Button Bloat?

[Niwashi]

If you use the (L2+R2) and (R2+L2) cross-bars, that's 32 skill slots available before having to switch bars (though only 16 of them are visible on-screen at a time). Although by level 50, I did have to resort to having a separate weapon-sheathed hotbar for non-combat stuff like teleporting, mounts, etc., 32 should be enough for combat actions on most jobs. (At least it should until Heavensward adds another few levels worth of skills. Not sure how many more we'll need to accommodate at that point.) For Ninja, even though I use Ten, Chi, Jin, and Ninjutsu from my (L2+R2) bar, I have Ten duplicated on my first bar just for visibility of that set's cooldown. So far, it's the only one I've had to duplicate for visibility like that, and I think I have enough slots to get the rest of the way to 50 (I'm currently 45).

My biggest annoyance with my current hotbar setup is that my character sheathes his daggers for Ninjutsu, so in the middle of a fight I suddenly end up on my non-combat hotbar until I manually unsheathe them again. (My non-combat hotbar does include a few combat actions —the ones I typically use as starter moves to initiate combat— so sometimes I'm all right just using those to unsheathe my daggers again and continue the fight, but any time those aren't what I intended to use next it throws me off my stride a bit.)