Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by Black_Elk
If someone likes a big giant hotbar up at all times, expanded to 68 squares or even 136, all the better. Go for it. I just don't want to have to look at that massive grid taking up like a quarter of my screen the entire time I'm playing.
Lets not be dramatic ... shall we?
Hotbar does not cover even 1/10 of screen ... and it would not even if we could spread it to its whole wide.
It is an overexaggeration, but hate for hotbar doesn't come from what is in EA, it's for what it means for lvl +10 spellcasters. In D:OS2 you pretty much stop gaining new abilities at the beginning of act2. BG3 is just getting started, and even with it's most generous setting the hotbar was barely enough. For the hotbat to be able to contain all spells, all skills and many desirable items, it would have to be a chunky hotbar indeed. It would be a shame if the main similarity between BG1&2 vs BG3 was covering the screen in excessive UI.

Originally Posted by Zarna
The perfect system for me would be having the current hotbar (extendable to the old size) on which we could have the most commonly used things and also have buttons to click for grouped things (one for spells, one for potions, etc.) These buttons should then have the option to turn into pinnable hotbars for those of us who want everything on the screen all the time. Ideally they should be able to be resized and pinned in different places around the screen. For people that don't like hotbars, they could use the option to open the spells button and have everything there instead, perhaps like a spellbook which some people seem to want. Would be similar for things like potions and whatever else.
Sounds sensible. Personally, I did like the hidable/expandable Pathfinder design. If only the expandable "spellbook" was easier accessable, didn't require clicks to expand and was better organized.

Last edited by Wormerine; 17/10/21 12:00 PM.