Show Your HUD Layouts and Hotbars!

[Tauu]

Hey folks,

Perhaps we can share ideas for HUD and hotbar setups. I think the ideal HUD should minimize the amount of eye travel to see information and for keyboard and mouse users, hotbars should minimize the time it takes to fire off all of the different abilities we have available. Does that sound about right?

There are so many possible setups that we can have vastly different arrangements. Sometimes certain HUD positioning doesn't work out and you make adjustments to make things more slick. I've spent a lot of time trying to get it right and settled on this (I'm a controller user):



I finally had to put the focus target bar right under my character so I don't miss boss attacks although it still happens on occasion. I have big ability icons for seeing cooldowns and everything else is pretty compact. Most abilities are mapped to the controller with a handful of rarely used ones assigned to a keyboard hotbar. The setup seems to be working pretty well but I'm open to ideas.

Hey controller users, do any of you use both cross hotbar sets that you access by hitting L2 --> R2 and R2 --> L2? By doing so you can have instant access to a total of 32 abilities but it seems confusing to do the trigger buttons in both sequences. Is that too confusing or can you get used to it pretty easily? Right now I have those two sets exactly the same so that it doesn't matter if I hit L2 or R2 first. That only gives me access to 24 abilities though and it would be nice to have the full 32 on there.

So anyway let's see it. What configuration have you settled on?

[SinisterIsBack]

my god how do you play like that?? all that stuff in the middle would drive me nuts

[Allistar]

I'm sorry but how do you see anything going on with your screen that cluttered?

[Woggers]

I have to agree with the first the two responses, that is crazy right there.

[Tashigi]

I am very minimalistic.
The focus bar appears next to my hotbars (To the left).
Other than that, all that you see there is all that I usually see. (Yes I disabled the minimap and I also hate using the world map; typically memorize zones, because the world map is poorly designed).

[Asael]

Yeah, I have no idea how you can play like that. Way too cluttered for me.

My set up:

[corticarte]

my clean HUD layout

[Tauu]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I guess maybe you have to be used to it for it to not look crazy. At full size on a full screen it doesn't look quite as bad and perhaps having a 16:10 monitor as opposed to a 16:9 helps as well (more vertical space), but yes it is cluttered. It just seems to me like there's a lot of information that is helpful to have readily available, right where you're looking. As a healer and tank I don't want to miss anything as that can and does lead to wipes.

I do admire the more simplistic and clean layouts shown by Tashigi, Asael and corticarte. They offer nice views, that's for sure!

[SinisterIsBack]

my clean HUD layout

how did you darken the chat boxes like that?

[corticarte]

how did you darken the chat boxes like that?

click the gearbox next to your chat go to log window settings / log details and turn the chat window trans down to 0 on the slider