How do you set up your healer skill bars?

I was just interested in how everyone else sets up their hotbars.

I personally set it up so I have skills grouped by rows and columns. For example(WHM), I normally put my main attack skills in the first column. From bottom to top, stone(binded to 1), holy, assize.

Assize|Swiftcast|Raise|Asylum| |Plenary| Eye 4 Eye|. |Largess|Thin Air|. |Sleep|
Holy. |Benedict|Cure3|Aero 2|Medica2|. |D. Benison|. |Lucid|. Surecast|. |Rescue
Stone |. cure |Cure 2|Aero. | Medica. | Esuna| Regen. |. | |P of Mind| |F.Aura|

Then I have another small hotbar for target markers like 1,2,3,a,b,c,etc
Then another small one with return, teleport, mount, some emotes, sprint, Protect, Limit Break

Hum de dum, let's get going.

Most of my XIV setup is based on 1-10, Ctrl 1-10, and Alt 1-10. As I got more skills that needed to be used often that weren't in easy reach (1-7 for me) I started...mixing and matching. I've ended up with this.

Most of my heals are native keystrokes.
Most of my damage on healers are Alt+ modifiers
Most CDs are Ctrl+ Modifiers.

1-12:
No modifier: Cure 2 | Cure | Benediction | Tetra | Medica | Esuna | Medica 2 |Regen | PoM | Mount | Raise w/ text | Sprint
Alt Modifier: Stone | Rescue | Aero | Fluid Aura | Holy | Break (lol) | Aero again | Stone again | Aero 3
Ctrl Modifier: Cleric Stance | Largesse | Swiftcast | Thin Air | Divine Benison | Luic | Repose | Protect | PI | Tetra again | Raise w/o text

Some of those may seem odd like Regen being an 8 or Rescue being in the DPS areas. A lot of them were fit in to new places when things like Stone I and II became separate and we no longer needed two buttons based on if we were synced or not. Aero being in two spots is another holdover from Aero 1 and Aero 2, things like that.

For those that look hard to hit like Regen (8) or Aero 3 (Alt...9 technically) I did other keybinds. Those are:
Mouse 4 - Regen
Mouse 1 - PI
Mouse 3 - Stone spam (my thumb got tired of holding down Alt so much)
Mouse 6 - sprint
Mouse 10 - Surecast
Mouse 12 - Raise w/ text macro
PoM - V
Cure 3 - X
Asylum - Alt X
Assize - Alt T
Aero 3 - Ctrl G (Tetra used to just be G, now it's both 4 and G and I still hit both of them sometimes to tetra)

For my other healers I try to keep things in similar location. Bane, Holy, Gravity - all "alt 5". Cure 2, Adlo, Asp Benefic, all "1"

My other hotbars, since you're curious - some are set up for CD/proc tracking around my party list. One is reserved for mid battle consumables mostly and has e4e and surecast on it. Another is used for stat potions or on other jobs where I need to fit SOMETHING else in. One more for pets, sound menu, misc things like that. The last two I use are for jobs, chocobo commands, teleports, a few healing potions, etc. In fact it's probably better if I just post my UI at this point.

https://i.imgur.com/S1Merlk.jpg

The bottom right 4 bars and the CD bars near the party list are custom job-specific. The bottom middle, top left, and two on the right are all constant.

Well, I use a PS2 joystick to play. Therefore, I use the x-hotbar.

At WHM, my main bar is more or less like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Do2CRYC.png

I use a controller, so crossbars are how I go about. It's also probably easier for me to describe how I set them up rather than lay them out in text format. The Cross bar set up basically utilizes three out of a total of eight for quick access. You have a simple L2 or R2 tap then a directional key or button command for one set; another set is accessed by going L2->R2 or R2->L2; and the last is double tap L2 or R2. I mention this because the frequency in which an ability is used will determine which set it is put on.

