Expansion has been fun until ability overload has made me lose almost all interest

[Onikimaru]

I had the same fears as you before HW released, then i found out how the leveling was. Slow. It gave me time to get use to my skills, i got use to them fairly quickly(MNK here).

I guess i am also fortunate to own a naga. As i am now at level 60 and can play MNK to the absolute limit!.

[Nadirah]

let's reduce the abilities down to 3 buttons like wow! and we see where that has taken them.

use your mouse buttons if you have a CPU or macros. All there that's left is practice.

I still have three bars of abilities and macros in wow. You must play arcane mage. They've been 3 button wonders since Wrath.

@Warlax, over half of that is consumables and macros, not actual abilities. Looks to be Paladin.

[Ashkendor]

I dunno what you guys are talking about. I'm happy with all of the new skills I got.

[hobostew]

You're fighting a losing battle, OP. A lot of MMO players will tell you that "MOAR BUTTANS MOAR BETTAR! Complexity!! Dumbing down the game! Rabble rabble rabble!" and there is no changing their minds. Just look at the all the hate WoW has gotten over this last expansion when they finally got around to trimming down the number of abilities. As well as FFXIV seems to be doing I don't think it can take the hit if they actually went around changing this.

I'm really not looking forward to how bad it's going to be if there is another expansion with more of the same.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I'm not saying that I can't play the game with the current number of abilities but rather that it makes the combat not fun. It's complicated for the sake of being complicated and that's not always a good thing.

[Wavaryen]

More buttons makes the game more tedious. I agree with you op.

[CyrusStarChaser]

I have a gamepad with 15 buttons and I'm struggling with DRG to be honest. I really wish they had given us less skills and maybe a couple of traits. But who knows, maybe they want to widen the gap between good players and bad players or something like that?

[Cinge]

Dear SE. Please let me keybind more things... LIKE SHIFT+NUMPAD5 ... So I can use Shift+5 on my Naga. That's all I want in life... Thank you.

I just wanted to chime in with "please dear god this". Since atm I cannot shift + mouse buttons(g600), because shift seems to act like a modifier for the mouse in FFXIV and turns my mouse keybinds(which are num 0-9) into things like page up and page down, enter etc.

[Wavaryen]

I don't even understand why? Less skills and them having more of a impact would be tons more fun I think. Being able to focus on the fight and enjoy it more over focus super heavily on the class. I mean it should require some thought, but that does not mean it should be TEDIOUS.

[Vaer]

I just wanted to chime in with "please dear god this". Since atm I cannot shift + mouse buttons(g600), because shift seems to act like a modifier for the mouse in FFXIV and turns my mouse keybinds(which are num 0-9) into things like page up and page down, enter etc.

I have a G600. Just use function keys or other combinations instead of numbers, so I have F2-F12, i keep F1 as is in case i need to target myself quickly. and use ctrl + 1 instead of F1.

thumb buttons bound to ctrl+1, F2-F12,
and shift ctrl+1, F2-F12 all work for me.

Could probably use ctrl + 0-9 [+shift] or any combination of buttons like that if you need the function keys for something else.

[Zordrage]

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meh forget it

all the Elitist would rip me apart with their attitude so i make a short light version

in my opinion you guys binding too much abilities you don't need to bind stuff like buffs def CD and Dots what for ? we have half a year Global CDs in this game you can fast click on them under a dlobal CDs then you can forget them and keep moving you don't loose anything.

im not using more then 0123456 in ALL of the mmo's never needed to. im suprised some of the people not binding their TV channels also while playing lol.

BUT i do AGREE then in THIS game some of the DPS jobs have too many frequently used attack moves and Combos now that needs a million of keybinds THX to the Expansion.

even the tanks in this game now with the expansion Starting to feel like a DPS class in other games thx to the MANY frequently used attack moves EVEN TANKS getting now