Quote Originally Posted by Enur View Post
Wow is a game that uses a faster gcd than ffxiv. Attack speed is not the issue as Wow skills still feel a helluva lot more impactful than ffxiv.

A fury warrior in wow felt like a berserker thrashing the foes, a monk felt like a martial artist who crushed the enemies bones, a paladin felt like a righteous crusader vanquishing evil. i could go on.

In ffxiv on the other hand, nothing really stands out. Lets take a strong attack.. Rage of Halone. this attack feels weak as all you do is flail your sword as if it its weightless while making swishy-swashy sounds. you cant hear it hit the enemy.
the monk equivalent would be snap punch. this ability sounds awesome right? youre punching with a snap. you expect to hear that but all you get is a "thud" while doing a funny pose. no crispy, satisfying attack. no snap. just a blunt thud.
Did we play the same game? One of my biggest problems with WoW was that the combat had absolutely no impact to it at all. I played a WW monk in WoW and their skills generally felt like crap. The only half decent skill they had was that rapid punch thing and even that didn't feel particularly fun to use.

Honestly, I don't get the complaints in this thread. The combat in ff14 feels a lot more impactful that most mmos I've played. The only ones that really have a leg up on ff14 are black desert and tera (and vindictus if you count that as an mmo) and that's because those are action mmos with hit stun after every attack. That's not exactly something you can implement in a more traditional mmo combat system like ff14's.