A friend asked me about how PLD 60 looks on my cross hotbar. Here’s how I work mine:

1. Do NOT macro your GCD abilities. I was severely scolded for doing this. It slows you down and hurts your DPS. 2. Your cooldowns can be macro’d together to save space, but you must be aware of the order you macro them in together. And also be aware that macros have a tendency to misfire. 3. Keep your main abilities, the ones with low cooldown that you use constantly, readily available.  4. Try not to place all your combos on one side (trigger). Holding down LT constantly caused me hand cramps! 5. Practice and familiarize yourself with where everything is. 6. LT+RT is set to access ONE extra crossbar in my #2 (Do NOT do LT->RT or RT->LT it’s TOO DAMN CONFUSING). This lets me access extra cooldowns on the fly. 7. I have my social/mount crossbar set to disappear when my weapon is drawn. Without this setting, I found myself /grinning maniacally at an enemy when I mean to shield lob.