Hi! Questions regarding controller setup

[Estellios]

You should have a majority of your points in MND, I would recommend either full MND or having some VIT. I am personally 20 MND/10 VIT and doing fine so far.

I would recommend putting all your most used skills, or stuff that would need to be used immediately, on the first bar since you will typically want to spend a majority of your time there. Play around with the layout and try to figure out a layout that is intuitive for you.

I only have a screen of my first bar but this is what it looks like for me.



Face buttons are my "main" skills, D-pad is typically buffs and debuffs. Cleric stance and Divine Seal are both on Triangle as they are both "boosting" stances, I just swap between L or R depending on if I intend to nuke or heal.

On my 2nd bar, I have Medica and Medica II where Cure and Cure II are so I just have to hit R1 if I want to AOE.

If you are on PC I highly recommend making a bar like the one in my picture in the blue outline. Put any long-cooldown skills there (Benediction, Swiftcast, and Shroud of Saints in my case - I have since added Eye for an Eye) that way you can keep an eye on their recast times without having to be on your second bar.

Really though, how you setup your bars will mostly be up to you. I would recommend doing a dungeon after messing with your bars to see how it works in action. As Itchyness said, a lot of it will come down to muscle memory. I have similar layouts on all my jobs for consistency and I never have to look at the bar anymore except when watching for Bloodletter triggers on BRD.