Switching from bow to staff doesnt show staff

neueregel · August 2014

My first weapon is bow, second resto staff. When I toggle between the two, I get the second spell bar, but the game shows I am still holding my bow. the way I am holding the bow changes to the way I would be holding the staff... but I am not wielding the staff, but the bow still. The only way I have figured out how to repair this, is to remove both weapons. Put the resto staff in the first slot and allow it to animate. Then once I am showing the staff in my hand, I add the bow to the second slot. I then switch from 1 to 2 back and forth to make sure the game switches weapons. Once that is right, I change bow back to slot 1, and staff to 2... this has happened about 5 times now since 1.3.3. I have also tried logging of and back on, that does not fix this issues for me.

Seravi · August 2014

I've had extensive emails with CS about this. Mine is actually using skills I don't have in my 1-5 slots now.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/124617/bug-weapon-swap-bug-ticket-140805-003474-ui-skills-bug-ticket-140807-001960#latest

Phinix1 · August 2014

They really need to make this priority number one.

It destroys immersion.
It breaks skills.
Combine with the bow bugging enemy health it makes my character unusable.

Where is the ZOS response to any of the many threads on these two issues?

Please guys, this is really bad!

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · August 2014

I'm having the same issue, and I've already bug-reported in-game.

Every time I log in or zone into a new area, my game loads my secondary load-out while SHOWING my primary weapon.

Skills don't work and I can't sheathe my weapons until I weapon-swap a few times to fix it.

It's cost me a soul gem or two. LOL!

staggy_1988 · August 2014

I have the same issue but its when i change to any weapon that's in the secondary weapon slot, If i switch from mace to bow then it will show my bow without any arrows and will do no damage to enemies, when it fires it's invisible arrows.

Or the bow will work perfect as my primary and then when i switch to my secondary mace it shows as a bow and does no damage.

This is a top priority bug to be fixed as it makes using a bow at long range and then quick switching to a melee weapon when the enemy gets closer impossible

Korinth · August 2014

Same here...my nightblade's primary is a long sword and dagger (dual weild), when I switch to my bow while crouched then try to switch back to by sword/dagger the bar flips but my bow stays out and I cant use any weapon.

I can only seem to fix it if I come out of stealth, fire a bow ability then swap. Which SUCKS with PvP in Cyrodill when trying to remain in stealth.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · August 2014

I had a similar issue in a group dungeon, toggling between my primary destruction staff and secondary 2H sword. Screen graphic was stuck on 2H sword for about 4 minutes. My main challenge was that I kept trying to toggle back to the correct weapon for AoE damage, and I was completely confused as to which weapon I was using - hotbar wasn't showing much of the time - I was using incorrect abilities for the situations because of confusion. Issue cleared after I was killed and respawned. Suspect it may be related to load?

Bonzaiboom · August 2014

I can report that guild members that use bow have the same issue as described here: Switching from bow to another weapon in inventory keeps the bow visual movements but uses the newly equipped weapon (with hilarious effects as for example flying axes) and even the option to use bow skills.

Also, several bow skills seem to not function as intended.

Last but not least: weapon swapping from bow to another set also keeps the bow visuals (but not the bow itself).