[lonnarin]

One of the things I like most about NWN's system is that you can hotkey multiple quickslot trays, hold leftshift and press F1-F12. Now on the flipside, left-control and left-shift are high commodity buttons! So many people prefer the whole WoW quickbar which you have up to 10 or so different bars, just getting there is often so painstakingly slow clicking the up and down arrows to cycle through them. How are the quickslot bars going to function in the upcoming incarnation?

I was thinking what would be nice is to have it similar to both systems, where you have one main quickbar and to access the rest you hold down F1-F12. Then, to access the numbered items on the bar, you either click on them manually or press 1-10 on the number line. Now I guess this too could get kind of messy. Ideally I'd want to be able to count on at least 3-4 quickslots easily accessable, with enough breathing room to store the rest of the 80 something commands somewhere in the mix. I just can't stand the WoW slow-cycling process getting to the quickslot items, nor NWN's pitifully tiny amount of storage space for them. (think like 36 items max, ouch!) Somewhere in between though, where one could store around 100 total commands and not have to click up or down 5+ times to get at them would help gameplay tremendously compared to both systems.

Also, customizable macros would be key as well. Would it be possible to even hotkey a combination or specific sequence of commands I wonder? Something like <web, fireball, fireball, chat: whooooo!> or <slow, frostray, frostray, hailstorm, chat: "Cold enough for ya?!"> This kind of command sequencing hasn't really been done since zMUD I think, though I'm not certain how feasible they would be in this new environment.