How often do you change up your hotbars?

[Hasrat]

Shuffling skills, changing up keybinds, rearranging layouts. How well do you adjust to change and induce it yourself?

Aside from dealing with new/obsolete skill changes, I'm not sure I've changed my hotbars much in several years. But, starting to find a need for more button access, and starting to play around with new keybinds that I should've seen ages ago. Might still take a bit to develop new muscle memory though.
Also feeling like sometime soon-ish I might have to start playing around with hotbar swapping/hiding macros or something, for non-combat related buttons.

[Bacent]

I'll change them once when I start leveling them/finish leveling them, usually leaving them weirdly shaped, then not again.

Unless it's like last year when I got a new computer, then I had to do everything all over again since I didn't save the settings, oof.

[StriderShinryu]

Very rarely, and this holds across jobs within the same role as well. I just have places where I like to have certain abilities and will even tend to keep those similar abilities in the same places across multiple jobs.

So, yeah, unless something drastically changes about a job at a fundamental level I at most just tinker with my buttons.

[Duskane]

hardly ever but some fights i want to prioritise some skills
like e8s made me put arms lengths in a more comfy spot and so once or twice per expac

[FrogDog]

Never.

I have keybinds that I've used for a very long time, I have a hotbar layout I set up when I started the game based on my hotbar layout from another game. I never deviate from this or change it.

[MilkieTea]

My core hotbars stay the same, I rely on muscle memory for a lot ahah. Biggest change I do is when I'm done leveling a class I strip it down to the barebones needed for my rotation and stuff in a trial. IE Smn went from needing 3 hotbars (barely... I just needed consistency for role actions ahah) to needing 1 hotbar for the rotation and one hotbar for summons.

But I do regularly change up my menu macro!

[Hasrat]

But I do regularly change up my menu macro!

Yeah, macros like that are what I need to look into. Maybe for job changing. Might could use one for mark bills. And something else that's slipping my mind..

I think it's the out of combat stuff that's probably naturally easiest to change up.

[NegativeS]

Bro, you can do that? I've been wasting hotbars on gearsets all this time when I could just do this???

[MilkieTea]

Bro, you can do that? I've been wasting hotbars on gearsets all this time when I could just do this???

mhm! The arrow button is the button to activate the menu, so it sits on hotbar "5":

/hotbar display 6 [on/off]
/hotbar display 7 off
/wait 7 
/hotbar display 6 off

The tank, healer, DPS buttons each swap out class hotbars. For example:

TANK

/hotbar copy MRD 1 current 7
/hotbar display 7 on
/wait 7
/hotbar display 7 off
/hotbar display 6 off

So you'd put all the buttons you need onto MRD hotbar 1 (instead of WAR) and it would copy that hotbar onto "current" hotbar 7. MRD 2 would be healer, MRD 3 would be DPS. Then since I wanted ease of access I switched over to CNJ (instead of WHM) and did the same thing for the emotes, mounts, and minions.

To change job stones, this would be the macro

/micon "Soul of the Paladin" item
/snap
/wait 2
/gs change 1
/wait 2
/hotbar display 7 off
/hotbar display 6 off

micon changes it to the pretty job icon, /snap is just the snap emote. /gs change changes it to gearset 1 (PLD gearset for me). After 2 seconds it turns the menu off so I don't have to manually click anything.

[Yeol]

I change my HUD and keybainds if I change the way I play the game. An example would be moving from a normal Keyboard/Mouse to using an MMO mouse.