For whom it may concern....
Get rid of it, go through all the Key options, remove any that you never use, that just annoy you.
Commands
Use a Hot button for Sit/stand? Don't, bind it to a key (I use 'G', but what ever works for you).
Use centerscreen is nice for opening doors (My setup use 'V').
Do you open all bags manually? And close them manually hitting Esc 6+ times?
I have bound Open Inventory Bags and Toggle invetory window (UI) to 'I', that way both all bags and Inventory opens (toggles), when I hit I.
Likewise I have also bound Close all Inventory Bags and Toggle invetory window to 'K', that way all bags close and Inventory also closes (toggles), when I hit that. Again, what ever button fits you.
Target
Cycle through nearest NPCs is new with 2.5 client. Use it.
Toggle last two targets is not new, but still pretty useful.
Target nearest corpse I have set to 'Z'. More on this in Macro's.
UI
Paste from Clipboard, I have set this as 'Ctrl V', copy something from outside game, and paste it in to game (like Gamparse info).
Hotbar 1-4
Most of us has at least 1 or 2 Hotbars that we don't use at all (You toggle them through the 'SoD' button -> Actions).
Use this to your advantage. For example, put a macro in Hotbar 4 Hotbutton 1, and bind it to a key, say
'Z', and then when ever you just hit 'Z', it will do that macro (and what ever else you have the key bound to), it could be /rewind, or something more clever (and then close the Hotbar again).
(Not the /pause x command, is the only command you can add to a line in a macro, with an other command.
You add it first, and it will happen after, what ever else is in that line.
For example /pause 50, /cast 2, will first cast the spell, then it will pause 50.)
Loot own corpse
/corpse
/target Name' (The ' makes you target your corpse, and not your self)
/loot
Loot nearest corpse
As described earlier, bind a key to Target nearest corpse and bind the same key to a Hotbutton in a Hotbar you don't use, then you will get nearest corpse targeted, and the macro will activate.
Also use '/hidecorpse looted' in general. Put it in a macro. I have it in my Loot own corpse macro.
The Macro it self is very simple, its the binding of it to a key with an other function, that's less obvious...
/corpse
/loot
/loot
Bandoliers
When you make a Bandolier and click 'Hot Button', it actually just makes a macro for you, with the first line being '/bandolier Activate *Name*'.
Make more lines, for example, /s 3, or /cast 8 (where spell 8 is some spell that has a reagent component, and you just swapped in your Reagent Conservation item in Ranged, through the Bandolier), ect ect.
Pet hold
/alt activate 176 (Recall Minion AA, not all classes gets this).
/pet hold
This one is odd, but a game changer imo (thank you Skaoli).
Mine is set to, x=0 y=0 w=1920 h= 740 scale=1.
You have to experiment though for your optimal setting.
What it does is, it compress the height, making the bottom of your screen completely black, fitting the field of view on to a more height compressed area on the rest of the screen.
So why would you do that?!
You do it so that you don't lose any field of view to all your chat windows. You put these down in the now totally black part of your screen, and nothing of your field of view will now be blocked.
It actually also makes you able to see more to the sides, the more you compress it.
Warning, you might be "seasick" for a week...
Okey, so now you have set up your User Interface, much much different than the default settings, it took for ever right... And then you patch, and it all goes back to default (Murphy's law).
Make sure you take a copy of your 'eqclient.ini'.
That's all I could think of, off the top of my head. Enjoy, and please share other Tips and Tricks that will make our SoD experience even more (or even just slightly more) fun
- Binding / unbinding keys (Alt + O -> Keys).
Get rid of it, go through all the Key options, remove any that you never use, that just annoy you.
Commands
Use a Hot button for Sit/stand? Don't, bind it to a key (I use 'G', but what ever works for you).
Use centerscreen is nice for opening doors (My setup use 'V').
Do you open all bags manually? And close them manually hitting Esc 6+ times?
I have bound Open Inventory Bags and Toggle invetory window (UI) to 'I', that way both all bags and Inventory opens (toggles), when I hit I.
Likewise I have also bound Close all Inventory Bags and Toggle invetory window to 'K', that way all bags close and Inventory also closes (toggles), when I hit that. Again, what ever button fits you.
Target
Cycle through nearest NPCs is new with 2.5 client. Use it.
Toggle last two targets is not new, but still pretty useful.
Target nearest corpse I have set to 'Z'. More on this in Macro's.
UI
Paste from Clipboard, I have set this as 'Ctrl V', copy something from outside game, and paste it in to game (like Gamparse info).
Hotbar 1-4
Most of us has at least 1 or 2 Hotbars that we don't use at all (You toggle them through the 'SoD' button -> Actions).
Use this to your advantage. For example, put a macro in Hotbar 4 Hotbutton 1, and bind it to a key, say
'Z', and then when ever you just hit 'Z', it will do that macro (and what ever else you have the key bound to), it could be /rewind, or something more clever (and then close the Hotbar again).
- Macro's.
(Not the /pause x command, is the only command you can add to a line in a macro, with an other command.
You add it first, and it will happen after, what ever else is in that line.
For example /pause 50, /cast 2, will first cast the spell, then it will pause 50.)
Loot own corpse
/corpse
/target Name' (The ' makes you target your corpse, and not your self)
/loot
Loot nearest corpse
As described earlier, bind a key to Target nearest corpse and bind the same key to a Hotbutton in a Hotbar you don't use, then you will get nearest corpse targeted, and the macro will activate.
Also use '/hidecorpse looted' in general. Put it in a macro. I have it in my Loot own corpse macro.
The Macro it self is very simple, its the binding of it to a key with an other function, that's less obvious...
/corpse
/loot
/loot
Bandoliers
When you make a Bandolier and click 'Hot Button', it actually just makes a macro for you, with the first line being '/bandolier Activate *Name*'.
Make more lines, for example, /s 3, or /cast 8 (where spell 8 is some spell that has a reagent component, and you just swapped in your Reagent Conservation item in Ranged, through the Bandolier), ect ect.
Pet hold
/alt activate 176 (Recall Minion AA, not all classes gets this).
/pet hold
- / Commands
This one is odd, but a game changer imo (thank you Skaoli).
Mine is set to, x=0 y=0 w=1920 h= 740 scale=1.
You have to experiment though for your optimal setting.
What it does is, it compress the height, making the bottom of your screen completely black, fitting the field of view on to a more height compressed area on the rest of the screen.
So why would you do that?!
You do it so that you don't lose any field of view to all your chat windows. You put these down in the now totally black part of your screen, and nothing of your field of view will now be blocked.
It actually also makes you able to see more to the sides, the more you compress it.
Warning, you might be "seasick" for a week...
Okey, so now you have set up your User Interface, much much different than the default settings, it took for ever right... And then you patch, and it all goes back to default (Murphy's law).
Make sure you take a copy of your 'eqclient.ini'.
That's all I could think of, off the top of my head. Enjoy, and please share other Tips and Tricks that will make our SoD experience even more (or even just slightly more) fun
