Does WoW have a faster pace than FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

Digging a bit more fwiw, looking over some of these logs I'd say that ~90% of the players over 60 cpm are spamming 3-5 skills for the bulk (~80% or more) of those actions. The other 20% can involve a myriad of different skills though.

What should that matter if it's an optimal action and requires at least as much from the player as just hitting 1234567854 DRG combos in eternally repeating loops?


Aside:

As for whether the particular choice of comparisons are "cherry-picking"; they are, but in XIV's favor. A caster, with casts up of up to nearly twice the length of GCDs (or nearly 3 times the length of most melee specs' GCDs) is being compared to a proc-shot-heavy physical ranged. And it's still double the apm.

That's not to say that more APM is always better. It's not. But WoW does very clearly outpace XIV, for better or worse.