WutsInAName Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Just stating that the person who decided to limit hotbars to four should probably take a math class. I can no longer keep my skills + quick travel + mount + stim/adrenal + relics all hotkeyed. I have removed quick travel, stim(since 2 hour), Tumalt(stupid non eleite non player attack) and probably 1 or 2 more and do not have a single space to use for stuff like mission item clickables. Toss another long on the burning pile that is the UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatoni Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Yup. But don't forget, no add-ons for the forseeable future so we might fix this mess for the devs! “Add-ons are still under discussion, but there's no current timeline for when that functionality might be implemented. While add-ons would give a lot more potential options (assuming a robust add-on community), there will still always be many people who want to use the game's default UI (new players, for example!). Therefore it's important for us to ensure the UI that we have works well, hence our ongoing development and expansion of UI options.” Because apparently 5+ years of dev time wasn't enough to figure out that having more hotkeys than hotkey slots was a Bad Idea. Maybe they'll give players a couple more bars in a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangarrage Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 what class you play? I have one of each type of character and I have between 6-9 slots open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassfu Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Why would you waste a hot key on quick travel and mounting? Not to mention you don't need to use every single skill available. And I believe you mean to toss another "log" on the fire. Edited February 17, 2012 by bassfu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Why would you waste a hot key on quick travel and mounting? And I believe you mean to toss another "log" on the fire. I have those on a hotkey and still have room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassfu Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I have those on a hotkey and still have room. I'm not disputing there isn't enough room, I'm at 42 and still have my whole left bar and half my right empty. I just don't see why you'd hot key something you'd use every half hour, but to each their own I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpholinium Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Why would you waste a hot key on quick travel and mounting? Not to mention you don't need to use every single skill available. And I believe you mean to toss another "log" on the fire. A bigger question is why he'd hot key a stim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKhaos Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 what class you play? I have one of each type of character and I have between 6-9 slots open They want to place every single ability on the bottom bars even if they're not really using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I'm not disputing there isn't enough room, I'm at 42 and still have my whole left bar and half my right empty. I just don't see why you'd hot key something you'd use every half hour, but to each their own I guess. eh, its on the lower end of my Razer in the hard to reach zone. I would take it off if I needed room, but so far, I found them more important than abilities that I never use as my character has outgrown them or via talent tree, went a different direction to where they don't fit my rotation or even situational demands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akiva_IC Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Seriously - thats a good question. What class do you play? I'm only a couple of days from 50 and have medpacs, stims, adrenals, both relics, mount, throw the huttball, quick travel AND fleet pass, my pet AND space for every single activatable ability with empty slots waiting for the 2 skills I have left to learn. That's with left, right, and center two bars up and in use (I use a pretty high-end mouse and a gaming keypad, so I can type companion moves to to button w/out having the companion bar up) That's playing as a healing Sorc. What the heck do you have hotkeyed - every single grade of medpac you seen so far??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferroz Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 what class you play? I have one of each type of character and I have between 6-9 slots openshadow, kinetic. I have abilities that I'd like to have situationally available (say, pve vs pvp) but I don't have room for em. Why would you waste a hot key on quick travel and mounting? Because I mount a lot, and adding a menu I have to click into to get to it would add up very quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asavar Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 People cry about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xallionn Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 A bigger question is why he'd hot key a stim. For the same reason you'd hot key your class buff. I hotkey both of them only because I have to use them every time I die in a warzone. Though on that note, I don't have any issues with hot key bar space. You do have the ability to "page" through the bottom bars. If you are somehow full on the initial 4 bars, then you could stick some seldom used abilities/items here. Hopefully macros are implemented at some point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithy Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Theres more than enough slots on every class if you use the side bars as well. Dont forget to turn on all your bars.... you can have medpacks, mounts, relics... everything if you use the side bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 You know you can have more than 1 page of quickslots, right? What is it, ctrl 1-4 or whatever and you can have different sets waiting to go for different situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aryzyra Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 People cry about anything. The UI is perfect. Nothing to see here. /wave hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blotter Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) Nothing ot see here folks...just another misleading post designed to create an untrue impression. If anything, people who like doing things like using under-level spells to srtetch out their mana and things like that have complained that this game has too few skills and so they're "bored" because you don't get to keep using thinsg like Forec LIghtning Rank 1 when lvl 50. I play a sorcerer as well, and even slotting every skill I have, including reviving your companion, one main adrenal, 2 relics and a couple other things, I haven't filled up my bars. The idea that someone has too many skills and activatable abilities in this game for their bars is silly. That being said, another bar wouldn't hurt if people feel they want one. But selling the absence of a 5th bar as a total "fail" from BW is disingenuous hyperbole and just an attempt to give people a reason to complain about things like having no addonns. Edited February 17, 2012 by Blotter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godliness Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Let's see a screenshot, OP. We'll sort it out for ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The UI is perfect. Nothing to see here. /wave hand I don't see where anyone said it was perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferroz Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 You know you can have more than 1 page of quickslots, right? What is it, ctrl 1-4 or whatever and you can have different sets waiting to go for different situations.those go away as you turn on additional bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusBrawler Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The UI is well, it lacks in function and form. That's from some one who has studied HCI and GUI design btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akiva_IC Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 those go away as you turn on additional bars. That doesn't matter though - near cap with plenty of extra nonsense hotkeyed I still have more than enough room for all the essentials, including all skills and consumables/relics/mount/QT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreymaneAlpha Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I find it pretty awesome that your expanded companion ability bar BLOCKS YOUR *********** KEYBINDS FROM WORKING if you've keybound abilities to the bar that gets hidden. Example: I have alt-1, alt-2, etc bound to various worthless melee moves (I'm a sage) on my left ability bar. If I have my expanded companion ability bar enabled, hitting alt-1 DOES NOTHING. The companion bar not only visually blocks the entire ability bar, but also blocks the keybinds for that bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinediks Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 As a Merc BH I keybinded almost every ability and item. Things I don't have keybinded are Stims, Quick Travel, Fleet Pass,Shoulder Slam, Heroic Moment, My Stam buff, and all 3 cylinders. I reach as far as Shift + Y, Shift + N, and Shift + 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WutsInAName Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 I Play a tankasin w/ Biochem so use 3 extra slots. medpack adrenal stim, stim no longer. also relics take up 2 slots.. thats half a bar of just clikables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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