Show Me Your HUD UI Layouts

[Xirean]

The colored box sections are toggle controlled by the bar in the bottom right.
The gear icon in that bar turns off most of my UI. I often use that for Gold Saucer gates.

Edit: The bottom right bar is bound to my numpad. My abilities are bound to keyboard 1 to 12. I use left shift and left ctrl along with a 12 key gaming mouse for all my abilities.
Toggel bars are for clicking only.

[kevin_satron]

Dont mind the naked catgirl

[MaxCarnage]

I have all my HUD stuff at the bottom of my screen for convenience. That way I'm not blocking majority of the fight and I don't have to look around as much to see what's going on.

My focus bar is above my hotbars so that if I'm checking my CDs, or looking at my party's health, I can still see what's being cast.

All my attack HBs are keybound to the NUMPAD. 0-9, [.], and [/]. Then a CTRL set and an ALT set. I have my HBs 4x3 so that my skills can be in the same spot in correlation to their keybind. Makes it easier for me to remember what skill is what key.

I rebound walk from the numpad [/] to the numpad[*] to make it work better.

That way my left hand is for moving and targeting my party, and my right hand is for attacking and turning the camera. Took 3 years of tweaking my HUD to get to this stage and I love it.

I also have my side hotbar above my chat that doesn't have keybinds. I just click them.

[Kacho_Nacho]

On DDs and tanks I play keyboard only.


On healers I use middle, nav forward, and nav back mouse buttons for mouseover heals, and make sure Sprint and Surecast are bound to mouse buttons as well.


More detailed keybinds:

You definitely should not use all twelve keys from [1] to [=] if you don't have both hands on the keyboard. This is because of Fitts's Law, which states that the difficulty of pressing a button increases the farther you have to move to press the button. If you only have one hand on the keyboard, you have to move your hand an obscene distance to be able to reach the other end of the number row which will make accurately pressing those buttons difficult, and then you have to move an obscene distance back to your resting position which will then make pressing should-be-easy buttons difficult while you reposition.

If you play with left hand on keyboard and right hand on mouse, you should limit your controls to this green section of the keyboard, though you might need to extend into the yellow section on some jobs:

This minimizes left hand movement, which will increase input speed and accuracy.

This is very much what I had in mind of trying, except not keybinding any abilities to ` and Tab. Tab is my targeting key, and ' is my focus target key, and they have been that way through all my MMOs. It'll take too much effort to undo my muscle memory.

[DiaDeem]

I try to keep my interface as clean as possible, so I can see as much of the game's visuals as possible. I only have Party, Friends and NPC names active at all times. Everything else is Names When Targeted. I'd also make some UI elements smaller to see even more of the game itself but my eyes aren't great and I need to actually be able to see things on the UI lol.

It's so fun to look at everyone's UI!
I think it's so interesting to see what each player prioritizes and where everything fits for each person.

[TaleraRistain]

You definitely should not use all twelve keys from [1] to [=] if you don't have both hands on the keyboard.

Depends on the person. I do this all the time where I use my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse and use all those keys. You get used to where they are so muscle memory takes over if you do it often enough.

[Rongway]

Depends on the person. I do this all the time where I use my left hand on the keyboard and my right hand on the mouse and use all those keys. You get used to where they are so muscle memory takes over if you do it often enough.

No not "depends on the person". A person might be better at hitting hard-to-hit targets; that does not make the targets themselves any less hard to hit. Do not mistake people being able to use bad UI setups effectively with people having not-bad UI setups. Can people overcome bad UI setups? Yes, of course they can. But it would be far less work and training to just use a not-bad UI setup from the start.

[TaleraRistain]

No not "depends on the person". A person might be better at hitting hard-to-hit targets; that does not make the targets themselves any less hard to hit. Do not mistake people being able to use bad UI setups effectively with people having not-bad UI setups. Can people overcome bad UI setups? Yes, of course they can. But it would be far less work and training to just use a not-bad UI setup from the start.

Or just let people use what works for them instead of trying to deal in "never do X" just because you can't personally manage it.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Let me see your keybinds. What abilities do you assign to which key? I have multiple jobs I'm playing and want to keep similar abilities on the keys.

[Caster-LB]

My keybinds are pretty much standard, generally put AoE's on shiftbar , tank mit , single target healing ect. on ctrl bar , important cooldowns on seperate larger bar

Ground target abilities on middle mouse

X bind to crafting log has always been a ease of use thing