Time to share some gooddies I guess...
You can reuse lots of key in keybinds with ALT/SHIFT/CTRL-modificators, e.g. Q could be hotkey for shortcut bar 1 slot 1 and ALT-Q could be for bar 2 slot 1, SHIFT-Q could ve bar 3 slot 1 etc.. Though don't use modificators for WASD (or whichever are your movement keys) as it will likely lead to unwanted triggers of those combinations.
Bind a side button on your mouse for Select Next Interactable (default is Q I think), because you often want to spam that key while moving and having it on same hand that uses WASD is cumbersome.
You can use shortcutbar not only for spell components dispaly but pretty much for anything - I often put first crystal in Spiiner of Shadow on bar to see how many I got. I also got all my bags on side bar for quick access. Also all scrolls are on bars to be able to check stocks at a glance.
When you use teleport scroll you get that popup with destinations - don't click anything yet! You can pull destinations that you use often on shortcut bar and then you can teleport with double click on those skipping the *choose destination* part (first click takes scroll in hand, second click sets the picked destination).
Sane trick works with any spell that has secondary *choose option* UI like alchecmists evolution spells.
Next one takes some time to get used - I have a vertical bar almost in the center of screen, a bit to the right of character, with all *Remove X* potions. Now when I get cursed/blinded/afflicted with desease etc. I hold right mouse button to make cursor visible and move it just a little bit to right from character (the cursor appears in middle of the screen) and left click the needed option. After a while you brain *stops seeing* that bar same way we get banner blindness but takes some time, I actually have two bars one, second one left from character with quick access to item swaps, don't even notice them anymore
Next - you're about to enter quest while banking XP and again forgot what's the current cap for your lvl? Normally I used to alt-tab into browser, go to ddowiki and check XP table, but no more! Copy paste this:
Code:
XP heroic:
0k ------- 8k ------- 32k ------ 80k ----- 144k
224k ---- 320k ---- 450k ---- 610k ---- 800k
1,02kk -- 1,26kk -- 1,52kk -- 1,8kk --- 2,1kk
2,42kk -- 2,75kk -- 3,09kk -- 3,44kk -- 3,8kk
XP epic:
600k ---- 1,25kk -- 1,95kk -- 2,7kk --- 3,5kk
4,35kk -- 5,25kk -- 6,2kk ---- 7,2kk -- 8,25kk
And put into your character BIO to get nicely aligned XP table on demand.
Next one will be your favorite - got that glitchy tooltip again that blinks in/out or disappears a second after appearing? Fix - hover mouse cursor over your position on minimap till *you are here* tooltip appears. Done, now you can hover over items and tooltips will work normally.
Not sure if this is common knowledge or not but I remember it took me a while to find - you can check your healing amplifications if you hover over Hit Points value in character sheet.
In Missing Party quest in Delera you can get into optional part with single hireling even without summons, the trick is to park hireling just a bit left from northern pressure plate, then you swim through open gate, touch north wall and swim up as much as you can and after that you *unpark* hireling, he will make first step in your general direction and will trigger the plate opening the passage.
Tumble is underrated by some - every character gets two charges and even in heavy armor you get +50% uncapped dodge (75% in medum, 95% for light/cloth) during animation, with decent ping you can reliable align tumble with attack of approaching reaper, takes a bit of practice to get a feel for that but it's a lifesaver available to everyone. Don't forget to turn on Experimantal Tumble Controls which tbh I think should be default now.
Bind a separate key for Interact - default binding for left mouse button is Attack/Interact and sometimes you really need to press/use some button in heat of a battle and the character just keeps swinging club at that button, that's where that key comes in handy. Goes very well in previous advice of binging Select Next Interactable (you did set it to something better than Q by now, didn't you?).
Rearranging chat tabs is big pita but there is more or less decent way - the thing is when you attach detached chat frame back to main chat window it gets placed last in tabs, so to arrange you detach all tabs (pull them out with mouse) and then attach them back (pull them onto main chat window with mouse) in desired order.
Many players turn off DM voice but there is one quest where you got to have it on - A Cry For Help in GH, evrey time you play that quest w/o DM voice a rakshasa cub dies.
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