Ah, a fellow arcanist! Nice choice. 
If I remember rightly, when you first join the first hotbar has your abilities, a second has red menu buttons, and then as an arcanist you'll also have the pet hotbar (which may be separate). I think that's it?
Stance specific would be most helpful!Â
Character Configuration: Hotbar -> Cross hotbar
Set Selection
- Enable customization for when weapon is drawn
- Sets automatically switch when sheathing or drawing your weapon.
(Here's a helpful bit about it)
I'm not sure how else to explain, so thought I'd show you what I've done and hopefully it might help.Â
Personally I've assigned hotbar 1 and 2 for when my weapon is drawn, and put anything extra on hotbar 8. When my weapon is sheathed, I click through 3 different hotbars and don't mind doing it, but in the area above you can specifically assign a number to be your sheathed one if it suits you.
I also removed all of the red menu links and only access the menu through 'start', which works for me, and disabled the pet hotbar and put the pet abilities I use on 1 & 2. You can disable it in the hotbar menu.
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This is the LB>RB hotbar. Currently empty because I've been changing things, but this is what it looks like any way.
If I remember rightly, when you first join the first hotbar has your abilities, a second has red menu buttons, and then as an arcanist you'll also have the pet hotbar (which may be separate). I think that's it?
Stance specific would be most helpful!Â
Character Configuration: Hotbar -> Cross hotbar
Set Selection
- Enable customization for when weapon is drawn
- Sets automatically switch when sheathing or drawing your weapon.
(Here's a helpful bit about it)
I'm not sure how else to explain, so thought I'd show you what I've done and hopefully it might help.Â
Personally I've assigned hotbar 1 and 2 for when my weapon is drawn, and put anything extra on hotbar 8. When my weapon is sheathed, I click through 3 different hotbars and don't mind doing it, but in the area above you can specifically assign a number to be your sheathed one if it suits you.
I also removed all of the red menu links and only access the menu through 'start', which works for me, and disabled the pet hotbar and put the pet abilities I use on 1 & 2. You can disable it in the hotbar menu.
~ Welcome ~ to my screen! It's a bit of a mess, I need to fix things. 
Hotbar 1 & 2. On 2, on the left is pet Garuda Egi's abilities, Obey, Heel, Place and Sic.Â
You don't really need to worry about this at the moment, but when you get to later levels, you'll want to have full control over your pet. At early levels it's on to leave them on Sic (attack).
Hotbar 8. Teleport, Return, Emotes, my mount, Linkshell and Free Company links. The stuff on the other side is changed depending on what I'm doing in game. In this case, I recently went to a friend's Eternal Bonding and put party stuff on there.Â
This is the LB>RB hotbar. Currently empty because I've been changing things, but this is what it looks like any way.
And that's everything I think. Swapping hotbars you quickly get used to as you remember where everything is and it becomes automatic, but at first I remember it being a bit overwhelming.Â
I hope this helps a bit! Sorry for rambling and massive post.
