Bard Help

[larper99]

So, my experiment last night:

I switched key bindings so that QWERTYUI are my spell gems, with WERT being the major ones. Now 1-6 are true actions, plus a macroed SELO just so it is always available in emergencies.

Results:
1) I will have to retrain some habits (like I is no longer inventory)
2) Double clicking is no faster than /stopsong.
3) Now, a missed note renders double-clicking more problematic than /stopsong, since continuing to double click without realizing that you are no longer singing means you continuously interrupt your own cast. So, you have to be highly aware of the state of your spell gems and single click when appropriate.

But, it is sure nice to have hotbar buttons back.

What I would really like to try is find 8 different characters that can be rearranged into various words. That way, various twists can be remembered as different words, and twisting would simply become typing. But for now, QWERTYUI works well.

Actually, I just thought of something. It uses up a precious HotBar button, but.... What if I made a macro that was ONLY /stopsong? Now the double-click/single click issue goes away. Since /stopsong is demonstrably NOT slower than double clicking, it only is left to demonstrate that a macroed /stopsong plus s single click gem is no slower than double clicking... Gotta try this.