[Controller-UI] Enable/Disable Auras (or similar instant skills) from skills ui

Please provide an action to enable Auras from the character screen's skills tab, at least when the controller ui is used.

Reason:
Skill mappings to controller buttons are too little. A character using many active skills and auras quickly runs out of button slots to use.

It's a big improvement already that auras do not have to be recast after login. But there are a lot of situations in which they do get disabled again (unintentionally), e.g. when weapon swapping or changing around equipment. Or when 'tabbing' through the skill slots in combat, e.g. Aura on LT+x, main attack on x. When pressing the trigger and not releasing x quickly enough beforehand, it will deactivate the aura. I even had situations where i unintentionally hit LT when panic pressing my life flask on LB, resulting in an unintended drop of power until i realised the aura was gone.
Yes, i know this could be prevented by unmapping all aura buttons before heading into combat. But that would only mean that the process describes below doesn't have to be repeated for one or 2 aura, but maybe for 4 or more. which would be even more tedious than doing it just once.

When there's more Auras + active skills than button slots, this currently involves the following:
1. Cast all auras which have button mappings
2. remap one of the buttons to one of the not-yet-cast auras/skills
3. cast it
4. revert mapping changes

This is a lot of additional button presses and ui navigation, just to reactivate a skill again.
Last bumped on Aug 7, 2025, 6:15:08 AM
You can activate Auras from the skill assignment menu.
On PS if you press R3 to assign a skill to one of the buttons, open the selection with X and then hover over the aura and press square. (I think it was square 😄)
You do not have to map it to any button.
I never realized (didn't see it in the UI).
Thanks for the tip, i'm going to check and try that.

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