Macro Formats: 2:00 | Cross Hotbar Toggle /crosshotbardisplay /crosshotbar change # /hotbar display # Replace the # with the respective values in your own HUD setup and add more lines as necessary. 2:29 | Cross Hotbar Off /crosshotbardisplay off /crosshotbar change 1 /hotbar display # off You don't need to keybind this one (and you technically don't need it in the first place), rather it's just a convenient way to reset all the hotbars you're toggling so they all start at the same state when pressing the toggle. Useful for the first setup or if you ever run into an instance where the toggle macro somehow gets interrupted. Again, add more lines as necessary so it matches the prior Toggle macro. 2:38 | Cross Hotbar Selection /crosshotbar change # Change the # to whatever cross hotbar you want to open. also voice reveal lol
Ten years ago, I was a Dark Souls PvPer watching Emarrel's Dark Souls PvP clips. Today, I'm an FF14 player (on controller, admittedly) watching Emarrel's video on FF14 hotbar management.
I don't even remember when or why I subbed, but it was over 10 years ago and it wasn't for Dark Souls. I just randomly decided to check the channel again and its an FFXIV video out of nowhere, while I'm making collectables for Kurenai.
Hearing your voice after subscribing to you TEN YEARS AGO is incredible. You have always been a legend, continue being an awesome human being and TH-camr ❤
You actually have 256 unused slots. There is an option for allowing you to make the hotbars weapon drawn and weapon sheathed specific. So you can have a set of cross hotbars for combat and a set of cross hotbars for weapon sheathed, and technically if you make none of the cross hotbars shared then you have 256 cross hotbar sets per class/job. Technically you have 256 slots x 31 so 8,215 slots. Edit: I share all the sheathed so my combat classes have all my emotes on tab. Hot bar 10 verticle with cross hotbar both bottom right. unsheathed is utility like journal etc sheathed are emotes... slot 1 & 2 Dances , 3 & 4 gold emotes 5 & 6 blue emotes, 7 & 8 Gray emotes etc I only need signs and markers for when i'm running content so those are on weapon drawn cross hotbars.
I've tried it out this way before but I mostly didn't like the feeling of having an additional condition to open up whichever menu I actually wanted since sometimes you just wanna run around or idle with your weapon unsheathed. You're totally right though, but I wanted to make something that was as simple as possible to implement and utilize.
@@Macswaggens WXHB shows one of the 8 normal cross hotbars, to put abilities on WXHB you have to do /chotbar change X (to go to the hotbar that WXHB displays) and drag the abilities on to that No clue why you cant just drag onto the WXHB directly
This looks great for those who can't quite get the "clunky" method to work. It takes up a bit more screen real-estate than I would like though. Being able to adjust it easily is definitely more convenient than the method using unused jobs/classes. I also wanted to add that I love the lala animations with the open/closing of the menus during the tutorial portion of the video, and the thinking pose with the macros. Very cute~
Spent two days getting collapsible hotbars sorted out just to decide once it was all done that I didn't like it, and then this video popped up. I LOVE this.
you can also set the crosshotbar to display a second crosshotbar (the "wxhb") alongside the main cross bar. Lets you display crosshotbar 1 and 2 smultaneously, giving a total of 32 hot bar slots visible at once without having to change the crosshotbar. So... more minions and mounts. Or all your classes visible in one go if you want.
@@jemm113 Its in character configuration, hotbar settings panel, bottom of the "cross" tab. "W cross hotbar display settings" to enable display of the wxhb. You can set what hotbar is displayed on the wxhb from the top of the "custom" tab in that same hotbar settings panel. Set it to display either a specific hotbar or to just display the next hotbar above or below the one you are on.
@@joalex79 Its in character configuration, hotbar settings panel, bottom of the "cross" tab. "W cross hotbar display settings" to enable display of the wxhb. You can set what hotbar is displayed on the wxhb from the top of the "custom" tab in that same hotbar settings panel. Set it to display either a specific hotbar or to just display the next hotbar above or below the one you are on.
Oh, and you can size and move the wxhb separately from your regular xhb if you like by ticking the setting in the "cross" tab amd then moving it in HUD layout. Otherwise, you can keep the two hot bars attached and they move as one block.
Thanks so much for the guide. Made a beautiful UI using it and its so so easy to edit. I love it. Also the video itself is very well scripted and explains everything clearly, truly one of the best guides out here.
Been using collapsing hotbars using the class method for a while and now i learn that i could have been using crosses on classes as well and have another 90 hotbars to play around with. i know the point was to avoid this but its 1440 slots, i cant even think of 1440 things i need hotbarred but, i want it
I honestly don't know ow why so many people need so many hotbar slots lol. I admit when it comes to just my class abilities I sometimes need up to 3, but everything else is still easy enough to get to through the menus or for the items that aren't I don't use often enough anyway, such as specific mounts that I occasionally show off.
