Am I only one who finds autoattack so slow ?

[Konachibi]

My experiences from combat since I started playing:

Pugilist: Stacking evasion allowed me to constantly keep using moves like Jarring Strike almost constantly, the only time it felt slow was before I gained an evasion technique but at those levels enemies die so quick it doesn't matter. Now whenever I enter combat it's constant button pressing from the get-go, the first attack being light strike and then constantly using evasion counter moves as well as skills to increase my evasion or damage and using second wind when low on health, whilst at the same time building TP to use much stronger attacks, then never more than 3-5 seconds when I'm not pressing a button.

Conjurer: Constant spell casting as well as adding buffs, debuffs, heals and regens to keep myself alive whilst keeping the damage on, the only waiting time is whilst casting spells, that's pretty normal for a spell-casting class in an MMO.

Thaumaturge: Exactly the same as Conjurer, always spell-casting, stopping for even a few seconds could cause death.

Archer: Need I say more? Light-strike constantly then spew off a few TP moves like Penetrating Shot, Shadowbind etc. Always pressing buttons and moving around.

Gladiator: Though I haven't played this class much at all I still found I was using skills often, at first it was slow waiting for TP build from auto-attack but as more skills were gained through levels there were more buttons to press and more reasons to move around, the GLA tank in my LS is constantly throwing out skills at level 30.

Those are the classes I've played with at the moment, sure it'd be nice for some of their basic attacks like Light Strike etc. to have a smaller cooldown but still every class from the list above can have very fast-paced combat. If you're finding it all too easy and you're never using skills try removing some skills from your action bar that aren't part of the class you're playing (e.g/ take cure and protect away from PUG action bar), add more skills that are relevant to your current class, and try it out then. If it still feels slow and boring then try fighting tougher enemies. I've played a lot of different MMO's and trust me, there aren't a lot out there that has RPG style combat faster than FFXIVs.

[Physic]

My experiences from combat since I started playing:

Pugilist: Stacking evasion allowed me to constantly keep using moves like Jarring Strike almost constantly, the only time it felt slow was before I gained an evasion technique but at those levels enemies die so quick it doesn't matter. Now whenever I enter combat it's constant button pressing from the get-go, the first attack being light strike and then constantly using evasion counter moves as well as skills to increase my evasion or damage and using second wind when low on health, whilst at the same time building TP to use much stronger attacks, then never more than 3-5 seconds when I'm not pressing a button.

Conjurer: Constant spell casting as well as adding buffs, debuffs, heals and regens to keep myself alive whilst keeping the damage on, the only waiting time is whilst casting spells, that's pretty normal for a spell-casting class in an MMO.

Thaumaturge: Exactly the same as Conjurer, always spell-casting, stopping for even a few seconds could cause death.

Archer: Need I say more? Light-strike constantly then spew off a few TP moves like Penetrating Shot, Shadowbind etc. Always pressing buttons and moving around.

Gladiator: Though I haven't played this class much at all I still found I was using skills often, at first it was slow waiting for TP build from auto-attack but as more skills were gained through levels there were more buttons to press and more reasons to move around, the GLA tank in my LS is constantly throwing out skills at level 30.

Those are the classes I've played with at the moment, sure it'd be nice for some of their basic attacks like Light Strike etc. to have a smaller cooldown but still every class from the list above can have very fast-paced combat. If you're finding it all too easy and you're never using skills try removing some skills from your action bar that aren't part of the class you're playing (e.g/ take cure and protect away from PUG action bar), add more skills that are relevant to your current class, and try it out then. If it still feels slow and boring then try fighting tougher enemies. I've played a lot of different MMO's and trust me, there aren't a lot out there that has RPG style combat faster than FFXIVs.

You didnt play before so ill tell you pugilist was even better at that style before, being able to put light strike buff up whenever they wanted as long as they balanced their stamina, also counter tp ws had low to almost no cost stamina wise which actually made them more valuable than they are now, because they were low tp, and low stamina. Now if you got a good tp ramp going, you can basically ignore them.

Archer con and thaum arent effected by AA, and probably got some benefit from stamina removal, but since cast times generally trumped stamina, they play fairly similar to before.

the real effect is on melee classes