Dancer Hotbar Layouts and Guides

Single target on right, AOE on left, dances and buffs on cross.

Valen Bree

I created my chotbars to be comfortable, practical, and aesthetic.(to me anyway) Nearly all same/similar skills are in the same position across all jobs/roles while allowing for as little finger gymnastics as possible.

My XHB is split between chotbars 2(left) and 7(right)

Just copied Nanaki's

for each job, I create a "hotbar" that is basically a monitor for any spell/skill/cooldowns I want to see the status of; I also have a hotbar with Role spells & skills, and, Sprint. These are the spells I have for Dawntrail. I use Hotbars 2 & 10 but you can use any Hotbars you want.

wanna Dance? let's DANCE! single target on the Right Trigger Crossbar skills, Fan Dances & AOE on the Left Trigger Crossbar skills (except for Last Dance) Buffs, Def, Movement etc skills on Crossbar 2

Updated for Dawntrail

Buttons consistent for similar job actions (Dye = Potion)

WIP with aoe abilities on the extended XHB

Puts most of the strain on the left hand, and off of the right.

Single target on chotbar 1, AoE on chotbar 2. I change using the right bumper button (R1) and sit on the chotbar as needed. Possibly based on Squintina's layout with tweaks, I can't remember if I got my original layout from her or not.

Not updated for 7.0. Putting this up for a friend (and so I can transfer my chotbar to my alts)

My personal XHB for raiding Extreme, Savage and Ultimate. But also works for normal use.

I show Cross Hotbar 3 (Left) with both of the expanded trigger controls, so you can easily add in another 8 actions if you prefer, I use XHB 8 as a shared bar between all classes for traversal and general actions outside of combat. Role actions are consistent among my layouts, and so are general actions. The macro icon is a placeholder for a Tincture/Gemdraught.

Single Target (L)

Mobs (R)

Bar 1: single target Bar 2: AOE Bar 3: XHB

DPS Icon 1 = Last Dance

Endwalker 90 Dancer

L2 + DP: Upkeep Skills

DNC PVP Layout 6.55

Current WIP for updated hotbars in 7.0, focusing on minimising swapping hotbars in combat and keeping visual clarity on relevant buff cooldowns and maximising consistency across all jobs. Bar 1 is for single target, and Bar 2 for AoE.

The Glamour Plate button is being used in place of the newly added skill as needed, and the dye represents potion. Sprint and LB are macroed to L3/R3 respectively.

RT single target, buffs

RT LT aoe, healing

Gain Last Dance. (Teleport as Placeholder. Not actually too sure if this is a new button.)

Maybe play with where Saber Dance, Last Dance, Starfall Dance, and Fan Dance IV are. Might feel bad to hit those buttons in those locations.

Waiting for the new action images to get added in to fully get this good

Make sure to change Double tap L2 to "Cross Hotbar 4 - Left" and Double tap R2 to "Cross Hotbar 4 - Right"

Endwalker Lvl90 Dancer

My dancer crosshotbars

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The new DNC Layout I'm testing 05/22/24

Trying to standardize my XHBs across jobs, starting with DNC.

HB 1:

• RT shapes: single-target GCDs
• RT D-pad: single-target oGCDs

Current XHB layout; single-target on right, aoe on left, stances & less commonly used skills on HB 2.

My current DNC Layout

did you know: peloton and sprint do not stack together, peloton's 20% speed buff gets overwritten by sprint's 30%

this is also true for every othe speed buff that is lower than another, for example ninja's passive speed boost

from bun boss video but slighly modified

Single Target on the right, AOE on the left, movement on LT > RT

How I set up my crossbars as a dancer on steamdeck (Currently level ~65)

I try to play every classes/jobs, thus I tend to reuse same slots for same "functionality" across jobs.

Dancer XHB

General XHB combat layout I use in game. Feel free to use it if curious on how the flow might gauge for you.

[MINDSET]

Dancer Cross Hotbar setup based from Bun Boss FFXIV on Youtube as of Jul 7, 2022 (except expanded XHB which I regularly access).

Playing around with different setups...

DNC Layout

I'm a small streamer that loves FFXIV and many other things. The XHBs I publish are solely how I personally like to organize my Hotbars when on the controller! Feel free to use them if you too like them! Some are thrown together and some are planned out.

dd for controller

6.3

For Normal Use

For Emergency Use

Patch 6.3

Dancer

A simple crossbar for DNC. Only the essentials, nothing terribly flashy. (My Closed Position is actually a cute little macro to let my fellow DPS know they're my dance partner.)

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