Helpful User Interface Settings That Improve FFXIV - UI Guide

[@blacksunstudios1147]

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

[@mocmeo4425]

That last hotbar macro is a godsend, tysm

[@Porlakh]

And when you realize you can use hotbars from other clases in the active class... Your mind is going to blow! jajajaja start lite and hf!!! ^^

[@Arranith]

if you do not use a controller or really ever planning to use one you can also make a macro to make the 8 extra cross bar hotbar to have even more slots to put stuff on

[@markbozarth4409]

I been playing since launch and I did not know this at all, I got on and did this and my **************** is it nice and clean and makes more room for me!!! Ty good sir.

[@Coreycry]

​@@Arraniththis is the correct answer

[@mrspeki]

10:03 how did he make the keybind into that?

[@vhbornhiati]

Dude, I've just recently returned to FFXIV after playing it for a month last year and your videos have made my experience with the game A WHOLE LOT BETTER. I honestly think your channel is among the best if not THE best FFXIV content I've found on the internet so far. I really can't thank you enough. You provide the simplest, most enlightening guides ever. Please, keep up the good work!

[@AGrumpyWitch]

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!

[@WinchesterxNL]

Love the new layout for the job switching. Really well organized, and much easier to see which one is what. Adding that while pairing it with the lovely 'snap' macro you've showed about 2 years ago, lol. Thank you so much!

[@ToNio00000000]

There's so many menu options I was looking for in your video, thank you so much for those tips and explaining where to find them

[@hikarih9859]

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

[@Angelboy20]

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!

[@Kieru002]

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 :)

[@FeyLionheart]

Thank you so much for this video. This has changed my game play so much. It’s so much better now

[@BaekHo-One]

I tried to use some of the other UI/Hotbar guides, Yours is by far the best and easiest to implement. Love that there is no need to swap to another HUD layout!!!

[@blinnxthecollector]

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

[@charlesseale7885]

Came to say the same, but I've been playing for almost 10 years.

[@blinnxthecollector]

@@charlesseale7885 I guess it doesn't matter how long are we playing this wonderful game but important how much we can learn from each other

[@3xodus]

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

[@MiuKujo]

If its anything like the method I use its far superior. I have turned a single hotbar into about 11, rather than turning 6 into one complicated one.

[@3xodus]

@@MiuKujo yeah its something like that

[@unixtreme]

I just came back and had lost my settings Im really not looking forward to setting it up again.

[@katarh]

Yep, the Desperius Clean UI method is legend. I use it as well. I've got it mostly set to auto turn off on a timer, too, so that I don't even have to think about toggling it.

[@marcosguedes8885]

Thanks for the tips. I just started a couple of weeks ago and the last tip helped me to take out the job buttons out of the screen when I am not switching between them. Thanks!

[@blazzmatazz9051]

I decided to watch this for fun at work, now I need to save it and change my UI when im home. Thanks bro

[@alexvoyd1132]

Thanks for suggesting the pop-up text! It's the ONE thing I dont understand in even pro players' UIs!Ofc UI settings are something each person has their preferances, but I really dont understand whats the point in seeing other people's dmg!!

[@FrazzleCat]

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

[@TheJamation]

That hotbar change macro has changed my entire UI setup. thank you!

[@leathaleye]

You can use one macro command to display/hide a hotbar instead of using an extra macro button to hide. /hotbar display 7 [on/off] for example allows you to toggle the display of hotbar 7 on and off.

[@Soulblighter343]

i just recently returned to FFXIV after 5 years away and i must say thank you for this video and the hotbar macro! that is a phenomenal idea and i will be using that now.

[@cuppy666]

You can actually assign the collapsible hot bars to non job classes (lancer for example) which allows for a single active bar to have multiple options, so you could have HB 5 turn into every role based on the role button you press rather than having to waste 5 6 and 7. this can help free up your in use hot bars for even more creative options, for example having a hot bar running alongside the party list for auto targeting abilities based on party position, like hitting a low player with darkest before as a DK

[@jonesdaevilone]

Yoooooooooooo! Jolsn you got a sponsor!!!! I remember when you first started up!! And now you are doing sponsor reads!!!! I'm glad you stuck with it and still create great content and guides for FFXIV

[@tyto6259]

As a new player to ff14 but not a new player to MMOs this was so helpful, ty

[@raverecage]

If you are short on hotbars to use for your hidden hotbar system, you can use dummy class as a placeholder and dynamically update a single hotbar. for example, I have hotbar 10 as main hotbar and hotbar 9 spare that I want to update content when I select something in 10. I have a base conjurer gearset with hotbar 1 to 5 filled with icons. I can create a macro that will copy any content from any hotbar from conjurer to replace content in hotbar 9.

