Bard Hotbar

[mb52139]

I dont know if I can be much help since, I use a controller and use the crossbar layout... but I'd suggest you make macros to make life easier.

Example being

/macroicon "Heavy Shot"
/ac "Empyreal Arrow"
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Sidewinder" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>


This way your higher damaging skills will activate when they are available. (Emp Arrow/Misery's end would be first to activate if available)... macros may not be very efficient and many are really against them.. but they help with the daily grind of dungeons and such.. keeping you from going insane with the amount of skills.

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When I used a keyboard.. I had it set up.. sorta like..

Key 1 Straight arrow
key 2-3 DOTS (Venom/Windbyte) ( you dont want these macroed together, incase one dropps off and you only need to refresh the 1.. a macro would force you to cast both)
Key 4 Was my main 'dps' macro. ( the heavy arrow one)
Key 5 should probably be Iron jaws or fire arrow.

From there, you'll want to put skills in order of how often you use them. Songs, self heals.. and buffs can go in the secondary hot bars since you don't use them quite as often. If you have a mouse with buttons, I'd suggest binding things like Blunt arrow (silence) onto it so you can very quickly react when needed, also Iron jaws worked well on the mouse.