How does FFXIV fare against other modern MMORPGs?

[Maeka]

You need far more than 10 APM to be successful in FFXI. Especially after the 99 cap increase and all the ridiculous gear they released, but that was true even before. Some piece of content used to be very intense.

Well, it feels like 10APM sometime on some jobs, especially some melee jobs. People complain about 2.5s GCD in XIV, but seriously, it's not too uncommon to go 10+ seconds without anything to do. Need TP to do a weaponskill, most of your abilities have 5+ minute cooldowns, etc.

Also, I'm not including movement in the APM estimates... and 10 APM is 6 seconds avg between ability usage, afterall and I can tell you that waiting longer than 6 seconds between doing things is very common.