Astrologian targeting macro

[Pyitoechito]

That is great indeed, but it's only useful for mouse users. I forgot to mention I'm on PS4...

ControllAST: Playing cards on controller by Aly/Erdene

It uses cross hotbar swapping to simplify card-targeting down to pressing two buttons. Pressing the Play macro swaps your hotbar to the selection hotbar, then choosing the target (via another button press) will immediately swap the hotbar back to normal. It's made my life so much easier and more pleasant on AST. It takes some getting used to, but it's so much better than manually targeting, and more compact than having 8 play buttons on your bars 24/7.

For personal preference, I use the Healer 1 macro icon for <1> (yourself). If you use the normal party list setup of tanks → healers → DPS: set <2> to Tank 1, <3> to Tank 2, <4> to Healer 2, and <5-8> to DPS 1-4, respectively. In 8-man trials and raids, the icons will be accurate to each party member. In 4-man dungeons, Tank 1 and Healer 1 will remain accurate, while Tank 2 is your first DPS (ideally a melee) and Healer 2 is your second DPS (ideally ranged/caster). For alliance raids, everything is accurate except for Tank 2 (which becomes the other healer) and Healer 2 (which is the first DPS).

For efficiency/comfort, be sure that all 8 of your party member targeting buttons are on the same trigger you hold down as the Play macro. That way, you don't have to swap which trigger you're holding to choose your target after hitting Play.

For fun, you can even set a macro to target your Chocobo companion using <c>.

The guide mentions only using non-shared hotbars for storage, but I'm 99.9% sure you can store your swapping bars in shared hotbar slots as long as you specify where you're copying from/to (because that's that I do). This means you can store your hotbars used from swapping on AST itself (as long as you have at least two hotbars designated as shared). For example, if you designate cross hotbar 3 as shared, you can use

/chotbar copy ast 1 ast 3

and it will copy to the hidden AST hotbar while the shared (visible) hotbar will be unaffected. You can also copy from the same hidden hotbar with

/chotbar copy ast 3 ast 1

I believe this works because the shared hotbars are just another regular set of 8 hotbars. You can even copy to and from them using "share" as the name. For example,

/chotbar copy ast 1 share 1

[Kele_Star]

This is what i use, i only keep 3 and 4 on my main set of keys because in dungeons thats usually all you need. Usually its ok to just have 5-8 in trials and 8 person content, it makes cards less cumbersome