Does WoW have a faster pace than FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

For both melee and ranged classes (at least since NIN and MNK each lost much of their oGCD variance and apm therein), WoW has definitely felt much higher APM. My most played specs over there tend to have a 1.0 or the typical 1.5 gcd and quite a high rate of oGCDs, so apart from the old NIN opener or late-SB Monk at extreme SkS levels, nothing in XIV really even comes close. When proc-heavy, as in a DRG/SCH/Spear-AST late SB Bard, XIV's apm might have finally exceed WoW's, but that's about it. The far larger variance in cast times (wherein a cast can take 3s but the GCD is 1.5 and thereby saved you the same instead of a mere .5s) also makes it feel quite a bit more varied in its pacing outside of just openers and "re-openers".