Oh damn, never even considered this. I thought controller hotbars were just normal hotbars rearranged for the gamepad. Definitely saving this for a later date.
The opposite is true if you're a dedicated controller user who just so happens to play via PC. I'm using my controller 99% of the time for everything, but I also took a couple of those kb/m user hotbars, made them shared, shrunk them down and stuck them in the corner and loaded them with emotes and silly crap for quick access. That way, I can target someone and just reach up and click an emote with my mouse real quick and not have to either type it or go the LOONG way of navigating to the actual emote menu. I also keybound my 6 most used jobs to 1-6 numpad with a snazzy macro and a hidden kb/m hotbar. So now, if i want to change jobs, I just reach up and hit 1: bard, 2: pally, etc. It's super nice and quick. I feel like im living the hybrid kb/m/c life, and it's awesome.
Based Emarrel solving my ugly job-select hotbar layout problems in one single video. This is why I remain subbed, despite your upload schedule (that I did not look at)
this is amazing! I was already considering bringing out the xhotbar after seeing YoshiP use it in his gameplay despite being a kb/m player, but with these macros it just got even better; thanks for this!
Next time: "I have so many hotbars I can't even see what the fuck is on my screen now!" There is such thing like a point where it just becomes ridiculous.
Oh my god. I subscribed to you years ago after watching your iconic Stormblood Scholar guide (still one of my favorite FFXIV videos of all time)! I didn't realize this was the same channel until I was nearly done with this handy video here and I thought to myself "huh, that SCH glamour looks familiar... OH SHIT" Your editing and integration of character emotes into the opening/closing of UI elements makes for a fun, easy-to-understand presentation! And as a fellow lala, I must say, your lala is very cute! 🥰 I hope you'll consider making more content like this, I quite enjoyed it and I'll be sharing it with my friends~
Honestly fantastic. I've used the contextual hotbar setup for a long time now, and while I really love it, it IS clunky to set up on new characters, and gets a bit awkward when I don't have those classes/jobs unlocked on a character and so can't edit them. This is a very clever way of fixing it, I plan to - most likely - do a bit of mixing of the 2 systems, we will see. Thanks for the idea!
I'm using... 2 hotbars for my menu system + an additional one on the right side of the screen with commonly used emotes (which I could remove and build into my menu system if I need more hotbars some day). 1 "hidden" for keybind for a few custom macros and actions (sprint, mount, toggle weapon, ...) as well as a macro to show/hide the menu. Then I've got 1 hotbar for the menu system. I'm copying the hotbar contends from an unused hotbar on an old 1.0 class (no crystal equipped), I've got a main menu with buttons for different job categories (tank, healer, melee dps, ranged dps, magical dps + crafting/gathering. The first slot on each one of the menus and submenus is dedicated for a cancel/back button. Each macro has a wait and a hide hotbar at the end, so that if I don't do anything and just leave the menu open, it will automatically close and hide itself again after about 5-10 sec or so. Selecting a job instantly hides the menu however. With plenty of 1.0 classes available for use as mules for the menu system and with plenty of space available on the main menu for more sub menus, there's plenty of room for expansion. The only downside with the menu system, is that I can't get it to work with the pvphotbars, it simply won't copy the pvphotbars used for the menu for some reason. On my "hidden" hotbar I've got my Peloton/Island/Normal Sprint macro (C), mount roulette (Alt+C), gysahl greens (Ctrl+C), a Fancy toggle weapon macro using /bstance and a few other emotes (Z), Show/Hide menu system (Alt+Z), Limit Break (Ctrl+Z), as well as a few other useful things.. I'm thinking about maybe a 2:nd menu system macro reusing the 1 hotbar I'm already using to create maybe a menu with emotes? Also, the "hidden" hotbar is actually not "hidden" but rather moved half off-screen with all the hidden slots off screen, leaving me half a hotbar on-screen, that I use for food & potions, so I don't need an additional hotbar for those, putting even the hidden hotbar to maximum use :) As for my skills, I've got 2x hotbars that are 4 wide 3 tall, one to the left and one to the right, with the compass in-between,the left one has 1-4, Alt+1-4, Ctrl+1-4. The Right one has QERF, Alt+QERF, Ctrl+QERF. That gives me 24 slots for my skills. How do I fit them into 24 slots? That's a secret :P And finally to make Alt & Ctrl a bit faster, I've mapped the Alt & Ctrl key modifiers to the thumb buttons on my G603 mouse.
I've been thinking about the cross hotbar, but I ain't macro savvy enough to figure out what to do. So I very much appreciate your video for explaining how to use this!!
