Pet hotbar replaces hotbar with my mounts.

[Medli32]

It just replaces it, I have gotten to LV 50 with the hotbars acting just fine, but as soon as I try Archanist my hotbar containing my mounts just gets replaced with seemingly no way to make that not happen. It used to be the system crossbar, but because I always use the start menu I replaced a lot of it with my mounts. Whenever I summon carbunkle, it just goes away though.

I have delved into menus, swapped hotbar 8 to hotbar 7, but if I ever enable my pet hotbar it will just make my utility bar evaporate. If I can't get a solution to this I'm going to have to play it without a pet bar, and I bet that would be a bad thing to do in dungeons, to not have a pet bar because it ends up being a huge inconvenience.

[Carvaka]

Same for me, just started levelling Arch and it replaces one of my bars.

[Hasrat]

Have you checked your Hotbar settings? Down at the bottom are all the configurations for using the pet hotbar.

[Medli32]

The cross hotbar section has nothing to manage the pet hotbar.

[Hasrat]

Hotbar Settings: Display. Bottom has multiple settings for using the pet hotbar.
Hotbar Settings: Cross. You can even turn the pet hotbar off.

[Rongway]

If I can't get a solution to this I'm going to have to play it without a pet bar, and I bet that would be a bad thing to do in dungeons, to not have a pet bar because it ends up being a huge inconvenience.

Playing without a pet bar is actually easy. A macro that summons your pet and sets it to Obey takes care of the Obey button. Having the macro also place all of your pet's attacks on your normal bars takes care of those. Finally, a second macro combines Heel and Place.

Summon I/II/III:

/micon Summon
/ac (Summon) <me>
/hotbar pet (Auto-Attack Name) (Pet Name) BAR# SLOT#
/hotbar pet (Area Attack Name) (Pet Name) BAR# SLOT#
/hotbar pet (Interrupt Ability Name) (Pet Name) BAR# SLOT#
/hotbar pet (Support Ability Name) (Pet Name) BAR# SLOT#
/wait 9
/pac Obey <me>
(optional:) /pac Steady <me>

Use autotranslate phrases for ability and pet names to reduce error incidence. Each of the three Summon spells will need its own macro. You'll also have to update Summon and Summon II when you eventually get Titan-egi and Garuda-egi.

Example /hotbar line:
/hotbar pet (Shining Emerald) (Emerald Carbuncle) 1 4
This will place Emerald Carbuncle's ability "Shining Emerald" on bar 1 in slot 4.
For more details on the /hotbar command, type
/? hotbar
If you use cross hotbars, the command will be /chotbar and instead of slot numbers will be slot codes. You can get a list of codes corresponding to the various buttons using
/? chotbar

Place:

/pac Heel <me> <wait.1>
/pac Place <mo>
/micon Place pet

Activate for Heel. Activate, wait one second, then click for Place.




As for actually addressing your problem, the pet bar -- and the related mount bar (it's a bar for special abilities when riding certain mounts, not the bar you have your mount calls on) -- have strange settings that interract with other bars in potentially annoying ways, and really the best way to make it not annoying is just to stop using the pet bar altogether and put the buttons you need in places where they're convenient for you. (It also does you the favor of putting like buttons in like places; you'll find later that one particular pet's abilities are not in the same order as all the other pets'.)

But if you do want to try to make the pet bar work for you, there are a couple places with settings of interest. In /characterconfig, Hotbar Settings, take a look at the [Display] tab and the settings for "When the pet hotbar is available..." and "Pet Hotbar Auto-display Settings". If you use cross hotbars, you'll also want to check the [Cross] tab's General Settings.