Oakensoul and backbar skills

DigiAngel · April 12

Per the description: While equipped, you are unable to swap between your Primary and Backup Weapon Sets

So....any skills that are active on either front or back should apply right? Doesn't say the skills are disabled...says I can't swap. I do not think this is actually happening though. Thoughts?

virtus753 · April 12

Everything on your back bar is disabled intentionally when you use Oakensoul.

Sync01 · April 12

How are you supposed to activate a skill on a bar you can't swap to?

virtus753 · April 12

Sync01 wrote: »

How are you supposed to activate a skill on a bar you can't swap to?

There are skills that supply buffs passively for being slotted on either bar.

They should not and do not work when slotted on the back bar with Oakensoul:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/640050/pts-patch-notes-v9-1-3#latest

DigiAngel · April 12

Aye it's the passive buffs I was meaning...I'll have to test later today...I recall them not working.

Grizzbeorn · April 12

I assumed it completely locked-out the back bar, as though it never existed.

But, I only have one Oakensoul character, and I intentionally did not use the back bar while leveling so that I wouldn't be accustomed to using it once I hit level 50 and could equip the ring, so I don't have first-hand knowledge of what happens to the back bar (especially if you have a second weapon equipped and skills assigned to the back bar) at the moment you equip the ring.

virtus753 · April 12

Grizzbeorn wrote: »

I assumed it completely locked-out the back bar, as though it never existed.

Yes, that's essentially what it does. The PTS notes from 9.1.3 show that that's how it's meant to work.

EF321 · April 12

They are not supposed to work from backbar, but they can. I reported this a couple of weeks ago.

DigiAngel · April 12

Then the tooltip should change. Current one says you can't swap, doesn't say the bar is disabled.

Necrotech_Master · April 12

originally passive buffs were not disabled on the locked oaken bar, so there were NBs running around with the 5x stack of merciless in addition to the oaken buffs without it eating one of the active bars skill slots

this was then changed to disable the other bar entirely, so even "slotted on either bar" skills will not work on the disabled oaken bar