Quote Originally Posted by Mattia View Post
XI we had the Haste spell, Haste gear, TP gear, TP regen abilities, abilities that gave large amounts of tp on attack(DRG Jump for example), and certain weapons that could build tp faster than others(2-handed weapons). What the hell are you talking about combat was slow(took ages?) and long delays?
Did you even play FFXI?

These were my abilities on WAR:

Mighty Strikes (Recast: 2 hours)
Provoke (Recast: 30 seconds (never used if you were DDing, and you were always DDing))
Berserk (Recast: 5 minutes)
Defender (Recast: 3 minutes (also never used if you were DDing))
Warcry (Recast: 5 minutes)
Aggressor (Recast: 5 minutes)
Retaliation (Recast: 3 minutes)
Warrior's Charge (Recast: 5 minutes)
Tomahawk (Recast: 3 minutes)

These were all buff abilities and two debuffs. Haste has no effect on these.

If you were a WAR/NIN, you got two spells to play with in Utsusemi (30 and 45 seconds recast if I recall).

No amount of Haste and the effect this would have on TP gain would put FFXI's battle speed anywhere near FFXIV's battle speed.