DRG lv 50 Cross Hotbar Setup?

[AvonRekaes]

Here's what I got so far:

L2
Left Internal Release
Down Blood for Blood
Right Power Surge
Up Leg Sweep
Square Heavy Thrust
Cross Fracture
Circle Phlebotomize
Triangle Jump

R2
Left Impulse Drive
Down Disembowel
Right Chaos Thrust
Up Spineshatter Dive
Square True Trust
Cross Vorpal Thrust
Circle Final Thrust
Triangle Life Surge

This is what I have managed to plan, but I don't know what to do about the third attack jump from Dragoon or Mercy Stroke. I didn't account for mercy stroke because it wasn't in Ayvar's rotation.

Your suggestion to put all the off gdc buffs in one button (I assume I'd add Power Surge to it) is very interesting, but how do you use it without wasting some of the buffs? For example, I want to hit Blood for Blood as early in my rotation as possible, but I want to save Life Surge for just before using a comboed Final Thrust while my Heavy Thrust buff and my Disembowel debuff are on. Also, how are you saving space if you have the icons up to look at anyway? Is there a way to have other non-button hotbars on the screen at the same time as the cross hotbar?

[EasymodeX]

how do you use it without wasting some of the buffs? For example, I want to hit Blood for Blood as early in my rotation as possible, but I want to save Life Surge for just before using a comboed Final Thrust while my Heavy Thrust buff and my Disembowel debuff are on.

Life Surge is not on the macro. LS has a specific use case: "before Full Thrust", and use it at almost any other time is a DPS loss because it modifies weaker attacks. Edit: Although this is actually just a broad assumption. It would be an interesting analysis to determine how much of a DPS loss it would be to use it on cooldown rather than synchronizing it with Full Thrusts. It would probably be minuscule.

BFB, IR, and Mercy Stroke all have the following condition: "anytime".

Power Surge has its own use case for "Jump" (and SSD I guess), but using other abilities won't mess up Power Surge. I just have to stop rollfacing the macro button if a Jump isn't available / I don't plan on using a Jump soon.

Also, how are you saving space if you have the icons up to look at anyway? Is there a way to have other non-button hotbars on the screen at the same time as the cross hotbar?

It saves hotbar space, not screen space. I'm not really familiar with the crossbar's detailed operation, but it seems likely you should be able to display additional hotbars on the screen and move them, at least on the PC. If not, then it won't work unfortunately.

As a sidenote, this method also enables a KBM player to manually click something like Mercy Stroke (in the very infrequent situation where you want to use MS, but do NOT want to use BFB, but BFB is available ... this situation occurs for oddly-timed Gaols on Titan and for certain Conflag situations on Twintania ... this comment does not apply to controller users though ...).

Edit: A controller player might be able to put Mercy Stroke in an obscure crossbar location, and then only deal with accessing it in the situations outlined above, but use the macro for general MS usage.