Keybindings and Hotbar Setup for Warrior — Dawntrail 7.1

Controller hotbars can easily be adjusted for personal preference. You can follow a similar priority system and place your most frequently used buttons on top hotbar and/or face buttons with defensives or AoE skills placed on second or expanded hotbars. Utilizing shoulder and trigger buttons to quickly access your WXHB is encouraged and should be tuned to your liking! Additionally, assigning macros for things like Sprint to your analog stick presses is one way to make room for other skills without sacrificing accessibility.

Keyboards and Mouse setups will vary wildly depending on which variation of a keyboard you use. The example below utilizes a QWERTY keyboard and used WASD for movement. This is purely player preference. If you prefer to move with mouse buttons, feel free to do so.

Modifiers such as CTRL and Shift are commonly used, with ALT being a key that's usually not comfortable for some players. A personal solution I have done is to bind my extra mouse buttons to all 3 modifiers and use a combination of clicking, function (F1-F6), alphabetical and number keys to comfortably hit all my skills. Using a priority system of most used to least used buttons determines what bind I give to each skill. Additionally, I use extra hotbars that serve as combo & cooldown trackers that do not have binds assigned near the middle of my screen along with my Beast Gauge. Concentrating most of my information to the center of my screen helps a lot with staying focused. After gaining enough muscle memory, I also hid my binded hotbars to appease to my OCD but also reduce visual clutter.

When it comes to keybindings, generally your combo GCDs like Storm's Path are grouped together for both clarity and to make it easier to remember what you've assigned skills to. Warrior only has six combo GCDs (including AoE) and one ranged, being Tomahawk. Tomahawk is something you won't quite hit as often as the others, so where you place it is personal preference. Your Beast Gauge spenders are hit very often in encounters so assigning both Fell Cleave and Decimate within the respective single-target and AoE sections of your hotbars is recommended. With the plethora of OGCDs we have, it's advised to group damage and defensive ones separately. Grouping Inner Release, Onslaught, Upheaval and Infuriate is one way to keep track of them easier.

Going back to having a priority system for most to least used buttons, I personally put defensives in the order of raid mitigation & short CDs → long CDs → invulnerability, with some changes on this based on how comfortable I am hitting a specific keybind. Some buttons are clicked in the event I want to make a conscious effort to use that skill, like Holmgang. Last but not least, all role actions and universal actions are grouped together, with Limit Break following the same logic as Holmgang.