[dev1123] - Can we have all 3 Action Bars showing up at once?

[Tsukino]

I dont understand any of you.
I have no problem useing my arrow keys for ability choise.
w and s for forward back.
a and d for camera left and right.
and numpad 8 and 2 for camera up and down.
I use numpad del to take out weapon, numpad 3 to lock on, numpad 0 to change targets, and enter to use ability.

The keyboard is programable enough for you to make your own key config to your liking.

even if we had all 30 abilitys on screen at once, you would still be useing the arrow keys to find the ability u want to use.
unless your dependant on mouse.

I do not... i repeat.. do Not want to see all 30 actions on my screen... then i will feel overcumbered.
I dont want to be crowded with abilities on my screen.

Every player players differant, so the only solution is to make the UI customizable. Makes everyone happy.

You obviously don't understand because you use only the keyboard. You also wouldn't notice if you used just a gamepad. This is a keyboard+mouse issue.

When you play like this, your left hand is on the left side of the keyboard, and your right hand is on the mouse (assuming you're right-handed anyway). That means the arrow keys on the keyboard are out of the way of either hand - you have to move one or the other to change bars. Additionally, if you're clicking on action buttons instead of just using the number keys, you now have to do two things instead of one to activate an ability.

Moreover, because the arrow keys are used for more than one thing and there currently is no key binding option for changing action bars, anytime you click somewhere else (rotate the camera, change targets, click party names, use a menu) it takes the focus off the action bar and now your arrow keys don't switch action bars at all. Like I already posted, this means party members dying because their healer on keyboard+mouse couldn't get to the right bar when they needed to a lot of the time.

They want to make all input methods viable in this game (hence the update in 1.18a that will increase visibility for gamepad players and keyboard players who don't use the number shortcuts) and this is something that needs a couple adjustments for one of those three methods.

Obviously some people don't want to display all three (or more possibly in the future) action bars, but no one in this thread wants them to be on for everyone all the time. They just want the option to do so.