Macro/Crossbar layout help needed

[PiedPiper]

I play PS3, PLD main, exp on all game content. You need only your one top bar, one R2+L2 bar, and one macro to fit every pld tool onto your bars with ready access.

Do not macro your roh combo to a single button. Even if the game accepted fractional waits (which it doesnt') it would still be nearly impossible to get it dialed in to going as fast as you can manually (owing to latency and the small gains from skill speed, etc). If you go with the /wait 3... god your combo will be so slow! You'd have such low threat and damage per second.

First, enable the new R2+L2 option. Stick your oaths, stone skin, fracture, stun & fast blade to mana drain combo here. I would also suggest putting flash here so you can use it in aoe situations where you'd want to cycle draining mana and using flash without having to enter and re-enter the sub menu. Alternatively, you can put tempered will in here and just revert back to flash on your top bar. (TW is the only skill left over from top bar and this one sub bar if you put flash here).

Decided how you want to do it, but I suggest dividing all of your offensives skills to one trigger, and defensive skills to the other trigger. For me, I placed offense on R2 (you hold your sword in your right hand, so it seemed more intuitive to me) and defensive to L2 (shield side).

L2:
---------Mark Target 1--------|||-----------Hallowed------
Sentinel------------ Awareness|||Convalesce--------Bulwark
-------------Flash------------|||------------Rampart-------

R2:
---------Spirits Within----------- --|||-------Rage of H-----------
Shield Lob------------Circle of Scorn|||Savage---------Shield Swipe
-----------Provoke-----------------|||-------Fast Blade-----------

Keen eyes will notice that Fight or Flight, Foresight and Mercy Stroke are missing. IMO, foresight is so weak it cannot be used as a cd for emergencies or even big hits. The only real use for it is to keep it on cool down to help level your damage down over time. Similarly, Mercy Stroke isn't really useful for specific situations but rather something to keep on cool down to max your dps. Fight or Flight is also another tool for maxing your dps and threat over time, and there are only a very few places int he game you would want to hold it for. IMO, even these places (conflag, certain dreads in T2, etc) the pld using FOF isn't going to make the difference. If your group is so close you have to be usign FOF every time to get through it... you've got bigger problems. Accordingly, I'd rather use it to max my threat and keep it on cd. As such, I use one macro for pld:

/macroicon "Fast Blade'
/ac "Fast Blade" <t>
/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Flight or Fight" <me>
/ac "Foresight" <me>

You'll naturally use up these skills while wailing on the button during the gcd after ROH. If you notice one go of, stop hitting it and wait for the gcd to finish (that way you don't clip your rotation by using more than one off gcd skill during a gcd). You can keep hitting it after you land Fast for a moment before moving onto Savage to get max chances to proc these skills and keep them as close to perma-cd as possible.

You really only need one target mark. Throw it up, and right before the target dies put it on the next thing you want the party to pewpew. Since its right there on your top bar its no trouble at all to use.