Hotkey dual weild?

Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:45 pm

Is there a way to hotkey dual wield weapons so I don't have to pull up the menu EVERY time to equip the swords in both hands? This is quite frustrating sometimes :/
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:10 am

favorite system allows south paws to feel at home if they use magic or 1h to come up. I know it's a hardship, but some kid is going to make it like you can push 5 and it will load both hands with the toolset
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:24 pm

Yeah, I know, it seems to work only for spells (when you hotkey-click a spell twice you get dual wield spell), but hotkey-clicking weapons seems to only switch between them. Haven't found a way to go around it yet.
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:41 pm

favorite system allows south paws to feel at home if they use magic or 1h to come up. I know it's a hardship, but some kid is going to make it like you can push 5 and it will load both hands with the toolset


I sure hope so. It is frustrating to completely stop the game to heal then completely stop it again to pull my weapons back out
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:54 pm

1. In your Weapons menu, equip your desired weapons in both Right and Left hand
2. Mark your Right-handed weapon a favorite
3. Exit menu and return to the game screen
4. Pull up your Hotkeys/favorites menu
5. Assign a number to your Right-handed weapon.
6. Exit hotkeys/favorites menu
7. Now hit the number you assigned and both weapons should be equipped.

For example, I have my War Axe/Dagger combo assigned to #1 and my bow assigned to #2.
Hope that helps.
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Makenna Nomad
 
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:00 am

I've noticed that if you have two of the same weapon (two steel daggers, two iron swords, etc.) you can duel wield by clicking the hot key twice, just like dueling spells with hot keys. Kind of buggy on PC at the moment though; I've had it unfavorite my selected weapon a couple of times and things like that. I haven't found a way to quickly duel wield two different kinds of weapons though. Being able to assign hot keys to a specific hand would be nice, something like: Hot key [1] Steel Dagger (Left Hand) [Shift]+[2] Poisoned Steel Sword (Right Hand)

If you are using duel weapons and hot key to a bow, pressing the bows hot key again will put away the bow and pull out the previous weapon set up you were using.
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:16 pm

The odd thing about this is that I actually got dual wielding with a single key to work with a character at lower levels, but NOT at the higher. I was simply using two silver swords, I had them together in my inventory so it was Silver Sword (2), added it to my favorites and then hotkeyed it. Every time I used it, it would draw both weapons just fine. I thought "Yay, I finally figured it out!". Later on though, I forged two (Legendary) Ebony swords and this did not work, even though they had identical stats and were stacked in the inventory. They would start out together in the favorites menu, but then RANDOMLY one of them would disappear, and I would have to manually go through my inventory to put it back on every single time I wanted to use them.

Annoying and it makes zero sense.
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:58 pm

1. In your Weapons menu, equip your desired weapons in both Right and Left hand
2. Mark your Right-handed weapon a favorite
3. Exit menu and return to the game screen
4. Pull up your Hotkeys/favorites menu
5. Assign a number to your Right-handed weapon.
6. Exit hotkeys/favorites menu
7. Now hit the number you assigned and both weapons should be equipped.

For example, I have my War Axe/Dagger combo assigned to #1 and my bow assigned to #2.
Hope that helps.


That works... until you equip a spell in your left hand. When you try to go back to your dual-wield weapons it will only equip the weapon in the right hand, it won't swap out the spell for a weapon in your left hand.



ETA: I wish you could hotkey your entire outfit.
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Post » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:10 pm

Is there a way to hotkey dual wield weapons so I don't have to pull up the menu EVERY time to equip the swords in both hands? This is quite frustrating sometimes :/

Favourite both swords , then equip each one in either hand.
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