Battle Command Design -PLEASE FIX IT

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I dunno, i don't have any problem with the current design.... I actually like the action bar, it's not hard at all to select actions even with a controller. There is ample time between skills to navigate and select what you want. It's not like XI where you had access to tons of magic spells and such. There's no need for a menu choice of weapon skills etc when you have so few to choose from anyway. And if you did have many to choose from, wouldn't most ppl end up making macros for using their skills anyway?....

At least with XI, when you entered a certain category, you wouldn't accidentally hit something completely random, like a 2-hour or something while trying to cure or "weapon skill." I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally hit Rebirth w/o Chainspell up cuz I was trying to scroll through and hit something else.

And as for the ease of access, honestly, XI was much more accessible -both in terms of macros and random selections.

The current macro system doesn't toggle, so you can accidentally hit some other action, while you're trying to hit a macro, if you don't hold down the L2/R2 triggers very well. And it blocks the action bar, which is really annoying.

Categories make it easier to access whatever action you have equipped...and 30 slots is a pretty substantial list of actions. And the only issue I ever had w/ XI's macros was the 7-line limit per macro.