Now for anyone who can't understand why we want so many spots, or who say we won't use all 30 or 40 spells in a single battle the reasoning is quite simple. If its not readily visible the player can forget they even have that ability available in a situation that fits it. When i was first playing and started getting skills added to my 2nd bar I forgot it was even there most of the time. I didn't get used to swapping between bars until hiberheim and forgetting spells my MC just learned. Meanwhile if I could have the bars visible all the time I wouldn't have had those problems. Now that I'm stuffing far more than 30 abilities into 30 slots I find myself forgetting about things on any of the bars at all, like burn my eyes when wandering around a trap infested area to the point where I'm casting from the skill menu.
FWIW in games that have a lot of available bars I tend to group skills I use in certain situations and then repeat them on more than one bar. For instance I might have a skill bar setup for ice base monsters, another to deal with poison etc. Its nice to have the option to set up more bars.
