Weapon-swap bug

Kilandros · May 2014

My VR4 Sorcerer currently suffers from an annoying weapon-swapping bug. Switching from weapon #1 to weapon #2 will be fine, but then weapon #2 will remain locked in place and only the ability bar will swap. In other words, if I switch from DW #1 to Destruction Staff #2, the Destruction Staff will lock in my character's hands and further weapon swapping will only switch between the ability bars and not the actual weapon.

Logging out in Ability #1 (even if holding Weapon #2 because of bug) will return Weapon #1 upon relog. But attempting a weapon swap will again result in the bug. The bug ONLY seems to affect swapping from Weapon #1 to Weapon #2.

It is very annoying.

beeriod · May 2014

If you open up your skill bar (k) and try the weapon switch there does it do the same? i had this bug in pre access week and by doing the switch that way it removed the bug for me

Kilandros · May 2014

beeriod wrote: »

If you open up your skill bar (k) and try the weapon switch there does it do the same? i had this bug in pre access week and by doing the switch that way it removed the bug for me

Yes, if I mouse over and press the swap icon the bug will prevent my character from actually swapping weapons.

Neferath · May 2014

Same Problem here. (Ticket ID: 140501-015636)

This bug hit me after patch 1.0.5.

While iam able to switch from my two swords to the second bar holding a staff, iam not able to switch back to the first weapon bar. Only the skill bar will swap but not the weapons. The only workaround that i know of, is to open the inventory, unequip on of the swords, than swap and equip it again. I testet this with daggers, axes, swords and clubs having equiped two weapons of the same type and mixed them with the same result everytime. Iam not able to switch back to the first weapon set without unequiping one of the weapons first.

Hopefully you understand that this really is gamebreaking and have a look into it. In case there isnt a simple way to fix this on your side, i would be happy about any kind of feedback regarding how to avoid this bug.

Greetings,
Neferath

Reenlister · May 2014

hey I thought this was the lag issue last night. I kept getting it right in the middle of combat. Switch to two, and cant switch back.
Well, now I know its not just me.

Kilandros · May 2014

Neferath wrote: »

Same Problem here. (Ticket ID: 140501-015636)

This bug hit me after patch 1.0.5.

While iam able to switch from my two swords to the second bar holding a staff, iam not able to switch back to the first weapon bar. Only the skill bar will swap but not the weapons. The only workaround that i know of, is to open the inventory, unequip on of the swords, than swap and equip it again. I testet this with daggers, axes, swords and clubs having equiped two weapons of the same type and mixed them with the same result everytime. Iam not able to switch back to the first weapon set without unequiping one of the weapons first.

Hopefully you understand that this really is gamebreaking and have a look into it. In case there isnt a simple way to fix this on your side, i would be happy about any kind of feedback regarding how to avoid this bug.

Greetings,
Neferath

This is precisely what I'm experiencing. I need to either manually remove all weapons or log out in order to return Weapon #1. But even that is a temporary correction as swapping again will then lock me into whatever my secondary weapon is.

In short: Weapon swapping is unusable on my character.

KenjiJU · May 2014

Same here. It's annoying as hell. Swapping to #2 means I'm worthless with my other set for the rest of a fight.

Even just getting my first set of weapons back to being usable is a pain in the ass.

sparafucilsarwb17_ESO · May 2014

Same here, weapon swap is buggy as hell, often it won't even swap at all during combat.

Jermu73 · May 2014

Same here. Sometimes it automatically swap weapon in boss combat even i didn't try to swap now that's annoying and can't swapped back?

ShintaiDK · May 2014

Its been a problem since release now. I had it as late as PvP yesterday.

Skills switch, but weapon doesnt. In my case I use sword and shield as primary and bow as secondary. When I change to bow, the only way to get back is to change and then re equip either shield or sword to get it back. And I can keep doing that every single time.

The only positive thing I can say is I am usually inside a keep if I change to bow.

Belrim · May 2014

Was just clearing a boss-group with some people, when suddenly my ability bar switched to setup2, but weapons remained unchanged. This caused all attack abilities to get locked up, and not even the double-ESC managed to fix the issue.

Untill they fix these bugs, im un-slotting my secondary weapon, hoping that it will prevent this from happening again.

Neferath · May 2014

Well ok some news regarding the swap bug.

