Found a good link by Aco505 directing to the Dev Balancing Thread where cjbeagle compared total buttons of several jobs. Surprised, I started counting mine.



With sprint included I count " 34 " buttons I use.


I am thinking back to what I had to deal with in other MMO's compared to FFXIV...
  • Juggling multiple potions, dispelling potions, food buffs, consumables
  • Clicking Guild activation buffs and Teleports cause no room on hotbar
  • Siege ammo, flares and other combat items for large scale combat
  • Keybinding Multiple Pet skills and Mounts for different combat benefits
  • Hotkeying different Gear sets and weapons to swap midcombat
FFXIV players are pampered when it comes to Button Management...

I am sure plenty don't realize how bad it was in other MMO's to complain about Button Bloat in this one, specifially if it's the argument point to support the idiotic choice of Kaiten removal for Samurai's to tackle Button Bloat.