Quote Originally Posted by Alchemii View Post
Right now I'm considering Making a Macro that when switch my primary Set 1 to Set 4 or 5 when I have guass barrel on, and another macro to switch back to set 1 one when I take it off, but I'm still not sure how I'd do all the lay outs for this.

So can anyone pleases help?
I play with controller too so I think I can help. Firstly, it looks like you are missing out on a lot of potential with the way your crossbars are set up.
You should have very easy access to at least 32 slots.


Say you have the 16 slots on the first hotbar (you have a total of 8 cross hotbars). As you said, left trigger to use the ones on the left, and right trigger to use the ones on the right. If you tap the left bumper (R1 on a Playstation controller), you'll switch to the next hotbar if it's not empty.

So the basic idea is to set up your abilities between the 1st and 2nd set and just tap R1 to quickly switch between them. (You can also hold R1 and press one of the face or directional buttons to switch directly to a certain hotbar instead of cycling through them one by one if you happen to have more than 2.)

You said that you have access to 8 more when holding both trigger buttons at the same time. You can set this up to have for example the left side of your 3rd hotbar show up when you hold the left trigger and then press the right trigger, and then have a different hotbar show up when starting with the right trigger instead. I personally put my limit break and other abilities not used quite as frequently on my 3rd bar and access them with this expanded control option. So you actually have access to an additional 16 here, not 8.

If you don't want the expanded control hotbar to come up when cycling through with R1, look in the character configuration > hotbar settings > cross tab. Under "Set Selection" check "Enable Customization" and check which hotbars you want to be able to be cycled through.

With regard to your idea about setting up a macro to switch your set, this is what I would do:
Have your normal abilities on hotbars 1 and 2.
Have your L2>R2 and R2>L2 set be hotbar 3.
Put whatever you want your "gauss barrel on" set to be on hotbar 4. Then put a copy of the bar you'll be replacing on hotbar 5.

Gauss barrel macro will look like this:
/ac "Gauss Barrel"
/chotbar copy MCH 4 MCH 1

This will replace your 1st hotbar with the abilities from hotbar 4.

Then to revert:
/ac "Gauss Barrel"
/chotbar copy MCH 5 MCH 1

This one will hit the ability again to remove the barrel and put your hotbar back the way it was. It's not a 100% perfect solution since if you hit it and cancel the cast you won't have the barrel attached but your bars will still be swapped. But I understand this is the way some scholars and summoners change their bars based on which summon is out.