What is not mentioned in this video: if you want the cooldown hotbar to have no keybind info (make it look cleaner), there’s a few more steps. Assign the stuff you want to hotbar 1, then make sure it’s not being displayed. Then, copy everything onto hotbar 7 (this is just the one I use), and make sure that one IS being displayed. This is what I had to do. Perhaps there’s an easier method, lmk.
so real quick. put these two macros in the 98 and 99 slot. 98 macro /merror off /actionerror off /ac "flying mount roulette" /micon "flying mount roulette" 99 macro /merror off /actionerror off /action Sprint /pvpaction Sprint /micon Sprint you can go to system config > gamepad settings > Gamepad customization > button config. you can set macro 98 and 99 to the left stick button and right stick button. this way you don't have to have a mount or sprint on your bar. that's what I do. hope it helps
Good call out, sprint on the thumbstick is pretty much essential. To expand on that, I like to use the right thumbstick macro for ground targeting actions. If you do that and enable "press action twice to execute" in your ground targeting settings (control settings > target tab) it makes it so you can aim and use them without taking your thumb off the camera joystick. Really useful for ninja's shukuchi.
Just started after using up my trial a few years ago (meaning I can't use the new trial unless I start over which I don't wanna bother with) and I had no idea you could play with a controller! The game is a little janky on mouse and keyboard in like a classic MMO way so I don't mind it, but especially if I wanna quest or walk around and get immersed I much prefer something smoother and it's nice to be able to sit back in my chair. I noticed I could use controller but I couldn't really do anything except walk around and interface a little or gather, then someone told me you can change to controller mode and to look up extended cross hot bar stuff and this is so helpful and cool
So helpful! I wanna re-learn controller after switching to pc with mouse and keyboard for years. I didn't really know where to start and this helped A TON! Thank you my friend! :3
I used to play using one bar and switching using r1 really fast. But I would also leave my skills where they were when I got them. So I got REALLY USED to switching super fast. My friend HATES IT tho 😂
That's a pretty decent setup with a lot of good thought behind it. Personally though I don't use the W bars at all. I made my setup before they were added to the game and never saw reason to change it lol. The way I have things set up is this: I use hotbars 1, 2, 3. Hotbars 1 and 2 are basically the same, except 1 is geared towards single target, and 2 is geared towards aoe. These are my "front row" bars, where I keep all the GCDs and basic damage abilities, and are always in view. Hotbar 3 is my "back row" that I access through L2+R2 both ways. It holds mainly the longer cooldowns. To show the cooldowns in bar 3, I have a regular hotbar next to it all in a 3x4 (or 4x3 can't remember which lol) configuration so it's a block. While weapon is drawn I only allow 1 and 2 to be shown, so I can swap quickly between single target and aoe by tapping R1. While weapon is sheathed I show 1 and my common hotbars with emotes/mounts/jobs and such. My draw/sheathe weapon is on L1->R1 so I can quickly and easily do that. I turn off auto-sheathe weapon so it stays out until I actively put it away. What this means is that in combat I can have easy access to either single target or aoe rotations without having to use/hold both triggers for longer periods of time. In dungeons I usually leave weapons drawn so I have access to the aoe bar and can't get caught up in swapping to the wrong hotbars. I can fit pretty much every button I need in this number of slots, some jobs are tight but others even leave open spaces, and it doesn't take up as much screen real estate as the W bars would. It does mean there are some damage rotation buttons on the d-pad, which does mean that I have to stop running for a moment to press them, but I find in practice that that interruption is so short that it basically doesn't matter in most content. I've even savage raided with this setup without any real issues. I also use macros to "cheat" and extend the number of common hotbars I can use without actually having to use a lot of them. I've been playing this game for almost 10 years, if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to help answer. Well, if UA-cam will show me the notifications lol
I have put sprint and peloton under a macro placed at macro 99.. and configured my controller button of the right stick as executing macro 99.. that makes it more convienent.. marco is made like.. /merror off /actionerror off /action "Sprint" /pvpaction "Sprint" /micon "Sprint" this way I always have sprint and peloton at my disposal on any job role..
Big tips for controllers. 1. put sprint, mount, levelsync combo macro on a stick (macro 99) so can easily move around and levelsync. 2. put some party chat macros (maybe tankstance) on a Hold Crosshotbar (Hold LT+RT) so you can easily chat the bare minumum in duty roulettes 3. BIG TIP In controller Settings sensitivity is Deadzone NOT SPEED! You need to put that as low as you are comfortable with and change the actual Camera speed in Camera settings.
