I agree its boring, you just have to wait (no auto attack doesnt mean shit, spamming A all the time doesn't account towards my fun-guage) until you have enough to dish out a combo. Then its back to waiting a while.

I think its just XIV/Devs though, XIV's battle system is just generally slow by default, by its design. you wont get that fast-pace-action type feel from it. Its all just menus and queues. Gotta live with the dull unfortunately!