PIMP Your UI - Collapsing Hotbars & Sexy Job Icons (Works in Endwalker)

Like promised, here is my remastered version about "Collapsing Hotbars", in which I hope I am able to present the idea behind it much more clearly.
NOTE: You can already set it up completely, with 3 Classes on level 30.
Or customize more categories into more sub-categories with 1 Class/Job.
In assistance to this video, check out my Macro Document but remember to replace certain "UI specific Terms", or numbers, with the ones you are using: docs.google.com/document/d/1R...
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0:00 Collapsing Hotbars
11:23 Sexy Job Icons
#FFXIV #Shadowbringers #CollapsingHotbars

[@Proxyincognito]

Tip: Make sure hotbar 8 IS NOT SHARED and save yourself the hour of searching that i had to do.

[@bryanraburn]

Thank you. Your a life saver.

[@Marwington]

Out of curiosity... what happens if you share it? :D

[@nikorasu1076]

@@Marwington you end up spending your time wondering why isnt the macro coyping the ACN bar just like it should be....like I did

[@tunah.z4983]

Thank you!

[@ahriisnotakitsune]

@@bryanraburn you're*

[@vincentbeton]

As someone who always wanted more Hotbars to customize, this feels like all my namedays come at once

[@666jcjv666]

Thank you for this.

[@2HandHangerDunksOnly]

Poor Grimblebutt, gone too soon

[@TheExtendedMetaphor]

It was your original collapsing hotbar video which introduced me to your channel (as well as making my UI much tidier!), so it's quite special for me to see it become... a video reborn! You work so hard to give us great content; thanks so much, Despi! :)

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Thanks a lot. I am glad to have met you 🤗

[@seda_11]

Literally perfect timing on this video for me, I just started playing recently and was starting to get cluttered hotbars so I needed to clean them up. It was hard to understand the macros at first but the linked document made it easy. Thanks for making this.

[@Sabamonster]

I commented on your previous video regarding this but I wanted to mention that it was because of that video that I started really looking in to doing macros in general. I started with the first macro and tried to figure out the second myself and since I've been able to formulate a few of my own. So not only did you show me how to make collapsing bars but you gave me enough information to understand the system and create things of my own. Thank you for that.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

I am glad to hear that, keep rocking those macros 😊

[@SerKnightowl]

Absolutely incredible, such a good idea and with your video so easy to implement - before your video my hotbars were a mess, now very tidy! Awesome video and well explained and detailed, the macro document too was much appreciated :)

[@lorafrost9628]

Updated videos are always welcome :) Thanks for all the work you put into these -- you've been a huge help to me!

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

I am glad to hear that 😊

[@sarthakagarwal8964]

Brooo this video made so much more sense than the last one, whoever came up with this stuff is a genius

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Whoever did. He/she really is !

[@nathanmatlick5958]

@@DesperiusFFXIV How can you tell what the class/job for the macro should be? I tried DRG but it came up blank when I tried the macro

[@mykeable]

@@nathanmatlick5958 If you don't have the soul stone, it wont show up as an Icon

[@SticktheFigure]

Oh! I didn't realize you could copy hotbars from jobs you weren't currently on. This is life changing. Also, shoutouts to the all the FFXI tracks in the background. 👀

[@maciiiiiiiiiii]

glad to see you still enjoy it! also thanks again for making a video about it so more ppl can enjoy this as well! keep it up bro😁

[@CaitSithOfWutai]

oh man, i hope so much that this is what i have been looking for for hours now. it already starts off great with north gustaberg soundtrack!

[@nathanrichardson8263]

The way I lived with having so many blocks covering my screen to 3 lines going across is so awesome!!! THANK YOU FOR THE TUTORIAL!!!! 🙃❤️

[@metaknightmare1234]

Oh neat, i used your old video for this about a year ago when I first started playing. It's really helped me a lot throughout the last year and it's made my life a lot easier.

[@jamaldowner]

I've been playing this game for a decade and you just broke my brain.

[@magnumbeef]

Man, this is SUPER clean. I love it!

[@raynvii7140]

So glad I found this. I hated having all my most used emotes or job icons taking up screen space and now its all beautiful thanks to this video. Thank you so much

[@ren4050]

This video is so helpful! Macros are still really confusing to me as a very new sprout but this video made it so clear and easy to understand, thanks so much!! My UI looks so nice now :D

[@dastevenoch8795]

This was so incredibly easy to learn and SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL! Thank you so much!!

