Pet hotbar function broke for me with patch, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[Eorzean_username]

Whoops:
I meant to put this in User Interface but I'm too tired and got my browser tabs mixed up, if a CM could move this to User Interface — Thank You. If not, well at least this problem is relevant in many Dungeons (Meridianum, Praetorium, Stone Vigil HM, etc etc).

Before Patch 3.3:

• Normal pet hotbar (playing SCH or SMN): Pet Hotbar was hidden, because I have all abilities keybound on normal hotbars or macros.
• Get on a Pet (Chocobo Porter, Cannons in Meridianum, Magitek Armor in Praetorium, etc): My 'Hotbar 1' turned into 'Pet Hotbar' and I can activate Pet abilities (like Photon Cannon or Dismount) using Hotbar 1 hotkeys.
• Get off Pet (Dismount Porter, leave Cannon, etc): My 'Hotbar 1' with normal Class/Job abilities returned again.

After Patch 3.3:

• Get on a Pet: Nothing changes, my 'Hotbar 1' stays there but all abilities gray out. I cannot use any Pet Actions.
• Get off Pet: My 'Hotbar 1' disappears and gets replaced by SCH pet (Selene) abilities. No way to get 'Hotbar 1' back without manually changing Hotbar page all the way back to 1 (using arrows).
• Normal pet hotbar: I still want it to be hidden, but now I have to show it all the time or I can't use abilities on Special Pets (Porters, Cannons, etc). I have to click abilities on Special Pets because they don't respond to 'Hotbar 1' binds anymore.

I didn't change any of my Character Configuration → Hotbar settings after Patch 3.3, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong that suddenly broke this.

If anyone knows, it would help so much, this is making all mechanics that use Special Pets like Armor, etc much more awkward.

[zero-niichan]

Bump!

I got a similar problem, before the patch, my hotbar worked just fine like Eorzean_username
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After the patch, everything works the way it's supposed to until i dismount, when I get off the pet, hotbar 1 stays "stuck" with pet abilities and not my original hotbar 1 abilities so then I have to cycle back to hotbar 1 abilities.

[Sida]

This mght not help, and as of the moment I'm not on my computer so I can't check specific. However there is a setting somewhere, I suppose in hotbar settings, for allowing the mount actions to override main hotbar. You might try to wiggle with it a bit, toggle it from whatever it is now, save and try a mount with actions, then change back again.

[Eorzean_username]

Thank you, that was a good idea. I opened up those settings and played Russian Roulette with the different options using the Magitek mount, and I ended up finding a setting combination that at least allows me to use Special Pet abilities in instances and duties (the Pet Hotbar loads when I mount, and responds to keybindings).

I still can't figure out any way to keep the separate, redundant Pet Hotbar hidden now, the way it was before 3.3.

I also had to make a hotkey for "Change to Hotbar 1", because that's the only way I've figured out to fix my Faerie / Garuda abilities replacing my normal Hotbar 1 every time I dismount from a Special Pet.

[Pencardiel]

It's a bug. When it happens, dismiss your pet. That brings the normal hotbar 1 back. You can resummon your pet then.

I put it in bugs, and SE moved it to accepted bugs, plus some other people reported the same problem in other situations, which also got put in accepted bugs.

Hopefully it will be fixed soon.