The combat system still needs a lot of work.

[Dzian]

One counterpoint I can raise. Yes, there's a lot more fluidity in WoW's inputs. However, I feel there's no weight at all to any of the abilities in WoW. Everything goes so fast that even big hits fade into your next spam input. Combine this with very very bright coloring and effects and I can barely tell what's going on in a given fight in WoW, whereas I can usually tell what the rest of my party/raid is doing in FF14. Maybe this is just experience letting me differentiate one but not the other, but it's definitely a factor for me.

Ironically that is the very same point a lot of people made way back in beta when comparing this games battle system to the one that was in 1.23. Arr skills feel weak / carry no weight it's too much button spam etc.

Personally I still think the game would have been so much better with the 1.23 combat system but oh well.