Is this meant to be an action game?

[Elexia]

It's not a action game anymore, the people who wanted XI 2 made sure of that

Oh? So our final storyline boss was Shadowlord? Could have sworn I fought against the Garleans, not the Shaowlord and Zilartian Brothers. Guess I missed out

Yes this isn't an action based MMO and won't be.

I enjoy both type of game (TERA) and (GW2 have pseudo evading), FFXIV however doesn't need this type of streamlining imo, min-maxing stats with gears is part of the fun in this game. While yes people might argue you have more skill if you can dodge stuff, you also have skill if u have brain and play while striving optimization in this game.

Until they create Add-ons that does the dodging for you, that is.