Additional Hot Bars?

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  1. Dilznick74

    Dilznick74 Forum Greenhorn

    I've searched multiple times on the forum only to come up with random gibberish and nothing that mentions if or when this game will recieve such a needed a feature. The amnt of skills currently in game eclipses the hot bar choices. When you have to share the small set of 6 keys 7 if your lucky down the road with potions. Personaly I don't use the tab key function it just feels clumsy to the way I like things setup. There is a real need to have one off to the side or doubled up like most action/fps styled MMo's to help with the clutter of mounts/potions and rarely used skills.
     
  2. Morinphen

    Morinphen Forum Overlooker

    Well, I'd certainly hate to have a gazillion of skill bars (like some other games have). It would just clutter things up a lot and make it harder for us to get used to. And anyway, how much does the number of skills really eclipse the 7 keyboard slots + the other 3 for the mouse? Each class has 13 skills. So you can use 10/13 skills. Do you really need them all? You can't upgrade all of them, though yes, it would be a little nice to be able to use them all regardless. I used to have HP potions on the bar, but now I've learned to get by without that (only ever put them back on in very challenging situations - this has also helped me not to overuse them and then run out of pots, because I learned to try and survive without where I can, i.e. without healing in situations where I could've survived without... it helps you establish your limits, in a way). What else... resource pots? Uh, I don't use those, so I wouldn't know. And buffs... well, only the short-lived ones (you don't need a 30 minute buff on your skill bar, LOL) make sense, but even those, in special cases, so your reaction speed on using a potion or reactivating a 3 minute buff is increased. That's where you can used the Tab - have something you don't use continually, like potions, buffs or even skills, so you can switch when you need it, activate fast, and switch back (an example with skills I saw in a video: a SW had the Magic Missile and the Chain Lightning on right-click and the Tab switch slot; when he had to face a swarm of mobs, he used the Chain Lightning and when he was left with one target - e.g. a boss - he switched to the Magic Missile, as that's more effective in dealing bigger damage on a single target, while the Chain Lightning is best used for attacking multiple mobs at one time, albeit causing less damage per monster). However, we've been promised to get another back-up essence slot near the ess orb on the right, so we can have 2 types equipped and switch faster when needed, possibly a slot for health potions near the HP orb on the left as well (for easier use, again) and, a popular demand, some sort of button that holds costumes/emotes/mounts, so we don't have to clutter our inventories with the said items.
     
  3. trakilaki

    trakilaki Living Forum Legend

    Damn ... we used to called it Hot Line ... now with all that technology and 3D it became Hot Bar. :D
     
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