Quote Originally Posted by Avidria View Post
Are you using shift modifiers or anything at all? I play mouse/kb and don't even have a gaming mouse, and there are only really a few classes where I have trouble reasonably keybinding everything and needing to click. Even then it's mostly tanks and healers, which I don't play as often as dps, so I really just haven't sat down and taken the time to really organize my hotbars very well for those classes. I bind and use 1-6 and f1-f5, RTYZXFG, and three mouse buttons (I do have two side buttons, and the middle button to bind), and then I have shift 1-3 set up, and that pretty much covers me on most of the classes I care about.

Ofc I do have carpal tunnel and other issues so I'm usually playing with a wrist brace on and can't reach as far as some others could. I could probably have a better more usable setup if I didn't already have hand and wrist problems.

I wouldn't complain if they condensed some things where reasonable, maybe combined some abilities to one button where it makes sense, but I wouldn't actually say FF is too much worse than WoW in terms of hotbar usability. It at least has a better base UI (for hotbars, if literally nothing else) even if there are definitely some mods in WoW that give much more flexibility and a generally better experience overall.
Yeah I'm using shift and ctrl modifiers. The issue is really the default setup in the game for PC which is awful. On Controllers they have one bar and the ability to hold down a trigger to swap that bar with another bar, so they decided this was the way to go with the default version of the controls for the PC. Basically, we end up with Shift + (pick number) sets the bar you see as Hotbar 1 in the default setup. I don't think the CTRL+Number triggering abilities on hotbar 2 was default (some of the things I had set up ages ago before returning). Having anything bound to "7" to "=" puts them out of reach for a lot of peoples left hand due to the maximum reach of the left hand without losing the neutral positioning. Soooo...

To fix the HOT BAR I ended up having to change it to Hot Bar 1 = 4x3 and Hot Bar 2 = 4x3 to maximize the usage of the 1-6 keys, which are the easiest keys for a human hand to reach and also reasonably easy to memorize if someone is using an MMO mouse. ALT, CTRL, and SHIFT determine which vertical level I'm accessing on bars 1 and 2, and this covers most of the abilities you need since it hits 24 slots. However, Gunbreaker requires Continuation to be constantly pressed in a pattern during the gnashing fang combo so there has to be another button that is easy to reach, thus I now add a 6x2 bar on the left side that is bound to keys on the keyboard near the hand controlling the movement. F gets bound to an ability slot along with C and V. Now I've got Continuation on F, so at least I can get gnashing fang working. Amusingly, it looks like a game of space invaders down on the bottom of my screen...