Patch Message, May 26 2004. (large download)

[kiztent]

ahh....

monk FD != necro/SK FD ...

I see how that could be annoying...

Already got me killed twice. The problem I have is that I'm watching the screen and my pet has a habit of coming up to help me, so the mobs are still swinging and it's a but tricky to tell if they are swinging at me or him (well, I do have RED messages on my main screen, but when you have 7 lizards trying to turn you into paste, sometimes you don't pay full attention and keep slamming '2' (death peace) and praying). The other time was in torment, but I had 3 casters aggro on me, so that was probably a lost cause anyway, seeing as they had already broken FD twice.

[Minta Rose]

That said... how do the rest of you folks who use hotkeys manage to train your fingers for more than one character? I swear, I spend three minutes every time I camp to someone else repeating one of the following:

Clerics cannot kick. (V = hotkey 9 = run/walk on cleric)
Rangers cannot gate. (ALT 8 = snare on ranger)
Clerics cannot forage. (hotkey 2 = Pacify on cleric)
Rangers cannot bash. (F = hotkey 6 = archery on ranger)
Clerics cannot track. (G = hotkey 4 = Donal's HP buff on cleric)

Well, there's two ways to go about it. First, overlapping the functions as much as possible, as you did--

Hotkey bank 2, key 6:
MMez (Screaming Terror or Death's Silence as needed, Minta)
RMez (Sio-non-intuitive-spelling's Dreams, Rydiia)
RoMez (Enthrall, Rosemarie)
THelp ("Either %t takes a dirtnap or I do!", Tzimm)

Second, those letters in front of every single hotkey name, reminding me which character I'm playing!

Clerics cannot lich. . .bards have no divine aura. . .chanters cannot heal. . .necros can't cheal. . .and I can't tank!

[sumamael]

That said... how do the rest of you folks who use hotkeys manage to train your fingers for more than one character? I swear, I spend three minutes every time I camp to someone else repeating one of the following:

Clerics cannot kick. (V = hotkey 9 = run/walk on cleric)
Rangers cannot gate. (ALT 8 = snare on ranger)
Clerics cannot forage. (hotkey 2 = Pacify on cleric)
Rangers cannot bash. (F = hotkey 6 = archery on ranger)
Clerics cannot track. (G = hotkey 4 = Donal's HP buff on cleric)

Hehe takes practice I guess. I have a necro and a cleric whom I regularly play and sometimes I log on my friend's ranger.

I don't really use too many hotkeys but my /assist hotkey is the same on all chars, my escape spells (DA / FD / Jolt) is in the same gem in all chars, beneficial and detrimental spells are memed in the same general order on all chars. Thats said, I haven't made any real screwups yet pressing the wrong hotkey.

I had other problems, I haven't played my necro for months once, only my cleric. Then I logged the necro on and got into a group and I was pressing my assist hotkey cycling through the mobs' targets in the camp to see who was getting hit so I could /assist spot heal....duh...