Quick-Slot Is Useless

Voke · August 2014

I'm not a jet fighter pilot with lightning reflexes. The "Q" quick-slot is designed for consoles, not for the PC. The games needs real quick-slots that I can assign potions to easily and use with hotkeys.

NorthernFury · August 2014

This x 1000. Current QS interface is horribad.

If anyone knows of a good addon where I can keymap assign multiple quickslots, that would be much appreciated.

Tandor · August 2014

I totally agree.

Bookwyrm · August 2014

Yeah, I'm sort of inclined to agree. I mean, it's great for one single item, but mid-battle there's no sense in my trying to change to a different potion/item/etc. Because, lol, dead. I would like to see it changed to something like that mentioned above--multiple quickslots with different keybinds.

andre.roques.3b14_ESO · August 2014

This is a modable item; there are current mods that map hot keys to additional quick items. This is as intended (single quick slot) but with an API that allows for swapping and using items quickly.

For example:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

MAD007 · August 2014

I'm with you on this one, the quick slot solution is a Joke at the moment when using a keyboard and mouse, it's really awkward to use and doesn't make for a good experience when playing the game.

Hopefully in the future they'll take a serious look at this.

Azzuria · August 2014

I work around the QS one-potion issue by brewing multi-action potions!

But, yeah, the Quick Slot is terrible.

Lumomancer · August 2014

Not a complete fix, but it does help:
esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

Nestor · August 2014

Give us the other number keys. We have the first 5 (1 to 5) for Skills, let us have the next half (6 to 10) for Hotkeys.

I don't even need 9 quick slots like we have now. Really, I just need 3, Health, Magic and Stamin potion. Then two for food items and I am all set.

Keep the cooldown timers, just let me hit 6 for a health potion, 7 for magic (or whatever your set up is).

Sighlynce · August 2014

Agree .. I hate when I'm hitting qqqqqqqqq and nothing... ahhhhhh or some undead is pulverizing you will you try and get the rt dang potion highlighted

NorthernFury · August 2014

letohatcheeub17_ESO wrote: »

Agree .. I hate when I'm hitting qqqqqqqqq and nothing... ahhhhhh or some undead is pulverizing you will you try and get the rt dang potion highlighted

I always end up having a forward camp or oil pot sitting there when I really need a panacea of spell crit to go off. Mashing q to no effect is getting frustrating for sure

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · August 2014

NorthernFury wrote: »

letohatcheeub17_ESO wrote: »

Agree .. I hate when I'm hitting qqqqqqqqq and nothing... ahhhhhh or some undead is pulverizing you will you try and get the rt dang potion highlighted

I always end up having a forward camp or oil pot sitting there when I really need a panacea of spell crit to go off. Mashing q to no effect is getting frustrating for sure

that happens to me ALL the time. I don't really have enough available keys to hotkery them with greymind either.

Aupurn · August 2014

Agree as well. It's fine if you're just relying on one potion or buff, but the system as-is isn't conducive to switching out potions mid-battle.

Will certainly give that add-on a try though.

Chuggernaut · August 2014

I'm not a huge fan, but if you emulate on a controller, it actually works pretty well in PVE, but in PVP I agree its too slow and just keep my heal all pots as my active quick slot.

NorthernFury · August 2014

rob.shzaub17_ESO wrote: »

I'm not a huge fan, but if you emulate on a controller, it actually works pretty well in PVE, but in PVP I agree its too slow and just keep my heal all pots as my active quick slot.

Fair enough, but, I shouldn't have to use a controller on my PC to make the interface work.

Kiljaz · August 2014

Goto www.esoui.com and type quickslot in the search engine. Greymane quickslot is an awesone addon for this.

flemmingrohdb16_ESO · August 2014

yeah i truly hate the current quick slot setup
i have never used anything in combat besides the 3 stat heal potions, since trying to swap in combat seems impossible
after i hit v 12 and now spend 99% of my time in pvp, i even stopped using the heal potions, since i always have siege/repair/forward camps slottet

drogon1 · August 2014

I use Greymind....it's ok....still need to use 2 buttons to use diff potions.

Not to hijack the thread, but why not allow players to assign key-combo's....like every other MMO - or is this a console thing also?

WebBull · August 2014

This needs to be the next UI improvement!