I already have a fancy responsive menu built with hotkeys and hotbar swapping (tip: you can make a button macro to save changes to your swappable hotbars with one click) but I might end up using this too...thank you for supporting my custom UI addiction
@@jemm113 search for "FFXIV making adaptive hotbars with macros" and you'll get a pretty thorough tutorial. The basic gist of it is that you create macros to swap out the content of your hotbars and show/hide bars as necessary to create an interactive menu. Essentially you use hotbars you don't need (like, for example, the hotbars for Lancer when you've already unlocked Dragoon) to "store" loadouts to swap between. It's really useful if you want a clean layout but also like to have shortcuts for a lot of different things on hand.
Aww, I thought this’d be something that would be helpful to me, but as a controller player my Cross Hotbar is very much full and finds very frequent use. But Imma share this to my keyboard friends in case they’re interested. Yes, I do have the toggling hotbars demonstrated in the beginning. And I admit that I only have one vacant set left.
What do you mean collapsable hotbars chew through your hotbars? I use 2 hotbars and can fit all my jobs, mounts, minions, master and bgm volume, 7 pages of emotes, foods, configuration menus like housing, hud, macros, I even had dedicated menus to activities like treasure hunts. Considering I use another 4 hotbars for skills, there's a total of 4 normal hotbars that I don't even know what to do with. On the other hand, this is indeed easier to setup, I just love the way my menus are set too much, and have too much free space still that I don't need this.
I'm a controller player who essentially does the opposite, I use my extra hotbars to display cooldowns that aren't always visible, and way back in the dark days before the W cross hotbar, I used to use the number keys for cooldowns that weren't use so often
I want to add this in case someone wants to do like a "press (blank) to toggle crossbar" type of deal The way I did it, which a press of a button, is that I use my Home Key to toggle it On and my End key to toggle it off I do this by assigning one of my unused hotbar, (for me being hotbar 5) and whichever numbered slot those macros sit, I have my keybind be set to Home and End. It fast and simple, and honestly is a life saver for me. It feels natural too, so hey if you guys wanna try that out, there ya go
i play on controller so i've always had plenty of room in the normal bars to set up collapsible menus and cooldown/proc displays and whatever the heck else i want, but it never occurred to me that mkb players could do the same in reverse. neat!
You also can use the class hotbars to store actions. This is how my collapsable hotbars work. I just copy the bars over from archer or arcanist instead of having a bunch of hidden hotbars just sitting there unable to be used for anything else. an example macro to copy hotbars: /hotbar copy ACN 3 current 3
Not me, the first thing I did when starting this game was activate hotbars 2-5, I have quite a few unused ones but not nearly that many. I believe I skipped a lot of the learning process and early on mistake people usually do because I have played plenty of other mmo's at the higher level Been playing for 10 days now, I have every starting class at 20, a monk at 55 and so far saved up 300k gil and almost 200k of that golden casino place tokens, I also tend to get a lot of commendations in the duty's. I do not know if there is a damage meter like recount on wow but I try to maximize my uptime on targets as much as possible while following what I believe to be the correct priority's and I hope the monks stats are crit being the secondary because that is what I am always going for due to the crit = chakra thing.
One other note... It was already checked on yours, but in mine, it wasn't... you'll want to make sure that "Enable Cross Hotbar" on the CROSS tabe is checked, or you won't see the hotbars at all.
...I'm kind of in a weird demographic that won't be able to use this tip the video is giving me. I use both. Keyboard ***OR*** controller depending on the day/mood. I just use a weird macro system to change my shared Hotbar 8 to different slots that I have set on my old non-job classes like ACN or CNJ.
Now if you add popout macros to your cross hotbars you can have an absurd amount of hotbars. But that would be even more macros. You can also technically set up keyboard buttons to act as controller buttons if you want to use the cross without clicking, but it would be button combinations.
/micon "Mount Roulette" general /micon "Minion Roulette" general The suffix "general" is the important part here. For any icons that aren't a regular job action you need to define what category it belongs in. For instance, you could have an icon that's a Hyper-Potion with /micon "Hyper-Potion" item, provided you actually have a Hyper-Potion in your inventory. Armoury Chest items are also fine, so you can use equipment as an icon too, like: /micon "Omnilex Ultima" item. Other suffixes include: general (for anything in the "General" section in your Actions & Traits menu) blueaction (for BLU abilities, ex: /micon "Eruption" blueaction) pvpaction (for PvP abilities, ex: /micon Blota pvpaction) emote (for emotes, ex: /micon "Battle Stance" emote) pet (pet actions, largely deprecated since it only applies for things on the pet hotbar, ex: /micon Place pet) companion (Chocobo actions, ex: /micon "Choco Drop" companion) minion (you can use any minion you own as an icon, ex: /micon "Onion Prince" minion) mount (you can use any mount you own as an icon, ex: /micon "Demi-Ozma" mount) waymark (ex: /micon "Waymark A" waymark) enemysign (Overhead marker icons, ex: /micon "Target to Attack 1" enemysign) gearset (copies the icon of the respective gearset, ex: /micon "Gearset 1" gearset) classjob (job icons ex: /micon SCH classjob) quickchat (pvp quickchat icons ex: /micon "Hello" quickchat)
Me: smug that i knew about having your X-bar accessable Me feeling dumb: didnt realize i could use it this way I set it to be usable in combat for low level dungeon roulletes. :b
Can you give us some more details on some of the emote macros? I was only able to list 1-8 but I see your hotbar has one for emotes, the checkmark, and the bulb.
