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.

Automatic mouse and keyboard summoners