Weapon Swap is the single biggest issue in the game now

audabon2013 · June 2014

Sanguisaevum wrote: »

I don't understand how they messed it up so badly.

The solution is simple... It is obvious that the engine has an override hierarchy... EG...

-Abilities always override basic and heavy attacks...

-Bashing overrides abilities...

-Swapping weapons overrides nothing and has to wait for current animation to finish...

Solution... ensure weapon swap cancels and overrides ANY AND ALL OTHER ACTIONS.

If i hit that weapon swap button i damn well expect the engine to override and cancel my current action and IMMEDIATELY swap weapons no matter what i am doing!

this^^^^ some of us have had the delay happen so much that we have already isolated the issue.

the above mechanic dictates (more or less) whether you swap or not.

if you press swap and ANY other animation timer is still running due to any other function, you don't swap.

this is further exacerbated by eso being activate-on-button-release. this aspect can at least be toned down by macroing button presses onto a gaming mouse 1-6 buttons.

ive been complaining about swaps to guildies since beta. nice to see a dedicated thread about it.

Svann · June 2014

jesterstear wrote: »

An issue I've seen when swapping sword and board to resto staff - if my resto staff is pointed anywhere near mobs, the heal skills are greyed out. It's like the soft targeting is assuming I am selecting the mobs, and greys those skills out as i'm not allowed to heal them. Got to aim up at the sky to break this and put a heal on myself.

That bug is even stranger considering there arent any targetted heals. AFAIK they are all area, ground target area, lowest hp ally, or siphon.

CaptainSilverbrow · June 2014

Frankly, it needs to interrupt casts and pop off regardless of what you were doing prior to swapping. Either develop with this in mind, or add a cooldown; as it is, it's just... ugh, it's impractical. It'd be glorious in PvP if it actually swapped when I pressed the button, didn't delay, or didn't mandate I tacitly motorboat the button until it popped off, thereafter hoping it doesn't just swap back and forth three more times on its lonesome, registering hitherto button presses from the moments prior.