Final Fantasy XIV Auto-Attack Video

[kukurumei]

What do you think a GCD is? Any action creates one, AA, Spell, ability. I guess i should have been more specific but figured the general population would understand. My bad.

Better put if AA creates a GCD it 'could potentially' kill people since mages would have to wait that extra bit to THEN cast which by then could be to late. If that helps you understand better.

In other words you mean animation delay. Which is a picky and almost insignificant timing issue. The Time for animation delay of a "swing" is so low that you might as well say "lag killed you" instead of "my AA animation killed you".

A spells will always supersede the "swing" unless the "swing" came right before you cast, and the likely-hood that that's actually a critical point in the battle is so low, it's inconsequential.

Unless you make FF14 play like some WoW raids, where one-shot-ing is a par for course...never going to be a problem.

Monsters themselves don't attack at the speed of light for it to matter. FF11 is even more harsh and veteran DRKs are mighty accurate in their stun timing.