ast cross hotbar setup (PS controller)

Hello everyone. So im sitting at lvl 57 and im having a bit of trouble finding an efficient hot bar setup. I have my main heals on the L2 d pad (i use the controller in my left hand and right using a mouse) but as far as where the rest should go im at a loss.

So how does everyone else's hot bars look?

The AST in this video has a set up very close to mine. The specific locations are a bit different, but he has placed the "categories" in very nearly the same way I have. My dmg, DoTs/Prot., Stoneskin, Ascend are on a secondary bar, but I macro those to automatically switch back to my main bar after casting. I do not use a mouse. Hopefully you can make sense of my "diagram" below.

[XBAR 1] A.Bene/A.Helios/Ex. Detriment/Mal. II----Bene I/Bene II/Helios/Essent. Dignity | Lumi. Ether/Lightspeed/Cleric Stance/Swift Cast----Synergy/Draw/Shuffle/RR/Spread

[XBAR 2] Mal. I/Combust I-II/Disable/Stella----Gravity/(open slots) | Diurnal/Nocturnal/(open slots)----Protect/Stoneskin/Swift Cast/Ascend

"(skill)/(skill)/(skill)/(skill)" are the pad buttons. "----" marks left/right pads (left of ---- is left pad, right of ---- is right pad). "|" marks L1 or R1 (the bottom controller buttons, not the top ones; I can never remember if the bottoms ones are L/R1 or L/R2).

L2 - Up/Left/Down/Right L2 - Tri/Circle/X/Square R2 - Up/Left/Down/Right R2 - Tri/Circle/X/Square

XBar1 Lumi/Time Dilation/CO/CU ---- Draw/Royal Road/Shuffle/Spread ---- Asp Helios/Helios/Detriment/Synastry ---- Asp Benefic/Benefic2/Benefic/Ess Dignity
Xbar2 Swiftcast/Combust/Disable/Stella ---- Cleric's Stance/Malefic2/Gravity/Combust2---- Same as above ---- Same as above


Stoneskin/Protect/Swiftcast/Raise/Food/LB/ect are pretty much shoved into the combined cross bars. I have a seperate line of comands above to keep up with cooldowns as well

Primary hotbar
http://i.imgur.com/wuu1SGD.jpg

Secondary Hotbar
http://i.imgur.com/bewQ1GD.jpg

This is whm but sat is the same setup. I'm not in game so using this.

This is PS4, empty slot is for lv60 spell once I find it.
Edit: I use the R2 + L2 / L2 + R2 setup also and the horizontal bar at bottom so I can see any CD's when they are off cool down.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...pslw0qhfrv.jpg

Mine is is like this:

R2 Side

Cross: Benefic / Circle: Aspected Benefic / Square: Benefic II / Triangle: Draw
Down: Swiftcast / Right: Luminiferous Aether / Left: Lightspeed / Up: Royal Road

L2 Side

Cross: Essential Dignity / Circle: Disable (I have a macro that always cast that on my Focus Target) / Square: Stoneskin / Triangle: Sprint
Down: Synastry / Right: Ascend (I have a macro to Swiftcast it) / Left: Cleric Stance / Up: Exalted Detriment

I use the expanded hotbar thingy and on my R2 + L2 I have:

Cross: Aspected Helios / Circle: Shuffle / Square: Spread / Triangle: Helios
Down: Time Dilation / Right: Protect / Left: Collective Unconscious / Up: Celestial Opposition

On my L2 + R2, I have:

Cross: Aspected Helios / Circle: Shuffle / Square: Spread / Triangle: Helios
Down: Return / Right: (Nothing) / Left: Teleport / Up: Limit Break

My order of wording for all sets is:

Circle, X, Square, Triangle,
Right, Down, Left, Up (Basically is the order as we get new skills)

Set 1 R2 Side:

Draw, Shuffle, Royal Road, Spread
Helios, Benefic II, Benefic I, Aspect Helios

Set 1 L2 Side:

Disable, Essential Dignity, Time Dilation, Aspected Benefic
Ascend, Exalted Detriment, Synastry, Swiftcast

Set 2 R2 Side:

Malefic II, Gravity, Combust I, Combust II
Stella, Diurnal Stance, Noctural Stance, Aero

Set 2 L2 Side:

Celestial Opposition, Luminiferous Aether, Cleric Stance, Sprint
Stoneskin, Collective Unconscious, Limit Break, Lightspeed

L2+R2 Set:

Protect, Limit Break, Mount, Sprint
D-pad is pots and macros

The reason why I use this setup is because the D-pad spells work better while not moving and circle etc for when i am moving and using spells. It is not comfortable to have to move and need to use a D-pad ability, doing that will make me stop briefly before i can run again. With this is not a issue.

Not sure my setup will be very useful since it's really weird set up.
All the numbers are just targeting macros; don't use a mouse and hate having to tab through the party list.

Lightspeed and LB are sitting on a 4th bar where I dumped all the pvp actions. I'm still trying to look for a better place to put lightspeed but, meh.

http://i.imgur.com/D8kNm6r.png

I play on PS3. I mainly use SET2 and SET3. SET4 is for PvP, LB and /aaction macros. I set heals on L2+D because I use <mo> macros. I use a controller in my left hand and a trackball in my right hand.
http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...f6b8ef2b59.png
I use R2+L2/L2+R2 sets for targeting, focustargeting and main commands.

I'm not at home right now, so I can't post image, but my X-hotbar is something like:

1st
L2 - Up - Disable Right - CO Down - Synastry Left - Cleric Macro (activate cleric and switch to X-bar 2)
---- /\ - Helios O - Asp.Benefic X - Asp.Helios |_| - Lightspeed

R2 - Up - Protect Right - Swift-Ascend Down - CU Left - Exalted Detriment
---- /\ - Benefic O - Essential Dignity X - Stoneskin |_| - Benefic II

2nd
L2 - Up - Disable Left - CO
---- /\ - Gravity X - Blizz II |_| - Lightspeed

R2 - Up - Stella Right - Combust II
---- /\ - Combust O - Cleric/X-HB1 X - Malefic |_| - Malefic II

I use the same bar for R2+L2 and L2+R2, cause I never know when I press each button

Up - Draw Right - Royal Road Down - Shuffle Left - Spread
/\ - Sprint O - Time dilation X - LA |_| - Limit Break

But with this Ideas I see my bar is not as good as it could be. Maybe I'll try new setups and if I find something better I post here again ^.^

how do you activate skill on your cross bar when you're using a controller?

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Originally Posted by jadan2000

how do you activate skill on your cross bar when you're using a controller?

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If you use a PS4 controller, you can use the touch pad to click them. Although I don't recomend to let emergency skills on it. It's more to check your cooldowns or use food, call chocobo/mount and such.