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    Itseotle's Avatar
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    Itseotle Irracido
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    Diabolos
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    Dragoon Lv 60

    Macros and Gearsets?

    So I was trying to clean up my UI today when it hit me that there are currently 21 classes in the game, and 3 more on the way in Heavensward. I really enjoy being able to instantly equip a certain class at the press of a button, so instead of having to open the Character Menu, click the "Gear Set List", scroll down to the class, and right-click on "Equip Set", I prefer to have all my gearsets on hotbars. With 21 classes, thats a lot of buttons across 2 hotbars so I was trying to find a way to condense all those gearsets down to just 1 hotbar.

    I found what I thought was a brilliant gem in the text commands, the "/hotbar" command. This command allows you to swap hotbars in and out for other hotbars, and also add specific abilities to specific hotbars at will. I figured that with this I could create macros that would create new hotbars over a single existing one, allowing me to have access to all my gearsets with just 1-2 button presses on a single bar. I was disappointed to discover you cannot add Macros or Gearsets to hotbars via this command. I understand why you can't add macros, as it could allow automation, but I don't see why you can't do this with gearsets, like {/hotbar "gearset13" 3 6} would in theory add your 13th gearset to the 6th slot of hotbar 3.

    I guess I'll stick with my double hotbar for now, but how do some of you guys handle all the gearsets in your UI?

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    Last edited by Itseotle; 03-07-2015 at 04:38 AM. Reason: Added photo

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    Ryans's Avatar
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    Ryans Tardis
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    Hyperion
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    Gladiator Lv 53
    Just use "/hotbar copy". It can pull a hotbar from any class or job and copy it on to whatever hotbar you choose. Set up a hotbar with half of your gear sets (or however you want to set it up) and leave a button for the macro to change the hotbar to the other hotbar setup with the other half. I'll try to give you an example to clear it up.

    First, I made two macros /hotbar copy lnc 7 drg 1 and /hotbar copy lnc 8 drg 1. Then I set up my first action bar on dragoon the way I wanted it, including the macro /hotbar copy lnc 7 drg 1. Then I typed /hotbar copy drg 1 lnc 8. It copies my dragoon's action bar to the 8th bar of my lancer (which I never use so it is basically 8 free action bars). I then set up my first action bar on my dragoon again to the way I want it, but with the macro /hotbar copy lnc 8 drg 1. Then type /hotbar copy drg 1 lnc 7. Ideally, the two macros will be on the same button press and it will effectively make it a hotbar swap button. I use controller, but I basically have it setup so that there are two identical bars with the only difference being 4 actions; the two 3 step combos and the macros.

    You could use the same concept for gear swapping as it doesn't use a macro line to pull individual actions but rather copies and pulls entire action bars. I recommend using crafter and gatherer bars as spare action bars to save templates.

    Oh and you need to have class specific action bars enabled for it t work. Not a big deal once you realize you can just use the same macro command to quickly copy a hotbar for say... your mounts on to each class by setting it up once and copying it to the rest.
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    Last edited by Ryans; 03-07-2015 at 05:10 AM.