Combo Action Button

[Shurrikhan]

Consolidating combo's would do nothing for casters like BLM who don't have combos.

There was no mention of "combos" there...

Not all mutually exclusive actions are combos. Fell Cleave and Inner Beast aren't, yet they're mutually exclusive. Fire IV and Blizzard IV aren't, yet they're mutually exclusive. RDM could, with zero loss to player control, consolidate 2-3 slots (>ZH>RD; Jolt II>Impulse). BLM can consolidate 2 (F4<>B4; LL>BtL).

And BLM doesn't have button bloat anyway, as useless as Freeze is, it's not wasting space on my hotbar. I still manage to have my expanded xhotbars almost entirely composed of role actions, that I still almost never use in their entirety. I can only say that for BLM and RDM, every other job I find myself having to choose around 3-5 role actions to hotbar.

That others jobs are more poorly or bloated-ly made doesn't mean an otherwise well-designed job has to remain laden with what design inefficiencies (again, nothing to do with gameplay, only redundant button-space due to mutually exclusive abilities) it has, to only be considered after all other jobs are paired down in button count (where that may, in their case, require changes to actual gameplay).