crate wrote:So here's a serious question: if blowguns are this annoying, how do you deal with conjurations?
To use a blowgun you press either one (') or two (ww) keys to wield it. You then press tab or shift-tab to shoot it in most cases, or rarely target with f (or F if you just want to shoot one curare needle or something without changing your quiver). Then you press ' to go back to your main weapon. So it's 2 + number of shots keypresses, maybe plus one more.
For conjurations, most of them are targeted and ranged, so you press z, then the spell letter, then f or . or space to fire. So it's 3*number of uses keypresses. You might notice this number is always larger than the number for blowguns, unless you shoot exactly once and additionally can't use ' to switch to your blowgun.
"But you could make a macro for spells!" Well you can also make a macro for your blowgun, if it bothers you that much.
Or are conjurations also problematic? Is switching to a bow/xbow/sling also too problematic? I fail to see why blowguns in particular deserve this special treatment and also fail to see why it's really an improvement.
What seigort said is correct, but I do actually use adjusted hot keys with conjurations.
With blowguns, I usually find myself having to move back a space, equip my blowgun, select the fire I want, then move back into place(or back away further if the monster woke up). My goal is to make it so you would just select which needle you want and shoot it, kind of like I would choose a spell that I don't normally use every fight(like deaths door for example).
In my mind, an offhand blowgun is in your side pocket ready to be whipped out at a moments notice, so maybe allowing it to be wielded even with a two handed weapon might work. Of course, it would still act the same as it does now with shields. It still remains inconvenient for players wearing shields, but in my experience, shield wearers past lair 8 don't have quite as much use for blowguns anyway, so I guess you could say it solves "most" of the problems?
To answer your original question though, the difference is that conjurations is often something I you are using the entire game, so it slows at a consistent pace. Blowguns on the other hand, interrupt normal gameplay speed. Also, the interface feels kind of awkward in my experience.
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