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In this video, I’ll go over some of the most important UI settings and tips that I wish I knew about earlier as a beginner. From layout tips, to hidden settings, to hiding action bars for a cleaner user interface, this video should have something for everyone!
Main Hotbar Macro (adjust numbers):
/hotbar display 4
/hotbar display 5 off
/hotbar display 6 off
/hotbar display 7 off
/hotbar display 8 off
/hotbar display 9 off
/hotbar display 10 off
Every Additional Hotbar (adjust numbers):
/hotbar display 5
00:00 Intro
00:23 Default UI
00:43 Progress Bar
01:24 Buffs/Debuffs
02:39 Layout Tips
03:38 Sponsor
04:45 Pop-up Text
05:05 HP Percentage
05:15 Solo Party List
05:38 Status Effect Maximum
05:56 Class Icons
06:18 Role Colors
06:38 Recast Errors
06:59 Recast Timer Position
07:15 Hotbar Cycling Button & Numbers
07:33 Resize Action & Item Tooltips
08:30 Hidden Hotbar Setup
10:09 Outro
Music Used:
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess – Ordon Village
source
That last hotbar macro is a godsend, tysm
Nice guide, thank you!
Thanks for all these usefull videos, A Beginner's Godsend for sure
I lost my Bars when i took a break and came back not so long ago, since i need to rebuild them now this came at the perfect time 🙂
I was using the Type 2 job icons because they look cleaner, but I didn't think of the benefit of quickly being able to see if someone is a tank or healer based on the colour, so now I changed to Type 1!
everytime i click one of your videos i learn something new
after 3 years of playing the game i guess you can still learn something! Ty for your videos, they're a blessing of the twelve
thank you! very useful. i saw the pop up menu stuff on reddit a while ago but looked daunting so never did it. maybe this will give me the courage lmao
You can also utilize the bars from your unused "classes", which after obtaining job stones, are no longer necessary. Just load up the hot bars on those now unused classes, and then copy the contents of them to the current hot bars you're using.
the most surprising thing from this video is that you have profanity filter enabled 🤯
most of these settings and tips are good, except the minimap 1.
the minimap is such a dogshit design that you never want to rely on it, especially not during an ultimate, it just doesn't show you what you need at that precise moment, seen plugins that make the arena much more visible and shows everyone on it + a good view on the waymarkers in the arena. (without the AOE predicting aspect on it) I don't know why we don't have this, it's so miniscule that it might aswell not exist.
the hotbar 1 is likely the easiest to follow out of all of them though.
I wanted to set this up for a long time now but everytime you got people not going in depth enough for their setup.
like lancer is the class you use a mule, but then you need all of these macro's to work with that, but then they ALWAYS skip over crucial information, this is just "set these hotbars to off and done" much easier.
good guide but creepy character 😀
I use my crosshotbar for my macros since I don’t use it for anything else… very handy having lots of empty regular hotbars
you can save a lot of hotbars by using copy instead. for example /hotbar copy THM 4 share 9. right now i'm essentially using 21 actionbars just for non-combat stuff, but they really only always overwrite two hotbars at once.
i just put all the non-combat things such as other jobs, settings, mounts and minions on the actionbars of jobs without jobstones (conjurer, rogue, archer, …) since those are not otherwise used. and then you just copy their actionbars over to two dedicated hotbars. not sure if that is worth looking into for you, but i thought i should mention it.
Where have you been before?
I don't know if you'll see my comment but I recommend you to watch the video "You Have 128 Unused Hotbar Slots"
Once I saw this video you are showing the progress bar and buffs/debuffs, immediately liked. A lot of players do not have this set up for sure!
just saying but for the macro that you put, you can put everything on one singular hotbar by abusing of the class hotbars (archer, conjurer etc.) because they're not synched with the upgrades version (bard, blm).