1st thing, weapon swap is working again for me.
Actually i think there are two reasons that might be "guilty" for that.

1st reason:
just like "out of nowhere" weapon swap stopped to work with patch 1.0.5 it is working again with patch 1.0.7

2nd reason:
well now and here it comes ... exactly the same time as patch 1.0.5 was introduced, i bit a guild mate in order to make him a vamp. Both happened at the same day and iirc, biting my guild mate was the first thing i did at this day.

Well today, i had a similiar situation. Patch 1.0.7 hit the servers and i bit another guild mate and guess what, my weapon swap is working again as intended.

So please do me two favours.

1st check if your swap is working again just like mine is.

2nd if it isnt working - and in case you are a vamp just like i am - bite someone at the altar and recheck again pls in order to confirm that the swap bug and the patch - or the swap bug and the vamp bite are connected to each other.

Thx in advance,
Neferath

Neferath · May 2014

Well than ... and it did hit me again.

While the swap did work out of nowhere again, it isnt working any more suddenly again.

The only changes regarding my character are:

1st:
I crafted my self 2 identically set daggers (ashgrip) and equiped them. Swap continued to work as intended.

2nd:
I equiped the "blessing of the emperor" quest reward staff as secondary weapon and now weapon swap stoped to work again.

Honestly pls look into this and give at least any kind of feadback. I am really pissed atm since this is more than just game breaking and there wasnt even any kind of answer or "yes we got your ticket response" from your side regarding the all the tickets that have been written from affected ppl.

Of course i understand that you are busy with nerfing classes because of all the ranters and whiners at this forum that arent able to use the proper skill in order to counter a pvp attack ... but perhaps, you will find the time to look at the one or other real bug that exists and is breaking the game.

morigo · May 2014

I have the same bug (templar with 1-hand and shield/restoration staff) and to me it is dependent on which skills I currently have on my action bars.
When I have some combinations of skills I can't swap weapons (always gets stuck with weapon 2). If I replace one of the skills with another or moves them around from abitlity bar 1 to 2 it can start working again.
It is still super annoying since you can't have the exact setup you want but it at least makes the game playable again for me until they fix the bug.

smosti · May 2014

Happens to me probably couple times a session swapping out from bow to daggers. I've noticed it occurs when putting different abilities in my bar

Midvaineb17_ESO · May 2014

same problem. And this problem has it's place only in my sorcerer character. My other characters (DN and NB) have normal swap. But sorcerer has a problem. I solve this problem by replacing main weapon (mace-shield) to 2 slot, and secondary weapon (bow) to main slot, and it's work only this. I try to use same type of weapon, and it's swap well, but different weapons don't swap at all...

steveb16_ESO46 · May 2014

sparafucilsarwb17_ESO wrote: »

Same here, weapon swap is buggy as hell, often it won't even swap at all during combat.

Yea. Getting sick to death of this. We need to be able to hit the swap key and know for a certainty it's worked when in the middle of combat.

Grawlog · May 2014

I believe this bug is caused if you use sword and board/dual wield for the "1" set, and then any 2 handed weapon for the "2" set.

For example, when I used sword and shield in my "1" set and healing staff in my "2" set, I would glitch often. I was trying everything to prevent the bug from hitting me again, so I moved my healing staff to my "1" set and my sword and shield to my "2" set, and it was solved.

I've also noticed that since I've switched to 2H sword and healing staff, I haven't had a single issue with this bug. I think it primarily has something to do with switching from two items being equipped to a single item being equipped, and then back. The only time I've been able to replicate the bug is when I've had two items in my "1" set and one item in my "2" set.

Phinix1 · May 2014

On the topic of weapon swap bugs...

I swap destro and resto staff. I have noticed that if I start to cast a ground effect type ability, where the target circle is out to place the effect, I am not able to weapon swap until I either 1) place the effect or 2) hit escape to cancel placing the effect.

In my thinking, hitting weapon swap should automatically cancel any placement effects and not lock you up. This can be especially deadly while trying to lay down some AoE damage before swapping back to heals.

It also seems AoE placement abilities are in general somewhat laggy/buggy when a lot is going on, making this problem even more serious. I wonder if this might be part of what others are experiencing?

