I actually say all the time "bring this and that from FFXI" but this time i must say hell no, i dont see any problem with the pace of battle i get bored everytime i tried to play FFXI again, i dont know if you are being sarcastic or something, but what makes you think that bringing back the slow pace of battle will upgrade the game, it is really awesome to have a system where you can go to the bathroom while fighting a mob (im being sarcastic btw) even the Battle regimen was a good way to replace Skillchains.

I remember seeing the video of FFXIV i was excited to see how the mage would enfire the arrow of the archer, in a way its something like that the only thing that in my op. could upgrade the BR's is to make it in a way were you can set the ws you want to use and take that tp from you and let you keep using abbilities and weapon skills, todays game are a lot faster than FFXI is, that doesnt mean you cant do strategy in real time, thats why we have better voice chats now.