How I set them up, and how I would set them up on PC is comparable to a keyboard in the sense that the keys are not laid out alphabetically, but strategically in order to facilitate user input. So as an example, my ogcd heals are spread out amongst several crossbars instead of grouped together on a single one. When I set up my crossbars, I literally run around the open world or PoTD fighting mob after mob to 'feel' where I want the abilities to be placed. It's a whole lot of, "I don't like this here; it would be better here" kind of trial and error.

Because WHM and AST are so similar, their overall crossbar set up is nearly identical. When playing either of these jobs, I know that L2->R2->right on the directional pad is my main ogcd heal (tetra/essential dignity), or L2->right directional pad is Regen/Aspected bene. SCH is whole different animal though. There are some similarities such as where I put my limit break, healer bubble, and current role skills, but for the most part, SCH plays so differently than the other two healers that the comparison to my WHM/AST crossbars is night and day.

Main bar for commonly used heals, shift for commonly used CDs, alt for less commonly used CDs, ctrl for DPS.

There are some exceptions, like protect is on the far end of my alt hotbar since I don't really use that in combat.

I have a set button-pattern for all games like this, be it WoW, FFXIV or countless other MMORPGS.

Numeric Keys, with or without modifiers depending on button-amount (typically for emergency or burst buttons).
QWERTY with and without SHIFT and/or CTRL modifiers (typically for sub-abilities).
ASDFGH with and without SHIFT and/or CTRL modifiers (typically for main-abilities).

It is worth mentioning that should any button (such as SHIFT + W) require pressing whilst moving, games such as WoW/FFXIV etc allow you to run by holding LMB+RMB together, hence there is no detriment to either movement or abilities when bound this way. I very rarely move with WASD other than to strafe, hence I bind SHIFT/CTRL + S/W but not A/D.

Here's some screenshots of my WHM, WAR and BRD buttons for example.
https://imgur.com/3qEVGbJ
https://imgur.com/9ZkGV1O
https://imgur.com/QxYSg9Y

As you can see, it's not dissimilar to how I have my bars setup in WoW:
https://i.imgur.com/qoNROBN.png

3 rows of hotbars. Role skills are on the right.
Hotbar 1, heals and any skills that often used.
Hotbar 2, damage/dots/ast cards things/less common utilities.
Hotbar 3, aoe things and power heal.

I rearrange hotbar 1 in between 2 and 3 for easier lookout on procs and CDs.

AST
https://i.imgur.com/n7IigQc.png

WHM
https://i.imgur.com/OR2ZMW1.png
Ignore the auto attack button lol.

https://i.imgur.com/JrtaI4c.png

...and I still can't fit Rescue. :(

https://i.imgur.com/tDR47Uj.png

This is my current hotbar setup for all of my healers.

SCH, then AST, then WHM.

I use 1-6,Q-Y, A-H, and Z-N for my left half. Alt + those keys covers the right half. I have the pet hotbar bound to Shift + 1-6 and Shift + Q-Y but I added the cooldowns onto the right side of the regular hotbars for convenience.

I refuse to use WASD movement when the mouse can handle that for you just as well when set up properly. To facilitate that, I have legacy-type set in my movement settings in character configuration, which makes me always move in the direction the camera is pointing. I have a reverse button bound to my mouse as well, but the only thing I use it for is positionals if I'm playing a melee class.

Alt 1-6 are buttons I try to use on all classes. The macro on Alt-5 for AST is just a pull macro. The Alt-6 macro just removes some of the UI that gets in the way during raids.

You can tell how little I play WHM because it still has a protect macro.

Everything fits on 4 bars on every class as long as you don't overdo it on the macros. Doing so is usually a sign you messed up. I still have slots available for food/pots but I don't use any of these classes as mains in raid at the moment regardless so I'm not worried about them.

I don't particularly care for separate hotbars exclusively for cooldown tracking either. especially when arranging your skills in a sensible manner facilitates that already. My keybinds also help a ton with this admittedly. which frees me up to use 4 hotbars for all the miscellaneous stuff I use on a daily basis in game.

