Quote Originally Posted by Amsai View Post
I'm tired so I won't go into detail, but basically you hit the nail on the head. I definately am not a fan of fast battles and fast cooldowns. It makes all the moves feel trivial, instead of being built up to. I hate the way most mmorpgs have turned mages into archers. Spells should take longer to cast the higher their level, and give the tank a true job. In fantasy, everyone knows the knight protects the mage in order to give the mage time to cast anawesome spell.
In fantasy, everyone knows that the knight doesn't press a "provoke" button that sends a giant red orb flying in the face of the target to get its attention either.

Basically everything with FF battle system is retarded.

My point being that there are many things that trivialise "combat" in FFXIV, and many of which aren't even related to the rapidity of battle pace.