Neferath · May 2014

@Midvaineb17_ESO & @‌Grawlog

Many thx for that hint. I'll test it once iam at home.

[Aunt Edith says]

I just tested and it really works. Guys i love you many many thx for that

Oh well erm and yes, thanks Zenimax for giving the community here the chance to proof that they actually know to solve their problems on their own ...

[/Aunth Edith has spoken]

Mephiston87 · May 2014

i got that when it happened.

Sidney · May 2014

I have this bug also but I can swap if i just tap the button twice.

Zintair · May 2014

Grawlog wrote: »

I believe this bug is caused if you use sword and board/dual wield for the "1" set, and then any 2 handed weapon for the "2" set.

For example, when I used sword and shield in my "1" set and healing staff in my "2" set, I would glitch often. I was trying everything to prevent the bug from hitting me again, so I moved my healing staff to my "1" set and my sword and shield to my "2" set, and it was solved.

I've also noticed that since I've switched to 2H sword and healing staff, I haven't had a single issue with this bug. I think it primarily has something to do with switching from two items being equipped to a single item being equipped, and then back. The only time I've been able to replicate the bug is when I've had two items in my "1" set and one item in my "2" set.

This seems to be the case. I use Resto Staff and Sword and Board and my Sword and Board is broken where I cannot actually swap to it same as everyone else.

I actually bit someone else today as well still did not fix (not that i thought it really would)

I can swap between both Resto Staves however.

Is there ANY fix for this? My PvP is suffering for this.

Neferath · May 2014

Using the staff at slot one and the - in my case two daggers - at slot two solved the problem for me ... at least iam going without any glitch since 3 days now dispite of changing my bar setup constantly skillwise.

Tendeep · May 2014

Grawlog wrote: »

I believe this bug is caused if you use sword and board/dual wield for the "1" set, and then any 2 handed weapon for the "2" set.

For example, when I used sword and shield in my "1" set and healing staff in my "2" set, I would glitch often. I was trying everything to prevent the bug from hitting me again, so I moved my healing staff to my "1" set and my sword and shield to my "2" set, and it was solved.

I've also noticed that since I've switched to 2H sword and healing staff, I haven't had a single issue with this bug. I think it primarily has something to do with switching from two items being equipped to a single item being equipped, and then back. The only time I've been able to replicate the bug is when I've had two items in my "1" set and one item in my "2" set.

Same exact problem for myself, and I cant get it to go away...

VR2 Templar
Slot 1 = Sword and Shield
Slot 2 = 2 Handed Sword

When I swap to Slot 2 I glitch and can never swap back to Sword and Shield, the skills swap, but never the weapons!

Help Zenimax!

Neferath · May 2014

Did you try to use sword+shield at slot 2 and your 2-handed sword at slot 1?

For me, i was able to solve the problem that way.

Opioid · May 2014

I have this bug as well, seems to be tied to Radiant Aura on my Templar. Whenever I have Radiant Aura in any slot on my 1H/Shield bar, if I swap to my Healing Staff and try to swap back to the 1H/Shield, it swaps the bar but not the weapon. If I take Radiant Aura off my 1H/Shield bar, I can swap weapons with no problems.

DoZakar · May 2014

Opioid wrote: »

I have this bug as well, seems to be tied to Radiant Aura on my Templar. Whenever I have Radiant Aura in any slot on my 1H/Shield bar, if I swap to my Healing Staff and try to swap back to the 1H/Shield, it swaps the bar but not the weapon. If I take Radiant Aura off my 1H/Shield bar, I can swap weapons with no problems.

Wow, that's EXACTLY the reason why I'm having this issue. It's suddenly hit me today, after I morphed the ability.

aleister · May 2014

No mention of anything addressing these issues in the patch notes $:\$

Seravi · May 2014

I am a level 23 DK using dual swords and a bow. I am having the same issue since the last update. I switch but my weapon doesn't change, just the perks bar changes and poison arrows doesn't work so well when you are dual wielding lol.

I haven't morphed any of my perks so that isn't an issue on my character.

bttlsgtmajor_ESO · August 2014

I have the same issues since the patch. The only way I've found that clears it up is taking off my boots (weird I know) and then I can swap weapons fine and put my boots back on. This is so annoying and a pain that I haven't played much at all since this last patch. Hopefully we'll see a resolution soon.