ok right before i deployed i started playing WoW for a solid 4 months, but thats about all it took for me to be done. First off its way too easy, and the player community is horrible. The group play is pretty much Zerg through every instance b/c ur a pld and can tank 5000 things at once, theres no real calculation to anything, and after u get the best gear you can possibly get, it becomes junk the second the new expansion pack is done being installed on your computer. At least the FFXI tards are few and far in between and at least tolerable. WoW feels like one of every four players is either 10 years old or just plain derka derka... im really hoping FFXIV isnt going to be the WoW killer, b/c I like the player community here, and am not looking forward to tards migrating in masses