Can't we just make the battle system like FFXI's?

[Demacia]

How do we know that? The default attack speed could just be as fast as a person could normally repeat light attacks (which is already a decent amount faster than XI, even with haste...not taking any special weapons into account).

Yeah, but XI doesn't have stamina slowing you down. As it is right now, FFXI is the faster system. Again, not saying XIV should be like XI, but it should at least have haste and real multiple attacks not animations that have multiple hits but only register as one. They even said they changed the attack animations to make combat SEEM faster.