Quote Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo View Post
What they mean is "We're re-creating XIV's Action Bar within XI." It's the macro buttons themselves organized in three rows, not that the macros have three lines of commands each.
Yeah, I'm a bit curious over the implementation of this because of how it's laid out in the post:
•Continual Display of Macro Palette
In addition to the existing Crtl/Alt macro palette, there will be an option to use a three-rowed palette that is constantly displayed and utilizes the 1 – 0 keys as well as mouse clicks to activate macros.
•Macro Recast Time Display
The macro palette will display the time remaining until each macro may be used again.
Got the impression the new pallette macros will be the ones showing the cool down timers. With SE's way of programming, these may wind up being single line only so they can track the timers. Otherwise, there would be some mish-mash in the logic for tracking the timer to display if you call multiple abilites in succession and they have different cool-down timers.

Maybe I'm overthinking it...but I'm thinking it would be more for simple, repetitive actions. Will be a nice addition even if they are limited to just one line though. Would give us a place to stick the simple macros instead of taking a button in the longer macros pallete array and give us more flexibility. Simple things like attack/retreat/release macros for pet jobs, item use macros, etc.