User:XT-8147/The Art of Skill Bar Organization

I tend to have a few rules by which I organize the skills on my skill bar. I do this because often I find it harder to remember a certain skill if it's not in the right place. Some parts of it are straight up sequence, i.e. skills that should be used in order are placed in order. Others are an issue of the role the skill plays in the build, i.e. is it a main offense skill or a defensive skill/buff?

Across the eight slots, here are all of my organizational tendencies, not necessarily prioritized:


 * First used &lt;--> Last used
 * Most used &lt;--> Least used
 * Offense &lt;--> Defense &lt;--> Support &lt;--> Resurrection

This can be seen in pretty much any of the builds I use. Broken down by class, it tends to be:

Warrior Ranger Elementalist Necromancer Mesmer Monk Ritualist Assassin
 * Attacks &lt;--> Defense &lt;--> Support/Healing &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Preparation &lt;--> Attacks &lt;--> Support &lt;--> Defense/Healing/Spirits &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Traps &lt;--> Recharge buffs &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Main spell &lt;--> support aoe &lt;--> Attunement/Aura of Restoration &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Various blood spikes &lt;-->support degen &lt;--> Awaken the Blood &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Minions &lt;--> Blood of the Master &lt;--> Various support death spells &lt;--> monk heals (area/breeze) &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Skills &lt;--> Possibly Arcane Echo &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Heals &lt;--> Condition/Hex Removal &lt;--> Energy Management &lt;--> Resurrection
 * Don't really have enough variance in available skills to decide yet
 * Don't have one yet

I also have my skill bar resized to two columns of four skills and repositioned to the right side of my screen. This came to be because I wanted to have my party window closer to my skill bar when I played my monk. I tend to reorganize my skills within this so that the first four are in the left column and the second four are in the right column. This isn't always the case, sometimes skills that share a distinct purpose get put on the same row, like with my running build, where by rows it's Stances, Maintained Enchantments, Heals, Removals.