Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
A 4 second long GCD (and I thought 2 seconds was long), that stamina system sounds like they ripped it straight out of Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, plopped it in and thought "Yes, this works in a WoW-like MMORPG".
Well, to be fair, 1.x wasn't originally intended to be a WoW-like MMORPG.

That came about when Yoshi-P took over and they decided to rebuild it.