FFXIV is super interesting BUT then why?

[BluexBird]

PvP isn't in this game because the combat isn't suited for it. The GCDs are too long and there is no build variety with the jobs to make PvP viable. The PvP you have is janky as hell and there's no way to have it balanced to make it enjoyable the way you see in other games.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

PvP isn't in this game because the combat isn't suited for it. The GCDs are too long and there is no build variety with the jobs to make PvP viable. The PvP you have is janky as hell and there's no way to have it balanced to make it enjoyable the way you see in other games.

Have you actually pvped in FFXIV? According to your achievement unlocks, you have a rather small amount of PvP experience at least on that character. The GCDs being long doesn't really matter as we have plenty of abilities / oGCDs to fill between those and the time-to-kill is actually really fast in a more coordinated setting as The Feast or soon to be Crystal Conflict. What is janky indeed is the netcode for player positioning, but overall the pvp modes play actually pretty well from a technical standpoint.

And who knows, the pvp balance is something they have extensively discussed and been working on for patch 6.1.