A Big Failure in FFXIV Battle system - You're doing it wrong man!

[Rowyne]

Yeah, the battle system now is WAYYY to slow for me. I feel like I'm standing around most of the time waiting for TP so I can actually play the game a little. On MRD in 1.19 I could run up to a group of mobs, hit warmonger, gather them up and broadswing 3000tp, now it takes 30 seconds to get that. Combined with one AOE move for 3000tp with an 80 sec recast timer? Good thing it takes almost that long to get the tp back up 0-o.

^ Quoted for truth.

I truly hope that this is another transitional change within the grand design of the new battle system. But the fact that Yoshi-P asked us to judge whether or not the game was worthy of subs on 1.20 doesn't bode well and makes me think it's pretty much fleshed out.

1.20 has ruined melee combat, IMO. I pray the devs will rethink taking away all active non-TP based abilities. You have to have at least one or two things to jump into combat with, or battle feels slow and non-interactive while you do nothing but watch your auto-attack and wait.

Somehow battle is now even slower than FFXI. I didn't think that was possible.