[@genisay]

This is a faboulous quaility of life hack. I was doing something like this already, more rudimentary, and this just took it to a whole new level. I love that it means even if you only use five classes, and five bars each, that's 25 bars to work with! Also the pretty icons are a nice touch. ^.^

[@Kan-wz6uo]

One thing I did for my setup after watching this was remove the timers to re-hide the bars, then change "current 8" to "share 8" so that you can keep the hotbar visible and keep it consistent between classes. This also frees you up to use a few more class-specific hotbars for storage, since under normal circumstances your last few hotbars should only be Share hotbars.

[@Opusss]

Thank you I knew collapsing hotbars would be a game changer, It just seamed daunting to set up. I shared this with my FC and will help anyone get this done because it really is an awesome feature.

[@Jujusha-YT]

Man !!! this video changed my game approach completely !! thank you so much ! :D enjoy your game ! Thank you so much :)

[@InnocentChaos42]

I am so glad I found this, I've been trying to figure out a way to clean up my UI and lessen button bloat and this will definitely help!

[@Elayne_Mayene]

This is absolutly amazing. For someone with always not enough hotbars this is some of the best advise ever. Thank you so much for it!

[@PrimeReal]

I guess I don't understand this, it seems like this uses one addtional hotbar since one is dedicated to the macros.

[@merlinsenju7250]

man I just love u so much lol. I once made a gamepad cong using your tips and just loved it now I finally can have my screen clean, peacifull and beautifull. thank you so much.

[@lucasseyfried8711]

I just wanna say even after the first time i watched this till now it has helped me dramatically. i recently had my hud and macros reset and was preying this video was still up and it was.

[@Voice_9_Heart85]

Well... you know at first I didn't understand any of what you've shown, but after I watch very carefully and did exactly what you said, I finally understand. I always horded many shorcuts for easy uses, and now I have this thanks to your teaching. Best video shown, very simple. A Thousand Thanks. XD

[@PlanetPink]

Took me an EMBARESSING amount of time to figure this out. was drooling over this finally cracked it. TY

[@okgo3763]

I love you, Desperius. Thank you for this video!

[@LagunaLoiregr]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this :)

[@Strider_Shinryu]

Thanks so much for this. While I didn't go quite as far as you did with the multiple nested bars, I used the general principle to at least hide a few bars with a timed toggle. Works like a charm!

[@Fulmenify]

This is awesome, thank you! .. As someone who's prone to rearrange actions on my bars, I added "save" macros to each of the "submenus" .. all those do is doing the hotbar copy in reverse. I lose one slot on each bar to those, but it's worth the convenience to me, so I never have to switch to the base classes to change the items on my bars.

[@ChainedFei]

would love an explanation on how that works

[@Fulmenify]

@@ChainedFei Sorry, this got lengthy, but I didn't know how best to explain it and how detailed an explanation was needed: Let's take the example from 6:21 here. It copies the contents from bar 4 of the arcanist class to your current bar 8 and displays it (and then waits a bit before auto-closing the whole hotbar menu). Let's call that macro the "dps submenu". I made a second macro, that just says: /hotbar copy current 8 ACN 4 This macro just does the reverse copy. Now how I set it up: * I removed the "closing the hotbar menu" part from the dps submenu macro temporarily * I opened the menu and activated the dps submenu macro to open my hotbar menu and submenu with the contents from the ACN 4 bar (which might be empty at this point) * I placed my "save" macro with the reverse copy on that bar and activated it. * I added the "closing the hotbar menu" part back into the dps submenu macro. (you can skip first and last step here if you're quick with placing and activating the save macro before the auto-close) From now on, when you open the dps submenu, you see the save macro on it. It does two things: * it cancels the auto-close of the menu (because both are macros and executing a macro while another one is still running cancels the previous macro) * it transfers the current state of the submenu to the ACN 4 bar So what I, for example, tend to do: * Open my submenu when I want to make changes to the icons there, for example rearrange them. * Immediately press the save macro. Now I have all the time in the world to rearrange things, as the auto-close is cancelled * Rearrange or add icons to my heart's content * Press the save macro again * Close the menu with the main menu button If I open the submenu again after all of this, it shows the newly rearranged icons. This way, I never even have to change to the ACN class at all.

[@ethansmith104]

@@Fulmenify Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense. You have to work quickly if you put the auto-close command into your macros, but that does seem convenient. I had to create gearsets just so I could switch to my soul stone-free classes lol

[@youtousim]

Awesome tutorial! Only wanted to know how to hide unassigned hotbar slots, but learned so much more. Just started with ff14. Didn't even know macros were a thing. As a programmer irl I think i will enjoy this feature a lot. : )

[@Bubus1918]

New player here, I come from Wow, and UI customization is a big thing for me, that's what I love doing with addons etc. But damn, never did I expect a game to make a base UI so fun to use, I love the idea behind theses macros

[@shadowrypre]

So much more clear than the other videos I tried to watch. Will give this a go when I get my Ninja and no longer need Rogue.

