FF and the GCD

[Monori]

Are there any plans to lower the GCD down from 2 seconds to something like 1 or 1.5 seconds? Maybe I'm alone in this but it seems slow to me and it would go along way in making the game seem more fast paced. Titan aside things seem very slow to me, I love the game but would love to see faster paced fights and a faster paced combat system.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I wonder if there are any plans to remove the global cooldown and make something like v1.23 before ARR. Maybe I'm alone in this but it seems fast to me and would go along way in making the game slower paced. Crafting aside this game is too fast for me, I love the game but would love to see slower paced fights and a slower paced combat system.

[Monori]

well played

[Exstal]

Can always play Aion Online if you want speed.

[Jandor]

It feels about right to me. I'm old these days, reactions ain't what they used to be you know. Darn kids, etc.

[Erudain]

I'm going to assume you're a lancer (since that's what it says under your profile....)

You should use off GCD skills in between to weave while GCD expires....Heavy Trust (GCD) - Internal Release (off GCD) - Impulse Drive (GCD) - Blood for Blood (off GCD) - Disembowel (GCD) - Sweep (off GCD)...etc etc.

Check this thread if you want to know how to keep your most up-time: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...otation-Reborn

[Deifact]

Lancer does feel really slow compared to other classes :-(

[Orophin]

End game fights are already pretty hectic, I think it's fine the way it is.

[RaphaelDDL]

I'm okay as is.
Think of GCD as the ATB filling up for next attack

[Kitru]

End game fights are already pretty hectic, I think it's fine the way it is.

This is why I think they went with a 2.5 sec GCD instead of the 1.5 "standard". FFXIV has a helluva lot more stuff that you have to manually dodge than a vast majority of MMOs. The 2.5 sec GCD gives you a reasonable time to react to other stuff between pressing your attacks.