Heals on the left, DPS on the right, AOE relatively together.

This is how I have mine set up: http://questwizard.net/tmp/whmhotbars.png

The two macros on the left get replaced if I have a specific one to use for a certain fight, like marking the shell in Susano and such.

Yes, I don't use keybinds at all. I know most people are going to call me out on it but I've gotten so used to the layout that I can weave OGCDs just fine without them. Even double weaving when I need to hasn't been a problem.

I have my movement keys shifted right by one key to ESDF. Quickbar hotkeys are arranged clockwise around that, on ZAQ123456TGB. This gives me easy access to 12 hotkeys without having to stray far from the movement keys. First quickbar uses plain keys, second uses Ctrl as modifier. Additionally I have four slots bound to the side buttons of my mouse (two buttons with and without Ctrl) for a total of 28 slots. So far I haven't needed more, though I haven't gotten into the really hard content yet.

I use camera-relative movement because then I don't have to keep track which way my character is facing. I also use a gamepad for more relaxed content and it's easier to have keyboard movement work the same way. Mouse is mostly reserved for rotating the camera, selecting enemies and ground targeting, but I occasionally use it for selecting party members lower down on the list (F5-F8 are harder to reach than F1-F4) or in other alliance groups. A few skills I have in click-only slots because they're not critical to use quickly in combat (protect, summons etc).

My WHM setup has single heals on 1-5 (cure, cure2, cure3, regen, tetra), plenary on 6, AoE heals on Ctrl+1-4 (medica, medica2, asylum, assize), benison on 5, attacks on TGB (aero2, stone, holy) and Ctrl+T (aero3), various buffs on ZAQ (presence, largesse, esuna) and Ctrl+Q (thin air). I'm pretty sure Ctrl+GB have something too but without opening the game I'm not sure what. Possibly fluid aura and repose. Mouse buttons have benediction, lucid dreaming, swiftcast and raise. A few skills are arranged a bit illogically, largely because I'm relatively new to Lv70 content where they can actually be used.

I've mostly healed on WHM recently so my memory is a bit fuzzy on what my SCH and AST setups look like. AST is pretty similar to WHM in that heals are divided between single-target and AoE and attacks are in the right block. SCH has heals on 1-6, attacks on Ctrl+1-6 and some mixture of buffs and utilities in the remaining keys.

I set them up based on usage mostly. Having played wow for longer than FF I already have favourable rotational keybinds but as scholar I feel there are more binds than in WoW of course.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...74/actbars.png

So i have my bars also set up in the typical wow fashion also ^^

I have set up quite a few macros that help to save on action bar space, my fairy summon macro also changes shift-E, shift-A and shift-S to the spells of each fairy, so 6 binds essentially combined into 3. I also cheat with an MMO mouse allowing me 13 extra binds, 12 i use from the MMO buttons and 1 extra on top (its a logitech G600 with the G-shift button rebound).

I use binds with shift and control modifiers on top of the normal keys and mouse buttons.

The macro I mentioned for my fairy summon is as follows as I would say its one of the best macros I have found for reducing button bloat! I know this might not be as helpful to you as you seem to be playing WHM but it might become if you delve into SCH or find use for it in other ways, its also helpful for those checking your thread who might play SCH!

