Quote Originally Posted by iLyrica-sama View Post
Thanks for reposting this awesome and informative guide!

So I had a question (not sure if this was asked already or not; I will delete this post if so), but how would we set up this rotation on a hotbar for those on PC playing with a controller (an XB1 controller specifically for myself)? Thanks in advance!
There's several options listed here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-setup-for-DRG

If you wanna convert those longer listed setups to 360 controllers, follow this handy guide:
O = B
▲= Y
◘ = X
X = A

Major recommendations:
1. Get used to extended bars. Do not use them to keep some always-used skills like mounts and such. It's way more efficient and much faster to use the extended bars (RT>LT and LT>RT being two distinct bars) to hold your extra skills, rather than tapping RB to cycle. This is more just a general rule of thumb.
2. Try and keep the majority of your attacking skills in places you can hit while moving - particularly the ones with positional requirements. For me, that tends to be the face buttons (ABXY) and down on the d-pad.
3. Get used to extended bars. Seriously. I swear by them, and have yet to meet someone who uses R1/RB cycling for their main skills while maintaining high dps. It's clunky and awkward comparatively.
4. Don't be afraid to hide less-used skills on a hard-to-reach hotbar (via R1/RB cycling) such as Piercing Talon, Feint, Doom Spike, and Ring of Thorns.
5. Match skills across jobs! Keep your primary skills for each job in the same basic place. It makes it really easy to swap from one to another without needing to remember how things are set up. For example, where I have the Full Thrust combo is also where I have Fire 1-3-4 and Thunder 3 on Black Mage, and Syphon Strike combos for Dark Knight, and it's where I have Cure 1-2/Regen/Tetra and Physick/Adlo/Lustrate/Embrace on WHM and SCH.