Quote Originally Posted by ssunny2008 View Post
Funfact, double true monk before was even faster.

And yeah, the game is really slow in combat. It might be the slowest MMORPG i played over the years. Even MNK is super slow. All the game does is to put the player under pressure with some nonamed off-gcd´s, that´s it. Everyone who thinks "it´s too fast", should play action MMORPG´s or stuff like WoW / SWTOR and l2p there.
Quite a few of the action mmorpgs are actually slower than xiv in terms of the button spam or actions per minute. Even if the overall pace is faster because players have more to do than just mash the keyboard doing the same dull rotation over and over.. that appears to one of the reasons people think xiv is to quick. Because it feels like mindless button spam with no depth or impact.

You can to some extent validate that by the devs deliberately crippling the macro system to block skill queues because players would quite literally macro entire rotations because of how static they are.