Requiescat duration

[Cabalabob]

I was actually thinking recently that maybe it’s time we went back to a 3 second GCD. Back in the ARR alpha the GCD was 3 seconds (matched up with server tics). But the community complained that the game felt too slow so they made the GCD 2.5 seconds to increase the pace.

Now at the time it was true that the game felt slow since we had less oGCDs and the only real job mechanic was monk’s greased lightning. But since then a lot of jobs have been given tight burst windows, job mechanics to keep up and ridiculous amounts of oGCDs (MCH comes to mind). So maybe if we went back to a 3 second GCD it would relax the window for double weaving without having as much of an effect on the pacing of combat.

Because this isn’t just a problem for PLD basically all jobs suffer some kind of ping related issue these days, in fact I’d say requiscat is on the more lenient side of burst windows, once you unlock instant casts anyway. So I think a change to the system is more in order than a change to specific moves.