Remember, the more frequently you use something, or the quicker you need to press it, the closer it should be to your hand’s default position (WASD). I’ll go over some of the functions I think are most important, but you may have different priorities depending on how you play. There are tons of useful keybinds for actions that don’t need a hotbar, too, and they might still get a lot of use while you’re in combat! Under System > Keybind, check out the various tabs to set up some seriously useful button presses. I also put several User Macros on this bar so I can do things like examine a player or toggle HUD elements with a single button press. These are actions you’ll be using frequently on every Job but that don’t already have a keybind shortcut.įor example, on my extra hotbar I place and keybind Sprint, Mount, a second Mount (for variety, or to use a multi-seater), and Limit Break. I also highly recommend setting up an extra hotbar for some of your shared keybinds. I think Scholar comes the closest to filling it up, but I still have a couple empty spaces. Three hotbars is a total of 36 slots, which should be enough for any Job’s skills. I’m fine with this keybind being on a Job-specific hotbar because I can use it for little one-off Job actions that kind of fall under the same category, so I can instinctively press it when I’m thinking “I need to do XYZ” in combat. I was finding Ctrl+Z to be a slightly awkward button combo to press naturally, so I replaced that keybind with Shift+Mouse3, which is much more comfortable for me. I did break the trend for one slot and snuck in a secret keybind on the third hotbar. That will come in handy when assigning Job actions, since every Job is a little different. I can have a group of Shift+1, Shift+2, Shift+3, Shift+4, but I could also have a group of 1, Shift+1, Ctrl+1. The modifiers allow me to divide my hotbar keybinds into sections across even more dimensions. Both modifiers are held with my pinky finger, but you may want to consider the Alt modifier instead, which might be more comfortable for you if you’d rather use your thumb to hold the button. I use a shift modifier with all those same keys on my second hotbar, and a ctrl modifier on my third hotbar.
‘C’ and ‘V’ are still very easy to press with my index finger, so I often use them for important or more frequently used oGCDs. I tend to place my frequent Weaponskills and Spells in the blue top section (1, 2, 3, 4), my important cooldowns tend to go in the purple middle section (Q, E, R, F), and my less frequently pressed cooldowns go in the orange bottom section (Z, X, C, V). I love this setup because it allows me to mentally break up my hotbar keybinds into three sections. I’m going to show you what I use as hotbar keybinds because it made sense to me, but again, you may have to tinker a little bit before you find something that feels exactly right for you. I would much rather be able to reach everything comfortably with the fingers on my keyboard hand. I cringe when I see somebody using the default keybinds because…ouch, your hand. I don’t know about you but I find that ridiculously impractical if my keyboard hand is always resting above WASD. The default keybinds for your first hotbar are ‘1-9’, ‘0’, ‘-‘, and ‘=’. Unfortunately you cannot set keybinds on a per-Job basis if you set hotbar 1’s keybinds up a certain way, then that’s what they are for all your Jobs, even if you don’t have that hotbar set to ‘shared’. You can set these up under System > Keybind > Hotbar.Įach hotbar has 12 slots, so I recommend setting your hotbar keybinds to 12 buttons that are relatively easy and comfortable for YOU to press. You’re going to associate your skills with their hotbar slot and where it is on the screen, but you also need a keybind associated with that slot so you can, you know, press the button and do the thing. Keybinds are very closely intertwined with your hotbar layout. Keybinds and hotbar layouts are extremely customizable, so I strongly encourage you to play around and try stuff out to find a good fit.įor this post, I’ll be going through my own keybind and hotbar setup so you can see my thought processes and have something to work off of when you’re building your own setup. While it might sometimes be a frustrating answer, the truth is that the best layout is whatever is most comfortable for that player, and that might be a little different for everyone. They might be brand new to the game, or they might be picking up a new Job for the first time and they want to know what buttons make sense to place where. One of the most common questions I see players asking is how they should set up their hotbars in FFXIV.
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