Battle Command Design -PLEASE FIX IT

[Rydin]

Bolded what needs emphasis above. While keyboard/mouse players want this, it's very important for gamepad users. Since gamepads can be inherently slower to changing situations, gamepad players have to preempt a lot of actions. Flipping between 3 pages of icons to monitor cooldowns is a constant hassle I deal with, and my resolution is high enough to easily have all 3 visible at one time. Also as a gamepad user it's not uncommon for me to have my macro bar open and ready to go, so having it cover critical information is just retarded.

I agree... Although I don't use battle macros... Its a personal preference but they make me feel detached from combat
Perhaps one long bar going across the bottom that shows all of your actions and cooldowns

OR... how about is:
a bar somewhere that only shows abilities that are on a cooldown and their timers... so once an ability is able to be used, it is no longer there

I really just dont want to get to a point where screens look like this:

or this


I want to see the beautiful game... not a bunch of Icons...
I want to feel like Im in Eorzea (not in an RP kind of way though)
and not have my screen look like a game of Magic: the Gathering