Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
See, that seems equally strange to me. The average APM is just as high on many a XIV job as WoW class/spec, and the maximum over shorter windows generally higher. Outlaw Rogue with haste buffs up, Flurry Fury, and Deadly Calm - Focused Rage Arms (RIP) were about the only WoW classes in Legion that could put out the same APM as a NIN, Crit-high Bard, or SkS Monk.

Is the GCD, rather than number of button-presses within a given minute or second, our only metric for speed of combat?
The rate at which I press buttons WoW vs FF14 is probably the same at level 55 but my problem is that WoW might have five different buttons for those presses and FF14 has 12. On a Dragoon I have six combo buttons, then three jumps, 2 combo finishers, and mirage dive. I also need to watch these combo buttons to see that they went off so it's monitoring another 6 cooldowns as I can press buttons in FF14, have them even light up, and then they do not do anything. I am using some pretty awkward key binds that delay my reactions by having so many more buttons.