New player experience

[Enkidoh]

Welcome to Eorzea Khalithar! Your feedback is well written and not confrontational in tone - we need more feedback threads like that.

As far as the 2.5 global cooldown is concerned, it's meant to be a balance between fast gameplay and keeping the battle system more in line with traditional FF games which were turn based. FFXIV's battle system, is actually fast compared to FFXI which has a battle system that crawls along at is a snail's pace where you just keep yourself on autoattack trading biffo with the enemy slowly building up TP to let rip with a weapon skill.

SE already stated their reasons for the global cooldown back in Beta and it's pretty clear this won't be changed. It's easy enough to condition yourself to pause for two seconds when hitting abilities to compensate for the gcd.

Also if you liked the aesthetician, wait til you get to level 50, complete the initial storyline and meet a certain 'agent of inquiry'.