My Collapsing Hotbars Setup for FFXIV

 

After figuring out how to correctly set up collapsing hotbars thanks to this guide, this is what I have settled on for the time being. Using whatever unused job and/or hotbars that you want to store things on (Rogue, for me), you just place them on the hotbars however you want and write macros that copy that hotbar to another hotbar that will be accessed by all of your jobs.  

The above is my Rogue, which was used to store all the current things I want access to on my used jobs without taking up hotbar space; note that Hotbar 5 is shared. My hotbar configuration settings are below.

This is my UI for most gameplay; empty slots are turned on just for illustrative purposes. Quest tracker is not hidden, I'm not just not tracking any quests at the moment since I had them hidden while doing The Rising. MSQ is hidden in some shots because I forgot to turn it back on before taking the screenshots; my paid account finished the MSQ so I hid it, but these screenshots are from my Trial account and I just didn't think about it after copying setup files over.

Hotbar 5 (Shared) is the one with the potions, LB, Sprint, Dig, Wondrous Tails, Greeting, and Up Arrow Macro on it. Hotbar 9 is the one with the Chocobo controls/food, mount, Gpose, and Change Pose on it. Hotbars 1, 2, and 10 are the skills, while Hotbars 3, 4, and 6 are empty most of the time (I drag recipes I'm going to make to them while on the appropriate job so they only appear on the job that can do them since those hotbars aren't shared). 

That Up Arrow Macro you see highlighted in the above screenshot is the macro that toggles Hotbars 3, 4, 6, and 8 (Shared).

/hotbar display 3 [on/off]
/hotbar display 4 [on/off]
/hotbar display 6 [on/off]
/hotbar display 8 [on/off]

Click that arrow and you get the below image:

The hotbar that is now visible at the top next to the menu, Hotbar 8 (Shared), is the one that controls Hotbar 7 (Shared) that will display whatever you are wanting to hide, in my case it's Hunt Bills and gearsets. 

Macro 1 holds the Hunt Bills for ARR, HW, and SB, as well Macro 2. Macro 1 is also a toggle, even though I left off the [on/off], so it will open and close Hotbar 7 (Shared); sometimes the autohide that I have on the other macros fails, so I can just click Macro 1 to close Hotbar 7 (Shared). Confused yet?

/hotbar copy rogue 1 share 7
/hotbar display 7

Macro 2 has the Hunt Bills for ShB and EW, as well as Macro 1 to turn the bar off since Macro 1 is also a toggle and I normally have Hotbar 8 (Shared) off while doing Hunt Bills. I could set this up another way, but this works for me. 

/hotbar copy rogue 2 share 7
/hotbar display 7 on

Going down the bar, those are DPS Macro, Heals Macro, Tank/Magic Macro, and Craft/Gather Macro; click them to access gearsets and Materia Extraction. Those macros all have auto-hide and it mostly works, but sometimes it fails so I have to click Macro 1 to close Hotbar 7 (Shared). The other things on Hotbar 8 (Shared) are a minion used to spawn an S Rank, an MSQ toggle, and Teleport.

/hotbar copy rogue 3 share 7
/hotbar display 7 on
/wait 10
/hotbar display 7 off

/hotbar copy rogue 9 share 7
/hotbar display 7 on
/wait 10
/hotbar display 7 off

/hotbar copy rogue 4 share 7
/hotbar display 7 on
/wait 10
/hotbar display 7 off

/hotbar copy rogue 6 share 7
/hotbar display 7 on
/wait 10
/hotbar display 7 off

You'll notice that I have the Materia Extraction here, I figured it was a fitting place but you can obviously put whatever you want wherever you want; this is just what I settled on, for now, after trying a few different setups.