sooo /Castsequence?

[radioactive_lego]

I've heard of some players setting up something like this by swapping out the entire hotbar. Use some extra hotbars that aren't needed (like some of the later hotbars for DoL classes) to store multiple versions of your main hotbar that vary only on a single slot. For instance, setting BTN hotbars 5, 6, and 7 up to mirror your hotbar 1 skills for one of your battle classes. BTN hotbar 5 would have a macro in slot 1 saying use skill A and then copy BTN hotbar 6 onto your main hotbar. On that one, the same slot has a macro saying to use skill B and then copy BTN hotbar 7 onto your main hotbar. That one in turn has it use skill C and then swap back to the original hotbar as stored on BTN 5.

.... hotbar still switches to that next skill regardless. It's why I've never used this pattern myself (well, that and the fact that it seems like a pain to set up in the first place).

Right on the money.
To be clear, here's how you set that up, assuming you want your skill chain or cast sequence to be on your "x" button on your controller. For the purposes of this example I'll use the PLD aggro skill chain.

step 1: Make yor #1 hotbar just the way you like it, but leaving the "X" spot blank for that skill chain.*
step 2: Use the command line "/chotbar copy current 1 current 2"
step 3: Use the command line "/chotbar copy current 1 current 3"
step 4: Make the following macro in the user macro section:

a.
/micon "fast blade"
/ac "fast blade"
/chotbar change 2

b.
/micon "savage blade"
/ac "savage blade"
/chotbar change 3

c.
/micon "rage of halone"
/ac "rage of halone"
/chotbar change 1

step 5: Place these macros in the blank "x" spaces on your chotbar; a. on 1, b. on 2, c. on 3.
step 6: Check your work. Always verify your chotbars are switching appropriately, then test your skill chain on a slightly lower level mob, so you can get the "feel" for timing them properly.

* I suggest having an "interrupt" button that returns you to the start point. This is so, if for whatever reason, your skill chain was ruined you can start again with minimal loss. Otherwise you'll have to fast forward the "x" button a time or two to reset your chain to the beginning.

Since the 16 skills you place on these 3 hotbars willl be pretty static, I also recommend the use of the "double shoulder press" chotbar for not often used, but very useful skills. This is the best way to have access to skills without hard switching your hotbar and screwing up the rotation of your new sequenced skills.

Lastly, I suggest going here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...os-with-hotbar
And upvoting the suggestion and leaving a positive comment. This would enable everything I said above but without having to switch hotbars. The action change would come from switching macros on a single hotbar.