Green Bard hot bar set up?

[slowpoke68]

Have my bard on green up to level 7. I have 1-4 as macros for /stop song /cast.

Have an inc message and assist macro on other two.

What are you guys doing for other stuff like weapons swaps etc.?

First bard and looking for tips.

Thanks!

[pink grapefruit]

get rid of the song macros; just set your song gem casts to keys. and either use up 4 of your 6 hotbar slots for weapon/instrument swapping or play with your inventory open always.

[Videri]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

get rid of the song macros; just set your song gem casts to keys. and either use up 4 of your 6 hotbar slots for weapon/instrument swapping or play with your inventory open always.

Nailed it. Great pink grapefruit post.

Do I get an achievement for being the first person to say that? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP, I’d suggest putting the inc macro on page 2. I find it easy enough to do Shift 2, 2, Shift 1. I hope it works for you.

So perhaps the following:
1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Inventory slot 1 (or 6)
4. Inventory slot 2 or 3 (or 8)
5. /assist macro (bound to F or G or something else close to WASD)
6. I don’t know!

Page 2 can have assist macro in the same spot, inc macro, maybe a “how’s mana?” macro, Sense Heading...

What do you think?

[pink grapefruit]

Originally Posted by Wallicker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Omgawd y’all double tap for every song? Gross

go hard or go home imo. this isn't a fucking game [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i'd go:

1: primary
2: secondary
3: inventory
4: inventory
5: forage
6: track

pages 2-3 would have the rp macros and all the other skills.

Originally Posted by Videri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nailed it. Great pink grapefruit post.

Do I get an achievement for being the first person to say that? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

mean.

[Wallicker]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

go hard or go home imo. this isn't a fucking game [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i'd go:

1: primary
2: secondary
3: inventory
4: inventory
5: forage
6: track

pages 2-3 would have the rp macros and all the other skills.



mean.

Hmmmm lol I go with the work smarter not harder mantra but you enjoy hitting twice the keys to do the same stuff

[pink grapefruit]

Originally Posted by Wallicker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hmmmm lol I go with the work smarter not harder mantra but you enjoy hitting twice the keys to do the same stuff

it's not smarter tho. it's less efficient. and when you start getting insta clickies each one needs a hotkey slot too, if you want to do everything you can to protect against dispells. wasting hotkey slots as the class with the most skills (and needing to have inventory slots accessible out of necessity) in an era where there are only 6 slots per hotkey page is downright bad barding.

*tap tap* .... *tap tap* ...

[Videri]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i'd go:

1: primary
2: secondary
3: inventory
4: inventory
5: forage
6: track

pages 2-3 would have the rp macros and all the other skills.

But wait! What about a /assist macro? With only one hotbar...isn't this the only way? Is there another way to do /assist with a single keystroke without making a macro?

Personally, I don't want to forage that much, and I like to have the tracking window closed some of the time. Those go on Hotbar Page 2 for me. But even more important, with only 6 buttons, I bet we could put something more critical in that last slot or two.

[LemmingVR]

I only cast with /st /cast macros and I use shift+whatever to go through hotbar pages

Page 1: 1-4 is my normal twist, 5/6 might be selos, Mez, /assist, or a call for primary depending on what I'm doing. When I start casting 4 (which is always hymn) I swap to page 2 so I can swap to lute

Page 2: 1 is the first song of my twist, 2 is hymn, 3-6 are two inventory slots with instruments (always lute and usually drums) and primary/secondary. Most of the time I only swap to lute for hymn and dual wield for the rest of the songs (I don't think there's too much impact from most of them to have an instrument, usually). Since slot 1 is the first song of my twist, I can start casting it after hymn finishes, then swap back to weapons and go back to page 1.

Page 3: this one's for pulling, I have snare/Mez/lull on 1,2,3, inc macro on 4, 5 is selos if I'm outside

Page 4: for charms, 1 is charm, 2 is pet attack, 3 is pet back, 4 is charm message macro. I also have a button for Hide somewhere. I need to add Mez in here and make it my overall CC page I think.

I don't use my 6 key much but I think if I remap it to F or something I'd use it more. I find I can do everything quicker if I don't move my hand very far and stick to the left hand side of the keyboard

[Satinna]

Originally Posted by pink grapefruit [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

go hard or go home imo. this isn't a fucking game [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i'd go:

1: primary
2: secondary
3: inventory
4: inventory
5: forage
6: track

pages 2-3 would have the rp macros and all the other skills.



mean.

If you're using all 6 of your hotkeys for things like this, where are you putting your /assist and /attack buttons? Are they just on a different page of hotbar 1?

[Wallicker]

Omgawd y’all double tap for every song? Gross