Weapon Switch?

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NotSorry wrote:

As far as skill switching, oh god no, would defeat any purpose of even having to pick skills in the first place, might as well just give you all of them at all times if you're gonna do that anyways.

There are a lot of skills with many more in pipeline. Having two 1h/2h configurations slotted which you can switch to would only give you access to a fraction more skills on the fly (while losing access to others when you do switch).

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NotSorry wrote:

Wouldn't mind it as long as there is penalties like a casting time, pressing one button and instantly going from 2hander to a 1hand + shield is bad, but say a 3-4 second animation of sheathing your 2hander and pulling out the 1hander + shield or bow would be fine, these items would have to be pre-loaded into slots not just sitting in your inventory.

As far as skill switching, oh god no, would defeat any purpose of even having to pick skills in the first place, might as well just give you all of them at all times if you're gonna do that anyways.

I want the switch to be instant so you can micro more in the game. I also want it to switch your mouse skills so you can have some new skills.

I was told in game that many people had asked this question and that they were planning on implementing a way to switch weapons quickly.

I have since learned that believing everything you hear through in game chat is not a good idea.

As far as switching which skills you have etc, that was something you could do with titan quest I believe (might have been torchlight) and of course D2 as well (not the skills themselves but bonuses in that case). It certainly would not be overpowered in PoE, and in fact it would help a ton if your skill quick slots changed (especially your middle mouse and right mouse ones) since it would give us the ability to have more easy to spam skills that we can use.

I would say this should probably be a priority if possible as it is a very common question in game, and some character builds need and almost require it.

I think that weapon switch should be implimented in the game, it gives a player more variety skill wise and weapon wise.

I have seen at least one dev speak about weapon-switch in-game as a distinct possibility. Personally, I don't much care for it, not when we can equip both short ranged and long ranged skills regardless of class/build.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

I have seen at least one dev speak about weapon-switch in-game as a distinct possibility. Personally, I don't much care for it, not when we can equip both short ranged and long ranged skills regardless of class/build.

The devs have stated this will definitely be part of the game to me a number of times during the beta, take that as you will.

This is pretty much a standard feature of these sorts of games, switching from sword and board to bow. Can't see any issues and can't wait for it to be implemented.