Big thanks for the layout! How is it your hotbar 1 doesnt dissapear from your screen when you change jobs? Mine does and i can never swap and arrange my other jobs skills well, like for example I have hotbar 1 also for cooldowns for my PAL but when I switch to my WHM it just dissapears
Good tutorial and I know a lot of people play like this, using a keyboard hotbar to hold cooldown reminders is smart. I personally prefer using both sides of WXHB for buffs and situational abilities with long cooldowns, and only a half of an extended XHB for my melee jobs' AoE attacks and my mage jobs' instant attacks. But I still have to figure out a way to play Bard at higher levels comfortably.
hold L1 and click down the right thumb stick. Scroll over the skill and use L2/LT and R2/RT to remove it. Alternatively if you know what skill you’re putting in that spot you can just overwrite it.
I use the full 8 options on both double tap L/R then I have a shared across all jobs 8 on L+R with sprint, pots etc. I've also got my bars set up so that in combat you can only access the main bar but when sheathed you get access to a couple to cycle through depending on what job it is. Of course you can also hard select one of the hidden bars while in combat but that's rarely needed Additionally I have some visible hotbars off to the corner of the screen that can be clicked on with extra options like Tank Stance, Aetherial Mimicry, frequent menus etc
i only use the hold down r2 and then press l2 and the other way around it covers all i need on any class its just my preference the way he has his bar setup on war i could not play my war like that lol
Since with keyboard/(mmo)mouse I can 99% move while pressing my spells,that means that controller must at least hit 95% to feel worthy. So...I cant use d-pad almost at all (it kinda works with casting spells though). And that is my biggest issue with controller!!! I have tried about 30hours to find a setup that could at least rival my K/M set up but I just couldnt sadly! The best I could do was having default bar, fast switch with RT (when weapon is out), and like you have them. is for single target and for AoE. That means though that any other thing that exists in except the single target combos,must be replicated on as well because otherwise it would be hell doing all these swaps (fast switches,LB-->RB,double RB etc). So having in mind that i have to put a couple of spells twice in my bars(skills like GNB's Double Down,that you press either in ST or AoE), having "only" 32 available buttons (4 sets*8 buttons each),means that jobs with 28 "job-actions" plus 6 "role-actions" plus sprint (and not even mention any kind of macro) I ended up with 35 actions needed,so it just doesnt work for me!
I dont know how to remove things from the hotbar Day 1 of playing. Why have they made the controls so user unfriendly. Its why day 1 players quit day 1 because of these very reasons. Basically the hot bars should have simpler options. Like touch pad highlight hotbar with an option on the empty squares to add or remove. But no it doesnt have that... i mean c'mon... how easy would that be? But no... now im about to throw my ps5 out the window gg lol
@@breteboy1968 hold L1 and click down the right thumb stick. Scroll over the skill and use L2/LT and R2/RT to remove it. Alternatively if you know what skill you’re putting in that spot you can just overwrite it. If you have any other issues I recommend google 🤙
@@LennXIV poor designed format. I literally cant even imagine what your dungeon raids be like. Unless you key binding everything to 1 button and using hot bars purely to see cooldowns. Smh and thanks for the advice. Im heavily frustrated at this point. The game should have the hud auto layed out like yours imo.
It’s 3 separate crosshotbars. 1 is the main ones you see in the middle, looks a bit like ++|++ you access these buttons with either the left or right trigger & the dpad and face buttons. 2 is the two + “wings” one to the top left and the other to the top right of the main crosshotbar 1. You access these with a double tap of the left or right trigger & the face buttons (in this setup, you can have both dpad and face buttons enabled in the settings if you prefer, like I do.) And 3 is hidden, you access it by pressing left trigger then right trigger & dpad and face buttons, or right trigger then left trigger & dpad and face buttons. In the video this third set is where he keeps things with longer cooldowns, so the line hotbar is used to visually keep track of timers, so they know when they need to access that hidden crosshotbar to activate a skill.
I didn’t completely catch the hot bar 1. It’s only to track cooldowns, right? I just started playing it. Coming from wow on keyboard. So it’s confusing right now tbh.