[@ravenshadow298]

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

[@genisay]

Thank you! I've been playing for years, and already found a lot of tips, but you had a few that I had not messed with yet, or thought of, and I made a couple of little changes to my own UI set up.

[@DoktorWieg]

I have a similar setup for my job, classes, minions and mounts hotbars. Basically, left of my chat window, I have 2 vertical hotbars, let's call them A and B. Both are sized down significantly to fit snuggly in the corner and out of the way. Hotbar A is the main 'menu', so to speak, having icons for each type of jobs (tank, healer, melee DPS, ranged DPS, crafters, gatherers, mounts and minions) and Hotbar B is the display of whichever menu item I chose. To store the hotbars, I have Hotbar A and B be shared hotbars (let's say 9 and 10) so that they do not change when changing jobs. Hotbar B however loads up the content of a crafter's or gatherer's unused hotbar (let's say hotbar 8) which contains what I want to display. So for example, when I click the "tank" icon in hotbar A, hotbar B loads up the armorer's hotbar 8 and overwrites hotbar B with it, displaying my 4 tank job gearsets. Same with my healer button which loads my alchemist's hotbar 8 into hotbar B to show all my healers. Each of Hotbar A buttons are macros, much in the same way you have yours setup. Off the top of my head, I think each is something like "/hotbar copy armorer 8 shared 10" where armorer is whichever hotbar I go read from. If I ever need to update one of those hotbars, I just reverse the command as "/hotbar copy shared 10 armorer 8", usually through the chat window. This makes it so that I need, at most, 3 of the 10 simultaneous hotbars to be 'reserved', so to speak, instead of having to use more hotbars and storing stuff in crafter unused hotbars makes sense since I really don't need that much of those and they basically free storage space (so hotbar 1 through 7 are still usable for other stuff). I also added to the macros a HUD layout switch command for healers since my healer UI is different from my tanking and DPS one (I just have my healer macros use "/hudlayout 2" while all my other macros use "/hudlayout 1")

[@kanadetenshi4311]

That macro trick is simply a godsend Thank you so much!

[@AegixDrakan]

Oh. That little side hotbar is a NEAT gimmick. I may straight up do that. It would be nifty to have some extra space for stuff I don't use all that often.

[@Driahva]

With the hotbar macros, I have a rotational system for them. I use my Hand/Land hotbars as storage for buttons. Using a macro like "/hotbar copy ARM 4 share 10" copies Armorer 4 onto my Hotbar 10. That ARM 4 also has a macro to copy ALC 4 to hotbar 10 and so on. This let's me use just one hotbar, cycling through options. Those specific bars which copy onto 10 are all my jobs, divided by role. I also use Bar 5 for storage of Mounts, then 6 for storage of minions, commonly used emotes, but also Chocobo controls and gyshall greens, and 7 for duty actions such as waymarks and signs. :D

[@Maegriss]

for everyone looking at the 'collapsing hotbar macro' to step up from this. you then only need to reserve a few hotbars for this and they can all be the same across the jobs. something like /hotbar copy CNJ 1 share 9 for me using my conjurer. it takes having a job ontop of the classes, but its REALLY a step up.

[@tomdove3551]

As someone new to the game this has been a massive help

[@aniafaery]

I use a similar macro for my hotbars, but I use the cross hotbars (that are typically for controller users) so that I have 8 extra hotbars to work with. They're placed over my chat window with a standard straight hotbar to switch between them. I do it this way because I use the other standard hotbars to place key skills nearer where I'm looking while fighting so that I can easily see procs, so I end up using a couple hotbars that may only have one or two skills on them. era

[@AlejandroNoyola1988]

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

[@halosaft]

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!

