Suggestion - Make HUD changes save to your account (and some other things)

As the title suggests I feel like this would be a simple yet welcome change, I personally do not like the default HUD and tend to take at least half an hour adjusting it whenever I make a new character, but I'd much rather have the HUD presets(and preferably keybinds as well) save to my account so I can just slap em on another character. This would also make it when you have to reset a device to fix an issue you don't lose your HUD settings

another thing with the HUD, this might be a glitch I'm not sure but when moving skills between hotbars other than 1 and 2 those skills linger on the hotbar when I switch classes which does not happen when the skill is on hotbar 1 or 2 so sometimes I'll be mining and I'll still have the fishing light on my hotbar

lastly it would be nice if we could have HUD changes saved to Gear Set Lists for more flexibility when switching between jobs

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Originally Posted by TheHoodedHobo

another thing with the HUD, this might be a glitch I'm not sure but when moving skills between hotbars other than 1 and 2 those skills linger on the hotbar when I switch classes which does not happen when the skill is on hotbar 1 or 2 so sometimes I'll be mining and I'll still have the fishing light on my hotbar

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Originally Posted by TheHoodedHobo

this might be a glitch

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Basically nothing in this game is a glitch after it's been in the game for a couple weeks. Things get fixed really quickly here. If it's not from the most recent patch, it's working as intended, and there's either a setting for it somewhere or the devs don't think it should work any other way (which is annoying when the way they think it should work is a blatant violation of best UI/UX practices, but still not a glitch).

thanks for letting me know!

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Originally Posted by TheHoodedHobo

I'd much rather have the HUD presets (and preferably keybinds as well) save to my account so I can just slap em on another character. This would also make it when you have to reset a device to fix an issue you don't lose your HUD settings

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On Windows, you can find the files for hotbars, keybinds and whatnots in `C:\Users\<you>\Documents\My games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\`. Each character is a folder prefixed with `FFXIV_CHR` then some numbers, so you can copy the files from one character to another.
If you're tech savvy, I guess you could also create symlinks for the files you'd want to update automatically.

For device resets, there is an options on the character selection screen, that lets you backup you settings to the server. Though I never had to use it myself.
The button looks like two cogs in the top-right corner of the screen.

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Originally Posted by Estecka

On Windows, you can find the files for hotbars, keybinds and whatnots in `C:\Users\<you>\Documents\My games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\`. Each character is a folder prefixed with `FFXIV_CHR` then some numbers, so you can copy the files from one character to another.
If you're tech savvy, I guess you could also create symlinks for the files you'd want to update automatically.

For device resets, there is an options on the character selection screen, that lets you backup you settings to the server. Though I never had to use it myself.
The button looks like two cogs in the top-right corner of the screen.

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Yeah I know, I just wish you could have it save the HUD layout to the server then apply it to a new character, the character settings backups are character specific and while you can mess with the files it would be very nice to have a dedicated tool