Quote:

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/micon "Summon"
/ac "Summon"
/hotbar pet "Fey Illumination" eos 2 4
/hotbar pet "Whispering Dawn" eos 2 5
/hotbar pet "Fey Covenant" eos 2 6

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1-5 Physick, Adloquium, Succor, Whispering dawn/Fey caress, Indomitability
Alt+1-4 Broil 2, Bio 2, Miasma, Energy Drain
V Aetherflow
B Shroud
G Dissipation
E Esuna
Q Sacred Soil (thinking of changing this)
` Lustrate
Alt+` Fey Union
Z shadowflare
C excog
F chain stratagem
x cleric stance
R Sprint
mouse 4 lagress
mouse 5 rouse
Alt+mouse 4 Fey Covenant/Fey Wind
Alt+mouse 5 Fey Ill/Silent Dusk
Shift+mouse 4 Miasma 2
Shit+mouse 5 Bane
mouse 6 swift cast
mouse 7 emergency tactics
mouse 8 deployment tactics

Both my sch are whm use pretty much the same setup.

On the left side of my main bar I have all my often used skills like cures and aoes cures, esuna, etc. 1 is always reserved for regen/lustrate/Essential Dignity. The middle of the bar is used for cure boosts and such like largesse. Right side of the bar is for things like aetherflow, cards and such.

I don't have alt/ctrl set up because instead I bound my F keys to my second row which is where I keep things like benediction, aoe shields like collective unconscious and sacred soil and dps abilities. I cure by clicking on names in the pt list so I don't use my F keys for anything else and it makes it super easy and faster to just move my finger up and click instead of clicking on 2 buttons at once having to move my entire hand.

3rd row are things that are not often used and I only click on like pots, protect, raise, ast stances, lucid dreaming, fairy/egi summon and such.

4th row is a shared bar and where I keep things like limit break, basic hp/mp pots and such that all jobs use.

I can post mine later, but basically I have my offensive stuff on one side, and defensive stuff on another. I play WXHB, so the double tap bars are all major cooldowns instead of regularly accessed stuff.

I know this is mostly for keyboard, but I'll throw my crossbars in for the hell of it. They're basically just split up with healing on bar 1 and DPS on bar 2, with special things like Limit Break on L2&R2

WHM
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...9713/WHM_1.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6165/WHM_2.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...5168/WHM_3.png

SCH
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...3658/SCH_1.png (A bit of overflow into the W bar there. The macro is just auto Obey and to swap the fairy spells depending on who's out.)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0355/SCH_2.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...6979/SCH_3.png

AST
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...8336/AST_1.png

For some reason the 2nd bar didn't register, but it's basically the same as WHM where it can be with all card stuff on L2.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...2826/AST_3.png

Wow... I don't know how you guys can bind 1-10 with alt and ctrls... for me it's a bit clunky. I've tried and never grew accostumed of mouse steering or moving. I really tried to bind alt and ctrl, but never worked in any game for me.

1-5: Regen / Cure / Cure 2 / Benediction / Esuna - These are the basic healing spells
C, Shift+C, V, B: Stone / Holy / Aero / Aero 2 - These are the basic offensive spells
Middle mouse / Shift + Middle mouse: Cure 3 / Medica 2 - Here is the basic AoE heal kit
Mouse extra 1 / Shift + Mouse extra 1: Benison / Asylum - OGCDs
Mouse extra 2 / Shift + Mouse extra 2: Tetragrammaton / Assize - OGCDs

The big cooldowns I set in a floating bar near the party frame, extra size, and I manually click them.

The situational spells are in the center, and I click them too, since I seldom use.

So for my keyboard setup I have the first row as 1-9 keys with the last 3 being Side Mouse 1 and 2, then pushing the scroll key. Of course I also you ALT+ and CTRL+. Additionally I have q and e as extra skill keys and r for sprint. I catch hell for my ui by friends but I have everything I need and can still see my character well enough XD I posted my main heals down to my last. Funny enough my most clutter (SCH) is what I main heal on and least clutter is (WHM) the one I play rarely cause my co-heal is usually that :3. Sorry for the small screenies, not trying to blow up the forum size lol

SCH HUD:
https://image.ibb.co/kSPbUf/SCH2.png

AST HUD:
https://image.ibb.co/cn2rvL/AST2.png

WHM HUD:
https://image.ibb.co/kjBUh0/WHM2.png

-Keyo Reinhart