2014 is definitely not a solid year so far. There's quite a lot of pandery titles out there, and it's certainly more of a haven if you enjoy having your favourite tropes spoon-fed to you if you're into them. The stuff that's risky or actually decently-written is few and far between, but the titles that are good are still good, even in comparison to everything else around it (Kill la Kill, Ping Pong, The World is Still Beautiful, Mushishi s2, Chaika, Jojo s3). Personally, NGNL and Black Bullet are horrible shows due to being horribly-written otaku-pandering power fantasies so I would not even touch them with a 'best of' list.
If there were years with majorly solid titles, I'd say to bring 1998, 2006, 2011, and potentially 2013 into the front of your mind. Even the stuff that isn't technically "good" is at least memorable.
But eh, we're only halfway into 2014. Summer has maybe 2 or 3 interesting non-sequel things, and then we'll see what fall has to offer.