The difficulty curve in the game has... problems...

[kaynide]

Re: Keybinds

I play the game entirely open keyboard, no mouse (in combat).
This is what I do, if it’s useful to you:

Bind hot bars to BOTH the top #s and the actual numpad.
Use No additional press for bar 1
Use CTRL for bar 2
Use ALT for bar 3
(I also have ctrl+alt for bar 4, but not needed)
Bind every job’s core rotation to 4-5-6, ctrl 4-5-6 for secondary, alt 4-5-6 if there is a tertiary.
Bind every job’s AoE to 7-8-9 (with ctrl and alt needed)
Bind utility stuff/resource usage/DoTs to 1-2-3

Return selects nearest mob/player, T selects their target.
Arrow keys move the camera, shift+arrow keys move selection

This lets your right hand do all skills, with your left controlling movement and ctrl/alt.

Furthermore, consider using macros to combine niche abilities (like defensive cool downs can be on 1 macro that you can press once and it will just pop the next one available).

If it helps, here is my bard setup, from a while back: (Apologies any spelling errors/changes in EW not accounted for)