Those are some system level macros that aren't relevant to this video. The "Battle Stance Emote" there just adjust the audio levels to what I like while raiding (to ensure comms are clear), the checkmark sorts the party list and lightbulb sorts the armoury chest. All the ones on the bottom right are a bunch of other quick setting macros for things like "full audio", "quiet audio" (basically just system sounds being audible), hiding and displaying other player's spell effects and other misc stuff.
Just a quick question unrelated to the subject of the video, when you switched to fisher, the glasses on your cap are in front of your cap but everytime I switch to that headpiece glam, the glasses are in front of my eyes and I need to use /visor to put it back in front of the cap so how did you make it to always have the glasses in front of the cap when switching to that class without using a macro?
Those were just the items themselves dragged onto the hotbar. They'd just dim out without being removed entirely if I had killed off my elite marks for that week.
Is there a way to hide the unused crossbar slots? I have the unused slots option enabled, but it only works for the regular 1-10 bars. I only want to use like one or two of the slots on the crossbar, and having all the other squares there is very distracting. Thanks for the video!
@@Emarrel Thanks for the response. I managed to make something work by using one of the standard hotbars (with invisible blank slots) and moving what used to be there onto the crossbar. When WXHB and XHB are separated, they're small enough to not bloat the screen realestate. The only downside is the regular crossbar has to be visible for shorter ones to be as well, so it's awkwardly hiding at 60% size behind my menu bar and inventory. Still, it lets me have the one or two buttons I want where I want them without losing all the other spaces, so all's good. Thanks for the video revealing this untapped source of button-age!
I hate when I don’t have enough space on my 3 hotbars for all my skills. But I also hate the fact they remove certain skills for accessibility. Kiten, I mourn you. What a dilemma.
Macro Formats:
2:00 | Cross Hotbar Toggle
/crosshotbardisplay
/crosshotbar change #
/hotbar display #
Replace the # with the respective values in your own HUD setup and add more lines as necessary.
2:29 | Cross Hotbar Off
/crosshotbardisplay off
/crosshotbar change 1
/hotbar display # off
You don't need to keybind this one (and you technically don't need it in the first place), rather it's just a convenient way to reset all the hotbars you're toggling so they all start at the same state when pressing the toggle. Useful for the first setup or if you ever run into an instance where the toggle macro somehow gets interrupted. Again, add more lines as necessary so it matches the prior Toggle macro.
2:38 | Cross Hotbar Selection
/crosshotbar change #
Change the # to whatever cross hotbar you want to open.
also voice reveal lol
Fyi you have to re-pin the comment after you edit it. Thanks for sharing this.
You can use toggle or [on/off] with hotbar display options to invert the current setting, rather than using 2 macros for it.
@@EPICZEUS. how?
Ten years ago, I was a Dark Souls PvPer watching Emarrel's Dark Souls PvP clips. Today, I'm an FF14 player (on controller, admittedly) watching Emarrel's video on FF14 hotbar management.
We all go to the FFXIV Retirement Home some day
SAME! 😂
God, even down to being a controller player. And here I thought I was a unique case
I literally got into FF14 like a week ago and then he drops this, the timing is wild!!!
I don't even remember when or why I subbed, but it was over 10 years ago and it wasn't for Dark Souls. I just randomly decided to check the channel again and its an FFXIV video out of nowhere, while I'm making collectables for Kurenai.
Hearing your voice after subscribing to you TEN YEARS AGO is incredible. You have always been a legend, continue being an awesome human being and TH-camr ❤
You actually have 256 unused slots. There is an option for allowing you to make the hotbars weapon drawn and weapon sheathed specific. So you can have a set of cross hotbars for combat and a set of cross hotbars for weapon sheathed, and technically if you make none of the cross hotbars shared then you have 256 cross hotbar sets per class/job. Technically you have 256 slots x 31 so 8,215 slots.
Edit: I share all the sheathed so my combat classes have all my emotes on tab.
Hot bar 10 verticle with cross hotbar both bottom right. unsheathed is utility like journal etc sheathed are emotes... slot 1 & 2 Dances , 3 & 4 gold emotes 5 & 6 blue emotes, 7 & 8 Gray emotes
etc I only need signs and markers for when i'm running content so those are on weapon drawn cross hotbars.
