Its ffxiv combat really so slow and boring?

[MomomiMomi]

I play exclusively on a controller, and I’ve never had an issue with button bloat on any job I play (and I do play a pet class—SCH).

Each hotbar has 16 buttons by default. Using the extended cross (L2+R2 and R2+L2) gives you 16 more (this is not clunky to activate once you train your fingers to properly access it). Making using of the W-crossbar gives you 16 more (I don’t use this, but I’ve never heard complaints of clunkiness with regards to this either). That’s 48 buttons, not including that you can have up to 8 sets of regular crossbars if you want to have ones for “out of combat things” like mounts, minions, menu buttons, etc., and ones for “in-combat things” like skills (it is possible to customize these based on having weapons drawn or sheathed last I checked. Buttons are not an issue on controller anymore, and very few jobs use up all 48 of those available spots. The key is people need to use the resources available to them instead of just throwing their hands up and crying “button bloat”.

I use those. They are clunky compared to accessing the default 16 buttons, where I would prefer to have my buttons that I'd like immediate access to. They're fine for less used abilities, but things like oGCD would be better accessed in the same 8 buttons where your combos are. But that's not possible.