[@Djiriod]

Thank you very much. I got intimidated by these macro UIs after reading a text guide. But with your video walkthrough for these macro UI it was really easy to set up. I also googled some other macro icons after seeing your explanation about the custom job icons. Thanks for the video!

[@MochiPangolin]

It was so confusing at first, but then it suddenly click and I got it. This is so cool, thank you for showing us how to do it!

[@compy5432]

pog was looking for UI vids then boom new upload

[@hywolfgaming8932]

The gustaberg music brought back such a rush of memories. Ffxi brings so many feels

[@adrenalinerush369]

Made my interface based on this. Thank you for the tips/guide. My UI is now cleaner.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

The Link is now fixed and should be visible for everyone I also added the "Duty List" Macro and "ACT Reset" Macro into the Document

[@n.allstein]

Is there a way you could share your ACT reset and hide duty UI Macro (the one that hides map, etc.) with us? Id like to do that too but i have no idea how

[@21Komtur]

Habe vor 3 tagen mit dem spiel angefangen, deine videod sind super hilfreich, danke dir.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Das freut mich ! Willkommen

[@Silvenmyst]

Been playing since beta, and just finally figuring this out. Huge saver and very well done. Thank you!

[@LunaticThinker]

Tomorrow's my birthday, and that's one hell of a gift. Thanks!

[@elliotthomas49]

I'd love a macro list for the rest of the collapsible icons!

[@Thakkii]

ty fo r this , i saw this on some stream was wondering how they got it , thanks to you now i know :)

[@JHarvelle]

I just found your video and I was able to set it up easily thanks to you. Kudos!

[@vaiess2932]

Came across this, and it is such a game changer. Thank you so much.

[@AshrakTeriel]

This video was actually extremely helpful to reduce the hotbars on my screen and keep some functionality easy accessible. thanks.

[@raediance5523]

Just started 2 weeks ago and I was wondering how to keep my UI clean, but not sacrifice any convenience! Thank you so much. I've saved the video for reference later when I unlock more professions! Liked, subbed!

[@skullkid8351]

Great video, great explanaitions, great content. Have a like, and carry on.

[@InfiniteUltima2077]

damn, this video is just what I needed lol. love the XI music btw

[@ftoli23macoux1]

Your collapsing hotbar is a good idea, thanks for the inspiration. I just developed a menu where you navigate with the num.pad, so to change things/eat/mount/etc. You enter what seems like a code.. perhaps could show that to people if no video exists yet.... Thank you for the introduction to hotbar management macros very helpful ^^

[@idropthepen1744]

Meeega gut, danke dir für diesen guid!! Hatte nihct gedacht dass ich des brauchen werde, aber doch.. ja.. das ist cool. Endlich wird mein layout aufgeräumt aussehen xD

[@HerrTiSo]

Alter Falter, das ist der Qualitätscontent, den ich gesucht habe. Mein Abo hast du dir gesichert. Danke für den Guide!

[@HerrTiSo]

Do we only react to English comments? :p For less native shaming, pal.

[@carloemo07]

This is really good. You have the potential to macro infinite amount of hotbars since you are technically copying the setup of your other classes, albeit only for general icons and not actual skills. Thank you so much Desp!!

[@Merwanor]

Amazing guide and suck a cool feature, I love the UI editing in this game.

[@ecMonify]

thank you so much for this guide, i had no idea you could do this! :D just set it up myself - awesome guide, very easy to follow! :) cheers

[@itisMenotyou]

Ty for this Video, I've been playing since RR and it never crossed my mind to try anything like this lol

[@john19184]

Thank you for a really great guide. And you be really teaching us about pointers if this was a computer science video.

[@noahkleinerman7359]

Loved this video, super easy to follow. Always my go to xiv creator

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Thank you !

[@bsiah9073]

Awesome video. Work like a charm!

[@ImSofaKingGood]

I just got it working and it's so cool and clean. Thank you so much.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

I am glad to hear that !

[@THiiro]

I've always used macros like these, but even still your videos help me understand exactly how it works better than I ever have

[@Neotropic2012]

Just opened whole new world for me! Thanks!

[@MrJerohm]

Thanks a lot, my HUD is so clean and practical now !

