FFXIV Hotbar and Keybinds Guide - Collapsible Hotbars And Rotating Abilities 

Great video, its nice to keep your buttons and hotbars clean and organized. A tip for the show/hide hotbar option, if you don't want to make multiple hud layouts and just use one you can make a macro to show/hide hotbars. Just type the macro like: /hotbar display 6 [on/off] /hotbar display 7 [on/off] /hotbar display 9 [on/off] Just switch the number to the corresponding hotbar number. There is 10 hotbars in the game so you should have more than enough hotbars to just use it on one hud layout, this also allows you to use just one button to click to show and hide them.

In the macro for the jobs you can also use the Soul Stone image for the button. Just add to the macro with soul of the [job] ie: /micon "soul of the red mage" item

With those rotating hotbars, I would really like to see screenshots or a video of your bars for other classes. Since that is super smart and would appreciate like a rough baseline.

You can also avoid setting up different HUD layouts by just setting an on/off bar macro This is what I use: /hotbar display X [on/off] /wait Y /hotbar display X off X = bar number Y = seconds Clicking the macro will bring out my bar with jobs, after 4 seconds it will automatically close the bar. You can reclick the button to manually close the bar too. I think this approach is even easier, the only thing that u need to set up is shared bars!

What a clever hotbar set up!

Rotating hotbars are also a thing on controller for those who do controllers- just make it so your R bumper tap only swaps between hotbars 1 and 2, then have your single targets on 1 and AOE on 2. You can still access the rest of the hotbars by holding down the R bumper and using face buttons.

This will help with my bars full of emote bloat lol.

Legend, thank you kindly 🙏

Smol tip... I noticed you blurring out your chat window in the beginning of the vid. You can now hide it. There is an X to close the chat window now., its next to the settings icon on the chat window. Just hit enter and it pops back up when you want to read/type again. 😃

thanks for the info

Alternatively you can make use of the hotbars of any classes that you dont use anymore (like ROG, which has different hotbars from NIN). This gives you more hotbars to work with but makes editing them a major pain as you have to then be on ROG to modify the entries. Use macro commands to then copy these ROG hotbars into visible hotbars, or to empty them again.

u know, ive been playing for almost 9 years and ive been way too lazy to figure out how to do the hudlayout switching thing, thanks for making this!

Turned the "shared Hotbar" off for everything, yet when I change between my HUD layouts (funnily enough using 3 and 4 as well), the icons stay in both layouts?

I think it's a style choice to use job change icons the way you do. In fact, I find clicking to a submenu slower than pressing the shortcut key to open the gearset list, and then just picking from there. I can keep moving that window easily and on a whim because it's just a window and not part of my HUD. Interesting set up for your hotbar though. I like it for the purposes of decluttering the hotbar itself, however I'm the kind of player who wants to access everything on a job all at once. I don't want to think I'm switching modes and then "the same" hotkeys now do something else. I guess mode switching seems to be just as fast -- plenty fast for this game -- but I'd rather just globally know and use hotkeys to do actions. This is largely possible for me because I have a mouse with 13 buttons (SwiftpointZ), use 3 modifiers on my mouse which multiplies the number of keys I have access to on my left hand by 3, and gives me a very convenient set to use on the mouse itself, great for certain oGCDs. Once you "know" a fight, you'll find no issue swapping, but I have the most fun "reacting" to unknown scenarios and pulling the best tool out of the whole toolkit for the job even if it's rarely used.

You might have saved my Reaper with the 2nd half of this video

What is the top you are using for your BLM? Lovely glam option

Maybe I’m dumb but I just can’t follow

These tips are incredibly useful, thank you! That said, I do feel like I watched a 10m video with 5m worth of content so I’d love to see a bit more scripting/forethought for similar tips videos 😁