[@jenni429]

thank you, i linked it to my fc chanel since i think it is useful and we got so many new ppls around :3

[@borgcolect]

subtle shade about the shields... love it

[@elixir478]

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

[@Silversky1113]

Can't wait to get home and implement some of these! I had been looking for a way to edit the tool tips ui. Thank you so much! Would love a part 2 in case you find more tips. Would also appreciate some for us poor console players 😅

[@dynasti9126]

I do thoroughly like the hotbar macro setup in this guide but personally prefer using a timed hotbar macro instead of having to use a keybind for it. All other UI tips were great and i use some of them myself and will probably play around some with the others mentioned as well.

[@KevSlider]

All of these tips are amazing. Thank you for this!

[@kleinc2584]

i watched every UI tips video and this was the best one. subbed

[@RantGrumps]

I'm new and didn't utilize any macros. Thank you very much!

[@Polak38]

This has been an amazing help, thanks for the guide man

[@MrGamerCaptain]

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

[@mariogariazzo2024]

I have a small screen for now so this helps a lot

[@shiodome_nao]

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.

[@miomiomeows]

this is what I do, and it's honestly a godsend, and allows for much more collapsable hotbar space than the method in the video. for anyone who wants to set this up, google "macro hotbars ffxiv" and the first result is a pretty good guide!

[@MrImjustaminorthreat]

I used to do this, but I kept accidentally messing it up by running the wrong macro at the wrong time. I switched to using the crosshotbars and they work so well.

[@deadsilentgaming1132]

Awesome video! Thank you so much you just taught me a lot and I've been playing since ARR lol

[@jonv0]

Good tips. I'd like to add a little something extra to the hotbar macros though. In addition to hiding/displaying them, mine are also set up to copy a hotbar from an unused class, such as MRD (Marauder), into the hotbar I'm toggling. By overwriting the hotbar this way, I can have 4 different buttons that cause the hotbar to display something different, such as scrolling through commonly used emotes or toggling which set of jobs are listed, while still leaving my other hotbars free for whatever else I'm using them for. The command is fairly simple too. /hotbar copy (source class/job abreviation) (source hotbar #) (destination class/job abreviation) (destination hotbar #) In my case, I copy from Marauder hotbars 1-4 onto shared hotbar 8. So the command is /hotbar copy MRD 1 share 8 Note that you can also use "current" in place of the class/job to indicate whatever you are currently playing as. Also note: the same commands also apply to cross hotbars, but you've gotta use /chotbar instead.

[@hank9112]

One of the most useful videos for HUD I have seen.

[@notDiru]

Disclaimer: 4:48 Dark Knight, for example, has an ability that reduces damage depending if it's physical or magical. Avoid disabling it to learn what is magic or physical and use Dark mind correctly.

[@LunaNx]

Well this has updated since I last set up my ui I'll have add the Color one for classes

[@jack9316]

the display role colors thing is one thing I will never tell anyone to do because it over writes your own character name color and I want my character name color different to everyone else as it makes identifying your character easier in stacks and is something I advise anyone to do. with over 29,500 hours into this game I find it to be one of the most helpful thing to do outside of separating target into.

[@uhmt0ny]

I love that hotbar tip, thank you so much!

[@koopakape]

Bro i've been BEGGING for something like Conditional Buffs for years... how long has this already existed and I didn't know??? Now I can finally play Bard and not go insane!!!

[@_Spacecraft]

Awesome there’s a lot of UI options I didn’t know about because I never touch the cogwheel. I have been using delvui to get features that are actually in the game already lol.

[@MrImjustaminorthreat]

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.

[@Solarasthma]

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.

[@DarkDyllon]

yeah, no good guide out there that actually explains properly how to do this, they only say they do it and then move on, completely useless at that point since setting those up is a quite a bit more complicated.

[@breakthecode4634]

Bigger tip you can change hotbars by assigning a f# button to it if you have multiple hud layouts.

[@IABJordan]

The hidden hotbar setup is phenomenal and I love you.

[@SprDrumio64]

People sleep on the cross hotbar you get 16*8 spots all in one spot. And you can make a macro to change forward and back

[@Sparxx_]

the hidden hotbar macro is fucking amazing. thank you so much.

[@ThatVeryOldMan]

Great tips! Definitely helped me!