[@MajikkuHitomi]

Thank you for the guide. I placed this vertically on the left. As a controller player on the PS4, this is clearer for me. The principle is of course the same. Just a little more customized, so it’s better presented. For small Schnick Schnack I have even changed the respective job macro: OLD /micon "Soul of the Warrior" item /gs change 2 /wait 2 /hotbar display 9 off /hotbar display 8 off NEW /micon "Soul of the Warrior" item /eureka motion /snap motion /gs change 2 /wait 2 /hotbar display 9 off /hotbar display 8 off

[@WhywolfSenpai]

This is a game changer and you are a godsend

[@TheRaatikka]

Finally decided to try this out. Thank you for explaining how it works. :D

[@inMYtimeOFneed92]

Oh, my, God, this is SO USEFUL, ty very much :D

[@tuggerjaegger2886]

thank you for this video! i got frustrated with my messy hotbars and seeing the empty slots, but now it looks clean

[@tuggerjaegger2886]

i just have no idea what the ACT reset macro does in the Google Docs list and i don't knw how to hide the hotbar numbers

[@leonardthomas9740]

I peep the ffxi music in the background!!! Love it!!!

[@kubanboy4life]

thank you so much, amazing video it was so worth it :D

[@amouramarie]

What a cool idea, I'll have to try this later!

[@markomuncan6811]

echt witzig .. grad vor 2 Tagen ab ich alles wie du geändert. dachte schon dass die Erklärungen etwas hacken ... jetzt kommst du mit dem neuen Video ^^ klasse gemacht !! und Grüße von den Schattendieben -.^

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Dankeschön!

[@painrelief3441]

I want to point this out to everyone, but the biggest hurdle I had with this setup is that you need to set these macros under the SHARED tab in the User Macros menu. If you put these in Individual, they will not work as the macros you put in will be assigned to that particular class during your set up. Also, doing this after coming home from a long day of work is probably not the best time to set them up... Either way, this guide is great! Thank you for helping me with this! :D

[@belladonnagaming6881]

UI is clean now, great tutorial thanks

[@NyklausCopernicus]

This was a great video! Thanks so much.

[@jericm151]

HALLELUJAH! THIS VIDEO IS A GODSEND!

[@Fransens]

Took me long enough to find this but it's a heaven-sent! The problem I had with a class-change macro setup is that it effectively ate 4 of my hotbars since I thought I couldn't do anything but have them shared. I did not consider the idea of a macro copying bar setups from "inactive" gear sets. When I saw that I was like "Holla, die Waldfee!" XD

[@F0RTUNATUS666]

Okay, A. Great video. B. The Gustaberg BGM hit me right in the nostalgia.

[@Miyuki-zzZ]

i am amzed on this video , my UI looks much better and cleaner and i removed minimap from the macro so i dont want it to be dissapear but i love everything else , thank you very much

[@UmbraWeiss]

Oh this is nice, i will add this to my ui today:))

[@magpie_monster]

I feel like a third eye has opened. I've never been this happy in my life. Thank you so much HFHGDHG

[@rotem8303]

Thank you so much! Great video!

[@prtib]

This is the absolute clearest version of how to do this I've ever seen. Well done.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Thank you !

[@agafaba]

at only 86k views this video is greatly underrated. Thank you for this awesome trick!

[@DiscoSamurai]

WHY CAN I ONLY LIKE THIS ONCE?! This piece of info, this guide... so helpful! You rock!

[@stefflarson536]

Omg will do this! Thank you so much

[@rafaelteles4161]

This is next level, true master race UI

[@RedDragon4275]

I love the video for the hotbars, but I literally got chills when Ronfaure started playing. I forgot how beautiful that song is.

[@RandomCommenter9]

You make the most useful videos straight up.

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Thank you 🤗

[@Daddys-Kitten]

Danke, das ist sehr hilfreich! ♥

[@AlphasGamingStuff]

Thank you for this!

[@megagreatgodlywhiteshark2929]

Love to see mixing up different job/class gears to have a smn an drk combined to look different from other equipment gears ect lol

[@ImSofaKingGood]

Just wanted to put out there that if you want to use the macros in PvP modes, you can use /pvphotbar instead of /hotbar. Also, the base classes like ACN, CNJ, etc. don't exist in PvP, so I place the button data that gets copied to hotbar 8 in my unused PvP hotbars like 5, 6, 7 on my regular jobs (even the ones I actually play) and then hide those unused hotbars. This allows me to remake another set of macros for PvP. Luckily PvP doesn't have that many relevant menu items so it's quick to make a few equivalent macros for PvP.

[@peterdarmawan5166]

This is so useful, thank you!

[@deathnote939393]

Thank you for this. It took me a bit of time to understand everything, but your video gave great instructions. The only downside is that it takes a bit of time (compared to just dragging) if you wanna change anything. I like the bar alot though

[@katarh]

Finally got a chance to work on this! One note: If you have a Resistance weapon equipped, you won't be able to get to a base class. Be sure to have an older weapon available to get access to some of those hotbars.

[@CubanLegend561]

Thank you so much for this video! im really interested in what your other collapsing hotbar macros are and what the subsequent hotbars contain, also .. you have some unique icons /micons im unable to find :3