Does WoW have a faster pace than FFXIV?

[Shurrikhan]

Sure, because stuff in WoW definitely doesn't stutter animation canceling all buggy while throwing 123123 numbers at you which you're unable to track at all.
It's better to look at the combat log than the actual game.

Wait, what? XIV cancels its combat animations before their completion far more often than WoW does. Granted, that's to be expected; apart from Fire Blast, with so few oGCDs left to weave in, and each animation being so short apart from perhaps Rampage or Blade Dance, why would it possibly have the animation cancelling that we do?

The game might have poor graphics but it's for basically any reason except the one you've decided to go with.