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

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Originally Posted by Alipoprocks

So how do you know when one is available? Or do you just constantly spam that macro?

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I have some buffs macroed with abilities and the way I handled this was by setting up an invisible horizontal hotbar above my cross hotbar. On the horizontal bar I -only- put buffs or abilities that I have macroed in order to be able to see when they're up. You do need to plug in a mouse to do this efficiently but since you don't need to click any of the abilities on that bar you can unplug it after if you want.

I agree that certain buffs with longer cooldowns would be inefficient to macro but on the other hand, on long boss fights I would argue that it might be more efficient in some cases because you don't have to actively remember to use the skill. In the end, for a longer fight, you will benefit more by using most of (not all) your cooldowns as soon as they are off cooldown and macros allow you to do this more easily.

I use to switch through three cross bars before I got ps4 and got the option to hide some hotbars while my weapon is drawn. I think I'll be able to manage as my DRG and BRD. XD Juggling stuff as SMN and SCH was a bit much for me, I'm sure its possible though.

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Originally Posted by Wildsprite

pretty sure he was asking if a keyboard/mouse can be used with a PS4 not if you used one. and the answer is yes absolutely you can I know quite a few people that use a keyboard/mouse along with their controller on the PS4.

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Why pretty sure?
We always read/hear ppl say "he doesn't response maybe he doesn't have a keyoard on PS3/4" etc,
it already implied he can plug in a keybaord. ^^;

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Originally Posted by DoctorPepper

I swear I've looked for this option at least 4 or 5 times and couldn't find it. I guess I will take another look tonight because I would definitely find this helpful for shared cross hotbars that I don't want to use in battle. For the time being I just setup mouse hotbars to click on for these shared bars but I would rather have them on the controller.

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Yes I have this setting on both PS3/PS4, it allows select what crossbars available normally and whats crossbars available during combat while tapping R1.
It even has an option to auto-swtich to combat-set crossbar when you draw the weapon. Hope you can find it out tonight.

Unless they think of something amazing I'd imagine we'll just need to switch cross hotbars more once the new abilities are released. I don't play many classes, but I pretty much have things set up to mostly use a single cross hotbar (including L2+R2). I used to use 2, but once the L2+R2 function was released I reorganized things so I never actually have to switch, but every single space is currently in use on MNK at least (I forget if they are on other jobs to be honest). There are already more than a few things I could do to make more usable space, like bothering to make R2 -> L2 different from L2 -> R2 since they're currently identical for simplicity.