HowTo: Switch between Performance HUD and Combat HUD

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Update: With the 4.2 changes to the Performance action, which give performance its own hud element and keybinds, this guide is obsolete.
I have left it for future reference regarding storage of hotbars on unused classes.

The original guide used two macros because of the need for a hud layout change. If you just want to cycle two hotbars without changing your hud layout, it can be done with a single macro.

/hotbar copy JOB 1 CLA 2
/hotbar copy CLA 1 JOB 1
/hotbar copy CLA 2 CLA 1

Pre-4.2 Performance-specific post follows:

Hi folks, just wanted to share this for those who want a quick toggle between performance mode and normal mode. This assumes you have four bars free for a three octave "piano" layout, and two base classes to store the bars on.

For this example, I'll be using ARC to store my combat bars and PGL to store my performance bars. HUD layout 4 is my performance HUD, and layout 1 is my combat HUD.

Switching to performance mode:

/hotbar copy BRD 1 ARC 1
/hotbar copy BRD 2 ARC 2
/hotbar copy BRD 3 ARC 3
/hotbar copy BRD 4 ARC 4
/hotbar copy PGL 1 BRD 1
/hotbar copy PGL 2 BRD 2
/hotbar copy PGL 3 BRD 3
/hotbar copy PGL 4 BRD 4
/hudlayout 4

Switching to combat mode:

/hotbar copy BRD 1 PGL 1
/hotbar copy BRD 2 PGL 2
/hotbar copy BRD 3 PGL 3
/hotbar copy BRD 4 PGL 4
/hotbar copy ARC 1 BRD 1
/hotbar copy ARC 2 BRD 2
/hotbar copy ARC 3 BRD 3
/hotbar copy ARC 4 BRD 4
/hudlayout 1

1) First, switch to BRD and put your "To Performance HUD" button on your bar.
Important: The button to switch to performance mode should be on one of the bars that is switching over.

2) Activate the performance mode macro to save your combat bars to ARC. This will also switch to the HUD layout that you will use for performing. It will also replace your bars with whatever was on your PGL bars.

3) At this point, you should replace the "to performance mode" macro with the "back to combat mode" macro. The two macros should never be on your bars at the same time.

4) Now you can set up your bars like so, discarding the PGL actions:


or



In my personal experience, the piano-style layout is better for clicky clicky playing, but the one with each bar being a semitone series feels better for playing on [1] ~ [=] with modifier keys to change octaves. Use whichever you feel more comfortable with.

Once you've got all the buttons on, including a button for the combat mode macro,

5) activate the combat mode macro to save your "piano" to PGL and switch back to your BRD combat bars.

Now you should be able to use the switch macros to go back and forth easily.