New War, help me out please

I have been tanking using ps4 cross hot bar... Even remote play on the Vita with no issues. I suggest enabling the extended hot bar. This enables you to have another 8 skills by holding one of the triggers and the holding the second. You can also have R2->L2 and L2->R2 bring up different bars for 16 more. For ease of use you can have them pull up the same bar as well. Using this I have never run out of space on WHM or PLD (only 37 atm).

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Originally Posted by radioactive_lego

Ahhhh! Love how smooth you can use your hotbars. As for their layout... ::cringe:: But hey, whatever works, right?

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what's wrong with my layout?

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Originally Posted by aisustrong

what's wrong with my layout?

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I don't think your hotbar is wrong.
But, IMO, (and understand, O's are subjective) on your main bar you've got Overpower on the always d-pad side, flash is on the left toggle. and provoke is on a whole other hotbar. that's a lot of jostling for the skills that reap the most aggro. Overpower on the d-pad side (left thumb) scares me cuz you have to stop moving to spamm it.

These things are ok on primals/bosses cuz you're typically only fighting one mob, and your main aggro or hlr chain works fine. But, for lots of adds/speedruns the right-thumb (on the move) spammable overpower/flash marco just cant be beat (again, IMO). Also, with the addidion of L3/R3 marco assignments, freeing up hotbar space by placing T-hawk/provoke/overpower/cooldown spammable/whatever on R3 is almost a necessity. It's a free, on-the-move pallette you never have to switch hotbars for. It's the best button on the ctrlr atm.

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Originally Posted by radioactive_lego

I don't think your hotbar is wrong.
But, IMO, (and understand, O's are subjective) on your main bar you've got Overpower on the always d-pad side, flash is on the left toggle. and provoke is on a whole other hotbar. that's a lot of jostling for the skills that reap the most aggro. Overpower on the d-pad side (left thumb) scares me cuz you have to stop moving to spamm it.

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i can use my right thumb for the left stick when i need to op
op isnt something youre going to use on the move all that often anyway though
and i have provoke"under" tomohawk and butchers, so i can tap a trigger and be back really quickly

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Originally Posted by aisustrong

i can use my right thumb for the left stick when i need to op

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"The Claw" will always provoke a ::cringe::

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Originally Posted by aisustrong

op isnt something youre going to use on the move all that often anyway though

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huh? I constantly op on a mob in the middle of a group and move so AOEs don't touch me. If I stopped for OPs I think the HLR would kill me for not dodging.

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Originally Posted by radioactive_lego

"The Claw" will always provoke a ::cringe::



huh? I constantly op on a mob in the middle of a group and move so AOEs don't touch me. If I stopped for OPs I think the HLR would kill me for not dodging.

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I don't have any problem dodging and using op
plus there's the whole gcd thing, so it's not like even if you don't claw you'll not miss that many due to moving

I use crossbar, but extended with L-R and R-L, cool downs all on R-L, plus I add an additional hot bar (7) vertically on the left which I place my cooldowns on (the R-L and L-R ones), just in case they pop, so I can hit them straight away. I play PC, but use an xbox controller.

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Originally Posted by radioactive_lego

Here's my main hotbar:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-9umbXefM (84 seconds)

I try to keep my dire-needed skills on the button side (so i can move + spamm) and less used skills on the d-pad.

What you cant see are:
-Two marcos built into the thumbsticks.
-The green "2" on the Left hotbar/right dpad takes you to individual cooldowns (as opposed to the spammable * button).

If interested I'll post a full rundown of all macros used.

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Dont know If the quote is going to work but That is awesome layout, whats your macro like?