I've tried it out this way before but I mostly didn't like the feeling of having an additional condition to open up whichever menu I actually wanted since sometimes you just wanna run around or idle with your weapon unsheathed.
You're totally right though, but I wanted to make something that was as simple as possible to implement and utilize.
How do you use the extra space? I set wxhb to always show, and I can't put anything on the new spaces
@@Macswaggens WXHB shows one of the 8 normal cross hotbars, to put abilities on WXHB you have to do /chotbar change X (to go to the hotbar that WXHB displays) and drag the abilities on to that
No clue why you cant just drag onto the WXHB directly
The legend is alive, the rumors of your demise were greatly exagerated.
This looks great for those who can't quite get the "clunky" method to work. It takes up a bit more screen real-estate than I would like though. Being able to adjust it easily is definitely more convenient than the method using unused jobs/classes.
I also wanted to add that I love the lala animations with the open/closing of the menus during the tutorial portion of the video, and the thinking pose with the macros. Very cute~
I love how you made your character do the emotes while going through the menus, I haven't seen that before in a FFXIV video and it looks so good!
You have just introduced an actual use for the Cross Hotbar to me.
bless you for this video, i've been using this setup for months now after learning it from here and it's really improved the game for me
Spent two days getting collapsible hotbars sorted out just to decide once it was all done that I didn't like it, and then this video popped up. I LOVE this.
As someone who's used up all my normal hotbars this is an absolute BLESSING...... THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS :D
Literally yesterday I was talking to my FC about how I wished I had just a couple more hotbars. You, my good sir, have come in the clutch.
you can also set the crosshotbar to display a second crosshotbar (the "wxhb") alongside the main cross bar. Lets you display crosshotbar 1 and 2 smultaneously, giving a total of 32 hot bar slots visible at once without having to change the crosshotbar. So... more minions and mounts. Or all your classes visible in one go if you want.
tell me how to do it
Yes I need this info!
@@jemm113 Its in character configuration, hotbar settings panel, bottom of the "cross" tab. "W cross hotbar display settings" to enable display of the wxhb. You can set what hotbar is displayed on the wxhb from the top of the "custom" tab in that same hotbar settings panel. Set it to display either a specific hotbar or to just display the next hotbar above or below the one you are on.
@@joalex79 Its in character configuration, hotbar settings panel, bottom of the "cross" tab. "W cross hotbar display settings" to enable display of the wxhb. You can set what hotbar is displayed on the wxhb from the top of the "custom" tab in that same hotbar settings panel. Set it to display either a specific hotbar or to just display the next hotbar above or below the one you are on.
Oh, and you can size and move the wxhb separately from your regular xhb if you like by ticking the setting in the "cross" tab amd then moving it in HUD layout. Otherwise, you can keep the two hot bars attached and they move as one block.
Thanks so much for the guide. Made a beautiful UI using it and its so so easy to edit. I love it. Also the video itself is very well scripted and explains everything clearly, truly one of the best guides out here.
Been using collapsing hotbars using the class method for a while and now i learn that i could have been using crosses on classes as well and have another 90 hotbars to play around with. i know the point was to avoid this but its 1440 slots, i cant even think of 1440 things i need hotbarred but, i want it
your lala doing emotes while explaining was perfect
How great that you're starting some ffxiv content just as I'm starting to get into ffxiv.
Big fan of your old dark souls content.
I honestly don't know ow why so many people need so many hotbar slots lol. I admit when it comes to just my class abilities I sometimes need up to 3, but everything else is still easy enough to get to through the menus or for the items that aren't I don't use often enough anyway, such as specific mounts that I occasionally show off.
Oh damn, never even considered this. I thought controller hotbars were just normal hotbars rearranged for the gamepad. Definitely saving this for a later date.
I was just shared this video by a mentor on the Exodus server. This is going to be life changing I think.
The opposite is true if you're a dedicated controller user who just so happens to play via PC. I'm using my controller 99% of the time for everything, but I also took a couple of those kb/m user hotbars, made them shared, shrunk them down and stuck them in the corner and loaded them with emotes and silly crap for quick access. That way, I can target someone and just reach up and click an emote with my mouse real quick and not have to either type it or go the LOONG way of navigating to the actual emote menu. I also keybound my 6 most used jobs to 1-6 numpad with a snazzy macro and a hidden kb/m hotbar. So now, if i want to change jobs, I just reach up and hit 1: bard, 2: pally, etc. It's super nice and quick. I feel like im living the hybrid kb/m/c life, and it's awesome.
i have all my hotbars splayed across my screen, all of them with bloodwetting and fell cleave
Based Emarrel solving my ugly job-select hotbar layout problems in one single video. This is why I remain subbed, despite your upload schedule (that I did not look at)
jokes on you, i have every hotbar on screen at all times!
this is amazing! I was already considering bringing out the xhotbar after seeing YoshiP use it in his gameplay despite being a kb/m player, but with these macros it just got even better; thanks for this!
