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

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

I'll take you up on that challenge. We're both on Excalibur. Give us 1.0 bar and you stick to your cross bar.. and we'll PvP.

Deal?

It not even that the Hotbar itself is bad it comes down to when you have so many skills and when some boss battles are so intense trying to dodge AoE's, switch to adds, move from the back to the flank of a target all while trying to use abilities is a pain in the butt. To me having a straight bar is just more practical I guess 8years of ffxi and that's what I'm use to. TBH the combat is the one thing that is keeping me from getting into this game. I had myself so hyped up about this game and if they cant add the option to allow us to choose Straight bar or crossbar for PS3 then I think myself and other are out.

Ugh... seriously. I'm a fast paced player. Trying to be quick with this cross bar setup is just killing me.

Even more hilarious is.. the abilities are uneven..

So you have abilities that buff up your dmg dealing, abilities that buff up your defense, and attack abilities.



If I try to mix and match my buff up abilities with my attack abilities.. I end up having a few attack abilities set on another location of the cross bar.

If I have all my buff abilities on one location of the cross bar.. they don't even fill up the cross bar.

Defense buff abilities are very limited so it would be stupid to give them a whole different location on the cross bar.

If I put defense on one side of the cross bar and try to add my buff abilities on the other side of the cross bar.. I end up having to put a buff ability or two on a whole new location on the cross bar.. lol

Ish is just ridiculous.

[aziiz]

So you have abilities that buff up your dmg dealing, abilities that buff up your defense, and attack abilities.



If I try to mix and match my buff up abilities with my attack abilities.. I end up having a few attack abilities set on another location of the cross bar.

If I have all my buff abilities on one location of the cross bar.. they don't even fill up the cross bar.

Defense buff abilities are very limited so it would be stupid to give them a whole different location on the cross bar.



Ish is just ridiculous.

i have the same problem that i can't put everything in 1 cross bar i need to switch which leads to hit wrong button sometimes

the only thing u can do by now put ur attacking buffs in 1 macro with 1 sec wait and just press it to use all the buffs u need then go on for attacking

and same for defense buffs

[Enthy]

I do not like the Cross-Hotbar at all!
I am often hesitating or activating the wrong actions. Playing more than 1-2 jobs is... @_@ such a struggle!
I really try to make my lay-out similar through-out my jobs (like my cure spells/abilities are always hold L2+O/X/triangle/square) but I often end up holding R2 by mistake and someone or myself ends up dying \(@ ;;;;; @)/ Grrrr!

I just want to be able to hold either L2 or R2 to bring up a straight hotbar, tab through the abilities by pressing/holding a button on the D-pad and press X to activate the action.

Please SE, give us the option!

Also, this is the thread I made on the subject a while back: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...No-Thanks.-%28

[Amsai]

First off id like to say Im a bit put out by everyone chiming in that crossbar is better and people that dont like it need to get over it or L2P. A few others have said this but if people want to use 1.0 controls and its implemented why do you give a @#%! So if people want to use it then by god let them.

Now I was vehemenently against the crossbar until recently. I am getting use to it somewhat. But in order to do so I had to switch to ranged or tanks only. I cant unlearn the past 10 years plus of ffxi style controller. Its the damn dpad! I cant use it and do positiinal combos with a class like Monk. Currently Im having fun with smn. Its ranged so it doesnt feel as hectic with positional combos or rushed to hit skills. So I use 3 crossbar rows all using only the main buttons. The dpad path leads to damnation :X

My suggestion is to offer more (shift) like functions so I can use less crossbar rows and only use main buttons. That and implement 1.0 controls

[Carzilla]

I wish we had the 1.0 bar back. Along with Ctrl & alt macros

/sad

[MarcusY1990]

envy PC player.