Potion BeltFollow

You can create a hot key for each of the potions on your belt, just left click on the potion in the belt and hold it until it appears on your cursor. I did this after buying an insta click gate potion and clicked the hot key...poof 1100pp gone just like that.

Oh well, now I know.

I could only use 2 slots as well, maybe the other 2 are for when you get aa's? Was annoying that it kept dissappearing after zoning. Very handy for my invis and sow potions....would love it if it stayed up after zoning.

All you had to do before was left click the potion till an icon appeared and place it in a hot key. Same with clicky gear. I have 5 items placed in my hotkeys. Right click them and they cast. Jboots are the best item to place there cast on the run. The potion belt is completely useless. I mean worthless.

I am glad to hear I only wasted a cheap potion, having tested it with a 10 dose I was going to sell, which became a 9 dose I gave to an alt.

Same about 2 slots, and the disappearing bit.

I thought the weapon belt was just as bad. I keep all weapons and so on in my last bag. When I use the weapon swap belt, it drops them where ever it feels like it (first available slot). It doesn't put them back where it got them (like a kid).

Be careful! That's your Delightful Orb, not a pearl shard! Don't sell it to the merchants.

Am I the only one who organizes backpacks? I doubt it.

No it doesn't reset the potion belt the potion belt itself just disappears upon zoning.

People that are complaining about the potion belt disappearing are just doing so to complain.

There's no reason it needs to be up, create a hotkey as stated by myself and a few others here. What's so hard to understand about doing that?


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I'm going to second everyone else's opinions and simply conclude that you have either never had to deal with potion use in a hurry, or maybe even have never played the game past like level 15 or so.

It is *not* an additional "bag" to carry stuff in. It's an organizer. You don't gain additional slots from it. The potions you carry still take up the same space in your bags that they did before. The difference is that you can use potions without having to put them into a main slot. For those of us who carry a lot of gear, this is a godsend. I typically only have one main slot that doesn't have a bag in it (specifically for swaping in potions, and so I can pick up a container if I need to).

Cloudy potions are the biggest example of why you need this. I play a paladin. I get no invis spell. Thus, I carry around these potions to invis myself. Prior to the belt, I'd have to move a potion into the empty main slot from a bag (so, click to open a bag, click to pick up potion, click to drop in the main slot). Then I'd use it when I need to invis (say I'm running through an area invised). Before I move, I then repeat the process, picking up a second cloudy potion and dropping it into the main slot (so I can click it in a hurry if the current invis wears off). Now, I can start moving. If my invis starts blinking, I have to click the potion in the mainslot, and then prep another one by opening a bag and putting another potion in the main slot. In fact, I've never bothered to create a hotkey for this because I know that whenever I use an invis potion, I'm going to need to shuffle another one around anyway, so I may as well open up the inventory screen anyway, right (your gui may vary of course!).

The point here is that I can buy the exact same number of potions, and put them in my bags in the exact spots they were before. But now, I can just click the potion belt (or hotkey!), each time I need to invis. I don't have to rummage through my bags to find another potion and get it ready. This will save a huge amount of time when it's needed most (I've just cast an invis, I don't know how long it's going to last, I have a limited number of potions to use, and I have to make it through some zone before I run out).

This is hugely useful. If you don't use potions that much, then it's not useful for you, but then it didn't cost you anything. You are welcome to not use it if you don't want to. For those of us who have always had to deal with needing to move potions around quickly, this thing is a goodsend!

Best I haerd was that it is an organizer. I deal with over thirty items. A two slot belt does not help. It is worthless period.

Jebus gbaji that could be the shortest post you've ever made...

You feeling ok?

I haven't heard of any way to unlock the other two slots yet, but the expansion is very new, and there's no way to really know exactly how things are going to work out. A couple of guildies were saying in guild chat last night that after they completed a mission, they all got a new AA available to them that raises all stats by 10 or something and max stats by 15 or so. We were all told that there weren't going to be any new AAs, but this would prove otherwise.

Long answer short, we don't know yet, but we'll figure it out eventually.

Question:
If you happen to forage your slots full in-between weapon changes...next time you change weapons say from a 2hb to a 1hb and shield, will it drop your weapon on the ground for lack of a free spot in your bags?

Or, it'll just stick on your pointer and let you place them in containers at your leisure (maybe).

This certainly bears some experimentation before trusting it completely. I remember having a similar problem when playing NWN with items dropping to the ground just by swapping gear. What was worse in that game is that you didn't even need to pick something up in between for it to happen. That game had inventory slots made up of "blocks" in which you fit various sized items. The algorithym used to put items into inventory was less then smart though, so it would often auto-equip gear that you'd placed correctly, but when you went to swap them, would place the small item in the "first" available space it would fit (which may be the spot you had for the larger item, and then fail to find a large enough spot to put the larger item. This happened all the time with sword/shield combos, since the shields were usually really big (like 3x5, while swords might be 1x3, or 1x4, or 2x4). It would place the sword where the shield had been, effectively blocking the shield from its original inventory spot.

I would *hope* that they did something a bit more intelligent with this in EQ, but I wouldn't hold my breath. EQ can have a similar proglem with different sized bags. Let's say you have a large 2h weapon in one bandolier slot, and a large sword and giant shield in another. let's also say you normally keep your lage weapons in a large sized bag, and giant in a giant. you could easily swap the 2h for the sword/shield combo and be fine, but then swap back and have it place the sword in the last slot in your giant bag, and then fail to place the shield becuase there's no longer a spce for it to fit.

I have *always* been of the opinion that SoE should have updated their item auto-placement process a loooong time ago. Instead of having items place into the first slot large enough to fit them, they should simply place into the first slot that is the smallest size it will fit in. This would solve a number of problrms. First off, it would prevent every item you loot from automaticaly taking up the one main slot you keep clear (cause a main slot is always the "biggest" size, right?). You could actually place your bags in an order and know where stuff will go based on size. You wouldn't need to worry about trash loot filling in slots in your weapons bag and making it a pain to swap gear (or more painful with the bandolier!).

I honestly have no clue why they *don't* do it this way. Sheer laziness IMO. It would be a trivial matter to change the code and it would be a *huge* improvement to gameplay. We'll see if the bandolier pushes them to finally do something about this.

Just ran some tests...

If you have a full inventory and swap 2 items (sheild/sword, dual weild..whatever) out for 1, the extra item will remain on your cursor.

I don't have the items on this toon to test what happens if you swap more than 1 extra item in though...probably will add both to your cursor though.