Random Tips, Tricks, & Helpful Information

[Teleniel]

LONG bit on hotbars, and some macro commands


1: you can open your item set list and drag it on to your hotbar to change at a mouse click
2: you can open up the marking menu and drag them on to a hotbar (they can also be added to macros with /marking)
3: /echo is a great way to remind yourself of cooldowns
4: If you use a macro it will stop any other macro you have going, be aware of this when using macros with /wait in them
5: you should really have limit-break on your hotbar somewhere, you can find it in the actions tab
6: you can place any system menu items you want on your hotbars from the actions tab
7: you can place chocobo commands on your hotbar, drag them from the actions tab
8: you can place minions and emotes on the hotbars ... they come from the emote and actions menus

9: there are TONS of different target options for spells in macros ... I don't know them all but I think there is an official list somewhere look it up sometime

<t> - target
<tt> - target's target
<ft> - focus target
<1>, <2>, <3>, <4>, <5>, <6>, <7>, <8> ... this will use the party list and target the player in that member slot
<pet> - this will target your pet (Arc/Smn/Sch)
<mo> - mouse-over this will target whoever your mouse is currently hovering over... either in the party list or their character

This one is a bit more complex...
more UI configure things... you can actually make macros to add or remove UI elements. This can be used to remove clutter on your screen by adding/removing things like the mini-map, duty list and hot-bars.
commands are:
/hotbar display <number> <on/off> ... on/off is an optional command when left out it will toggle the bar
/hud <hud element> <on/off> ...

<hud element> can be
Target Bar
Focus Target
Parameter Bar
Minimap
Main Menu
Server Info
Gil
Inventory Grid
Duty List
Item Help
Action Help
Limit Gauge
Experience Bar
Status Effects

one way I use this is to have 2 hotbars in the same space, with a macro to change which is visible/clickable. My hotbar's 5 and 6... and 7 and 8 are on top of one another, each one has a macro similar to what I have below this. Since I never need to see all the elements at the same time this allows me to save on screen space.
In my particular case, hotbar 5 is shared (and has all my DoW/DoM job swap macros) and hotbar 6 is shared (and has all my DoH/DoL job swap macros)
I have dragged targeting markers out of the targeting menu and put them on hotbar 7... on hotbar 8 I have some food, emotes and other items I only need rarely and never "in a fight"

/hotbar display 6
/hotbar display 5

[Wyyote]

Updated once more with Teleniel's & Alerith's information. Thank you so much!

[Wyyote]

Updated gathering info.

[JagerForrester]

When building a HUD, try to minimize eye and hand movement strain and focus all the relevant information (windows, related inventory items, next level gear, etc) in a particular area without overlap.



If you mainly play with a controller, space is limited. Macro specific global cooldown actions together to utilize space. Do not use /wait, instead spam the macro to activate all said actions, and it will activate the first available action. You will be faster and allows being interrupted (run out of AOE), coming back to the button without waiting for /wait.

"/crosshotbar change #" is another option to utilize time and space. You can create a macro like this and skip the "Press R1+##" step:

/macroicon "Action Name"
/ac "Action Name" <t>
/chotbar change #

Here some other examples of /crosshotbar change #

Mark Enemy 1
/marking "Target to Attack 1" <t>
/chotbar change 5 (Where my Mark 2, 3, 4, and 5 are located, and the macro "Target & Fight")

More controller tidbits, L1 + Right Analog Up & Down = Camera Zoom

[lololink]

I made this for gathering Star items:
At first i found a board only for BTN so i added the MNR one and made it that way, print it and past in somewhere so you don't have to alt+tab to see where is the item and when does it appear ( I only put the items that i felt the most usefull, there was only the botanist one so it may be good to add that in Mor Dhona on the afternoon at the same time it pops for MNR instead of BTN during the morning and you can also add it with a pencil but it can be useful )