Quikbar's in daoc...

[pudzy]

Just talking to a mate in daoc and realised how comepletly crap we both found the quikbar interface so i came up with these idea's ..

Make the bar stretchable to 16 slots
Or double it up one or 2 quikbars higher.

Also maybe the bottons could be a little bigger - in my res their tiny :x and the speed i have to react being an sb is far more than this quibar interface has to offer.

My most used:

Sprint > Stealth
PA >CD >SS
BS2>Thigh Cut
Hamstring>Leaper>Rib Seperation> Ripper
Garrote>Archilies Heel

There is 13moves I perform with a moments notice... I really need more room

How about everyone else? Most tanks should be fine tbh

 

[old.Zarff]

shift+(x) and u switch quickbar fast enuff imo.

 

[krait]

I'm trying to use the nostromo gamepad atm.... it's great for solo xping and was quite good in the BGs too.
Not tried it out in normal RvR,but with the new back-up moves it could be a great help (once i work out the timings).
It also works in conjunction with normal keyboard/mouse use.

A stretched quickbar would be a godsend though if you use a mouse.

 

[Danya]

Why oh why are there 8 slots not 10 on the quickbar anyway? 10 would be MUCH more convenient.

 

[listepik]

if you are an assasin, you will never be fast enough, unless you use 1-8 and shift+<1-8> on keyboard. shuffling will get you killed.

what i would like to see, was expanded to 10 buttons a piece (1-0) or keymapping, so i could fit the buttons where i wanted.

 

[Ardrias_Mid]

The use of third party programs to for instance do combos with one keypress is prohibited

Guess thats one more reason infils are overpowered



Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume thats what the gamepad does.

 

[krait]

Nope...its just another input device.

 

[Danya]

If you are a minstrel and try to play with mouse clicks on the quickbars you'll get so fed up by about level 10 you'll quit.

 

[DocWolfe]

I use a combination of numbers and mouse, say I keep the mouse pointer on stealth and use numbers for styles and drawing my bow

 

[_tindel_]

Originally posted by Dannyn
Why oh why are there 8 slots not 10 on the quickbar anyway? 10 would be MUCH more convenient.

Amen to that, it's a shame im becoming soft and agree to alb comments but that I have been thinking off

 

[Mr TNT]

bet that took u days for them ideas pudz

 

[old.Mug]

can't use shift+# while running (shift+forward brings up the last thing you said )

also, why the hell isn't sprint a button? not a damn qb space

 

[snox]

Try num lock =) Auto run then u can use Shift+# while running

 

[Generic Poster]

Not much of a problem with my wizard, who only needs one quickbar. My sorc needs three complete quickbars and with my inf... it gets messy with all those styles

I can play the game without looking at my keyboard/quickbar, after a while anyone should know their config without having to remind themselves. If you get mixed up though, practice without looking at your quickbar and it'll improve your game

 

[old.Ozird Rinfut]

Yeh, i think i use 5 or so... and what irritates me the most, is that with every patch, a healers quickbar is messed up.. GRRR

/em signs up for the 10 button quickbar campaign

 

[Myshra]

as a wiz i got one for combat, one for buffing and 1 for odd bits (charges, low bolt pulls, entering keeps etc..)

sanya said on the herald once that 9 + 0 where never there due to the fact that daoc is built from another game or something? she said it was impossible to overcome she thought, but she said that about 8 char slots anyway

 

[old.Vae]

I end up with about 7 quick bars overall - think only my number 4 one is free at the mo. If there was an extra 2 spaces on each it would be a ot easier since there are a couple of keys on a subsidiary quickbar which I'd really like on my main one:

1 main one with stun, smite, pbaoe dd & mez, 2 instas, small heal, sprint

1 for buffs

1 for less used buffs, ress, cure poison, disease and RA's, aoe smite

1 for group heals, large heals and other smites

1 for macro's

1 for siege weapons

1 for crafting

 

[listepik]

first off, use auto run. second off, remap your keyboard.

use movement keys on UJHK if youre a lefty, and RFDG if youre a righty.

that way, you can jump on space, attack mode with the touch of your pinky, you ahve quicjbar short cuts within reach of your movement hand (for quick steath, QC+mez/root, Slam, etc)

this way, you only use mouse when moving, and never need it otherwise.

another side effect is, that you can change quickbar while running


Havent you people ever played FPS games where arrow keys are grocely misinterpreted as movement keys

 

[wolvon fury]

I use W,A,S,D Like in Anarchy-Online,

And Q is attack, and when i want to side-step,

I place the toggel on, and use mouse-look,

All comes out very usefull

 

[old.dittytwo]

do you lot not know about macros
with on button you can click four other buttons????

with pauses

not sure if you can change quick bars though...

 

[old.Morchaoron]

Originally posted by old.dittytwo
do you lot not know about macros
with on button you can click four other buttons????

with pauses

not sure if you can change quick bars though...

how do these 'pauses' work?

 

[andrilyn]

I have 1 main quickbar and 1 buff quickbar and 1 exp quickbar (exp qb is useless now).
For me its easy:
1. Sprint
2. Stun
3. Spec Smite
4. (small heal)
5. (biggest heal)
6. PBAE DD
7. PBAE Mez
8. Instant heal

All I need for RvR, and its good for PvE aswell, wouldnt mind 10 slots though, could add Cure Poison and Cure Dicease.
But with a few of my alts I do have some trouble (even at low level) to get things sorted out that way so I can use 1 QB (dont want to use 2 QBs in RvR since that means your dead in my view).

 

[Generic Poster]

as we're on to keyboard-configs, I use:
W,S,A,D - (forward/back, turn left/right)
Q - Strafe left
E - Use (open doors etc)
V - Sell
Ctrl - Hold to Mouselook
Insert/Delete - Chat log Up/Down
Home/End - Damage log Up/Down

 

[old.Jadow]

One hint is to assign the styles to extra quickbars on the same number as that quickbar..
e.g.

quickbar three..

number 3 is dragonfang

quickbar 2

number 2 is hamstring, followed by the rest of the chain.

I find it faster to do .. shift 2, 2 than shift 2,1

just my opinion but it makes things easier for me at least.

Jadow
Level 50 Infiltrator
Saracen Gryphon Knight
Servants of the Lake
"The People's Gimp"

 

[Danya]

I have 5 RvR quickbars andrilyn, it's not pysically possible to get everything on 1 or even 2 really as I use:
stun, dd, dd, mez, flute, drum, sword, shield, speed, mana, charm, sprint, stick, 6 combat styles (anytime, side, block, evade chain), mcl, sos, couple of text macros, a couple of charged items, healsong. I think stun is on almost every quickbar to boot.

 

[svartalf]

Originally posted by krait
Nope...its just another input device.

With driver software? 3rd party that would be...

 

[blain]

What is more annoying than only having 8 quick buttons per bar, is the fact that all styles look the same, my zerk quickbar is just a row or red axes.

How about changing the icons colours so that combo lines are all the same colour and numbered for example.

Backstab 1 Red with 1 in corner
Eviserate red with 2 in corner
Kidney Rupture red with 3 in corner
Backstab2 yellow etc. etc.

This would be so much easier.

 

[Danya]

Spells/Styles get more unique icons next patch.

As for driver software... quick ban svartalf, he used a graphics driver with daoc! 3rd party hax0r toolz!!

 

[old.dittytwo]

Originally posted by old.Morchaoron


how do these 'pauses' work?

erm not too sure but it is in the manual on camalot heralod
here

 

[Asgorim Fin]

outch...

.... i better get rid off my 5 button mouse + software before someone reports me