How to make a Clean HUD/Layout in FFXIV – (2021 Version)



After revisiting and reworking my whole UI/Interface setup last week, I thought it is time to share with you, the changes and ideas, that lead to this final version, where only your ideas are able to help me improving it.

Therefore, I would love to see your setups and ideas for the cleanest UI in Eorzea, so share your impressions in our Discord Server:
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And make sure to check out the previous videos about
Collapsing Hotbars: https://youtu.be/2Ws74eekJRQ
or about general UI tips from last year: https://youtu.be/tW02GS6ZNHo

The Duty List Macro:
/hud “Duty List” [on/off]
/hud “Server Info” [on/off]
/hud “Gil” [on/off]
/hud “Main Menu” [on/off]
/hud “Inventory Grid” [on/off]
/hud “Experience Bar” [on/off]
/hud “Minimap” [on/off]

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22 thoughts on “How to make a Clean HUD/Layout in FFXIV – (2021 Version)”

  1. Healer main here! So for starters, your HUD setup is amazing! Love how you removed all the unnecessary elements which is something I did almost immediately when I started to get out of ARR. Just about the only thing I'd change about your setup is to bring the party list closer to your own health bar when you play healer so that you won't need to glance up at the corner so often. Eye fatigue is definitely something to watch out for and having as much in your peripherals as possible will help alleviate that. Aside from that, It's just my preference because I find myself clicking on individual party members' health bars when I want to target them as opposed to using hotkeys. Not sure if this is something you already do or not but I hope this helped! Awesome content as always, keep up the good work. 🙂

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  2. This video looks awesome. Is there anyway you can make a video showing how to set this up step by step for all of us new players coming from WoW? 😀

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  3. doesn't change the fact there is no small nameplates option aka small font text size option…we only have normal and big one last time I checked .yeah they have been sleeping PvP part of the game for the last decade. tab targeting combat with 2.5s global cd. in 2021. not even hybrid action combat with skillshots and dodges. elt alone true action combat like Smite or the Kings avatar animation. they thought that they are gonna solve the issues by adding crazy animations but that only cluttered the game. now because of that they cannot even lower the global cooldown because of crazy animations. and that didn't solve the core issues. tab targeting combat. imagine Final fAntasy game with true action combat like Smite. the game lack innovations and it is 20 years behind in many aspects. social and PVP especially. the game is outdated in many forms at this point. oudates subsription model, oudates combat, no chat bubbles, no small text size option, no voice chat, all u do is look at chatbox whole day long which sux, not a single good 4v4 map like heavens arena from the kigns avatar, no blue mage in PVP, lack of social and PVP events/quests/mounts, 0 innovations too… no ability to tame open world monsters as your mount, most good mounts are locked behind pay wall or insane grind…they dont even combine pve with pvp elements…like open-world raid bosses where players/guilds fight to contest them…these bosses could drop epic mounts or exp/gear tokens and that could be 1 alternative tos tory leveling… they sleep on the shoulder of work of previous generations… they only care about story and pvp content total alck of social and pvp features… and peopelt aht actually care about the game..people that complain…are often seen as toxic….the overwhelming pozitivity is also the reaosn th game is oudated…also new palyers cannot post on ffxiv subreddit…

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  4. I just really dislike the grey menus. The beveled corners, the grey gradient, the light grey letters on a medium grey background….it looks like some intern put it together in an afternoon in Photoshop and was like OK DONE TIME FOR LUNCH.

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  5. You can make it cleaner: put limit break, the two aoe abilities and ranged attack on a seperate hotbar. Then use the /hotbar 7 off command to hide it. It can still be keybinded and since these abilities don't have a cooldown there's no reason to show them at all. I also change hyuton bar to the simple gauge then put it over the top of the MP gauge.

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  6. hey.. um the only thing that works is hiding/showing my gil and hiding/showing my hotbars ?
    /hotbar display 3 [on/off]
    /hotbar display 8 [on/off]
    /hud "Duty List" [on/off]
    /hud "Server Info" [on/off]
    /hud "Gil" [on/off]
    /hud "Main Menu" [on/off]
    /hud "Inventory Grid" [on/off]
    /hud "Experience Bar" [on/off]
    /hud "Minimap" [on/off]

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