You need to edit the xml file.
go to your everquest folder > uifiles > default > and then find the file called EQUI_HotButtonWnd. Right click on it and select edit. I strongly recommend that you backup this file somewhere else before you start editing. If you mess it up the game may not even load for you.
you will notice lines of xml code, for example, you will see near the top:
Ui2DAnimation item="HB_SpellGemHolder" with further lines of code under it. if you scroll way further down you will see the same lines of code except it will look like:
Ui2DAnimation item="HB2_SpellGemHolder"
notice the 2 added in there. However, under these lines there will not be any additional lines of code. This is the code that was ripped out which is preventing you from loading hotbar 2, 3, and 4.
basically you need to enter all of that missing code from the HB lines and add it to all of the HB2, HB3, and HB4 lines so that it is identical, making sure you also have changed HB to HB2, HB3, and HB4 where necessary. I just copied and pasted all of the code into these lines to where it belonged and assigned it all HB2, HB3, and HB4 by hand where it needed to be.
If you did it correctly you will be able to click on the EQ window in game and load the hotbars.
additional note: whenever you are downloading a patch you are going to have to make sure you do not download the uifiles part of the patch, or it will revert you back to one hotbar.
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