There is no option in the game to 'always display extended hold hotbar'

[Doomed_Raven]

Although having more options to the game is always good, you already can do what you want with the options the game has now.

You know you can drag skills to 'normal' hotbars (the ones that are not cross-hotbars), right?

And you can macro all hotbars including cross-hotbars to hide and show whenever you want with one press of button.

I tried this yesterday, the normal styled hotbars whose grid layout can be changed, could not fit all of the actions onto it, I believe it was 4 spaces short. And would manually need to have every action for all jobs moved onto it in an order that close resembles the extended hold hotbar - as they are displayed in random order, and for some reason it had one or two actions on it from another set which was not selected.

I would have in the mean time used the WXHB (always displayed) with duplicate extended hold bar actions just so I can see their timers, but I have to use the WXHB for uncommon actions that won't fit on the other bars.