How often do you change up your hotbars?

[Krotoan]

I only change my hotbars when the skills change. Otherwise they all follow a very common theme and pattern which works across jobs within roles. For instance all my flank/back positional skills (yeah there's not a lot anymore) share positional buttons on the controller: Dpad right, or Dpad down. This way whatever DPS i'm playing that uses them I can be sure I'm doing it right.

So pretty much I only change the skills when the Devs change them such as when a new expansion releases.

[Endariel]

Generally never. But it might change very very slightly (1 button swap it most) if i will pick the job for raiding.

[Avatre]

Depends on what changes happen when an expansion releases....basically just removing skills that were removed and adding new ones. That's basically the only time I change the bars after first setting them up

[Warpstone]

I'll change them around quite often until I get them the exact way I want them. The more I play the more I find a better way to arrange them, but once I get them right I don't bother them again unless they change stuff.

[Makeda]

My keybinds for FFXIV were more or less set back around 2008 0r 2009 in WoW.

As in, to aid in physical memory, I have been using roughly the same purpose finger presses as I can across many different MMOs. The spot my fingers reach for my main spamable attack is the same here as it is in WoW, ESO, and even League of Legends... My primary location to switch to AoE is the same, my interrupts are in consistent spots, and so on. And then a few details move around here and there because of the number of things different games or classes need me to keybind.

For a while I was playing on a Mac, and I use a Razer Nostromo / Orbweaver / etc keypad - and Razer deleted it's software support for Mac, so I could change any of the keybinds on the pad. So instead all my games had some crazy wild keybinds so that I would be pressing the same same keys as always, across all games, but still able to use a keypad that had no driver support...

(Until the day I learned that a Mac running windows in bootcamp runs faster than a Mac running it's own native OS...)

Now I'm on PC fully and yeah - still using the same basic layout I made for myself more than a decade ago. The less you need to retrain your fingers, the faster you can react.

[Equitable_Remedy]

How often do you change up your hotbars?

I've been using a similar hotbar setup since roughly 2009 when the razer naga came out, so not often. Used that setup in WoW, SWTOR, FF14, etc.

Before that, my EQ hotbar setup (circa 1999) carried into WoW.

#NeverChange

[Bsrking5]

Never, still have stone skin in hopes it'll return

[Vahlnir]

When an expansion starts I get things where I want them and they usually stay that way until the next one.

[Michieltjuhh]

I keep to the same keybinds and hotbars I started using in 2007-2008 in WoW, no matter the MMORPG, so long as it's possible (things change slightly in action MMOs, but it follows the same theme). It is incredibly convenient to learn new classes/jobs/games this way, since despite differences in execution of abilities, so long as it's on the correct keybind, I will roughly know what it's going to do. It helps track cooldowns as well, and you'll quickly know the class's weaknesses because certain keybinds will remain empty.

[-Mira-]

Rarely. Sometimes I switch out a few skills as for a less used one for a more frequent.

Am also looking into ways of if I can maybe make some skill button pressing even easier and more efficient as I don’t like to use keyboard (and mouse) but do play controller but sometimes it doesn’t all fit as nicely and do need to switch between most used and less used often press wrong buttons because they are at the same spot of bar 2 (my main fight bar) but I needed something less used from 1 or 3…
Sometimes to dodge or evade you need to throw in a little sprint and that is also out of the way for me.
So I really need something more efficient that works ok with responding smoothly and makes dodge + attack at same time as easy for me as a controller.