LE Assign Hotkeyed Weapons/Spells to a Hand

[2ndFifer]

This should have been one of the first mods ever made. I've searched regularly since the game's release and have yet to find a simple mod that allows for dual-wielded setups, or halfway proper hotkey configuration for spells and weapons. I've found a couple that allow for weapon sets, but they include a myriad of other things and are a bit buggy.

 

Currently in the game, assigning a one-handed weapon to a hotkey (from your favorites menu) always assigns it to your right hand. Assigning a spell, shield, or torch to a hotkey always makes it go to your left.

 

If you double-click the same single-hand spell, you can make it go to both. If you double-click the hotkey for a one-handed weapon that you have TWO of in your inventory - it will go to both, if the weapons are exactly the same. That being said, that's not terribly worthwhile and the way it is now it's virtually impossible to have dual wielded setups be actually effective via hotkeys.

 

The easiest, simplest solution would simply be to give the player a choice of which hand to assign the weapon/spell to. If I hotkey a fire spell, I should get to choose if the hotkey is to my left or right hand. If I hotkey a sword, again, I should get to choose which hand it goes to. Hitting the same key twice should then simply equip & unequip it FROM that hand, rather than also put it in the other or some such nonsense. The same functionality hotkeys had in previous elder scrolls games, except with the ability to choose which hand.

 

This would allow for virtually every combination of dual wielded setups the player can think of. If they want to only use a sword and the occasional alteration shield spell - they can hit a key to bring up the shield spell in their left hand, use the spell, and then hit the hotkey again so the spell goes away and they can BLOCK using their sword. If someone likes using spells plus a shield, they can simply switch out the spell in their right hand WITHOUT having to double-tap the spell hotkey (to put it in both hands), and then retap the hotkey for their shield. You can simply whip out your two favorite weapons for some dual-wielded butt kicking with the hit of one button for each hand.

 

The ability to assign a spell/weapon to a hand is a mod we seriously, seriously need. Not a mod that assigns your entire being to a hotkey while giving you five extra favorites menus, not a mod that gives you 20 extra hotkeys that are just as broken as the ones in vanilla. One that simply lets you choose which hand you're assigning your stuff to.

 

If this mod exists, or one functionally very similar is already out there - please point me to it. I have searched to no avail many times. If it does not exist, please show your support by bumping the heck out of this thread.

[Apexd]

I'd love to see something that mends Skyrim's clumsy spell hotkeying. It's frustrating to play a pure mage when your spells always switch to the left hand.

 

I assume since there's no mod or script that does anything like this, that it's another one of those hard-coded fails cooked into Skyrim's horrible console-itis.

 

 

Any of you experienced modders/scripters have any insight on that?