Your MonHun videos are legendary! Thank you for the awesome content!
The hotbar meta is developing and I am here for it
you actually blew my mind, definitely gonna share this video around
You're doing Hydaelyn's work, thanks. Now i can pretend i've been doing this for years.
Bro. BRO.
Thank you, I didnt realize you can also use the cross hotbarsssss
Next time: "I have so many hotbars I can't even see what the fuck is on my screen now!"
There is such thing like a point where it just becomes ridiculous.
Oh my god. I subscribed to you years ago after watching your iconic Stormblood Scholar guide (still one of my favorite FFXIV videos of all time)! I didn't realize this was the same channel until I was nearly done with this handy video here and I thought to myself "huh, that SCH glamour looks familiar... OH SHIT"
Your editing and integration of character emotes into the opening/closing of UI elements makes for a fun, easy-to-understand presentation! And as a fellow lala, I must say, your lala is very cute! 🥰
I hope you'll consider making more content like this, I quite enjoyed it and I'll be sharing it with my friends~
Finally, found a new way to make my HUD even more chaotic
Honestly fantastic. I've used the contextual hotbar setup for a long time now, and while I really love it, it IS clunky to set up on new characters, and gets a bit awkward when I don't have those classes/jobs unlocked on a character and so can't edit them. This is a very clever way of fixing it, I plan to - most likely - do a bit of mixing of the 2 systems, we will see. Thanks for the idea!
Sweet, new content creater to watch and giving me tips that I actually never thought of!
What a banger video. Really well scripted. Thanks for bringing light to these hotbar slots!
Oh hey, one of my favorite dark souls 1 channels. Back, with a new track. Nice.
Great and simple guide for a beautiful way to make your UI unique
I'm using... 2 hotbars for my menu system + an additional one on the right side of the screen with commonly used emotes (which I could remove and build into my menu system if I need more hotbars some day).
1 "hidden" for keybind for a few custom macros and actions (sprint, mount, toggle weapon, ...) as well as a macro to show/hide the menu. Then I've got 1 hotbar for the menu system. I'm copying the hotbar contends from an unused hotbar on an old 1.0 class (no crystal equipped), I've got a main menu with buttons for different job categories (tank, healer, melee dps, ranged dps, magical dps + crafting/gathering. The first slot on each one of the menus and submenus is dedicated for a cancel/back button.
Each macro has a wait and a hide hotbar at the end, so that if I don't do anything and just leave the menu open, it will automatically close and hide itself again after about 5-10 sec or so. Selecting a job instantly hides the menu however. With plenty of 1.0 classes available for use as mules for the menu system and with plenty of space available on the main menu for more sub menus, there's plenty of room for expansion.
The only downside with the menu system, is that I can't get it to work with the pvphotbars, it simply won't copy the pvphotbars used for the menu for some reason.
On my "hidden" hotbar I've got my Peloton/Island/Normal Sprint macro (C), mount roulette (Alt+C), gysahl greens (Ctrl+C), a Fancy toggle weapon macro using /bstance and a few other emotes (Z), Show/Hide menu system (Alt+Z), Limit Break (Ctrl+Z), as well as a few other useful things.. I'm thinking about maybe a 2:nd menu system macro reusing the 1 hotbar I'm already using to create maybe a menu with emotes?
Also, the "hidden" hotbar is actually not "hidden" but rather moved half off-screen with all the hidden slots off screen, leaving me half a hotbar on-screen, that I use for food & potions, so I don't need an additional hotbar for those, putting even the hidden hotbar to maximum use :)
As for my skills, I've got 2x hotbars that are 4 wide 3 tall, one to the left and one to the right, with the compass in-between,the left one has 1-4, Alt+1-4, Ctrl+1-4. The Right one has QERF, Alt+QERF, Ctrl+QERF. That gives me 24 slots for my skills. How do I fit them into 24 slots? That's a secret :P
And finally to make Alt & Ctrl a bit faster, I've mapped the Alt & Ctrl key modifiers to the thumb buttons on my G603 mouse.
Walking in: You have 128 unused hotbars.
Walking out: If you’re a M+KB player.
I’m already using them as a controller player.
My condolences.
Your lalafell is so cute
I've been thinking about the cross hotbar, but I ain't macro savvy enough to figure out what to do. So I very much appreciate your video for explaining how to use this!!
I already have a fancy responsive menu built with hotkeys and hotbar swapping (tip: you can make a button macro to save changes to your swappable hotbars with one click) but I might end up using this too...thank you for supporting my custom UI addiction
Wait, how do you go about doing that tip?