@@LennXIVthanks man. I like the way u think with face buttons etc. Seems like it’s something that fits me. So I’ll try and do it this way. I play the thm I’m level 28, so soon black mage and then I really wanna go red mage when I get to 50. Looks like the Playstyle* I want. One thing your dpad buttons on the normal bar, what spells do u prefer putting there? Anyways thanks. I’m stoked to play this, but damn I’m struggling with figuring out controller 😂
@@HawkNocturnalI'm a complete beginner but I will say I think you'd want the dpad for anything where you aren't gonna wanna move while trying to use it. Not sure what spells or abilities that would be but that and then based on how often you use it for which bar you put it on I guess. Tempted to say us mages stand still a lot more so it's maybe less important?
I wish i watched your video before i tried doing it my self now i have overlapping squares and everything... its a complete mess and now i dont know how to put it right even after hitting default lol time to delete the game i think. Im having a battle with my screen never mind enemies lol Ive played mmos for 7years and never had this much of a headache with a game before. Poor design... or maybe its just my poor brain haha
not implying anything nefarious here but hey, your hotbar setup ideas seem pretty similiar to mine in my video! xD. though one Q. are you doing TOP and if so how the fuck do you deal with monitors precisely? I always feel like I'm always a few degrees off
This was a big help switching form m/kb for years to steam deck, thank you so much dude!
What is not mentioned in this video:
if you want the cooldown hotbar to have no keybind info (make it look cleaner), there’s a few more steps. Assign the stuff you want to hotbar 1, then make sure it’s not being displayed. Then, copy everything onto hotbar 7 (this is just the one I use), and make sure that one IS being displayed.
This is what I had to do. Perhaps there’s an easier method, lmk.
so real quick. put these two macros in the 98 and 99 slot.
98 macro
/merror off
/actionerror off
/ac "flying mount roulette"
/micon "flying mount roulette"
99 macro
/merror off
/actionerror off
/action Sprint
/pvpaction Sprint
/micon Sprint
you can go to system config > gamepad settings > Gamepad customization > button config. you can set macro 98 and 99 to the left stick button and right stick button. this way you don't have to have a mount or sprint on your bar. that's what I do. hope it helps
That's actually bad ass!!!!!
I like to slap Peloton on my 99 macro as well :)
Thanks i was wondering if this already existed, appreciate you!
Good call out, sprint on the thumbstick is pretty much essential.
To expand on that, I like to use the right thumbstick macro for ground targeting actions. If you do that and enable "press action twice to execute" in your ground targeting settings (control settings > target tab) it makes it so you can aim and use them without taking your thumb off the camera joystick. Really useful for ninja's shukuchi.
Just started after using up my trial a few years ago (meaning I can't use the new trial unless I start over which I don't wanna bother with) and I had no idea you could play with a controller! The game is a little janky on mouse and keyboard in like a classic MMO way so I don't mind it, but especially if I wanna quest or walk around and get immersed I much prefer something smoother and it's nice to be able to sit back in my chair.
I noticed I could use controller but I couldn't really do anything except walk around and interface a little or gather, then someone told me you can change to controller mode and to look up extended cross hot bar stuff and this is so helpful and cool
So helpful! I wanna re-learn controller after switching to pc with mouse and keyboard for years. I didn't really know where to start and this helped A TON! Thank you my friend! :3
This has really helped me thank you i found others setups confusing yours is the first that actually works for me so thank you 😊
I used to play using one bar and switching using r1 really fast. But I would also leave my skills where they were when I got them. So I got REALLY USED to switching super fast.
My friend HATES IT tho 😂
That's a pretty decent setup with a lot of good thought behind it. Personally though I don't use the W bars at all. I made my setup before they were added to the game and never saw reason to change it lol.
The way I have things set up is this:
I use hotbars 1, 2, 3.
Hotbars 1 and 2 are basically the same, except 1 is geared towards single target, and 2 is geared towards aoe.
These are my "front row" bars, where I keep all the GCDs and basic damage abilities, and are always in view.
Hotbar 3 is my "back row" that I access through L2+R2 both ways. It holds mainly the longer cooldowns.
To show the cooldowns in bar 3, I have a regular hotbar next to it all in a 3x4 (or 4x3 can't remember which lol) configuration so it's a block.
