PS4/PC gamepad (maybe) situational awareness hotbars and a nifty SMN macro

[Delvish]

Hey everyone, made a nifty discovery this weekend on the PS4. You can enable both the cross hotbar and standard hotbars at the same time! Naturally with a gamepad you will only use the cross hotbar, but you can only see 16 icons at a time. Having a hotbar stacked with 12-24 (1-2 hotbars) with abilities on cooldown timers you don't normally see gives you much higher visibility on your skills. Just go to the hotbar section in your character configuration menu and you can set them to visible and customize at your leisure.

SMNs may see the greatest utility out of this. I went through and created an SA hotbar for each one of my summons, 7-9. These ones stay hidden after I make them. hotbar 10 is blank and is the one that remains visible. Below is a nifty line to add to your summoning macro if you do something like this:

/micon "Summon"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Summon" <me> (incase swiftcast fails)
/wait
/ac "Summon" <me>
/chotbar copy SMN 5 SMN 4
/hotbar copy SMN 7 SMN 10

"/chotbar copy 'job' '1-8' 'job' '1-8'" copies your cross hotbar to another hotbar. In my case I set it to copy over my L2+R2 hotbar.
"/hotbar copy 'job' '1-10' 'job' '1-10'" copies your standard hotbar to another hotbar. In my case it is the vertical (7-10, horizontal is 1-6) hotbar for ifrit to my SA hotbar #10.

Happy hunting!

[Akirakogami]

already do something like this. Did not know about the hot bar copy command. don't really understand the point of it.

[Delvish]

already do something like this. Did not know about the hot bar copy command. don't really understand the point of it.

It is more of a SMN thing, so we can show one hotbar depending on our current summon. Not have Ifrit's icons showing when we are using Garuda, etc.

[Calyanare]

It is more of a SMN thing, so we can show one hotbar depending on our current summon. Not have Ifrit's icons showing when we are using Garuda, etc.

You can also use /chotbar change or /hotbar change to do the same thing, without having to constantly copy hotbars.

I mean, it's not exactly the same, but it's another tool that is more useful in some instances.