Okay, my above assessment of the problem was incorrect. What appears to be happening is that depending on how much activity is involved in the combat the program sometimes mistakes the pressing of the quickslot key as holding it down.

Tewhano wrote: »

Okay, my above assessment of the problem was incorrect. What appears to be happening is that depending on how much activity is involved in the combat the program sometimes mistakes the pressing of the quickslot key as holding it down.

What you wrote in the second post is correct (the feature is not explained very well in the scanty documentation and instructions for using the software). However, the 12 o'clock position is irrelevant to the way the Quickslot functions in The Elder Scrolls Online. A Quickslot feature has been implemented in many other games, too, but the way it works is not necessarily the same in every game. In my experience, often the item selected for use is the one currently in the 12 o'clock position, and the player changes the item in that position by rotating the wheel. But not in TESO.

When a player begins filling an empty TESO Quickslot wheel, the first item is automatically placed at "5 o'clock", then each subsequent item is added counter-clockwise around the wheel. If memory serves, the last item added will, by default, be the one shown as selected for use, regardless of its position on the wheel. The default selection doesn't change if the player removes an item from the wheel and either replaces it with another item in the same slot or leaves the slot open.

After the player has loaded the Quickslot wheel, then they must press the key that is bound to Quickslot and hold it down, while using the mouse to select the item that they want to show as selected to the left of the Abilities bar.

If the player presses the Quickslot key during combat (or out of combat), then one and only one of the following events occurs:

(1) If the player does not hold the key down, the selected item is used. There is a sound effect and the selection window shows a brief "whirl" before it displays the item again. If that position is now empty, however, the selection window is blank. Pressing the Quickslot key without holding it down while the selected position is empty has no effect.

(2) If the player holds the key down, the software displays a graphic of the Quickslot wheel. The player can select any item on it with the mouse cursor, then release the Quickslot key. The selected item is then shown in the Quickslot window to the left of the Abilities Bar. (The player must then press the Quickslot key without holding it down to use the currently selected item.) If a player holding the Quickslot key down releases the key without making a selection, then the currently selected position does not change. Releasing the key also does not cause any item in that position to be used.

If this is not the way that the Quickslot feature is working, then there might be a bug.

That said, in my experience, it is easy to press the Quickslot key and hold it down by mistake. Whether in error, I definitely must be holding the key down when the Quickslot wheel is displayed onscreen -- so I just release the key, unless I do want to select something for the Quickslot.

If the Quickslot wheel is not shown when I press its key, then the item in the selected position is used instead, of course, whether that was intended or the key-press was a mistake. Sometimes I've pressed and released the Quickslot key while the selected position was empty. Either the selected position had been accidentally changed, or the item in that position had been used-up. The Fog of Software.