While weapon is drawn I only allow 1 and 2 to be shown, so I can swap quickly between single target and aoe by tapping R1.
While weapon is sheathed I show 1 and my common hotbars with emotes/mounts/jobs and such.
My draw/sheathe weapon is on L1->R1 so I can quickly and easily do that.
I turn off auto-sheathe weapon so it stays out until I actively put it away.
What this means is that in combat I can have easy access to either single target or aoe rotations without having to use/hold both triggers for longer periods of time. In dungeons I usually leave weapons drawn so I have access to the aoe bar and can't get caught up in swapping to the wrong hotbars. I can fit pretty much every button I need in this number of slots, some jobs are tight but others even leave open spaces, and it doesn't take up as much screen real estate as the W bars would. It does mean there are some damage rotation buttons on the d-pad, which does mean that I have to stop running for a moment to press them, but I find in practice that that interruption is so short that it basically doesn't matter in most content. I've even savage raided with this setup without any real issues.
I also use macros to "cheat" and extend the number of common hotbars I can use without actually having to use a lot of them.
I've been playing this game for almost 10 years, if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to help answer. Well, if UA-cam will show me the notifications lol
Do you have a photo/macro for the setup? Do you have the job names on your cross hotbar?
I have put sprint and peloton under a macro placed at macro 99.. and configured my controller button of the right stick as executing macro 99.. that makes it more convienent..
marco is made like..
/merror off
/actionerror off
/action "Sprint"
/pvpaction "Sprint"
/micon "Sprint"
this way I always have sprint and peloton at my disposal on any job role..
Smart to put the regular hot bar to track CD timers. Def gonna do that.
Best hotbar setup for a controller. It works great with my red mage.
Big tips for controllers.
1. put sprint, mount, levelsync combo macro on a stick (macro 99) so can easily move around and levelsync.
2. put some party chat macros (maybe tankstance) on a Hold Crosshotbar (Hold LT+RT) so you can easily chat the bare minumum in duty roulettes
3. BIG TIP In controller Settings sensitivity is Deadzone NOT SPEED! You need to put that as low as you are comfortable with and change the actual Camera speed in Camera settings.
Big thanks for the layout!
How is it your hotbar 1 doesnt dissapear from your screen when you change jobs?
Mine does and i can never swap and arrange my other jobs skills well, like for example I have hotbar 1 also for cooldowns for my PAL but when I switch to my WHM it just dissapears
I was wondering if there was a good way to track those hidden hotbars. Using the conventional bars to display those cooldowns is brilliant.
Good tutorial and I know a lot of people play like this, using a keyboard hotbar to hold cooldown reminders is smart. I personally prefer using both sides of WXHB for buffs and situational abilities with long cooldowns, and only a half of an extended XHB for my melee jobs' AoE attacks and my mage jobs' instant attacks. But I still have to figure out a way to play Bard at higher levels comfortably.
There's a setting to have dedicated macros for clicking thumbsticks, I keep sprint and peloton mapped to right stick
ok but how do you get rid of the lock icon beside HB1?
during fights ff14 xbox character menu keeps opening up randomly? Help?
Hey dude not sure if you can help me I love your idea here the only thing I can't figure out is how I edit the #1 keyboard hot bar thanks!
How do I delete actions I put on the middle hotbar. The one to see cooldown times?
hold L1 and click down the right thumb stick. Scroll over the skill and use L2/LT and R2/RT to remove it. Alternatively if you know what skill you’re putting in that spot you can just overwrite it.
I use the full 8 options on both double tap L/R then I have a shared across all jobs 8 on L+R with sprint, pots etc.
I've also got my bars set up so that in combat you can only access the main bar but when sheathed you get access to a couple to cycle through depending on what job it is. Of course you can also hard select one of the hidden bars while in combat but that's rarely needed
Additionally I have some visible hotbars off to the corner of the screen that can be clicked on with extra options like Tank Stance, Aetherial Mimicry, frequent menus etc
i only use the hold down r2 and then press l2 and the other way around it covers all i need on any class its just my preference the way he has his bar setup on war i could not play my war like that lol
*takes notes for my future steam deck so I too can clear TOP on vacation.*
great stuff, ty!
So where is the part where you are listing off the red mage?
Question how do i put skills on the double tap bars when i try it wont let me. Nvm i just figured it out with set correlation lol 😂
Since with keyboard/(mmo)mouse I can 99% move while pressing my spells,that means that controller must at least hit 95% to feel worthy.
