Quote Originally Posted by 416to305 View Post
First thing I did is set the hot bar to the custom mode where you can hold down L2+R2 to bring up another cross bar quickly. I try to keep everything on my main crossbar plus the L2+R2 one. My secondary cross bar or R2+L2 I keep for non essential things like sprint or emotes.
Do this. Im on ps3 which is basically the same thing. I would have trouble while switching hotbars during battle and get mixed up and fall behind easily. I found a video on youtube where a guy explained how to do this and i have had zero troubles since switching to this method. Since you need your left hand to move the joystick around, put most on your important spells on the R2 side of you hotbar. You can find it in the options somewhere to do this. You have a choice to make certain hotbars disabled during combat but you can still switch them using the R2 then L2 without switching your main hotbar. Play around with this option. It is amazing with a controller.