[quote=Kalrakh]Just leave the wished spot on the hotbar empty and prevent that skills get automatically removed. Should be at least a workaround? [/quote]
It's a good thought, but unfortunately won't help solve this problem. Probably I'm not describing it very well.
The first thing, even with "Automatically Add Skills" turned on in the options, the temporary skill is not going to be put in the right place, or even on the right hotbar. It will show up on hotbar #1, amid all the clutter and broken buttons that the game adds (that the game adds even though all the options to add things have been turned off). I'm using hotbar #5, which is the only way right now that is possible to avoid the clutter.
The second thing, even with "Remove Unmemorized Skills" turned off, these particular skills still get automatically deleted from the hotbar every time a saved game is re-loaded. (I'm talking about Petrifying Visage skill, Bull Rush skill, the Flight skill from spread your wings, etc.) *This is the central and most important problem right now.*
If the skills would just stay where they were put, then it would be totally workable. But right now nothing will keep them from being deleted from the hotbar when the game is reloaded. So they have to be manually put back on the hotbar every single time, just in order to use them.
Currently I do have several empty spaces in my hotbar where the skills should go. I just keep the empty spaces there to remind myself that I do in fact have those skills – and so that I'll have a place to put them on the hotbar every time I have to drag them back again from the skillbook.
I just don't understand why this central problem is still so broken after all this time. I mean it's the hotbar – its something where things being confusing and frustrating and moving out of place is going to affect people every single moment of the game, in every single combat or interaction. This is so much more important then some side quest not fully closing or whatever – all those other minor things that are in fact getting fixed.
And, maybe I'm too optimistic, but it seems like it should be a very easy snip to fix it! Just give an option to truly turn off all automated hotbar behavior. Just kill all the routines that move things around out from under me on the hotbar. All of them. Don't do it one item-switch at a time – just kill all automated hotbar behavior. Things only get added when I drag them there. Things only get removed when I drag them off. If we could just do that, then getting the skills set up might still be a bit unwieldy the first time around, but then at least it would then be playable and not constantly frustrating and causing problems. /little rant