@@jemm113 search for "FFXIV making adaptive hotbars with macros" and you'll get a pretty thorough tutorial. The basic gist of it is that you create macros to swap out the content of your hotbars and show/hide bars as necessary to create an interactive menu. Essentially you use hotbars you don't need (like, for example, the hotbars for Lancer when you've already unlocked Dragoon) to "store" loadouts to swap between. It's really useful if you want a clean layout but also like to have shortcuts for a lot of different things on hand.
Aww, I thought this’d be something that would be helpful to me, but as a controller player my Cross Hotbar is very much full and finds very frequent use. But Imma share this to my keyboard friends in case they’re interested.
Yes, I do have the toggling hotbars demonstrated in the beginning. And I admit that I only have one vacant set left.
What do you mean collapsable hotbars chew through your hotbars? I use 2 hotbars and can fit all my jobs, mounts, minions, master and bgm volume, 7 pages of emotes, foods, configuration menus like housing, hud, macros, I even had dedicated menus to activities like treasure hunts.
Considering I use another 4 hotbars for skills, there's a total of 4 normal hotbars that I don't even know what to do with.
On the other hand, this is indeed easier to setup, I just love the way my menus are set too much, and have too much free space still that I don't need this.
Nice to hear from ya! I might end up making good use of this, what a delightful surprise!
Oh my, you saved my live sir! Thank you very much!
This is the correct answer to collapsible hotbars, spread the word, enforce this new religion.
Holy... I had no idea and struggled with hotbar space. Thank you.
And just like that, I'll be making my cross hotbar the replacement for my 4 or 5 hotbars worth of misc buttons! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I'm a controller player who essentially does the opposite, I use my extra hotbars to display cooldowns that aren't always visible, and way back in the dark days before the W cross hotbar, I used to use the number keys for cooldowns that weren't use so often
This is genious. Why I never thought about that.
The legend returns. If only a functional version of Scholar returned with him...
Wait you have a voice?
That's an amazing Tipp. Shame only 19k have seen it so far.
I'll be sure to show it to some of my friends since I bet they didn't know that
I want to add this in case someone wants to do like a "press (blank) to toggle crossbar" type of deal
The way I did it, which a press of a button, is that I use my Home Key to toggle it On and my End key to toggle it off
I do this by assigning one of my unused hotbar, (for me being hotbar 5) and whichever numbered slot those macros sit, I have my keybind be set to Home and End.
It fast and simple, and honestly is a life saver for me. It feels natural too, so hey if you guys wanna try that out, there ya go
Why do we all end up playing ffxiv, there has to be a reason
i play on controller so i've always had plenty of room in the normal bars to set up collapsible menus and cooldown/proc displays and whatever the heck else i want, but it never occurred to me that mkb players could do the same in reverse. neat!
You my man are a god among gamers
a god among potatoes
Thanks for the great advice!
Emarrel...that is a name I haven't heard since Dark Soul PvP.
Happy to see you back!
Happy to see you upload. Hope you're well.
thanks, i dont have much of a use for this yet but im sure its gonna become useful in the future
You are the goat and your Name and profile picture are engrained into my retinas.
You also can use the class hotbars to store actions. This is how my collapsable hotbars work. I just copy the bars over from archer or arcanist instead of having a bunch of hidden hotbars just sitting there unable to be used for anything else.
an example macro to copy hotbars: /hotbar copy ACN 3 current 3
Not me, the first thing I did when starting this game was activate hotbars 2-5, I have quite a few unused ones but not nearly that many. I believe I skipped a lot of the learning process and early on mistake people usually do because I have played plenty of other mmo's at the higher level Been playing for 10 days now, I have every starting class at 20, a monk at 55 and so far saved up 300k gil and almost 200k of that golden casino place tokens, I also tend to get a lot of commendations in the duty's. I do not know if there is a damage meter like recount on wow but I try to maximize my uptime on targets as much as possible while following what I believe to be the correct priority's and I hope the monks stats are crit being the secondary because that is what I am always going for due to the crit = chakra thing.
omg content from you! I found you from Demon's Souls 😊 Haven't been on FF14 in a long time
Very cool! And a lalafell player too, truly a blessed channel
I got violently sick at even the consideration of changing my hud setup
thing is, I like the look at the game. and all these hotbars kinda prevent that
One other note... It was already checked on yours, but in mine, it wasn't... you'll want to make sure that "Enable Cross Hotbar" on the CROSS tabe is checked, or you won't see the hotbars at all.
Of COURSE Emarrel plays a fuckin lala.
...I'm kind of in a weird demographic that won't be able to use this tip the video is giving me.
I use both. Keyboard ***OR*** controller depending on the day/mood.
I just use a weird macro system to change my shared Hotbar 8 to different slots that I have set on my old non-job classes like ACN or CNJ.
Now if you add popout macros to your cross hotbars you can have an absurd amount of hotbars. But that would be even more macros. You can also technically set up keyboard buttons to act as controller buttons if you want to use the cross without clicking, but it would be button combinations.
