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That is definitely a good point you're making. I was thinking specifically cross hotbar in the comment. This does fix the cooldown issue which is the most important fix but you can't see the gamepad button layout easily from a normal hotbar.

Gamepad is amazing. I wouldn't want to play any other way.

Instant access to 16 abilities on your cross bar using two fingers and one of your thumbs, if you use the extended functions this can be doubled to 32 but the system works so well I don't even bother.

Instant switching to 8 other pallets at will with 1 finger and one of your thumbs.

Auto switching between weapon drawn and weapon sheathed pallets so you don't have to keep your mounts minions etc on your cross bar when fighting and don't have to manually switch to your "fighting" bar.

I can do more key combinations with my controller than I could ever do with a keyboard. And since the keyboard and gamepad bars can be set to not be shared you can put all of your cooldowns on vertical bars so you can keep track of when they are up if you need to have them on a separate cross bar, frankly though I've never run into that problem, using intelligent macro design you can pretty much fit everything into 16 buttons for most jobs I think.

Also keep in mind when using a gamepad you can still use your keyboard :). So you can bind keys on your keyboard to less used stuff if you like or just find it convenient. I have some of my more mundane tasks bound to my keyboard AND my gamepad so I can do them while chatting without having to pickup the gamepad all of the time.

Movement and camera control on a gamepad is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY better than keyboard and mouse.

On the PS4, by default, it will ignore keybindings to your keyboard if you're set up to use a controller (e.g. if you type 'M' to bring up the map, it will place an 'm' in your chat bar instead). There's an option to undo this, however. In the Character Configuration window, you'll see that Enable Direct Chat is checked. If you uncheck this, your keyboard will now be able to execute commands.

I had a similar system set up when I was playing FFXI.

Honestly... I'm using a Nostromo mapped with numpad keys and modifiers. This allows me to comfortably have 60 keybinds available entirely to my left hand, with another 12 left over for the pet bar on the off chance I'm playing a pet class.

I have 5 keybound bars visible at all times, 3 non-keybound bars, and the pet bar.

I absolutely hate actionbar paging and will go out of my way to avoid it.

After ten years, WoW got to the point where seriously having that many buttons available still meant I was leaving things out on certain classes, and they started to trim abilities. When FFXIV gets to that point, I expect we'll be ready for them to go ahead and do that. But we aren't getting there in one expansion. This is a problem yes, but it's a problem years and years down the line.

I Appreciate the replies. Got the setup that I wanted. I'll still play on pc from time to time, but I'm making ps4 play primary. Movement, for me, is so much better.

As far as Heavensward goes, I can't wait to see what the new classes are. DRK has been speculated, and I wonder if it will stem from Marauder.