Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Sorry, mine were generated taking APMs from 75th percentiles on warcraftlogs and fflogs, and then simulatively stripping the effects of haste/skill_speed/spell_speed from each, avoiding parses with rotational breakpoints that would lead to disproportionately higher cpm.

I suspect I accidentally allowed for simultaneously-executed macroed actions to be counted as one apm count on WoW's side, however.

With Haste accounted for, WoW beats XIV hands-down for apm for most jobs, excluding perhaps against a parse-lucky Bard and ofc WoW specs with spammable oGCDs such as FR.

It was a rough check in either case, of no more than a sample size of 2-3 per spec/job.
That makes sense then.

Curious why you thought removing Haste/skill_spell speed was a good data point though? That's marginalizing a lot of the class design in WoW knowing full well it doesn't make as large of an impact in FF14. It seems disingenuous at best.

For instance - compare my Ret DPS cooldown in WoW vs. NIN/MNK/SAM's skill speed modifiers. By removing a haste source like this from my Ret you're removing a staggeringly large portion of its kit. I'm not confident that normalizing MNK/SAM/NIN's skill speed buffs even remotely captures the same level of interaction and depth that the Ret cooldown does.