Hotkey Healing my Mercenary

**Crimmy** · 27-06-2005, 11:23

Hi,

I'm having trouble healing my mercenary with hotkeys. From what I've read you are supposed to hold down [SHIFT] and then press [BELT HOTKEY] and whatever is in that belt slot automatically goes to my mercenary.

ie. Shift + 1 = give heal pot to my mercenary.

At the moment, when I try this shortcut-key it simply gives me a heal pot - not my mercenary!

Anyone have any ideas?

-Crimmy

**Orphan** · 27-06-2005, 12:08

I actually had the same problem, which is why I never used that feature. Holding Shift + right-clicking on a potion does seem to heal the Merc though.

Yes, it was added in patch 1.09, though it doesn't seem like it's working 100%

Originally Posted by D2 Patch File

- Using a potion from the belt (either by hotkey or right-clicking)
while holding down the shift key will give the potion to the player's
hireling if he/she has one.

**Evil Monkey** · 27-06-2005, 12:38

Well it always work for me.

Maybe because I use Left Shift

**domus** · 27-06-2005, 18:53

It stinks when you are shifting to prevent movement, press 1 to drink your potion & give it to your merc. :mad:

Always works for me

**Tanooki** · 29-06-2005, 02:13

Originally Posted by Crimmy

Hi,

I'm having trouble healing my mercenary with hotkeys. From what I've read you are supposed to hold down [SHIFT] and then press [BELT HOTKEY] and whatever is in that belt slot automatically goes to my mercenary.

ie. Shift + 1 = give heal pot to my mercenary.

At the moment, when I try this shortcut-key it simply gives me a heal pot - not my mercenary!

Anyone have any ideas?

-Crimmy

Are you using the expansion? Unless you're playing LoD, it won't work.

**snowieken** · 29-06-2005, 07:07

Originally Posted by domus

It stinks when you are shifting to prevent movement, press 1 to drink your potion & give it to your merc. :mad:

Just a friendly tip:

When I started to play a Bowazon back in the days, I always had difficulties with the SHIFT key for that function: hard to reach, hard to remember to press,... Most of the time, she just ran into the pack of monsters she was trying to shoot, getting pummeled. Then I decided to remap that key to my spacebar, and that was actually a lot better. It takes an hour or so to get used to it, but once you are, it works like a charm. Much better than that shift key!

**Leohappy** · 29-06-2005, 11:59

Originally Posted by Crimmy

I'm having trouble healing my mercenary with hotkeys. From what I've read you are supposed to hold down [SHIFT] and then press [BELT HOTKEY] and whatever is in that belt slot automatically goes to my mercenary.

Also note that if you hotkey some function to your shift key, the "give potion to merc" function won't work!

Otherwise the function is fully reliable and my merc always gets the potion at the right time

.

**jiansonz** · 29-06-2005, 12:36

Originally Posted by snowieken

Then I decided to remap that key to my spacebar, and that was actually a lot better. It takes an hour or so to get used to it, but once you are, it works like a charm. Much better than that shift key!

What key do you use for 'close window', then? Because that´s what I use the space key for (I think it´s the default setting). For convenient and quick closing of inventory/merc/stat/gambling/quest etc. windows. I´ve used that since Classic, and it would take me a very long time to change that.

My left hand is always by the left end of the keyboard, so Shift is easy to find for me.