Can the job gauges be hidden?

[Xlantaa]

There are problem. Most jobs needs it, because the gauge is not represented by buffs. For example, the Astral Fire is no longer in the buff bar, neither the Enochian. If you remove it, you will be practically blind. Also, there are meters and gauges that cannot be represented as buffs. How you will to to represent Blackblood gauge on buff? With a number in the buff? That's by far less visible than the gauge. The problem is the new job mechanics has been created with the HUD in mind, so is not prepared to use the job without the HUD.

[Arkenne]

Personally out of battle I play my game with absolutely nothing around, no minimap, no crosshotbar, no duty list, no text window.
Yet these new elements can't be hidden at all and so I am stuck with a floating element in my screen...

Seriously, can we get a way to hide them??

[Alleo]

I know that some people like them and some dont. (I am in the second group) So could we have an option to decide ourself if we want them or get back to the old way? With giving us a choice you will make both groups happy!

At least for me I see no reason for using them. Before them I got all my information as a summoner by looking at the bar of the monster. I saw the amount of stacks and the timer left to delete my enemies. So I only had to look straight at the monster, which made it easier to avoid AOEs and to look at my bars. Now I have to look at the monster for their attacks, look out for AOEs, look at my bars for any Ruin IV and other stuff getting of the timer and look at the right part of the screen to see my gauges..I cant count how often I let the trance run out since I forgot to look at it.

[Temjiu]

I don't see why we can't have options for both. One, to add a checkbox to add/remove class specific status icons to the buff bar. Two, to add/remove gauge. Seems like a simple solution to me. I personally love them, I hated having to watch my buff bar constantly for some of my classes...you lose out on allot of combat. That and my eyes are getting old...having a bigger icon to let me know when something is up is nice. But I get why some people want the clutter removed. But they BOTH should be optional. I don't want extra buttons on my buff bar. I want buff bar to be simple and short, and I want to keep my gauge.

Best of both worlds.

[Niwashi]

I don't want to get rid of all of them, but I do want some control. There are some jobs for which it might be easier to use the gauges. There are others where I'd rather have the buff icon on my status bar. For some, having both might be helpful (especially when you want to see party members buffs as well). Give us the option to display these assorted buffs on our bars as before. And enable the show/hide option on each of the gauges in HUD Layout. Then everyone could choose which of them they want to use and which they don't.