Cleric skill bar

At F1-F8 hotkey bar i got my attack skills, pots, charms, and buffs.
At 1-9 I got all the heal skills, pills, 'e' actions, mount....

Pretty much it depends on your keyboard and how confortable you feel playing with Fkeys or 1keys.

I recommend you create two macros for buffs, one with squad buffs and the other one with single buffs, it saves time.

Attack macro: Walk behind enemy (repeat) cyclone, W.thunder, cyclone, plume.
Heal macro: since you just have 2 heal skills.... those both and done xP.

Once you reach more level should be nice create differents heals macro where you can focus on a single target or other adding squad heals and also do not forget to add purify

I have skills in F1-F8, F4 is always for IH,and in F8 i have shields. Other Fx each row i have attacks at one row and seals and debufs at one and heals and misc at the last one. When I know i'm going to use some skill i dont have in F keys I expand 1-9 and add those there. But i'm quite comfortable to use skill window and click skill i want from there.
1-9
1 mana,2 cloud eruption,3 hp,4pick,5AD,6fly,7holypath,8meditate,9mount. When i have have apos in use i expand 1-9 and add those there and use them with mouse clicks.

This is my one and only set-up of my skill bars. It works perfectly for me, and some buttons share the same location as they do on my other characters, which is why they might seem a bit out of place (such as teleport, fly, mount, potions etc).

I always tend to stick towards the 1-4 and f1-f4 side of the keyboard, which is why my most used skills are there. The f-row is for healing, buffing and general skills only, whilst the 1-9 bar is for attack and debuffs. Also, the skills on the secondary rows are those I don't use as often and I always navigate to them with the mouse when I do.

My genie skills also stay off my hotkey skillbar, just because I find it more convenient to mouse to them instead and because I've been using this set-up so long, I automatically reach for them near the genie even if I do have them placed on the skillbar.

Hope it helped!

I'm a click the button on the screen to do a skill or to move type of cleric, and one that doesn't use the keyboard for skills, so what I did was to drag both skill boxes to the bottom of the screen so that they are horizontally across. My genie skills are skill at the top. I don't know how to show you the screenshots that are on here, or I would.

I don't think that I explained it well, but that's the best that I can do.

Hope that helps some.

I'm a clicker. And my cleric's not really that active anymore, so excuse the lack of big demon skills

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/687/myraskillbars.jpg/

Macros in front of buff rows are buff macros. The blue star is a macro of IH > Wellspring. Next to it is a macro of both demon defense single buffs for chi.

the best thing to do is group similar things together. i dont have anywhere to upload a ss of my skill bars, but basically i try not to have to click on stuff cos i tend to click and drop and there goes my skill lol leaving an empty space where it was.

i put my heals on the F# bar just so that if im typing i can still heal. the numbered bars i use for attack skills and debuffs.

First F# bar: IH, wellspring, stream of rejuvenation, buff macro, purify, aoe heal, spark burst (for killing spiders), rezz
second F# bar: all the actions, med, pick up, fly, fly faster, attack, embrace, purehearted blessing (for chi lol), and town teleport.

numbered bar 1: plume shot, cyclone, wield thunder, aoe razor feathers, aoe siren's kiss, aoe tempest, plume shell, bb, rb.
numbered bar 2: mag debuff, phys debuff, silence debuff, sleep debuff, wings of protection, sage skill +50 chi, spark burst+, blank (so i dont accidentally do something when i want bb), 3rd spark.

any other skills i need i open up the skill list and click on whichever i want to use, which is usually the aoe buffs.

My cleric is different I guess. I like to click alot, hotkey just a few things and only one macro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-56EuYiKLT8

All of the above posts are good ways to set up your hotkeys, but I would recommend you build it yourself and make sure you're comfortable with it. Never imitate someone else's hotkey layout unless it also works well for you. I doubt that my hotkey layout will work for everyone, but who knows? Maybe there are other clerics like me? Because I kinda feel like an oddball compared with the others in the thread. Here's why.

I am... a clicker, an avid hotkey user and I multi-task like crazy. b:chuckle All in one! How much do I multitask? All the damn time, so a good hotkey layout is key.

I click genie skills, so I have none on my hotkeys. Doesn't matter much though since I don't spam them.

1 - Wellspring (Alternate - pick up action. You can pick things up by clicking them, but I'm a multitasker! It's essential. Got it on almost all of my chars.)/Tempest
2 - Plume shot/Empty
3 - Master Li's technique (You get it at 89 if you go sage - very handy for clerics!)/Silent Seal
4 - Great Cyclone/Chromatic Seal
5 - Wield thunder/Razor Feathers

That is my grinding/attack/DD setup. These are the hotkeys I use often but pressing 1-5. I only really use numbered keys because using F1-F9 feels like testing out a new keyboard on Mars. That's just me though... so don't worry. xD The 1-9 keys are my primary skills that can get me though any instance without the assistance of other skills. Yes, they are awesome, but usually not necessary. My setup is made so that I can position my hand on the left if I am the secondary healer (DD cleric, which is sometimes) or if I am the primary healer (usually), I position my hand to the right. That leaves the mouse free to move or to click the secondary skills and genie skills if needed.

6 - Flying (Hey, it's the default and it works... I can never be bothered to move it when it's prompt use saved my life in making a quick escape from rabid mobs.)/Stream of Rejuvination

Here's my healing setup. I use these hotkeys a lot in squad.

7 - Ironheart Blessing/Dimensional Seal
8 - Chromatic Healing/Elemental Seal
9 - Purify/Empty/Sage spark

Purify comes in handy. Ironheart blessing is essential - I also use it while grinding or fighting tough mobs. Despite its usefulness as a heal for grinding or solo work, I keep it on the healing toolbar because I often need to use it as a primary heal in squad.

Above these primary skills I keep all the secondary ones - Tempest, stream of rejuvination, silent seal, razor feathers, dimensional seal, elemental seal. With the exception of the last two, they are not often used, so I just click them whenever the situation calls for it. There are times when these skills come in handy, but I don't use them all the time except the defence-reducing debuffs.

On the F1-F9 skill bar I put the essential skills that I need but don't spam. All four buffs, revive, mediate, town portal, siren's kiss, RB, BB, plume shell, wings of protection and purehearted blessing. I click them too, so order really doesn't matter. I do have this setup though on the first two rows.

F1 - Vanguard Spirit/Greater Protective Aura
F2 - Magic Shell/Aegis spirit
F3 - Celestial Guardian Seal
F4 - Spirit's Gift/Exalted Renewel
F5 - Pick (obsolete, I don't use it)/RB (Heaven's Wrath)
F6 - Revive/BB (Rejuvination Aura)
F7 - Meditate/Empty
F8 - Town Portal/Plume shell

The Empty slots are basically macros I don't use anymore. They were useful in TW, but since I don't TW anymore, they have fallen out of use. Scattered throughout the upper echelons skillbar are also mounts/pets, pots and herbs. I click them so the organization is haphazard and almost non-existant. I do have an attack macro one the higher parts of the skill bars but it's rarely used except in cube.

Yes, I said it. I'm a chronic multitasker who rarely uses macros as cleric... and I can still multitask quite well. Odd, huh? b:chuckle