Suffice to say, I started this game out on the wrong advanced class. I've once tried taking him into an EC SM run after having done nothing but healing on my commando, and managed to just about half the DPS compared to the other sentinel in the group. This is probably what makes me suck so much when playing it. The sentinel, however, has such vastly different abilities that I can't fit them in anywhere, and need to overlap them to a keybind that on all my other characters would trigger a cooldown or self-heal, for instance. The CC-breaker is on C-9 for all characters, for instance, the stealth is on A-2, etc.
#Swtor assign hotkey to quickbar full
I once spent almost a full day streamlining my quickbars (which are 3x4 blocks to match my Naga's keypad) so I can get all shared/similar abilities in the same place. Playing mostly healers (a Sage and Commando that do raids, a Scoundrel that does PvP) and tanks (Shadow and Guardian that also do PvP), I also have trouble with my Sentinel. The key is standardizing keybinds across alts so that you don't rely on icons much at all. TL DR yes, looking at abilities for marauder is difficult. They went on my "bar for class specific stuff" where I put stealth abilities on stealth characters, and so forth. That leaves the stuff that has absolutely no parallel in other classes - the fury stack users. Same with my cc (droid) - goes in the same spot as concussion shot. That means I put force camo in two spots because it's both a speed boost and an aggro dump, and I'll twitch to one or the other depending on situation. Force stompy, the aoe swipe, and the cone throw.Īs for defensive cd's, I keep them roughly where the similar abilities are on other toons. I keep execute abilities always on 9, for all my toons.ġ0-12 are aoe. The channeled one (ravage) and the execute. In carnage, it's gore, blade rush (?) and force scream.ħ-9 are situational. For anni spec, that is overload saber (maybe that's the sent term), my dot, and annihilate. For example, my execute is always in the same place, as are my aoe's.Ĥ-6 are "bread and butter" for my spec. Across all my toons, I keep certain things in the same spaces, so I don't have to remember what icons look like (because I'm terrible at that). Since I play a marauder as my main, I tend to not look at the icons, but rather I know the position of the hotkey and what it goes with. Here's a picture of her first two action bars: But there's one exception, and that's my Marauder. And on the vast majority of my characters, even those that are rarely played, I have no issues remembering which button does what. Now, I'm not saying that SWTOR's icons are bad, not at all. I was reminded of this when Wilhelm linked to an old post of his a couple of weeks ago (yes, this post has been sitting in my drafts folder for a while.) in which he talks about finding Lord of the Rings Online's icons rather confusing (which is quite an amusing read even if you don't play the game).
#Swtor assign hotkey to quickbar plus
I have all of these types of alts myself, plus one more: the alt that I rarely play and on which I'm not just out of practice but utterly and completely terrible. Every now and then you might log on to one of them to run a flashpoint or do some dailies, and you'll probably have a good time, but you're not really very good at playing the class since you have no practice. And then there's a whole bunch of alts that you levelled to see their story and/or try the class's play style, and now they mostly sit around gathering dust, unless you use them for crafting or something. Then there are probably one or two well-loved alts that get regular playtime as well. I reckon that everyone who's been playing this game beyond a certain amount of time has a similar stable of characters: There's the main, the one you play the most and with whom you go to raids or do PvP if you're so inclined.
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