Am I the only one troubled by the Pet Hotbar?

This is PC

First of all, over half the button on it I don't use or i rarely click.
The ones I use, its easier to use it on your normal hotbar by putting it there

Pet hotbar cannot be customized
Pet hotbar cannot be invisible (right click on layout does nothing)
Pet hotbar cannot go away (option in character config does not work...)

I hope we get a fix soon, because as a scholar / arcanist / summoner, i cannot imagine you not using your pet...

I made the bar smaller and sat it on top of my other ones. Keeps it tucked away nicely, but I only ever play with one hotbar on my screen anyway.

Nope you're not the only one ;) I really hope SE decides to remove the restrictions in place very soon.

You are not the only one, and it's even worse for gamepad players, though at least it can be turned off for gamepad. I'd personally like to have pets' skills droppable on normal hotbars as an automatically changing icon instead of individual icons for each pet's skills in the actions & traits window ("Pet Action 1" instead of separate icons for "Gust," "Embrace," etc.) This would render the pet hotbar completely obsolete, though I'd keep it as an option... just as an extra hotbar that auto-hides when no pet is summoned rather than a pre-configured mess.

I don't use my pet hotbar at all and it is not visible. I would have been more likely to use it if it were customizable but I really find that it's kind of useless in general and turned it off. There is generally only a handful of abilities you would need on your bar for pets and they can all be added to other hotbars so I think that's why people don't care.

I'm not sure why your option to hide the bar in character config is not working but I can confirm that it works just fine for me.

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Originally Posted by DoctorPepper

I don't use my pet hotbar at all and it is not visible. I would have been more likely to use it if it were customizable but I really find that it's kind of useless in general and turned it off. There is generally only a handful of abilities you would need on your bar for pets and they can all be added to other hotbars so I think that's why people don't care.

I'm not sure why your option to hide the bar in character config is not working but I can confirm that it works just fine for me.

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The option to hide it is only for gamepad. If you play with mouse and keyboard you cannot hide it.

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

I made the bar smaller and sat it on top of my other ones. Keeps it tucked away nicely, but I only ever play with one hotbar on my screen anyway.

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I try to find a good place to put it, but it doesn't look right

I have buffs / debuffs for myself above my hotbar, and i am used to looking at there i don't want to move that

I mean, at least if it was vertifcal, i can stick it at the side of something and pretend it doesn't exist lol

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Originally Posted by Phantasmid

The option to hide it is only for gamepad. If you play with mouse and keyboard you cannot hide it.

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Well I admit that is retarded.. I use gamepad and mouse/keyboard together so that would explain why I was able to hide it.

I hate it too, and I'm really hoping there will be bar addons to make it better ♥

You are not the only one! I am fairly OCD about how I set things up, and the pet hotbar just gets in my way. I made it as small as possible and tucked it out of the way, but I really, really want an option to have it just not exist :)

I have the gamepad UI but activate a few action bars and use keyboard and mouse for whm and arcanist. I suppose it's a workaround since I don't even have access to the pet action bar. I know you can choose when to display the cross bar, not sure if you can have it always hidden.

I have only one thing to say to the devs regarding pet control and pet bar interface: Go play World of Warcraft Warlock, and learn.

I really wish we could have like 3 buttons on my bar that change depending on what I have summoned.

I certainly don't have the keybinds for every single move that every pet makes. Even just removing the auto-attacks, that's roughly 9 buttons.

I also agree with the above poster. Warlock pet control is WoW is much easier than here. Hade little trouble keybinding everything.

I like that they have one button for the pet's signature attack, but I wish it was like that for all of them.

I currently have three buttons keybound for EOS, and I don't want to have to keybind another three for Selene, another three for Ifrit, etc.

Hiya, it's not too bad, just takes a little getting used to.

While you can't customize it, you can bind it. The last 4 are the only ones that change really, all the other ones stay the same like sic, obey, etc.

I have mine setup like this:

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] <- this is the Pet Bar

*Not sure which ones are Place, Follow and Steady but lets say Place is 4, Follow is 3 and Steady is 7*

3= Ctrl + =
4 = Ctrl + 2
7 = Ctrl + 1

9 = F1
10 = F2
11 = Ctrl + F1
12 = Ctrl + F2

*9, 10, 11 and 12 are your pets' specials. BUT those key binds will never change so Silence on Selene will be 10 and Whispering Wind on Eos will be 10 too which means on my set up both will use F2. These settings will also Spill over to SMN pets too.*

You can bind from your Options menu. I can post a picture of mine when I get home if you guys would like to give you an idea. . haha I might not be making sense.

Hope this helps!

Being a gamepad player, I just turned the thing off and manually added the important pet commands into one of the layers I scroll through.

Something I recommend to ALL pet class players that use a gamepad.

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Originally Posted by Zfz

I have only one thing to say to the devs regarding pet control and pet bar interface: Go play World of Warcraft Warlock, and learn.

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I actually prefer the companion bar in SWTOR to pet hot bars ;)

The one thing I could use over everything else in the game is the ability to scale the entire UI and the ability to change the hotbars layout (horizontal/vertical, half width but double stacked, add or remove number of slots).

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Originally Posted by diulalasing

This is PC

First of all, over half the button on it I don't use or i rarely click.
The ones I use, its easier to use it on your normal hotbar by putting it there

Pet hotbar cannot be customized
Pet hotbar cannot be invisible (right click on layout does nothing)
Pet hotbar cannot go away (option in character config does not work...)

I hope we get a fix soon, because as a scholar / arcanist / summoner, i cannot imagine you not using your pet...

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The pet bar can be disabled so you are wrong.

The pet hotbar is a POS through and through, but I guess that's understandable given that the class is new... and I don't think SE has ever done a game with a pet/companion UI before. It feels more like when they were trying out other MMOs, they saw the classes with pets but didn't fully grasp the importance of hotkeys with them. Then again, the pet commands aren't THAT important to concern yourself with... and you can hotkey the abilities anyway I believe.

I've wanted an option to hide the pet hotbar since day one.

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Originally Posted by MumboJumbo

I've wanted an option to hide the pet hotbar since day one.

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I can hide it.

PC player. Not using gamepad.

Pet hotbar is constantly hidden.

As mentioned in this thread, in patch 2.1 we will be making a few adjustments to pet hotbars and abilities, starting with being able to hide the pet hotbar for mouse and keyboard users and addressing the use of pet actions for macros.