As a PS4/PS5 user how will you manage so many new skills on a controller?

[Unholychinchilla]

This is all kinda news to me.
You would be surprised with how many of my PC friends have told me "Wow! How can you even play this game with a controller? There's so many buttons to press....Jesus" XD

Some have even tried to play with a controller and they think it's the dumbest way to play and not enough slots etc etc.

I've seen the PC layouts and I can see why they feel this way. They literally have access to everything. Like they have a giant cross hotbar so to speak.

We on PS4 don't have that luxury. Ive watched tutorials, ive done everything to increase my slots but nothing feel "right". It feels clunky and just not good to play.

For example on ps4 the only TRUE way to increase your slots is to simply make a brand new cross hotbar set. We have a total of 8 cross hot bars, but let's be real here its an absolute chore going past 2.

Imagine playing a savage raid and having to cycle through say 3-4 cross hotbars just to find your skills for each situation?

I can only comfortably play with 2 cross hot bars only because number 2 is simply one button press away (R1). Anything past 2 and its basically a nightmare haha and just not fun to play at all.

Are you using Expanded and WXHB hotbars because with those I never need to properly switch hot bars in combat.

I use set 1 for my most basic abilities, set 8 is tied to expanded hot bar so is accessed with both triggers in either order depending in which half I want and half of set 7 is accessed by double tapping a trigger. That's 40 buttons pretty easily accessed once you muscle memory gets used to it.

Then I just have hotbars 2 to 6 shared and for out of combat stuff.

Controller isn't going to suit everyone mind but I feel a lot of the perception of Controller being difficult is not knowing how to use it to its fullest.

[DiasFlacOg]

Are you using Expanded and WXHB hotbars because with those I never need to properly switch hot bars in combat.

I use set 1 for my most basic abilities, set 8 is tied to expanded hot bar so is accessed with both triggers in either order depending in which half I want and half of set 7 is accessed by double tapping a trigger. That's 40 buttons pretty easily accessed once you muscle memory gets used to it.

Then I just have hotbars 2 to 6 shared and for out of combat stuff.

Controller isn't going to suit everyone mind but I feel a lot of the perception of Controller being difficult is not knowing how to use it to its fullest.

Yup, ive tested all the methods, they just don't feel "right"

The only thing that feels "right" to me is simply having two cross hotbars (1 and 2) and just switching between both with R1 (one simple button press). This gives me easy access to 32 skills which is enough for my main jobs for sure.

I basically taught myself to quickly hit R1 to access my other skills (the ones in cross hotbar 2) and quickly hit R1 to access my other skills (on cross hot bar 1).

The main issue with having more than 2 cross hot bars is simply that when you want o return to cross hot bar 1 from say 2 it wont go to 1 with one R1 button press instead it goes to 3 you basically have to tell yourself to press R1 twice to get back to 1.

lastly it's probably just a "me" problem since this is my first MMO game and used to the "console experience" . Also, it's not really a "problem" since I learned to play with two cross hot bars (1 and 2 as mention before).

I was just a bit worried since I was thinking "maybe I won't be able to play endwalker since I won't have enough slots on my two cross bars for the new skills.