Weapon Switching Bug.

christbh

Okay. Once you hit Level 15 you gain the ability to have 2 weapon sets at once, and switch between them at will. When I try this it switches to set 2's weapon and abilities but when I try to switch back it keeps set 2's weapon but changes to set 1's skills, and I can do this over and over again and never get back to set 1 until after a loading screen. It's been happening for 2 days now and it's really annoying as I can't help my team out as much in dungeons, quests, etc.

Ezrith

I understand your pain me I can't even swap weapons anymore, it bugged just like that.

jrhiattjrb14_ESO

I CAN switch from dual wield to dual wield. I CAN NOT switch from anything TO dual wield. Any other weapons I have no issues with.

taurrannub18_ESO

I'm experiencing the same bug, and it just started tonight. I'm veteran rank 2, and have never experienced this until today. As of now my character is unplayable and I'm attempting to uninstall and reinstall the game fresh.

I've tried
1) Reloadui
2) Relogging
3) Restarting
4) Zoning/Recalling
5) Removing all skills and weapons from my slots and readding all skills and weapons. This fixed the issue temporarily but it struck again in the next dungeon I entered.

As stated previously, it seems to only be happening when you have two weapons or a sword and shield equipped.

Pixie123

Ye, i had this i thought... Till i realised what was happening was that my second equipped weapon just kept magically unequipping itself for no reason lol

Kosar

i'm bumping all the related stuff so someone at zenimax sees this... this bug started happening to me in the last hour or two... it literally making the game unplayable because the only thing i have points in is sword/shield and resto staff... i'm not rebuilding my toon just because someone broke the weapon swap coding somewhere. please figure this out or please someone post their solution.
(most responses from CSRs this week over broken quests and bugs have come back with the scripting for how to use /stuck which literally makes ZERO sense and i think i'm done dealing with them over bugs like this weapon problem.)

Kinda like info below says:
put a 2 hand in 1st slot and the dual set in the 2nd slot.
this absolutely solved the problem for me and some others.
it's still a bug that should NOT be happening at all and should require immediate attention, but at least i can actually group again and do something.

Usara

Same issue here, though I found a temporary fix.
My main bar and weapons are set in Dual Wield, second in Resto Staff. When the bug hits, I swap my main bar to Resto Staff (skills and weapon), second to my swords and Dual Wield skills.
So far it works.
Annoying when it happens in dungeons because you need to stop for a moment to make the swap, but at least it's playable...

Aricle

jrhiattjrb14_ESO wrote: »

I CAN switch from dual wield to dual wield. I CAN NOT switch from anything TO dual wield.

Well, I'm a little bit glad that I'm not missing some obvious thing here, as I cannot go from sword and shield to dual wield ever- it just goes right back to shield, the moment I equip a second weapon in the offhand. Frustrating!

b101uk

odd, I don't have this problem, I can switch from anything to anything.

but I do get a different "Dual Wield" problem, of the arms in 1st person view periodically being locked and not moving unless I quickly go into the inventory, or press Alt twice etc, I.e. so it momentarily switches to 3rd person and opens a UI element.

Howl

I had the same bug which only just started a few hours after switching from a staff/staff setup to a 1h+shield/staff build. My character had become practically unplayable and no amount of relogging or readding abilities or items seemed to fix it.
As others have posted, putting the sword and board in weapon set TWO is a temporary workaround for this bug.

Rabenschwarz

Same problem here. This helped so far:

Howl wrote: »

As others have posted, putting the sword and board in weapon set TWO is a temporary workaround for this bug.

Thank you!

Xnemesis

put weapon set 1 in weapon set 2 spot and weapon set 2 in weapon set 1 spot... had the same issue swapping places seemed to fix it or it was a coincidence but its worth a shot

reb101

*deleted* Just realized I put this in wrong post.

Panth141

reb101 wrote: »

I am getting this error on PS4. I tried to above fix, but did not work for me.

... Welll at least the 2014 date on these posts tells you it's happened before...

molyforest

Please fix this bug... it presents persistent and unavoidable disruption to immersion. It is incredibly irritating!! Pretty much my entire game time is spent going into delves. I have to unequip and reequip my weapon constantly. It displays the wrong weapon wielded strangely by the player character, or it displays the (wrong) weapon floating on the ground beneath the player character's feet while the character's hands are empty. Having the correct weapon displayed is important because it shows you which bar you are using.

It also avoids the immersion breaking experience, "WHY am I DOING that? Oh right, because I'm controlling a character in a VIDEO GAME" Which leads to "THIS again? WHY haven't they fixed it yet"

At first the bug is weird or funny or amusing... but with many hundreds of repetitions in the experience, it is no longer fun. It is annoying, it saps the fun.

This doesn't seem like a low priority bug. It's consistent and encountered every time I play, multiple times in a game session. I know this is not just my game, it's other players too. Wouldn't that be considered to be a higher priority bug, when it is constantly disruptive to gameplay?

This bug has been reported on so many times... still happening!!!!!! New crown items all the time, this consistently persistently disruptive bug goes unfixed for years! Please allocate some resources to this, surely it is not too much to ask!

ZOS_Bill

Since this thread is nearly 5 years old the discussion is being closed. If you've encountered a bug while playing you can report it in the Bug Report forum.