I know you hate it, and this is the #1000 thread about this, is not hard to play with a gamepad, i use one and dont have any trouble, and for those who say that they would like the action menu like FFXI well i dont think the majority used it that much for everything, ussually you had a macro set up so it was kinda same the way it was used then than what we have now, you had 10 macros in each side that you clicked and executed several actions without scrolling the menu, you even have the same choice in FFXIV, they could upgrade the system a little bit to lessen the lag while scrolling, right now i use the gamepad for mobility, bar scrolling and targeting and i click directly the actions in my keyboard, so get just to it.