SCH gamepad/ps3 advice

[Swear_Bear]

I usually play on keyboard and mouse, but I decided to try messing around with a gamepad.

How do you Scholars on gamepads or PS3s set up your hotbars? I'm kinda stumped.

[Darksword]

I use three hotbars.

Starting from the top and going clockwise on each, the four groups go, from the left to right:

#1: Summon, Summon II, Sustain, Swiftcast. Eye for Eye, Fey Illum, Protect, Whispering Dawn. Rouse, Lustrate, Aetherflow, Sacred Soil. Succor, Adloquium, Physic, Leeches

#2: Copy of the Pet Hotbar, plus Resurrect, Spine Drops, Hi Elixers, and Echo drops filling in unused slots.

#3: Bio, Bio II, Miasma, Aero Shadowflare, Miasma II, Bane, Cleric Stance

I run the DD stuff on #3 so that you can be dealing damage and have all your healing icons one click away under your right thumb button for maximum speed of access.

[Chakyeung]

I have quite a similar set up with Dark, again 3 sets but I have all the items and buff spells and summoning spells ( skills that has either a long affect i.e protect and stone skin or items like ether ( which I hardly EVER use anyway ) since I wont be using them much once I've used it that one time and it's quite easy to flick back even if I do need it)
Second one is all the healing skills basically including the fairy "Eos" ones since they now screwed us over with the new patch =/ it used to be just embrace! now I had to give up 3 slots for the other 3 skills -_-"
and the third one has 4 main healing spells on the left so my aoe heal, physic, lustrate and adoloquim and the rest is my remaining attack spells and cleric stance

[Calyanare]

http://imgur.com/a/xiJVa Here are screenshots of my setup (pre-patch; I've changed some stuff since 2.1 hit, but this should give you a baseline to start from) along with explanations of why I've done what I did. Hope this helps.

Edit: No, I didn't just whip this up for you, I did it a couple of weeks ago for someone else who asked me the same question. But since it's there...

[Ignaz]

I use 2 hotbars.

The primary hotbar for all healing and support skill. I can run through all dungeon by using just this hotbar alone. But most of the time I will switch to attack mode to help dps.

From left to right:
Instant-raise, soil, leech, succor, Fey illu, sprint, protect, rouse || physick, lustrate, adlo, drain, virus, whispering,Aether Flow, eyes4eyes

The secondary hotbar is meant for solo, attack, and some support skill that take time to cast.

From left to right:
LB, Instant summon1, Instant summon2, Cleric stance, miasma2, sprint, shadow flare, sustain || physick, stoneskin, adlo, drain, aero, macro all dots, aether flow, ruin2

The location of physick, adlo, sprint, aether flow, drain are the same in both hotbars in case of emergency.

for controling pet,*just toggle pet hotbar.

For me, the combination of R1+[triangle, square, left, up, down] are easiest, quickest and most comfortable to press. So I map skill that need to activate quickly in those slots.