[dev1016] Not stopping to draw a weapon and go into "active mode"

[Reika]

Not sure why someone bringing up wow alot but uhh, only time you stop moving is if your like a hunter using a "channeled" ability or a mage casting a "channeled" ability or any other class with some "channeled" ability.

There is no stopping to do normal attacks or "instants", you can run around out of combat, and stab rats without stopping, there is no .5sec stop, unless your PC is so terrible its lagging to load the animation files to stab that Lv 1 rat (in which case how are you even playing ffxiv)

Anyway I'm all for constant on the move in/out of combat mode and usage of "instant" abilities. It would slightly speedup the pace of battle overall I think.

Its somewhat noticeable for people without the lancer lv 20 ability quickstride in like a behest (or leve), when you run vs people going in and out of combat mode constantly falling far behind as they do that.

This is true ^^. Basically speaking... FFXI and FFXIV are the ONLY MMO's that make you stop to ready or un-ready your weapon or to start casting a spell.