Can you hotbar the rune arm charge/fire activation?

[sephiroth1084]

I haven't been able to get a straight answer on this, but can you put the control for your rune arm on a hotbar, or can it only be button-mapped?

I ask because I use a gamepad, and with key layouts being a per-account (computer?) thing, and not a per-character thing, this is going to be important for deciding whether or not I ever roll an artificer.

[Vengeance777]

You can put the rune arm charge toggle on Hotbar. So you can toggle autocharge on or off via hotbar.

You can only fire it via a bound key as far as I can tell.

I bound my fire key as F since I don't use voicechat so that button is free on all my toons.

[Cerianna]

The rune-arm charge icon is expanded from the feat, and can be hot-barred from that. Took me a while to find it too.

[sephiroth1084]

Can anyone confirm that you cannot fire a runearm from a hotbar assignment?

[jayboss1]

nope, it has to be bound to a key

The feat only charges rune arms automatically when toggled

[Teraz]

Easiest way to do it is to assign your block button on your game pad to rune arm use in the options/keymapping menu. Hitting the button will now charge and fire your rune arm. You just have to switch the assignment back to block when your on a diff character.

[Khatzhas]

You can block or tumble while using a Runearm now, so you may want to use a different key.

I play with a joystick, and use the software that came with it to mimic keyboard presses rather than setting it up through the DDO control system. When changing to an artificer character, I just tab out of the game and pick the setup that has the runearm fire key instead of hotbar button 4 as active.

But no, there is no icon for firing the runeam that can be placed in the hotbar. Just the auto-charge one.