Weapons not quite working correctly?

Sakiri

oldbobdude wrote: »

Haven’t played a heavy attack build. Sounds like folks are saying they just hold down the trigger and the weapon just keeps doing heavy attacks? If so is that hard on your fingers?

press and hold is easier for some than constantly pressing. RSI sucks.

SkaiFaith

oldbobdude wrote: »

Haven’t played a heavy attack build. Sounds like folks are saying they just hold down the trigger and the weapon just keeps doing heavy attacks? If so is that hard on your fingers?

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

oldbobdude wrote: »

Haven’t played a heavy attack build. Sounds like folks are saying they just hold down the trigger and the weapon just keeps doing heavy attacks? If so is that hard on your fingers?

It can be hard on the fingers. I don't do it very often. I was testing the stacking with Sargents Mail and was focused on the heavy attack for that.

In my case, the only times I find it can become painful is like if I'm running vet City of Ash 2 solo, or a high run of Infinite Archive solo, then after hours of intense fights it gets hard.

Personally I find it way more bearable on my nerves than light attacking (re-pressing).
That's why I used to always do it and now it's disappointing... I may even end up playing less (fighting less) since it gets more painful now.

SkaiFaith

Also, "Heavy Attack weaving" performs worse.

It used to be that you could keep pressed the HA button all the time and press skill buttons just before the HAs ended and it would "weave".

This is not working as well as before, often requiring you to release the HA button to fire a skill, otherwise the input for the skill would not be taken.

Has anyone noticed this too?

fizl101

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Also, "Heavy Attack weaving" performs worse.

It used to be that you could keep pressed the HA button all the time and press skill buttons just before the HAs ended and it would "weave".

This is not working as well as before, often requiring you to release the HA button to fire a skill, otherwise the input for the skill would not be taken.

Has anyone noticed this too?

caltrops is an awful one for this

Anifaas

That happens to me often. Roll-dodging seems to fix the problem.

katanagirl1

oldbobdude wrote: »

Haven’t played a heavy attack build. Sounds like folks are saying they just hold down the trigger and the weapon just keeps doing heavy attacks? If so is that hard on your fingers?

It is as hard on my hands as light weaving.

I had to switch to arcanist to be able to do content now.

FlopsyPrince

I am also seeing some keypresses (such as for a 3rd action on a bar) fail to properly engage the final action. That is annoying as well.

This is all probably a common annoying bug.

SeaGtGruff

As far as the overall difficulty targeting, I've noticed that the camera's elevation in the third-person view can impact how easy or difficult it is to target something. When I start noticing my melee skills being grayed-out despite being well within range of an enemy, I lower the camera so I'm not looking down at the action from overhead. It seems to help.

FlopsyPrince

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

As far as the overall difficulty targeting, I've noticed that the camera's elevation in the third-person view can impact how easy or difficult it is to target something. When I start noticing my melee skills being grayed-out despite being well within range of an enemy, I lower the camera so I'm not looking down at the action from overhead. It seems to help.

I am playing the same basic way I have been for years. It was not a problem until relatively recently.

Lalothen

SkaiFaith wrote: »

Also, "Heavy Attack weaving" performs worse.

It used to be that you could keep pressed the HA button all the time and press skill buttons just before the HAs ended and it would "weave".

This is not working as well as before, often requiring you to release the HA button to fire a skill, otherwise the input for the skill would not be taken.

Has anyone noticed this too?

It appears to be any ranged ground-targeted ability with a fairly pronounced animation. This includes (but is not limited to):

Scalding Rune + morphs
Elemental Ring
Lightweight Beast Trap
Elemental Rage ult
Shooting Star ult + morphs

(Sorc) Lightning Flood + morphs
(Warden) Winter's Revenge + morphs
(Necro) Avid Boneyard + morphs
(DK) Eruption + morphs
(Templar) Blazing Spear + morphs

I don't know what change they made behind the scenes, but having to regularly break HA chains just to get these abilities to fire can hamper output quite significantly - especially in poor instancing scenarios where fights can start to get laggy (e.g. vMoL twins). For an accessibility playstyle created by players to work decently with any class it sure does have some stark, long term glitching issues hampering it - and that's before accounting for ZOS gutting its AoE capabilities to force players to buy Necrom for the Arcanist class.