bard performance "rant"

[Raikki]

More importantly... I need more hotbars to properly utilize the feature...

You can utilize the hotbar storage of unused classes (for example Archer) and use a macro to swap between them. For example, the following macro swaps hotbars 1-3 between Archer and Bard (using Lancer's hotbar #1 as a buffer):

/hotbar copy brd 1 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 1 brd 1
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 1
/hotbar copy brd 2 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 2 brd 2
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 2
/hotbar copy brd 3 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 3 brd 3
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 3

Executing it once will swap out your BRD 1-3 bars for your ARC 1-3 bars. Then you can set up your performance actions on them. Executing once more will swap back, storing your performance actions on ARC and bringing back your BRD combat actions. Obviously you can modify the macro for whatever bars you want to use.