Besides that, still a very good guide! :3
I have something new to procrastinate on…
A small tip i wanna add is, if you finished making your different Ui etc go back to char screen and upload/backup that data to the cloud servers, that way you dont lose it anymore incl. macros.
the hotbar hide thing you also showed i have the same but instead of multiple macros i have just 1 singular macro that turns every other hotbar on or off, im a lazy person to click, tank or dps job icon, or food, or mounts everytime i wanna swap something, hence why i scrapped that idea entirely when tried it (you can also make a macro that changes title based of job you go as i give a macro text incase anyone wants
/micon "Soul of the Ninja" item
/gs change 18
/title set "Moonwalker"
the gs is gearset, so the macro only changes your job based of the gear set.
and a extra macro for item sorting
/isort condition armoury ilv des
/isort execute armoury
/isort condition inventory category asc
/isort execute inventory
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My version of a macro ui uses all 8 cross hotbars and every other normal hotbar other than the 3 used for combat. Everything is sorted and all there and when I don't need to use it, I use a macro to hide it all. No hotbar is on screen other than my main 3 until I press the button to bring them all up
Hidden hot bars are amazing. I use them for all my classes when switching between jobs and other things like mounts, emotes, fashion accessories, etc
Thanks , nice vod
thank you, i linked it to my fc chanel since i think it is useful and we got so many new ppls around :3
A tip for M+K users. You can use the crosshotbars (yes there are many of them) each of which has 16 slots as macro hot bars. For example my CHB1 is my menu and each button on it opens another CHB. CHB2 has some of my favorite mounts including my multi seaters. CHB3 has all my gatherers and crafters on it including 3 white item gear sets I used for materia farming. Just make another macro to switch back to CHB1 and put that on each of your other CHBs and your set.
A tip for M+K users. You can use the crosshotbars (yes there are many of them) each of which has 16 slots as macro hot bars. For example my CHB1 is my menu and each button on it opens another CHB. CHB2 has some of my favorite mounts including my multi seaters. CHB3 has all my gatherers and crafters on it including 3 white item gear sets I used for materia farming. Just make another macro to switch back to CHB1 and put that on each of your other CHBs and your set.
Awesome vid! I haven't played since EW release and had no idea about that enhancement separation and class color coding for parties! HUGE QOL
That hotbar change macro has changed my entire UI setup. thank you!
If you want to save on hotbars for that last one, an alternative system would be to have one vertical hotbar hidden next to the main sidebar there, and load unused class hotbars (I'm currently using my Gladiator and Arcanist hotbars for this) with what you want to be on the hotbar. Then for your macros use /hotbar copy from the class hotbar onto your hidden hotbar before displaying it. Doesn't get quite as pretty an effect as the pop out bars, but allows for functionally a lot more menus. And what are the odds you're going to be using those Soul Crystal-less jobs again anyways?
When I get back to the game that hotbar macro is the first thing I'm setting up.
One of the most useful videos for HUD I have seen.
Important to note that for the hotbar thing, make sure the hotbars you're using are shared! It took me way too long to work that out ha. They kept changing every time I hit the show/hide buttons lol
Hotbar settings > Sharing > tick the ones you want to keep the same between jobs!
for those interested in the hotbar macro, theres an even crazier thing you can do using the fact that classes (not jobs) use a completely different hotbar set. Desperius has a few videos on it, it is pretty complicated to set up, but ive been using my set ups for years and don't regret it one bit
I just want to say if you are getting into endgame content, like savage and ultimate, you want everything relate to combat and bosses as close to your character as possible while still having a clear view of what is around you and under where you stand. you will always need to at some point look at a buff/debuff, target a party member, read the cast bar etc. quickly then react appropriately. now this all depends on your screen size and set up but especially as a healer or tank it can be very important to see enmity, party list, an everyone's buffs/debuffs with just a small glance instead of checking the far corner of your screen
The last bit at the end with the hidden hotbars is phenomenal. Will definitely be using it!
Do you hide your quest log as well?
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This actually did help me a bit, as I had forgotten that we can set the confounded tooltip to Fixed. All good tips all around, thanks for taking the time to make the vid. o7
Thank You for the hiden menu looks great and moved the other menus more centre like i can see what you was getting at with them i use ultri wide screen so lots of room without blocking of the view see you on the next one