[@pitmanfirst2165]

Great video, thank you for the tips!

[@zozoz401]

/hotbar dispaly 5 on/off, only need one macro to turn on and off the hotbar. Additionally, there are many invisible hotbars from other classes that can be used by copying them to the current hotbar.

[@light7848]

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

[@KLGChaos]

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?

[@Jolsn]

No, I just have no quests

[@QuaintAmerican]

This video is a godsend. Hitting myself for not seeing this sooner.

[@stg-smile86]

How would you use hidden hitbar for console?

[@stahw]

Nice guide, thank you!

[@JomaroTV]

please more videos i cant wait for more Mid Game Help Content

[@King0x]

Bro! That hotbar macro... DAYUM!

[@TheBelugaoogway]

Thank you very much for this. 😊

[@BONKBOY7]

Thanks for all these usefull videos, A Beginner's Godsend for sure

[@ulquiorracifer221]

Yooo I’m on console but that hotbar macro is so cool and I WISH I could use it (I mean I can but I wish I could easily use it lmao)

[@sum1337]

you can use the hot bars from ''lower'' jobs like lancer , gladiator , archer ect to male you custom UI just right click on you crystal unequip might need an other weapon equipped thought

[@WikiED]

I hope they add more hotbars. I've had the menu system (8:30) for a while but i wish i could expand it further.

[@NikolayAkishin]

Super! Thnx a lot

[@Guimu]

I tried using different HUD layouts for when I'm doing content or just hanging out with people but that was a bit of a hassle going through everything again... so what I did was a macro that hide all my action hotbars, duty info, party list... so I only have my chat and a semi transparent hotbar for jobs, mounts, etc.

[@Hato1992]

Neat trick with hotbars. I would love to have like 20 hotbars, because I can't fit everything into 10. I already using 4 for skills...

[@Marcho]

I use my crosshotbar for my macros since I don’t use it for anything else… very handy having lots of empty regular hotbars

[@verts_tv]

Delveui is a must

[@Alex0101101]

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?

[@ALLANX7]

Thanks , nice vod

[@ActionBob]

your hiding bars to create macro bars, you can also copy hotbars you have on another class so you can have unlimited macro bars while only using 3-4 of your bars on each class to store macros bars called "pocketed bars". doing this you can also create "toggle pockets" where you use a doner class like MRD to store bars for WAR, letting you toggle between bar setups for single and multi target so you don't have to have all those buttons on the bar at the same time.

[@StefanS03]

too many good ones, thanks!

[@MaydaTiger]

everytime i click one of your videos i learn something new

[@brianpyles7983]

Can you do a version going over cross-hotbar tips?

[@spiritretro3571]

you have earned yoruself a sub!

[@eskaliya]

I still wish we had even more hotbars, to rly cramp all the stuff on there haha

[@ex0stasis72]

0:07 hehe "Simple Tweaks" 😏

[@davids2977]

Shit bro, this is going to help me clean up my hud bit time! I wont need 8 freaking hotbars visible all the time with random stuff like the zodiac glass or cordials in my face while in dungeons and raids. lol

[@Resting_mitchface]

I see you stormblessed 🗡️

[@nateboogiez9999]

Can you do an update on ur hotbar for each class if u made any changes? I followed ur hotbar video.

[@FiddlerForest]

@Jolsn, what is the keybind you use to fire off the macro that hides/reveals hotbar 4? also what is your Shirk sneak and other macros look like, if you don't mind me asking.

[@Speedy_Boi__]

This guy rocks 😎😎

[@tatlxtael2303]

WAIT YOU CAN MAKE IT SO SOLO PARTY LIST IS A THING?! Thats nuts i would alwyas just summon my chocobo or play scholar and summon a fairy to see my shielding :o

[@ForemostCrab7]

For the Role color i prefer to change the DPS from Red to Orange, cause when i first started, i kept confusing my own Team for the Enemies, since if you got the full aggro as a Tank, their names are Red, the exact same Red as the DPS, it's confusing, idk why the hell they put that color on as default, it's so dumb.

[@alexandercurtis4671]

What are the gloves for your glam?

[@301SO]

Btw the first two big black characters on the Tomato chips literally says it's spicy