[dev1123] - Can we have all 3 Action Bars showing up at once?

I vote a yes for the option of displaying all 3 action bars, and for drag/dropping abilities, and for options for reducing ability descriptions and/or options for removing them.
I understand that SE has to keep in mind that people will be playing in 3 different ways, but you simply cannot be everything to everyone. You can't have everything you can do on a keyboard also available on a gamepad (without having to access a main menu option), and I think gamepad players realize this. SE should just give options where they can, and if they can't fit them on a gamepad, oh well, that's the trade-off.
And btw: I play on a gamepad.

Having the ability to customize your action bars just the way you want to will be incredible. I enjoyed the macro system on FFXI, but my game also ran very smoothly. Not to mention, I didn't know any other way to play. I have played other MMO's and have found ways that work better for me. Doesn't help that my computer doesn't run FFXIV as smoothly as I would like.

Since the devs haven't had the chance to respond to this yet, I'll do it for them lol


"Greetings kwestro!

Thank you for taking the time for this post. We would like to inform you that the concept of this feature has indeed been addressed, and will be implemented along with the 1.19 patch. Please look forward to this in the near future, and happy hunting in Eorzea!

Regards,
The Dev Team"

Not bad, huh? :P

How about just having the action bar on the screen at all times instead of popping up and down constantly, so annoying

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Originally Posted by Amage

go back to menu style

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^ This. Or as long as I can turn it off, main reason I hate generic MMOs -- I don't need 3-10 rows cluttering my view when I can simply open a menu or hit a macro.

Not sure how some people are having issues with room on there screen. Have you tried different resolutions from the ffxiv config file? I play @ 1920x1080 (Hmm might be 1920x1200?) and have loads of room on a 29" monitor, you should be able to get ample amount of room on a 22" or larger screen. Hope this was helpful to those of you with bunched up UI's.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

^ This. Or as long as I can turn it off, main reason I hate generic MMOs

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lul as usual with the xi loonies

I don't want them to put all three bars on the screen at once until they fix the key bindings feature to let you bind/unbind anything you want. I am not a clicker, and my hands are too small to use modifier keys + 6-0.

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Originally Posted by Chain

How about just having the action bar on the screen at all times instead of popping up and down constantly, so annoying

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I think you can do this under the Menu config

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

...... I would like though is to add keyboard binding options for rotating the action bars. As it is, using the arrow keys is horribly clunky, because sometimes the action bar is active and sometimes it isn't. I have, on several occasions, let people die because I hit the arrow key to switch to the bar containing a healing spell but the action bar wasn't active so I switched targets instead. If I could set the rotation to, say, - and =, I would have no issues with this whatsoever.

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Nice idea.

Or

We have three bars display on the screen. We press

(1) to (0) to initiate actions in first bar

(-)(1) to (-)(0) to initiate actions in second bar

(=)(1) to (=)(0) to initiate actions in third bar

without the need to rotate at all.

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Or simply leave it as it is - One bar but have it auto-rotate itself based on which action we press. For eg: pressing (-)(5) will trigger action no5 in second bar then auto-rotate to second bar.

Make the bars toggleable like our Chat windows, so that we would have option to display more than one bar if we choose to.