Invisible Weapon

c363b

When one of my characters equips a ranged weapon it either is invisible or it looks like the melee weapon from the other bar. The bow or staff fires as expected, but the character has empty hands or appears to be firing a battle axe as a staff. Other characters are not effected by this bug.

c363b

Here is an example of a character aiming her invisible bow.

JanTanhide

Yep. It's a bug usually caused by an Addon. Try turning off your Addons if you have any, reload UI and see.

I have not had that bug in a few years but I see others do.

c363b

JanTanhide wrote: »

Yep. It's a bug usually caused by an Addon. Try turning off your Addons if you have any, reload UI and see.

I have not had that bug in a few years but I see others do.

Why would the bug affect only some of my 10 characters? All use the same addons.

Raisin

c363b wrote: »

JanTanhide wrote: »

Yep. It's a bug usually caused by an Addon. Try turning off your Addons if you have any, reload UI and see.

I have not had that bug in a few years but I see others do.

Why would the bug affect only some of my 10 characters? All use the same addons.

It shouldn't be tied to the characters, it's based on fast-travelling, I believe while on your backbar? A lot of people feel like it's tied to ba character because there's certain characters where they default in backbar, and certain characters where they default to front when idling.
Anyway, your weapon isn't actually gone. If you check your screenshot, you can find it under your character's feet. There's an add-on called 'Clutch' that fixes it permanently. You can also go to collections and use the show/hide helm feature and it'll fix it.

Tycleton

And here I was hoping the new open hand monk maneuvers were available! Oh well.

c363b

Raisin wrote: »

c363b wrote: »

JanTanhide wrote: »

Yep. It's a bug usually caused by an Addon. Try turning off your Addons if you have any, reload UI and see.

I have not had that bug in a few years but I see others do.

Why would the bug affect only some of my 10 characters? All use the same addons.

It shouldn't be tied to the characters, it's based on fast-travelling, I believe while on your backbar? A lot of people feel like it's tied to ba character because there's certain characters where they default in backbar, and certain characters where they default to front when idling.
Anyway, your weapon isn't actually gone. If you check your screenshot, you can find it under your character's feet. There's an add-on called 'Clutch' that fixes it permanently. You can also go to collections and use the show/hide helm feature and it'll fix it.

Thanks for suggesting Clutch. In brief testing it appears to have fixed the problem. That character uses a battle axe on the front bar and bow or staff on the back bar. Before I installed Clutch I looked at the ground after switching from axe to bow, equipping the character with a functional but invisible bow. The weapon on the ground was the battle axe. At times, when the character equipped a staff, it showed her holding the battle axe, which would shoot like a staff. It looks strange to see a battle axe shooting fireballs.

katanagirl1

This has happened to me off and on for the last several months, and we don’t have add-ones.

It seems that if you have your back bar equipped for long periods of time that the problem occurs. The wrong weapon will be at your feet when the correct weapon is invisible.

Very confusing when lag or whatever causes a failed bar swap and you keep casting the wrong abilities.

Raisin

c363b wrote: »

Raisin wrote: »

c363b wrote: »

JanTanhide wrote: »

Yep. It's a bug usually caused by an Addon. Try turning off your Addons if you have any, reload UI and see.

I have not had that bug in a few years but I see others do.

Why would the bug affect only some of my 10 characters? All use the same addons.

It shouldn't be tied to the characters, it's based on fast-travelling, I believe while on your backbar? A lot of people feel like it's tied to ba character because there's certain characters where they default in backbar, and certain characters where they default to front when idling.
Anyway, your weapon isn't actually gone. If you check your screenshot, you can find it under your character's feet. There's an add-on called 'Clutch' that fixes it permanently. You can also go to collections and use the show/hide helm feature and it'll fix it.

Thanks for suggesting Clutch. In brief testing it appears to have fixed the problem. That character uses a battle axe on the front bar and bow or staff on the back bar. Before I installed Clutch I looked at the ground after switching from axe to bow, equipping the character with a functional but invisible bow. The weapon on the ground was the battle axe. At times, when the character equipped a staff, it showed her holding the battle axe, which would shoot like a staff. It looks strange to see a battle axe shooting fireballs.

Yeah, it can end up both with you having nothing in your hands and you wielding the wrong weapon. I'm personally a fan of the axe shooting fireballs, but glad the addon is working for you at least! Still a shame ZOS can't give an official fix.

c363b

It's interesting that my thread got no replies until I posted that image. Could it be the costume?

taylorwilenskiub17_ESO

I submitted a bug report about this the other day. It just started randomly happening about 3-4 days ago. None of my AddOns have changed so I do not think that is what's causing it.

It's also only my Main Hand weapon that goes invisible. A simple /reloadui fixes the issue, but then it eventually comes back and I don't want to have to /reloadui every 10 minutes lol.

Raisin

taylorwilenskiub17_ESO wrote: »

I submitted a bug report about this the other day. It just started randomly happening about 3-4 days ago. None of my AddOns have changed so I do not think that is what's causing it.

It's also only my Main Hand weapon that goes invisible. A simple /reloadui fixes the issue, but then it eventually comes back and I don't want to have to /reloadui every 10 minutes lol.

As stated above, using the collections menu to hide/show your helmet fixes it, quicker than reloadui. Or the add-on.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

BTW this is a really old bug that keeps cropping up. It's especially common with a bow equipped, but can happen with other weapon types too. ZoS said that they fixed it at one stage, but their fixes are often temporary patches that get undone by a later "fix".

JanTanhide

Pyr0xyrecuprotite wrote: »

BTW this is a really old bug that keeps cropping up. It's especially common with a bow equipped, but can happen with other weapon types too. ZoS said that they fixed it at one stage, but their fixes are often temporary patches that get undone by a later "fix".

Yep. It has been around for years. I have not had it in quite some time but others have. Come on Zeni....

rpa

I've had the bug happen on both front and back weapons, with bow or 1h+shield and 2h at least. Feels that outfits in particular hide helm or wearing a collectible hat may or may not have something to do with it. I tried to find how to reproduce / fix it by toggling costume/hat/no helmet and exchanging front and back bar weapons but all I managed was to bug both front and back weapon at same time before I got bored and gave up.

I tried addon (not recently) and it did not fix the bug reliably for me.