Sighlynce · August 2014

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NorthernFury wrote: »

letohatcheeub17_ESO wrote: »

Agree .. I hate when I'm hitting qqqqqqqqq and nothing... ahhhhhh or some undead is pulverizing you will you try and get the rt dang potion highlighted

I always end up having a forward camp or oil pot sitting there when I really need a panacea of spell crit to go off. Mashing q to no effect is getting frustrating for sure

Too funny ! I swear last night I hit for a mag. pot and I had oil pot,meat bag cat, oil cat, a fire trib. and wall fixing kit !!! Oh and 1 fc .. too funny

Noctisse · August 2014

letohatcheeub17_ESO wrote: »

Agree .. I hate when I'm hitting qqqqqqqqq and nothing... ahhhhhh or some undead is pulverizing you will you try and get the rt dang potion highlighted

Now that you put it this way, I realised that this UI is taking ''QQ'' to a whole new level

Jennifur_Vultee · August 2014

I agree with the others...save your sanity and your life by installing GreymindQuickSlotBar. The default Quickslot setup is a joke and I never used potions with it because its near impossible to use in actual combat. You have to know ahead of time which one potion you'll need and pray you don't need others if you use the default Quickslot.

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

My personal testimonial...(stares blankly at the camera holding the Greymind in one hand nervously pointing to it with the other.)

"I used ta die all the time not bein' able ta fight and select whatever potion I happen ta need when I was needin' it. But that all changed after I installed the wondifferous GreymindQuickSlotBar, its like magic. Now all I have ta do is press a key to select my potion then tap Q to use it, it has saved my life more times than I can know, maybe billions and billions of times. Thank you GreymindQuickSlotBar, you are a life saver."

Hey Zenimax...yes you with the Zenimax hat...we play on PC...give us a PC compatable quick slot system not one designed for console game pads...PC gamers do play ESO too you know.

zgrssd · August 2014

Voke wrote: »

I'm not a jet fighter pilot with lightning reflexes. The "Q" quick-slot is designed for consoles, not for the PC.

I agree the design looks more fitting for console.

Voke wrote: »

The games needs real quick-slots that I can assign potions to easily and use with hotkeys.

It has been mentioend repeatedly: Addons can change wich solot is selected. They cannot consume potions for you (obvious anti bot measure).

There are 4 addons for this:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info341-Sloth-QuickslotHelper.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info420-NutsPanthersQuickSlotScroller.html
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info71-EasyQuickSlots.html

All offer customseable hotkeys and most even show how many of each kind of potion you have.

If you insist on not using addons, that is your own choice. And you suffer the conequecnes for your choices, as is normal in the adult world.

DogFaceInBananaPatch · August 2014

I'd be happy if they just allowed two quickslot keybindings. One for food/drink and one for a potion of choice. Both would work exactly like it is now but independently.

I am constantly eating when I want to heal with a potion and I'm using up all my potions when I just want to eat!

eventide03b14a_ESO · August 2014

andre.roques.3b14_ESO wrote: »

This is a modable item; there are current mods that map hot keys to additional quick items. This is as intended (single quick slot) but with an API that allows for swapping and using items quickly.

For example:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

I use that, but it's still a two part task. You hit the key and then you have to hit another key to use it. It would be better to have it all in one. Why on Nirn couldn't they have just assigned it to the F keys to begin with by default?

smeeprocketnub19_ESO · August 2014

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

andre.roques.3b14_ESO wrote: »

This is a modable item; there are current mods that map hot keys to additional quick items. This is as intended (single quick slot) but with an API that allows for swapping and using items quickly.

For example:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

I use that, but it's still a two part task. You hit the key and then you have to hit another key to use it. It would be better to have it all in one. Why on Nirn couldn't they have just assigned it to the F keys to begin with by default?

hey that's a good idea, I -do- have those keys free. too bad they are on the left side of my keyboard

Jennifur_Vultee · August 2014

smeeprocketnub19_ESO wrote: »

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

andre.roques.3b14_ESO wrote: »

This is a modable item; there are current mods that map hot keys to additional quick items. This is as intended (single quick slot) but with an API that allows for swapping and using items quickly.

For example:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info258-GreymindQuickSlotBar.html

I use that, but it's still a two part task. You hit the key and then you have to hit another key to use it. It would be better to have it all in one. Why on Nirn couldn't they have just assigned it to the F keys to begin with by default?

hey that's a good idea, I -do- have those keys free. too bad they are on the left side of my keyboard

What I did was move the binding of the Help key from F1 to F12 because its not something I'm generally in a huge rush to use. I then I bound F1-F4 to my Greymind Quickslot functions for potions, it works for me pretty well but I wish I could just press F1 and get the potion not just select it then still have to press Q to use it but its a step in the right direction.