Cross Bar IS NOT good!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Petrified]

I like the Crossbar. Even it's a bit limited compared to keyboard and mouse, I'm surprised that the devs put a lot of functionality on a controller and made it easy to use.
There are peripheral choices (controllers, keyboard+mouse) and lots of options for other players to tweak to suit their playstyles.

[indira]

there is no way the 1.0 method would be fast enough for 2.0 gameplay.

thats a lie you still have a GCD and you can attack and que up your next attack. only need one button to confirm my skill also
1.0 before auto-attack was way faster then 2.0 and it worked. you could kill mobs before the stamina bar went down.

we had a seprate macro menu which is gone now they removed the best placeholers also. the targeting modes are broken you set it to enemys then once you move off a mob it goes right back to ALL or OTHER.

[MACEenyo]

I do not like the cross bar. Needs to be worked on.

I eventually plan to play with mouse and keyboard just for the functionality once they fix the no mouse cursor on Vista full-screen bug.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I have to say, I'm enjoying the cross hotbar on my PC.

I'm wondering if any of the complaints have to do with diving into starting withthe hotbar at level 50 with a full set of skills...


As you level you assign your skills the way you want on your bar, I can see if you get dropped in how you may be confused with what to press for your skills.



On the filters resetting, Have you tried turning off auto sheathe? I'm guessing when the weapon gets sheathed it defaults back to the 'all' filter preset, since sheathed has it's own set of filters iirc.

[Seig345]

I'd say I enjoyed 1.0's action bar... on 1.0... primarily because battle was slower paced than it is now. I don't think I'd be able to keep up at all if my D-pad got locked to moving around the action bars instead of scrolling through party members and targets.

[Sho86]

At first the cross bar was annoying to me too, but easily adapted to it since beta and now work extremely fast with it; since I know where I put things on different sets (kinda the same as knowing where you put your stuff in straight bar style). In essence its like comparing XI's straight bar macros for controller to this version; and now that I know how to work it, I'll keep the cross bar as its way faster.

Plus they've already said time and time again they are still looking for ways to further improve it and make it more seamless, which as it stands feels pretty good already. My only complaint is the lack of full customization, for example, R3 is locked to 3 different menus/skills etc etc.

[Niqote]

I really like the cross bar, I disliked the pet bar but it was just a few mins to look through the options and now I have it turned off.
I also changed the option to have the bars be left hand trigger for D-pad and right hand for Face buttons rather then the default.

It's very fast and comfortable in my hands, I feel in control and can lean back while playing which is great for my posture ^_^

[Kyriea]

i don't know if anyone has mentioned but you can also make it so only 2/3/4 or however many bars you switch through by just tapping R1 in combat. You shouldn't need more than 2 sets when fighting so it'll simply be a case of tapping R1 to get to the next set rather than memorising R1+circle or whatever. Personally I love this cross hotbar and love that I can play using a controller. Most mmo's will not allow that at all and if they do it's incredibly clunky and just terrible.

OP I think you just refuse to try and get used to it which is silly if you then go and complain about it on a forum. I mean it's common for people to just run to the forum and complain because apparently that's all forums are for now, but really nobody can ever help you. The only chance you'll get the 1.0 bar would be as said in addons later in the year/next year. And that thread title - it's not good for YOU.

[Aegis]

there is no way the 1.0 method would be fast enough for 2.0 gameplay.

A 2.5s GCD? Oh, I think I'd struggle through somehow...

Seriously, I prefer the Crossbar, but that's just ridiculous. You don't think you can press left or right dpad once or twice every 2.5 seconds? You could hold down the dpad left or right and get all the way across the bar in half that.

ITT: Stoplikingwhatidon'tlike.jpg

[Wilksha]

I agree the crossbar take a bit of getting used to, but I prefer it over 1.0 or FFXI's control. But as a PC gamer using a controller I use the crossbar for combat skills and line bars for skills that you I use less often like buffs Protect and Stonekin, as well as things that you don't use often unless necessary like Raise or Resurrect. I should show a Screenshot of what my cross and hot bars look like to make total sense of it.