So...I cant use d-pad almost at all (it kinda works with casting spells though). And that is my biggest issue with controller!!!
I have tried about 30hours to find a setup that could at least rival my K/M set up but I just couldnt sadly!
The best I could do was having default bar, fast switch with RT (when weapon is out), and like you have them.
is for single target and for AoE. That means though that any other thing that exists in except the single target combos,must be replicated on as well because otherwise it would be hell doing all these swaps (fast switches,LB-->RB,double RB etc).
So having in mind that i have to put a couple of spells twice in my bars(skills like GNB's Double Down,that you press either in ST or AoE), having "only" 32 available buttons (4 sets*8 buttons each),means that jobs with 28 "job-actions" plus 6 "role-actions" plus sprint (and not even mention any kind of macro) I ended up with 35 actions needed,so it just doesnt work for me!
I dont know how to remove things from the hotbar
Day 1 of playing. Why have they made the controls so user unfriendly.
Its why day 1 players quit day 1 because of these very reasons. Basically the hot bars should have simpler options. Like touch pad highlight hotbar with an option on the empty squares to add or remove. But no it doesnt have that... i mean c'mon... how easy would that be? But no... now im about to throw my ps5 out the window gg lol
@@breteboy1968 hold L1 and click down the right thumb stick. Scroll over the skill and use L2/LT and R2/RT to remove it. Alternatively if you know what skill you’re putting in that spot you can just overwrite it. If you have any other issues I recommend google 🤙
@@LennXIV poor designed format. I literally cant even imagine what your dungeon raids be like. Unless you key binding everything to 1 button and using hot bars purely to see cooldowns. Smh and thanks for the advice. Im heavily frustrated at this point. The game should have the hud auto layed out like yours imo.
On the pictures in imgr link, are those three separate instances of hot bars or are they all three used at the same time? Sorry. Newbie to this game
It’s 3 separate crosshotbars. 1 is the main ones you see in the middle, looks a bit like ++|++ you access these buttons with either the left or right trigger & the dpad and face buttons.
2 is the two + “wings” one to the top left and the other to the top right of the main crosshotbar 1. You access these with a double tap of the left or right trigger & the face buttons (in this setup, you can have both dpad and face buttons enabled in the settings if you prefer, like I do.)
And 3 is hidden, you access it by pressing left trigger then right trigger & dpad and face buttons, or right trigger then left trigger & dpad and face buttons.
In the video this third set is where he keeps things with longer cooldowns, so the line hotbar is used to visually keep track of timers, so they know when they need to access that hidden crosshotbar to activate a skill.
* takes notes * 🤓
Seriously you have too
I didn’t completely catch the hot bar 1. It’s only to track cooldowns, right? I just started playing it. Coming from wow on keyboard. So it’s confusing right now tbh.
Yep, it's only there to track the cooldowns that you can't immediately see
@@LennXIVthanks man. I like the way u think with face buttons etc. Seems like it’s something that fits me. So I’ll try and do it this way. I play the thm I’m level 28, so soon black mage and then I really wanna go red mage when I get to 50. Looks like the Playstyle* I want. One thing your dpad buttons on the normal bar, what spells do u prefer putting there? Anyways thanks. I’m stoked to play this, but damn I’m struggling with figuring out controller 😂
@@HawkNocturnalI'm a complete beginner but I will say I think you'd want the dpad for anything where you aren't gonna wanna move while trying to use it. Not sure what spells or abilities that would be but that and then based on how often you use it for which bar you put it on I guess. Tempted to say us mages stand still a lot more so it's maybe less important?
I wish i watched your video before i tried doing it my self now i have overlapping squares and everything... its a complete mess and now i dont know how to put it right even after hitting default lol time to delete the game i think. Im having a battle with my screen never mind enemies lol
Ive played mmos for 7years and never had this much of a headache with a game before. Poor design... or maybe its just my poor brain haha
At some point it might just be worth resetting your hotbar layouts and going from scratch. Hope you got yourself sorted!
I like your voice :)
not implying anything nefarious here but hey, your hotbar setup ideas seem pretty similiar to mine in my video! xD. though one Q. are you doing TOP and if so how the fuck do you deal with monitors precisely? I always feel like I'm always a few degrees off