As a PS4/PS5 user how will you manage so many new skills on a controller?

With Endwalker coming soon and adding at least from what I can tell 5 new abilities to each job how will you manage them?

I've only been playing Ff14 for one year but as far as I can tell with every new expansion they add new abilities.

My cross hotbar is literally full now and very cluttered.

I wonder how SE plans on tackling this issue? I also noticed that no one from the FF14 community members who interviewed yoshi p (during the media tour) never asked him anything relating to this matter.

This is not really a complaint, it's more of a discussion on how other console players feel about the mass button bloat that will happen soon.

If this seems like an overreaction or I have false info please feel free to correct me :D

I'm not to worried about it (SAM player). My issue is I don't want to sacrifice emote spots :p

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Originally Posted by DiasFlacOg

With Endwalker coming soon and adding at least from what I can tell 5 new abilities to each job how will you manage them?

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I typically keep my combat skills on Hotbar one, and shift to Hotbar 2 for Buff and some AOE abilities.
So far its been pretty easy to manage my Buttons.
Except for Summoner.....that was stressful for me to figure out

Its not hard i got 4 bars i can easily rotate one for single target/main combo for bossrs
A traah bar to switch to for aoe
Macro rez swiftcast on one bar i can swap towith r1 thing where lb sits and my buffs on l2 thingy

Every job can fit every ability on 2 crossbars (not counting LB), so making use of the Expanded and W crossbars helps alot.

If your info is right and you use Paladin, do not worry about it. Everything Paladin gets is either an upgrade to an existing ability, so no new slots, or it shares a slot with another ability, the 3 sword combo shares a slot with Confiteor.

For other jobs, it is also worth noting that they do get rid of some old abilities to replace with new ones, the idea being they float around the high 20s for number of button slots used (some are more, some are less).

For example, Samurai, while it is getting iirc 2 new buttons to assign (AoE Yukikaze and the 2 GCD damage, sorry, I can't be bothered to look up their names and Shoha 2), you do lose 2 actions in Seigen and Merciful Eyes, so it is only 1 new action to assign.

There is easy access to 48 skills on controller.
-Hold R2/L2 to get 8 respectively
-Hold R2+L2 or L2+R2 to get another 8 each
-Double tap R2/L2 to get 8 respectively again

I'm not worried about not having hotbar space for skills.

Controller players have way more spaces to put skills. There's also skills in classes that are turning in to new skills. Don't know why people keep saying 'omg so many new skills taking up hotbar spots' when there's not...?

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Originally Posted by DiasFlacOg

With Endwalker coming soon and adding at least from what I can tell 5 new abilities to each job how will you manage them?

I've only been playing Ff14 for one year but as far as I can tell with every new expansion they add new abilities.

My cross hotbar is literally full now and very cluttered.

I wonder how SE plans on tackling this issue? I also noticed that no one from the FF14 community members who interviewed yoshi p (during the media tour) never asked him anything relating to this matter.

This is not really a complaint, it's more of a discussion on how other console players feel about the mass button bloat that will happen soon.

If this seems like an overreaction or I have false info please feel free to correct me :D

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Where on earth are you getting this 5 news skills idea from. Admittedly I have only looked at jobs I play regularly, But of those Monk actually has less skills now, Dancer gets 2 new ones, Red Mage gets 1

I'll manage them like I have all this time. By utilizing the various tools and hotbars they've given us.

Some of the new skills will just replace old skills anyway. Not really worried about it.