On this character I'm taking smithing but no enchanting, so I don't have a way to rename items. I've got 2 elven daggers and an elven sword.

I can wield both daggers, and assign a number to the one in my right hand. This should give me a hotkey for pulling out both daggers. Seems to work from time to time. However, if both daggers ever go back in my inventory, they both go in a stack. When this happens, my favorites hotkey gets erased. Basically, if I'm dual wielding two identical daggers I can't hotkey them.

Is there a way around this? Or do I have to break role and wield a sword in my left until I've got artifact daggers?

Have you tried just hotkeying the stack of 2 daggers and then hitting the hotkey twice?

This works but if you then swap out your equipment the hot key will re set. Or at least it does for me. I have two identical ebony swords which I smithed and they show up as 2. Ebony Sword (2). I can then tap the hotkey twice to equip them both. However, if I then go into my favourites and equip a spell or my bow, and then tap the hotkey, nothing happens.

Same thing hapens with dual wield on Xbox. You can make a third dagger that is different to get around this.

The favourites system is completely fubar.

What does work:
- equip your swords manually, don't bother assigning a hotkey.
- favourite & hotkey your bow as e.g. '3'.

Press 3 when your swords are equipped, and it will switch to your bow.
Press 3 when your bow is equipped, and it will switch back to your swords.

This will break if you somehow get 2 bows of the same type, and if you get disarmed/brawl then you'll need to manually re-equip your swords.

Hrm. I'm not sure what to make of this problem, then. I just loaded up the game and set a stack of 2 generic iron daggers to one hotkey flames to another, and a bow to a third, and had no issue shuffling through them in any combination. It could be a bug that only affects certain versions of the game, maybe?

As for how to remedy it, the only thing I can think of is to use an item of one grade lower in your offhand and having a separate hotkey for each. Really bad excuse for a fix, but it's the best I can think of. :/

Just thought of something: Are you poisoning your weapons ever? I know that when a weapon becomes poisoned it takes up a different position in the item list than unpoisoned weapons of the same type, so that could be what's breaking it. Of course, if that is what's breaking it, then "don't use poisons anymore" isn't exactly a good fix, either...

Same thing happening here, more or less.

Trying to dual wield two iron swords, but if I set the sword hotkey to 6, then press 6 once, he takes out one sword, then press 6 again, he puts the sword away. Press 6 AGAIN and the sword's not hotkeyed anymore.

If I drop the other Iron Sword, 6 toggles the iron sword and does not erase my hotkey.

And just before this issue, I had the same exact thing with Iron shields. Not that I was trying to dual wield em, but I was carrying 3 Iron shields (to sell 2) and I hotkey'd Iron shield to 5. Pressing 5 once equipped shield, 5 again unequipped and removed the hotkey. Works ok with the one Hide shield I'm carrying now though.. dunno if the hide shield would start bugging like that aswell if I picked up another one...


And you know, this is weird because I've played for 130+ hours with my Nord character and haven't had a single issue with hotkeys but now that I made a Khajiit character, this is happening from the very beginning.

I wonder if it's the "Iron" items, the Khajiit character or just a random occurance that has nothing to do with either one of those factors :/



Nope, my game worked great until starting a new character...

Or.. hmm.. I guess I should try if the same thing's happening with my Nord character, but that bug never occured before...


At least I didn't poison the items I had this happen with....

Zakaluka, what race are you playing? Just wondering if it'd have something to do with Khajiit race.

I used alot of the Khajiits claws (unarmed, as in fists/claws only) right before this started happening, dunno if it has any relevance though.



Edit: ok, so I tried dual wielding a few simple basic iron swords with my level 45 Nord Character and it worked perfect UNTIL I upgraded the swords with smithing.

Upgraded both from the basic state to Flawless and now if I press the hotkey, my character equips one sword and pressing again unequips and un-hotkeys the sword(s).

I have no idea though how this happened to me while carrying 3 iron shields that all had identical basic un-upgraded stats.

*sigh*

I guess my Khajiit won't be dual wielding after all, though I was eager to try it

i can... xbox, hit r and l to chose hand for the weapon,