PvP/PvE Hotbars

[Buff_Archer]

You can do this easily on PS3/PS4, once you have this in place you can swap from PVE to PVP based crossbars with one macro, and swap back from PVP to PVE with another macro. And you don't even need separate ones for each job, mine takes care of SMN, SCH, and BRD all at once. Here's what I posted on this before, I don't know how to like back to my old post so I just did a copy/paste of it:

You can macro that.... at least with crosshotbars which is what I use, so I never had a reason to work out a hotbar version. Assuming it's the same principle, since the layout for a Class (LNC) is independent of Job (DRG) and you probably don't run as a Lancer anymore, if u wanted a PVE and PVP version of bars 1 and 2 for DRG, you could copy the PVE bars from DRG 1 to LNC 1 and DRG 2 to LNC 2, then set up DRG 1 and DRG 2 for PVP and copy to LNC 3 and LNC 4. Then a PVP macro would copy LNC 3 & 4 to DRG 1 & 2, and a PVE macro to restore them could copy LNC 1 & 2 to DRG 1 & 2. Even if you have a bar (say bar 4 as being shared between classes) and you can't SEE what you've copied to LNC 4 it's still there. And you don't need to have separate macros for every job, my PVP and PVE one copies ACN slots to SCH and SMN (even though skills aren't necessarily valid for the class) and ARC to BRD. I can even use it while on BLM and it moves my bars for me behind the scenes.

My PVP -> PVP macro looks like this:

/crosshotbar copy ACN 1 SCH 1
/crosshotbar copy ACN 2 SCH 2
/crosshotbar copy ACN 5 SMN 1
/crosshotbar copy ACN 6 SMN 2
/crosshotbar copy ARC 1 BRD 1
/crosshotbar copy ARC 2 BRD 2

And my PVE -> PVP does the same, but with different slot numbers to copy from on ACN/BRD. When I want to update a crossbar I just type the command to copy my updated crossbar back to whichever Class it should override from the job. Might seem complicated but that's me doing 3 separate PVP loadouts involving 3 Jobs and 2 Classes with a single macro to swap each direction, and doing this with just one Job/Class to start with wouldn't take much trial and error.

The difference though is if using hotbars vs crosshotbars the macro would be a tad different, seems like /hotbar copy would be avlb if /crosshotbar copy is, a macro guide should answer that.

[Houston009]

As a controller user, to seamlessly switch between my crossbars I simply turn ON/OFF certain bars.

Character Settings -> Hotbar Settings -> Cross

I have my PvE focused bars set to Hotbar 1 and 2. While my PvP focused bars are set to Hotbar 3 and 4.
---To go from my PvE to PvP bars, I turn OFF Hotbar 1 and 2, and turn ON Hotbar 3 and 4
---To go from my PvP to PvE bars, I turn OFF Hotbar 3 and 4, and turn ON Hotbar 1 and 2

(I also play with L2 and R2 combo configurations in which I just switch between Crossbars 7 and 8 for PvE and PvP)

P.S. It is possible to set Facetarget on a controller to either L3 or R3, you don't have to make a macro dedicated to Facetargetting.

[joshsecret]

sorry to necro, but now more than ever do i wish that PvE and PvP could be different

now as a neutered SCH i wish i wouldnt have to change my cross class every time i decide to try FLs (which is rare TBH)
now clerics wont work and protect is... meh.

it would be nice if PvP and PvE could be separate entries in the armoury system

[Oplusion]

ive customized my ps3 hotbars, I a wireless keyboard for everything and have separate sets for PvP / PVE ... in general two hot bars per ... and then of course theres that one back up hot bar for all classes with abilities you need when you least expect them