Can someone tell me why whenever I set a letter to the key 2 keybind it changes to the key 1 keybind? For instance I set “R” to key 2 of Action Bar 6 and leave 6 as key 1. If I reload the UI it changes the “R” to key 1 and the 6 to key 2. This happens across classic and retail. I’ve reset the keybinds on all characters and tried to set it for individual characters and it still does it. I’ve gone so far as to uninstall both classic and retail WoW in hopes of resolving the issue still does the same. I’ve even uninstalled battlenet and cleared out some registry entries. Still the same. I’m kind of particular of seeing the action bar have the numbers rather than letters. If it could just keep the numbers as the key 1’s I’d be fine but it keeps switching on it’s own. Any insight?
I wonder if you’ve got an addon doing something strange, but I’m having trouble picturing exactly what you are talking about.
Is there any way you could upload a screenshot of the before and after a reload? If the forum won’t let you post links, you can enclose the link using the preformated text option (</> on the toolbar or by adding backticks before and after the link) to post the link like this:
https://imgur.com/
https://imgur.com/a/81yOsBN
Hopefully this link works. As you can see in the first screenshot the numbers are listed in the Key 1 section and the corresponding letters in the Key 2 section. Also, on screenshot 2 you can see it lists the numbers on the action bar. After a UI reload or a relog screenshot 3 happens. Most of the letters switch to the Key 1 spot and the numbers to the Key 2 spot and the action bar shows the letters.
Sorry changed my character to a main. Didn’t realize my original post was on an alt.
Unfortunately, I think that’s just a quirk of the UI. For some reason it seems to have a set order for Key1 and Key2 it likes when you have two keybinds set for the same action.
If you don’t need to see the keybinds, you can use an addon that can just hide them altogether so it doesn’t bother you. (Depending on what you use you might then want an addon like TullaRange so you still have a range indicator on your buttons if what you choose to hide the keybinds with doesn’t come with something similar.)
If you set the letter to key 1 and the number to key 2 does it still flip them on save?
I just tried it and it does not.
I also tried key1 as 1 and key2 as 2. They did not reverse. But, Key1 as 2 and Key2 as 1 does reverse.
Thanks for the info and also trying it yourself. I feel more at ease that it’s not just happening to me. It must have happened in a recent change, cause if I recall it wasn’t like this at the beginning of SL.
One thing you could try is a barmod like Bartender. Set up your alternate binds in the reg keybind section and do the ones you want to have appear on the buttons in Bartender.