Does WoW have a faster pace than FFXIV?

[frostmagemari]

No, OP said FFXIV combat is faster because it contains more mechanics in the design comparing to wow in which you just spam abilities.

You didn't read the OP at all then, did you?

I've heard that, due to the higher global cooldown, FFXIV feels slower for some people. However, I've played both FFXIV and WoW, and I find, barring the obviously faster classes, the gameplay generally feels faster in FFXIV. I'm not 100% sure why FFXIV feels faster, but if I had to guess I would assume it's the movement. I find this game has you dodging AOEs and boss mechanics more often, not to mention positionals. I just fought Storge with the Monk, and that was one of the more hectic fights I've experienced. Dodging it's AOEs while landing your positionals, and trying not to trip up your combo (that may just be me, as I don't know the rotation) took not a small amount of focus. At any rate, what do you guys think? Is WoW faster paced or FFXIV, and why?

He specifically makes mentions to combat flow of the fights, and in his opinion, XIV's combat is faster paced; even though it is scripted. And i was saying that it is not faster paced. The pace of the fight slows down because there is nothing unforeseen happening. You already know to prepare to dodge something after boss uses X move. You already know to avoid the edges of the arena after Y move. You already know to prepare a defensive because the tank-buster happens at X points in the fight. You don't need to actually watch the fight much at all, you just need to know that X will happen and only worry about that next.

Hell, we had a post by SaberMaxwell that said "We knew the mechanics, we knew when they'd come and how much damage they would do" and that they had to start inventing ways to make the fights more interesting for them; in a game that has a fast paced combat/boss system, you don't get those luxuries.