The Quick Menus are clumsy as heck, and I want to bind my bow to a number key, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. Any ideas?

Press F on an item/spell in your inventory to add it to your favourites, press Q to bring up your list of favourite items and just press 1-9 while hovering over the item/spell name you want to bind.

Ah thank you!

This is really useful when it works.

Unfortunately my game loses the key binding to any single handed sword. So if I bind 2 for example to my silver sword(s), it will lose the binding and 2 won't work (and if I check my bindings, the number 2 key will be unassigned). I have tried various combinations and it only affects single handed swords and it doesn't matter which key I bind it too.

Hello,

I play as a dual-weapon wielder.

Right now, I have two similar weapons (improved steel swords).

Whilst I can manage to put one of them in each hand AND add them as favorite AND allocate quick-key numbers to them (1 and 2 respectively), this does not last when I switch between them and my bow (which is also a favorite with quick-key # 3).

After using my bow, when I try to revert to the swords (by using #1 and/or #2), nothing happens and I find that the swords are not among my favorites any longer!

The problem disappears if I use two DIFFERENT weapons in each hand, but the game can't handle it when I use two exactly similar weapons.

Is there a way around this bug? ( I'm on a PC with mouse and keyboard).

You may have read this already somewhere else, but that's a common bug if you try to equip an item that you have more than one of - so having two swords the same might look good, but it screws up the keybind. I get it with bows, two handed weapons etc - it will equip once then it loses the bind until I drop/trade the second item with the same name.

Also when equipping two weapons you need to tell the game which hand you want to hold it in by pressing the appropriate mouse button at Inventory.

I have to say, for the level of detail in the game, the lack of a decent manual of any sort is pretty shocking.

Hey, no way round it as far as I have been able to tell so far - needs a fix though, can see how that's annoying. The hot-keying in this game is one of my (very few) moans. It's not even if you try to equip both at once though; even if you have two the same in your inventory and try to hotkey one of them with something else, the keybind fails there too. Could be as simple as the game doesn't recognise Steel Sword of Awesome when it's Steel Sword of Awesome (2), as two in your inventory would show up.

Do you have enchants on the swords? If so, make their names different.

I posted this elsewhere in response to another question but am guessing it may get missed so I have re-posted here, with some additional testing using the latest beta.

As an example, if I bind my bow to 1, my one handed weapons to 2 and my two handed weapon to 3 then switch between them, eventually after 1 or 2 switches one of the bound weapons will become unbound, which is a pain mid-fight, esepcially when I switch back from a bow to melee weapon. If I then rebind it that or another will unbind again after a few more switches.

I have tried removing all of my mods (only running with 6), upgrading to the new beta version and then creating a new character and the issue is still there.

Anyone else seen this?

Well, it seems indeed that the key-bind doesn't work properly. Someone is having a similar (although not exact) problem here: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1340211-some-of-my-1-8-key-binds-keep-disappearing/

I have not enchanted the swords as yet, but it is true that, if they have different names, the problem disappears.

I don't know why the key-bind doesn't woek properly in Skyrim. It used to work fine in Oblivion...

Yup, that was me

I am glad I am not the only one that has experienced this issue. Fingers crossed for a fix in the upcoming patch because this is pretty fundemental stuff.

Might have something to do with dual wielding that causes the problem or maybe it just gets confused when you have multiples of the same item.

Are they weapons with the same exact name (i.e. do you have an 'Iron Sword' in the right hand and an 'Iron Sword' in the left)? This issue affects everyone as far as I can tell. For some reason, when you equip two items of the same name, the game removes them both from the hotkey list. It's very annoying!

One way to get around this is to improve one weapon, but not the other, so you would have something like this: an 'Iron Sword (Fine)' in the right hand and an 'Iron Sword' in the left. This seems to work just fine for the time being.

Yes. I've had this problem since I got the game. Some of them will stay forever. Others, particularly for weapons sometimes disappear.

Thanks for the responses.

Yes, until recently it only affected weapons of the same name. I upgraded to the new beta earlier today (what would we do without Steam) and tried your suggestion (by chance) and that was also broken. I have just gone back to the currently released version and will give it a try after I've upgraded one of my swords.

I have access to Steel, Silver and Falmer one handed swords and a one handed Axe.

I have just tried every combination possible, e.g. one steel + one silver, one silver + one falmer, one falmer + one axe, etc and the only combination that worked without losing the bindings are 2 Steel swords! All of the other combinations failed and I generally ended up with bare fists.

Maybe this is a secret quest in the game??

Out of interest is posting here the only way to report bugs to Bethesda?

It is frustrating that most game companies don't have an official route into reporting and tracking issues. Overall this is a great little game let down by some small but fairly fundemental issues, and it would be nice to know if the issue you care most about is on their fix-it list.

I would like to be able to bind a torch to my 8 key... but hey look I have 2 torches so nope you can not do it.

A fix would be great for that Beth. D:

I've bound torches to the 7 key as 8 is for my helmet quick-on/off. Dual torches... FIRE EATER'S GUILD!