Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
Shortening the GCD probably wouldn't work either.

It's not that WoW is super fast, it's just far smoother. Abilities flow without that short server lag. Even if you macro 4 off-gcd's together, they all trigger instantly. If you press a button slightly too fast it simply queue's and flows after your current action. In ff14 however, sometimes you fire 3 Ninjitsu off and the server chokes, lags up and fails to register the 3rd one until you press again and end up with a bunny on your head.

FF14 servers simply aren't capable of faster or smoother combat.
Basically this. The only good thing XIV's server tick gives us is slidecasting, really.