MCH Crossbars Help

[Alchemii]

Ok so I play using a controller, I've been using the a controller since I started playing FFXIV, heck since I first started playing FFXI back when it got released. That isn't to say I haven't tried playing with a keyboard and mouse, I'm just better with a controller is all.


Now recently I've been laying out all my skills for MCH and I have a bit of a problem see I got 4 more skills that I need to place on the crossbars, but only 1 slot left.

Now right now I have it set up so that I have the basic Right Trigger gives access to right set of 8, Left Trigger gives access to the left set of 8, and Pressing Right and Left at the same time gives access to a third set of 8, and while my weapon is draw I can only use the Right Button to jump between Set 1 and Set 2, Set 2 is set up to give access to the skills I generally won't use in an average fight or boss fight, and skills I don't need quick regular access too, such as invigorate.

So with all the stuff I do need quick regular access too, so the easy access 24 buttons, I only have 1 maybe 2 extra buttons open, but I have 4 skills plus quick access to stat pots to place in there.

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?

[XgungraveX]

you can set up extra bars while holding l2 and r2 its in charterer config under crossbars->cross

[KeluBehemoth]

Macro your cool downs.

/macroicon "Rapid Fire"
/ac "Blood for Blood"
/ac "Hawks Eye"
/ac "Raging Strikes"

/macroicon "Wildfire"
/ac "Rapid Fire"
/ac "Wildfire"

/macroicon "Clean Shot"
/ac "Reassemble"
/ac "Clean Shot" <t>

/macroicon "Ricochet"
/ac "Gauss Round" <t>
/ac "Ricochet" <t>

/macroicon "Reload"
/ac "Quick Reload"
/ac "Reload"

/macroicon "Head graze"
/ac "Suppressive Fire" <t>
/ac "Head Graze" <t>
/ac "Leg Graze" <t>

The above graze macro will use suppressive fire (stun) when in range or Head Graze (silence) when out of range.

[KeluBehemoth]

Each ability is one macro click. Perfect for weaving and no down time with silly /wait commands.

[KeluBehemoth]

The macros are also designed to show the cool downs of your longest ability recast. So you know when recast is at half for the long one, the shorter one is ready.

Rapid fire icon is linked to the damage buff macro to show when rapid fire and raging strikes are ready for your wildfire burst.

[RhynAzullo]

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.

[Defteros]

Macro your cool downs.

no.
/10char

[Howie]

PLZ do anything... but dont use macros

im not 60 yet but only one skill is missing, this is what i use atm

set1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2au6up8c3h...44.57.png?dl=0

set2
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0fas311lf...45.02.png?dl=0

and pressing L2+R2 together gives me this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mcqer5yz95...45.08.png?dl=0

[Xarf93]

how do you get the extra hotkeys around your bar? I'm on ps4

[Alchemii]

I have a very similar layout to Howie, except with a hotkey bar above the crossbars for all the stuff I can immediately see showing me what's up and what's not. So I'll probably try something similar to that layout with a few tweaks.