Change "animation locks" (makes the game too slow)

[Berethos]

You would be surprised how much faster it actually is and what difference it makes. It is quite noticeably faster when you have played a MMO with 1/1.5 GCD then switch to FFXIV. It's why its one of the main complaints with the game being slow and asking to decrease the GCD.

I played WoW from 2006 to 2011 regularly, I'm well aware of what the gcd at 1.5 seconds feels like.

FFXIV is actually faster paced because of the design based around ogcd usage (and for some classes, position requirements) that wouldn't work with a 1.5gcd or 1 sec gcd.

Most of the complaints about it being slow come from those who are at lower levels as the game (unfortunately) takes a while before you get enough abilities to start filling those ogcd spaces.