Gamepads, new actions coming in heavensward, not enough room for all of them.

As a keybind maniac I wish more things could get keybinds directly without putting them on the hotbars. I have a full bar devoted to markers. Two bars with keybinds for actions I use in combat and one bar with keybinds for actions used regularly (mount, potions, sort inventory/AC, etc.) There's only so many set of keybinds that are reasonable, when you go more than 48 keybinds it becomes a little hard to find a keybind that makes sense.

Just allowing us to keybind markers and macros directly would solve half my problem.

I'd really like a few more hotbars.

Really people are having problems with crossbars? Can't say I have. I mean you need an extra one just make one more crossbar non-shared and you have a ton of extra as well(only my sch and smn use it atm but I assume by lvl60 this will increase to all of them). Be smart about laying stuff out as well not just dump skills wherever.

How do you manage your PvP actions? ^^;

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

How do you manage your PvP actions? ^^;

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I don't do much PvP and when I do I tend to swap out a few skills I have no use of using - BUT one thing I would idealy love is to have abilty to store a different crossbar setup with a gearset. So I could have a PvP focused gearset and crossbar setup and a PvE one.

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Originally Posted by ruskie

I don't do much PvP and when I do I tend to swap out a few skills I have no use of using - BUT one thing I would idealy love is to have abilty to store a different crossbar setup with a gearset. So I could have a PvP focused gearset and crossbar setup and a PvE one.

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I would like to have it as well. ^^;

To all the people talking about keyboards.. I really don't feel the lack of keybinds, you just gotta get a little creative here and there.. I currently have 4 full bars keybound.. and I could actually do another bar or two if needed but feel that 4 bars are enough for direct access, rest are non-combat clickable things..
Also, you CAN keybind macros directly.

Having said that though, I wouldn't mind getting a few extra set of hotbars and getting the option of arranging their orientation (horizontal, vertical) and maybe even splitting them up into chunks or 4, 6, 8, or whatever.. As it stands now I am wasting quite a few slots because I like symmetry



BTW if anybody's interested, this is how I get more than a couple full bars keybound.

1-5, Shift + 1-5, Ctrl + 1-5, Alt + 1-5

Shift + QWER ASDF ZXCV
Alt + QWER ASDF ZXCV
Ctrl + QWERASDFZXCV

But I do feel it for ya folks with a controller.. I don't know how you guys do it..

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Originally Posted by Gillionaire

But I do feel it for ya folks with a controller.. I don't know how you guys do it..

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Easy. We optimized what we need to reduce unnecessary clutter.

This is a vid I made for a FC member showing them how you can have stuff laid out:

http://ruskie.codemages.net/videos/bars.html


The vertical stuff I tend to use for ogcd stuff that I don't always have visible.

It would make some sense to just replace combo buttons as the combo is executed.

I hate switching between hotbars (on controller) it's way too easy to get confused and lose track of what you are doing especially in situations when you need to heal quickly and manage a pet, or with fast jobs like MNK and NIN.

I think I will need to go back to Keyboard/Mouse in 3.0 just to have access to all the skills quickly, sadly I will need to sacrifice mobility to do that :(

I already switch between three bars when I play. Sounds like a personal problem.