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Hmmm seems I'm not clear enough, sorry English is not my native language.
So, what I propose is that we could have multiple quickbars, on top of each others, on the sides, etc, just like in any modern mmo, to get rid of all the item micro managing that makes a game tedious. I like my shortcuts as much as the next guy, I don't want cheap limitations that we bypass by constantly and tediously dragging and dropping, etc.

Now, among these quickbar, there would be a UNIQUE COMBAT BAR, which would be the LOCKED DURING FIGHTS, and the ONLY ONE WE COULD USE DURING FIGHTS.
The idea is to have us make build choices for fights, not have us do ton of drag and drops during fights.
This UNIQUE, LIMITED COMBAT BAR could have something like 6 skills and 2 items slots, I don't know this would have to be tested and yeah obviously I'm no game designer, but again the idea is that we don't end running Mageninjatanksofdoom that run into the middle of a group of ennemy, explode everything on their way and self heal while summoning pets and barely getting scratched.

I'm not proposing this for the sake of having a tedious interface or anything silly of that sort, no.

Why I'm proposing this is because I want tactic fights, with meaningful choices, and being able to do everything all the time will just prevent that.

So please, before you answer "nooooo we'll just drag and drop and it's tedious etc", please understand that it's not what I'm proposing, that I'm sorry for not being able to express myself in a cleared and more understandable way, and that I'm only proposing this because I firmly believe it would make fights -which should be a substantial portion of the game- more tactic and thus more enjoyable.

For me the strategic combat is the most important part of the game and the reason why a backed this. I wanted to revisit an turn based combat RPG. The questing and stuff is all only there in my eyes to give me more spells, skills equipment so that combat becomes even more interesting.

I am unsure whether I am supportive on having different combat bars in general, but reading through this topic gave me the following ideas:

Say I have a few combat action bars focusing on different things, like fire, or ice, or healing, etc.

Suddenly, I find myself in an unexpected combat situation. Before I use any skill, I am allowed to switch between my different presets for free, but once I use a skill, changing is no longer permitted, or at least not without spending action points.

Just my 5 cents.

I don't imagine that the current alpha toolbar is anything like the final version: it just looks so sad and lonely stuck in the middle of a widescreen monitor. At the very least I would expect to be able to stretch it horizontally to fit more slots in. Whether that will provide enough slots to be able to fit everything in without having to create a multiple quickbar mechanism is yet to be seen.

A strategic decision for a player character is whether to focus on breadth or depth of skills and/or spells. Do I invest points in many spell groups in order to have a range of tactical options, or do I focus on a small number of more powerful spells? Artificially stopping me from using a wider range of options is blocking me from making use of that choice. Doing so by nerfing the GUI, rather than by a proper gameplay mechanic, is surely just defining the first "essential mod that should have been in the game from the start".

Doing so by nerfing the GUI, rather than by a proper gameplay mechanic, is surely just defining the first "essential mod that should have been in the game from the start".

Pretty sure he meant to tie this to a gameplay mechanic, not just a UI limitation.
i.e. : invoke the power of water, spend some AP, cast water spells. Switch to fire using another invocation, spend some AP, cast fire spells, etc.
Probably still needs some fleshing out, but it's not a bad idea. I like the idea of having a cost to switching to antagonist magic elemental powers in the middle of a situation.