This is so innovative imo so I'm leaving a sub for other great ideas!
Wait there's collapsible hotbars?!!! I've just been having mine scattered around my screen
Very good vid, thanks for sharing :)
Hol up you mean I can have more emotes on my screen
That is SO GOOD WTF
I'm sold.
I was curious about what MMO mouse you’re using.
Thanks for the great video!
Logitech G600
How did you use the mount a minion roulette icons as macro icons?
/micon "Mount Roulette" general
/micon "Minion Roulette" general
The suffix "general" is the important part here. For any icons that aren't a regular job action you need to define what category it belongs in. For instance, you could have an icon that's a Hyper-Potion with /micon "Hyper-Potion" item, provided you actually have a Hyper-Potion in your inventory. Armoury Chest items are also fine, so you can use equipment as an icon too, like: /micon "Omnilex Ultima" item.
Other suffixes include:
general (for anything in the "General" section in your Actions & Traits menu)
blueaction (for BLU abilities, ex: /micon "Eruption" blueaction)
pvpaction (for PvP abilities, ex: /micon Blota pvpaction)
emote (for emotes, ex: /micon "Battle Stance" emote)
pet (pet actions, largely deprecated since it only applies for things on the pet hotbar, ex: /micon Place pet)
companion (Chocobo actions, ex: /micon "Choco Drop" companion)
minion (you can use any minion you own as an icon, ex: /micon "Onion Prince" minion)
mount (you can use any mount you own as an icon, ex: /micon "Demi-Ozma" mount)
waymark (ex: /micon "Waymark A" waymark)
enemysign (Overhead marker icons, ex: /micon "Target to Attack 1" enemysign)
gearset (copies the icon of the respective gearset, ex: /micon "Gearset 1" gearset)
classjob (job icons ex: /micon SCH classjob)
quickchat (pvp quickchat icons ex: /micon "Hello" quickchat)
The only problem with this is that the cross-hotbar is fuck ugly.
Me: smug that i knew about having your X-bar accessable
Me feeling dumb: didnt realize i could use it this way
I set it to be usable in combat for low level dungeon roulletes. :b
Can you give us some more details on some of the emote macros? I was only able to list 1-8 but I see your hotbar has one for emotes, the checkmark, and the bulb.
Those are some system level macros that aren't relevant to this video. The "Battle Stance Emote" there just adjust the audio levels to what I like while raiding (to ensure comms are clear), the checkmark sorts the party list and lightbulb sorts the armoury chest.
All the ones on the bottom right are a bunch of other quick setting macros for things like "full audio", "quiet audio" (basically just system sounds being audible), hiding and displaying other player's spell effects and other misc stuff.
Sweet
Just a quick question unrelated to the subject of the video, when you switched to fisher, the glasses on your cap are in front of your cap but everytime I switch to that headpiece glam, the glasses are in front of my eyes and I need to use /visor to put it back in front of the cap so how did you make it to always have the glasses in front of the cap when switching to that class without using a macro?
Resave the gearset when you change the visor settings.
@@Emarrel Thanks a lot, I would only click that button on the Glamour Dresser, not the Character screen.
uhhhmmm...whats that glam for fisher, kinda neat lookin
my "normal" hotbar slots arent even completely used yet so i probably have at least 300 unused slots
Based, thanks for letting me know man, this is what I've always needed
This is so great!
the downside is needing to deal with the giant chunky ugly dpad layout of the buttons. I'll stick to my nice looking macros.
ok lalafell player
great idea. :D
Elite guildship mark bill item no longer works for micons, do you have a suggested replacement?
Those were just the items themselves dragged onto the hotbar. They'd just dim out without being removed entirely if I had killed off my elite marks for that week.
Is there a way to hide the unused crossbar slots? I have the unused slots option enabled, but it only works for the regular 1-10 bars. I only want to use like one or two of the slots on the crossbar, and having all the other squares there is very distracting.
Thanks for the video!
Unfortunately, no.
@@Emarrel Thanks for the response. I managed to make something work by using one of the standard hotbars (with invisible blank slots) and moving what used to be there onto the crossbar. When WXHB and XHB are separated, they're small enough to not bloat the screen realestate.
The only downside is the regular crossbar has to be visible for shorter ones to be as well, so it's awkwardly hiding at 60% size behind my menu bar and inventory. Still, it lets me have the one or two buttons I want where I want them without losing all the other spaces, so all's good. Thanks for the video revealing this untapped source of button-age!
I hate when I don’t have enough space on my 3 hotbars for all my skills. But I also hate the fact they remove certain skills for accessibility. Kiten, I mourn you.
What a dilemma.
Everytime I click it it just says the command /crossbar change 2 doesn’t exist what am I doing wrong lol?