Rather than the alias system i think they should beef up the macro system. Currently I find macros must useful for

1) chaining buffing abilities

but this is mainly due to latency issues.

2) changing jobs and swapping equipment.

while some people think 'coding is for nerds' and dont' want to make macros. I find macros very useful for changing gear. However we're currently limited to like 8 lines. so to change my full gear set i need to use two macros. This is annoying. especially since /job on usually takes up one line.

if we could increase the number of lines, we could have gear sets to change jobs. and we can use macros to change specific pieces of gear to go from say, a healing set to an enhancing set. or from a tanking set to a DD set.

a useful utility associated with the gear sets might be 'make it a macro' button to help those that dont' know how to write /equip body "Raptorskin Harness (Blue)+1"