Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[KaldeaSahaline]

I have to disagree; it’s different on a psychological level. I enjoy having to move my thumbs all over my controller; it keeps me engaged in combat even if it’s something like a dungeon where things are extremely simple. Pressing 1-1-1-1 until my thumb falls off is not engaging.

When I’m caught in a situation where I’m spamming the same button over and over again—we’ll use Pagos on a healer as an example: Aero III > Aero II > Stone IV > Stone IV > Stone IV > ad nauseam—I start to check out mentally. And I stop paying attention to the combat at hand, especially if it’s something mind-numbing that already required minimal thought. The PvP combo system in PvE would have the same effect on me, as well as take away the ability I currently have on my main (BRD) to manipulate my rotation in situations where fights call for it.

The only way I would take this system (begrudgingly at that) would be if they allowed for customization in the combos (so I could have ones or create ones for instances where I am manipulating songs from the normal Minuet > Mage’s > Army’s), and if they gave me enough oGCDs to weave. However, considering so many were removed with SB (along with DoTs to upkeep) in order to simply the jobs, I doubt that this would be the case.

Did you read the 2 above sentences from the one you quoted? I covered that it would be more boring, but that it was a symptom of the shallow combo system rather than the hotkey method. I even offered 2 different suggestions for changes.