What happened to the potion belt ?

You don't have anything to sway opinions with so you try and make it a raider vs non raider thing?

Daybreak has decided this is what will happen. Maybe look at ways to get them to add more or better function to hot bars and socials to improve the situation?

hi ho silver away !!! love the ever lasting omg its a raider thing war.

we have been doing that for the past month and it has done little to no good to help us ... go back and read the many posts if you have that much time

Read the test patch notes.
They are bringing everything the potion belt used to do to the hotbars (apart from the auto inventory thing).

i have read the patch notes, they are NOT bringing everything the potion belt did to hotbars, and it is still a 12 button hotbar ... as yinla said above, it is a downgrade for us that liked the potion belt size and functions

You can resize the hotbar and buttons to whatever size you want. You can also hide the extra buttons off screen if you don't want them.

Can't please 100% of the people with anything.

Sucks to be on the side not pleased. Nothing i say to offer you suggestions will fix you your fixation on the potion bar.
The only thing left for you is to cancel your accounts

my eyes aren't what they used to be, if i make the hotbars & buttons smaller i won't be able to read the buttons ... i have them at 90 trying to make more space on my screen, the potion belt was easy, great functions, compact, and, even tho some don't care about it, many did

What, apart from the auto inventory feature, did the potion belt do that the new hotbars don't ?

for me one of the major things was size, it was easy to place in limited screen space, 5 slots ... the slots were more open, made what was in it more like a full picture rather than a button ... you could drop things in it and they went to inventory without another social, we already have to many darn buttons ... it was really easy and convenient ... many of us don't have big screens, especially on laptops, etc, more hotbars and more socials and we won't be able to see to play the game

The compactness of it was a great feature. Hotbars either take too much space or make the buttons extremely small and hard to see if shrunk down. Hotbar buttons that I use regularly have hotkeys. I don't really need to see them. Things I have on the potion bar are things I use irregularly and mouse click as well as monitor the remaining count (they added that with this patch, but tiny buttons will make it hard to see). The compact nature reduced clutter while the larger buttons reduced the need for mousing precision when trying to quickly re-apply a poison in combat.

While I understand some people don't care about the clutter or filling in more space on their screens, I'd hope people could at least understand that others do value screen real estate to see the actual game and not a bunch of buttons with tiny text.

fyi, I just tested this and it's an easy fix to modify the hotbutton file to make a 5 slot hotbutton.

take a copy of the default EQUI_HotButtonWnd.xml

Insert this section:

Code:

    <TileLayoutBox item="HB_PotionBeltLayout">
        <ScreenID>HB_HotButtonLayout</ScreenID>
        <RelativePosition>true</RelativePosition>
        <AutoStretch>true</AutoStretch>
        <TopAnchorOffset>4</TopAnchorOffset>
        <BottomAnchorOffset>4</BottomAnchorOffset>
        <LeftAnchorOffset>4</LeftAnchorOffset>
        <RightAnchorOffset>11</RightAnchorOffset> 
        <TopAnchorToTop>true</TopAnchorToTop>
        <BottomAnchorToTop>false</BottomAnchorToTop>
        <LeftAnchorToLeft>true</LeftAnchorToLeft>
        <RightAnchorToLeft>false</RightAnchorToLeft>
        <Style_Transparent>true</Style_Transparent>
        <Style_TransparentControl>true</Style_TransparentControl>
        <Spacing>4</Spacing>
        <SecondarySpacing>4</SecondarySpacing>
        <HorizontalFirst>true</HorizontalFirst>
        <AnchorToTop>true</AnchorToTop>
        <AnchorToLeft>true</AnchorToLeft>
        <FirstPieceTemplate>true</FirstPieceTemplate>
        <SnapToChildren>true</SnapToChildren>
        <Pieces>HotButton:HB_Button1</Pieces>
        <Pieces>HotButton:HB_Button2</Pieces>
        <Pieces>HotButton:HB_Button3</Pieces>
        <Pieces>HotButton:HB_Button4</Pieces>
        <Pieces>HotButton:HB_Button5</Pieces>
    </TileLayoutBox>

and edit the following section:

Code:

    <Screen item="HotButtonWnd11">
        <ScreenID />
        <Layout>HB_LayoutV</Layout>
        <Font>2</Font>
        <RelativePosition>false</RelativePosition>
        <Location>
            <X>0</X>
            <Y>230</Y>
        </Location>
        <Size>
            <CX>525</CX>
            <CY>53</CY>
        </Size>
        <DrawTemplate>WDT_RoundedNoTitle</DrawTemplate>
        <Style_Qmarkbox>true</Style_Qmarkbox>
        <Style_Closebox>true</Style_Closebox>
        <Style_Border>true</Style_Border>
        <Style_Sizable>true</Style_Sizable>
        <Style_ClientMovable>true</Style_ClientMovable>
        <Escapable>false</Escapable>
<!--        <Pieces>TileLayoutBox:HB_HotButtonLayout</Pieces>--> <!-- remove this line -->
        <Pieces>TileLayoutBox:HB_PotionBeltLayout</Pieces> <!-- Insert this line -->
        <Pieces>Screen:HB_VerticalBarPageButtons</Pieces>
        <Pieces>Screen:HB_HorizontalBarPageButtons</Pieces>
        <Pieces>Screen:HB_HorizontalBarTemplate</Pieces>
        <Pieces>Screen:HB_VerticalBarTemplate</Pieces>
        <Pieces>Screen:HB_NoSpinnerBarTemplate</Pieces>
    </Screen>

i'm not into changing my eq files, i would rather db/devs care more about the ppl they are making unhappy with all they have been doing lately

I'd rather be an elephant.

maybe you'd like it

He probably has a 5 slot hotbar 11 and isn't sharing with you

cmon kids lets beat the dead horse to page 20 I know ya'll can do it!!

I'd rather be a dragon

they took what we liked and gave you an 11th hotbar with extras, seems that's the way things are going here now ... i fail to understand why you need to come into this thread to gloat and make fun of us

my horse is still alive and kicking