Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[Aylis]

What i wanted to ask is if you really think the combat is boring. And what example would you use to describe a fast combat system since it seems i havent experience

For me, absolutely I find it boring. Partially because where I come from and partially because the devs can't find a happy medium between encounters and its either one extreme or the other.

When I first started FFXIV way back in the 1.0 era, I came from an older MMO which had the same slower paced combat. So back in those days I didn't really mind it as much because it was what I was used to. When it was time for FFXIV 2.0 I was playing TERA during the downtime and since I became used to that style of combat, only then did I really take noticed just how boring the combat was here.

As for the happy medium part. The devs did a good job at masking the slow combat by making later fights more or less a dance fest between all the mechanics going off at once. Based off videos I've seen of Kefka Savage. The fight looks about 80% dancing to avoid mechanics and 20% actually fighting him in respect to doing damage. That;s one side of the extreme. The other side being where its about 90% actually fighting the boss vs the 10% doing the mechanics dance. Where its just kick the boss in the shin with your basic rotations till it falls over dead and side step once or twice to avoid an aoe or mechanic. Without the dance, the mask is gone and the boring combat shines through. It's always going to be about the dance. Without re-doing the whole combat system from scratch they can never accomplish a happy medium between the dance and actually fighting it.