Weapon swapping for newbies and people who think it doesn't work properly.
Okay so - from what I can tell there is a global cooldown cycle split into two parts of a wave in ESO's combat. You can use a basic attack instantly after a skill, and a skill instantly after a basic attack clearing room for your basic attack cooldown and your global skill cooldown.
Weapon swapping counts as either or - so in a cycle of skill-light attack - skill - light attack ad infinitum one can swap out either a skill or a light attack for a weapon swap. If you try and weapon swap DURING a skill, light attack, while blocking or roll dodging the game simply won't allow it.
On another note - if you weapon swapped and you know you weren't doing any of the listed cycle actions but it lags - don't hit the button again, just use the hotkeys correlating to the abilities you expected to have after the swap - HEY PRESTO THEY WORK. It's just a small animation bug - nothing to worry about - the game will catch up soon enough.
Weapon swapping counts as either or - so in a cycle of skill-light attack - skill - light attack ad infinitum one can swap out either a skill or a light attack for a weapon swap. If you try and weapon swap DURING a skill, light attack, while blocking or roll dodging the game simply won't allow it.
On another note - if you weapon swapped and you know you weren't doing any of the listed cycle actions but it lags - don't hit the button again, just use the hotkeys correlating to the abilities you expected to have after the swap - HEY PRESTO THEY WORK. It's just a small animation bug - nothing to worry about - the game will catch up soon enough.
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✭✭✭✭✭mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »On another note - if you weapon swapped and you know you weren't doing any of the listed cycle actions but it lags - don't hit the button again, just use the hotkeys correlating to the abilities you expected to have after the swap - HEY PRESTO THEY WORK. It's just a small animation bug - nothing to worry about - the game will catch up soon enough.
From my experience, if the swap lags, then if you hit swap, then immediately hit an ability, the ability from the original (first) bar will fire, and then the weapons will swap.
I.e. if you want to use an ability from the second bar, you need to wait until the weapons swap completes.3 -
I don't get that, I just get funky things like casting combat prayer with two daggers :Pmousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »On another note - if you weapon swapped and you know you weren't doing any of the listed cycle actions but it lags - don't hit the button again, just use the hotkeys correlating to the abilities you expected to have after the swap - HEY PRESTO THEY WORK. It's just a small animation bug - nothing to worry about - the game will catch up soon enough.
From my experience, if the swap lags, then if you hit swap, then immediately hit an ability, the ability from the original (first) bar will fire, and then the weapons will swap.
I.e. if you want to use an ability from the second bar, you need to wait until the weapons swap completes.
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GnatB✭✭✭✭Not sure that's true.
Haven't dealt much with weapon swapping, but I did some testing on my NB, and IIRC I could:
swap
blur
swap
As fast as I could press the buttons. Don't think the weapons associated with the skillbar with blur on it even had time to show up.
So maybe it's *attack* skills, or perhaps even *weapon* skills that block swapping?Achievements Suck0 -
Athas24✭✭✭✭hmm, I'm going to have to play with this more. Sometimes I definitely see latency in swaps while using abilities and sometimes it's fast. It is frustrating that sometimes even when the weapons themselves switch the icons tend to take a second to flip over causing me to delay a moment before attacking. I typically hit the swap and do a half second count in my head before pressing the next action. It's slower than I'd like but I generally at least get the response from my move virtually every time that way.0 -
I have to deal with weapon swapping a lot as I use weapon abilities as my main source of damage, the two handed executor is better than the dw one, I have to use 2h to re-engage after roll dodging out of larger PBAOES but DW does more single target damage above 30% hp0
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dcincali✭✭✭✭mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »On another note - if you weapon swapped and you know you weren't doing any of the listed cycle actions but it lags - don't hit the button again, just use the hotkeys correlating to the abilities you expected to have after the swap - HEY PRESTO THEY WORK. It's just a small animation bug - nothing to worry about - the game will catch up soon enough.
This is not the case in DSA. Weapon swap is horribly laggy and using hotkeys correlating to the other abilities results in use of the ability you wanted to swap off.
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Shaun98ca2✭✭✭✭✭mousekime111rwb17_ESO wrote: »I have to deal with weapon swapping a lot as I use weapon abilities as my main source of damage, the two handed executor is better than the dw one, I have to use 2h to re-engage after roll dodging out of larger PBAOES but DW does more single target damage above 30% hp
WOW this is like a killer Stamina combo LOL0 -
jelliedsoup✭✭✭✭✭Weapon swap lags, swapping during an attack is something different.www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Ks8_KGHqmO41