i guess for me one big difference between wow and ffxi is that in ffxi the trade skiklls actually benefit you :-) in wow they have started adding better food but apart from these three alchemy,enchanting and jewelcrafting that help a players stats ther rest can be replaced with instance drops the mechanics in ffxi for crafting are also more interesting. oh yeah and decorating my house for better stats also. It would be nce to box ffxi but now i have to much time and money invested in wow.