Role/Job Selection Switching UI Simplified

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Hi Square-Enix (Creative Business Unit III) or Yoshi-P,

I am writing this QoL improvement topic on the forum as I think the role/job switching function can be improved in the possible future, such as in expansion 7.x.

My idea is that by 7.x we will have 2x Scouting class, 4x Casting class, 2x Striking class, 2x Maiming class, 4x Fending class and 4x healing class, and in the future potential more roles. Therefore to make players life a little easier, when selecting jobs from the character menu or from a hot-bar button action. It will open up an UI that filters and sort all the jobs into their respective roles. I.e. Samurai and Monk under 'Striking'. This way it reduces the amount of button on the hot-bar and de-clusters the players overall UI.

Thanks for reading.

This already exists.

You're describing the functionality of a macro menu utilizing commands to copy hotbars from one to another as well as toggling visibility on and off. I have such a hotbar setup, I click on my Tank menu and it opens all tanks, I click on DPS and it first opens Melee DPS, which then has another (rotating) toggle to Ranged Phys, then Caster, then back to Melee.

It goes beyond job even, you can practically put everything on a hotbar, including most system menus.

1.) Put Menus on individual hotbars on classes [Gladiator, Marauder, Conjurer, Lancer, Pugilist, Rogue, Archer, Thaumaturge, Arcanist], like make GLA Hotbar 1 for Tank jobs, GLA Hotbar 2 for Healer jobs, etc.
2.) Create "/hotbar copy <class> <hotbar# of class> shared <shared hotbar# to overwrite>" macros for each menu

Examples:

##Gladiator hotbars for jobs##
/hotbar copy GLA 1 shared 9
/hotbar display 9 on

/hotbar copy GLA 2 shared 9
/hotbar display 9 on

/hotbar copy GLA 3 shared 9
/hotbar display 9 on

##Toggle to hide Hotbar 9## (You can put this on Gladiator hotbars next to jobs for example)
/hotbar display 9 off

3.) Create a "Main Menu" hotbar (I recommend shared Hotbar 10) and put your various submenu hotbars on it which I listed above.

You can collapse even that Main Menu hotbar by creating essentially two copies of it - one only with the toggle, another with the toggle and the sub menus. It works the same as overwriting one hotbar with different hotbars (like the one with jobs).