Your logic on controller mapping for melee dps

[Dzian]

To take Sam as an example (thought havent played it for a while)

I use the expanded hotbar which helps a lot

on my r2 side square is hakaze
Triangle is jinpu
Circle is gekko
X is yukikaze

Up is shifu
Right is kasha
Left is shinten (spammable ogcd)

Then on my expanded bar Square is iajutsu triangle is guren (the st version)

Then on the l2 side I tend to focus more on aoe and situational stuff that gets used less. you can see both sets are basically the same outside of swappiung the gap close combo for aoe skills.

Monk is basically the same principle. single targety stuff on R2. aoe/ misc L2 and buffs etc on expanded.

The logic and reasoning behind these setups is they allow you to do your full rotation with minimal trigger swaps or hot bar changes. which results in less actions or inputs being required and less strain on the fingers.

then i have a normal hotbar above my xhb which i only use to glance at cooldowns and buffs.

the 2 skills to either side of my xhb are the back paddles on my elite series 2 controller