If you find yourself playing Elden Ring and not using your hotbar (also called the pouch), you’d be forgiven. The game mentions it briefly very early on, but even the tooltip about it is vague. It took me repeatedly hunting around the menus to figure out how to assign stuff to it.
WHAT IS ELDEN RING’S HOTBAR (AKA THE QUICK POUCH)?
To be clear, it’s not the four icons that live on the lower left corner of the screen, showing your equipped items, spells, and gear. It’s behind that. If you hold Triangle/Y during normal gameplay, you’ll see those four icons change to four new icons. That’s the hotbar we’re talking about. (In-game it’s technically called the pouch, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing that.)
By default, one of those icons is a mostly-useless item that teleports you back to the last site of grace while removing all your carried runes. We can do a lot better than that. Specifically, we’re going to assign your two flasks, your physick, and your horse to the hotbar and make your life much, much better.
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