How to Make Good Controller Hotbars on FFXIV for EVERY JOB

This was a big help switching form m/kb for years to steam deck, thank you so much dude!

So helpful! I wanna re-learn controller after switching to pc with mouse and keyboard for years. I didn't really know where to start and this helped A TON! Thank you my friend! :3

I used to play using one bar and switching using r1 really fast. But I would also leave my skills where they were when I got them. So I got REALLY USED to switching super fast. My friend HATES IT tho 😂

Good tutorial and I know a lot of people play like this, using a keyboard hotbar to hold cooldown reminders is smart. I personally prefer using both sides of WXHB for buffs and situational abilities with long cooldowns, and only a half of an extended XHB for my melee jobs' AoE attacks and my mage jobs' instant attacks. But I still have to figure out a way to play Bard at higher levels comfortably.

Just started after using up my trial a few years ago (meaning I can't use the new trial unless I start over which I don't wanna bother with) and I had no idea you could play with a controller! The game is a little janky on mouse and keyboard in like a classic MMO way so I don't mind it, but especially if I wanna quest or walk around and get immersed I much prefer something smoother and it's nice to be able to sit back in my chair. I noticed I could use controller but I couldn't really do anything except walk around and interface a little or gather, then someone told me you can change to controller mode and to look up extended cross hot bar stuff and this is so helpful and cool

Smart to put the regular hot bar to track CD timers. Def gonna do that.

What is not mentioned in this video: if you want the cooldown hotbar to have no keybind info (make it look cleaner), there’s a few more steps. Assign the stuff you want to hotbar 1, then make sure it’s not being displayed. Then, copy everything onto hotbar 7 (this is just the one I use), and make sure that one IS being displayed. This is what I had to do. Perhaps there’s an easier method, lmk.

takes notes for my future steam deck so I too can clear TOP on vacation.

I use the full 8 options on both double tap L/R then I have a shared across all jobs 8 on L+R with sprint, pots etc. I've also got my bars set up so that in combat you can only access the main bar but when sheathed you get access to a couple to cycle through depending on what job it is. Of course you can also hard select one of the hidden bars while in combat but that's rarely needed Additionally I have some visible hotbars off to the corner of the screen that can be clicked on with extra options like Tank Stance, Aetherial Mimicry, frequent menus etc

Question how do i put skills on the double tap bars when i try it wont let me. Nvm i just figured it out with set correlation lol 😂

Since with keyboard/(mmo)mouse I can 99% move while pressing my spells,that means that controller must at least hit 95% to feel worthy. So...I cant use d-pad almost at all (it kinda works with casting spells though). And that is my biggest issue with controller!!! I have tried about 30hours to find a setup that could at least rival my K/M set up but I just couldnt sadly! The best I could do was having default bar, fast switch with RT (when weapon is out), and like you have them. is for single target and for AoE. That means though that any other thing that exists in except the single target combos,must be replicated on as well because otherwise it would be hell doing all these swaps (fast switches,LB-->RB,double RB etc). So having in mind that i have to put a couple of spells twice in my bars(skills like GNB's Double Down,that you press either in ST or AoE), having "only" 32 available buttons (4 sets*8 buttons each),means that jobs with 28 "job-actions" plus 6 "role-actions" plus sprint (and not even mention any kind of macro) I ended up with 35 actions needed,so it just doesnt work for me!

On the pictures in imgr link, are those three separate instances of hot bars or are they all three used at the same time? Sorry. Newbie to this game

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I didn’t completely catch the hot bar 1. It’s only to track cooldowns, right? I just started playing it. Coming from wow on keyboard. So it’s confusing right now tbh.

not implying anything nefarious here but hey, your hotbar setup ideas seem pretty similiar to mine in my video! xD. though one Q. are you doing TOP and if so how the fuck do you deal with monitors precisely? I always feel like I'm always a few degrees off