Some of you are not understanding. I never said I couldn't execute things well in the fights and I never said it was causing me to be unable to beat anything in the game. It's the opposite; Since they have these handicaps in the game, they have dumbed down the content to make up for it. All other MMOs have boss abilities you HAVE to interrupt or you wipe, and the cast times are less than 1/2 a second on some, making it all about how fast you can hit the button(AKA skill). FF14 doesn't have that, there's not a fight in the game that you absolutely HAVE to interrupt or you wipe, they don't put it in any real "skill based" mechanics like this because the game doesn't allow for instant reaction. I'm sorry, but if you can't see what the game would be like without this animation lock handicap, then you've never played a game without it. This game isn't turn based. Oh, and just because 1.0's animation lock was worse, doesn't mean the game doesn't still have it.