I need an extra space for party Living Dead macros (PS4)

I want to be able to tell my healers in party chat to heal me to full when I'm Walking Dead status. Actually, I want one button for when I first activate Living Dead, and I want another button for when Walking Dead has started.

Problem is, I'm on PS4 and used up all my regular buttons. I have the extra R2 L2 crossbar stuff too. There a way to use my keyboard for when I have extra vertical crossbars setup in my HUD?

W-cross hotbars, double tap L2 or R2 in order to use them. Should be in the character settings under hotbars.

On phone, can't edit. You can also set up a macro that both activates and notifies healers as well.

Here's a decent guide: http://guide-source.com/ffxiv-guide/a-guide-to-writing

You can set up to 48 buttons on PS4 Controller. R2+L2 and than as Spectre says the R2/L2 Doubletap by enabling WXHB buttons.

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Originally Posted by AncientCrystal

There a way to use my keyboard for when I have extra vertical crossbars setup in my HUD?

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I believe you can activate them by holding Ctrl or Alt and the designated # key. I use them to keep track of stuff, not for activating - so I'm not 100% if it works that way.

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Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

I believe you can activate them by holding Ctrl or Alt and the designated # key. I use them to keep track of stuff, not for activating - so I'm not 100% if it works that way.

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ok yes! This was the response I was looking for. To the other responses, I tried to say in my OP that I know how to activate the extra R2 L2 buttons. I was trying to see if there's a way to use extra vertical or horizontal crossbars on the HUD using a keyboard.

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Originally Posted by AncientCrystal

I want to be able to tell my healers in party chat to heal me to full when I'm Walking Dead status. Actually, I want one button for when I first activate Living Dead, and I want another button for when Walking Dead has started.

Problem is, I'm on PS4 and used up all my regular buttons. I have the extra R2 L2 crossbar stuff too. There a way to use my keyboard for when I have extra vertical crossbars setup in my HUD?

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You could do it on one button
Get into Macro menu and create the one macro:
Name it whatever you want then into the window write down this:

/macroicon "living dead"
/ac "living dead"
/marking circle <me>
/p I used Living dead please heal me to 100% in 10 seconds or i will be dead <se.6>
/hpp
/wait 10
/mk off <me>

This will activate living dead, tell in the chat, make a sound effect (the 6 is funny and give the biggest attention), mark you and take the mark of in 10 seconds after activation. The chat and sound works only in party.

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Originally Posted by Nedkel

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That's not really how Living Dead works and it is better if you want a call-out macro for Living Dead/Walking Dead to break it into two macros. It's annoying, especially considering how the other tanks have much more straight forward "Invulnerable" moves, but it is what it is even if it sucks.

When you activate Living Dead you have 10 seconds to drop to 0 hp or else Living Dead goes away and does nothing. You DO NOT want to be healed during that time at all as it could result in wasting the ability.
If you drop to 0 hp during those 10 seconds, you don't die and the Walking Dead state activates during which you cannot drop below 1 hp (i.e. can take damage but can't die) for 10 seconds but require to be healed for an amount equaling your total HP, not to be confused with needing to be healed to full health, before that time elapses or you will die. If you get healed the necessary amount, Walking Dead goes away which stops the "you die" effect but also gets rid of any time left on the "you can't be killed" effect.

It's really best to break it into two macros. The first one activates Living Dead, calls out that you used it and says to not get healed until Walking Dead gets activated. The second one gets used when Walking Dead gets triggered to call out that it is now active and that you need to be healed for 100% of your health within 7-8 seconds (I recommend saying a shorter amount instead of 10s so that healers don't wait until the last second and you die because of it).

@OP
Good luck with the macros. I have had two macros for calling out Living Dead and Walking Dead since DRK was released and I have yet to get a DF healer that handled Living Dead properly even when my macros tell them what to do. They always end up healing right away causing Living Dead to be wasted or I end up getting killed by Walking Dead because they didn't heal me after Walking Dead activated. I pretty much gave up relying on Living Dead in DF PUGs a long time ago.