"Auto Switching" when Totem casted!?

Class: Warrior

Skill: Shockwave Totem and/or Malice(?)

Issue: When casting Shockwave Totem, it switches to Weapon Set #2

Additional Details:
I honestly have no idea how to even explain this issue. I thought it was just me accidently mapping buttons, but no; this is absolutely consistent and it baffles me.

On my warrior I have a Omen Scepter + Braced Tower Shield in my hands. I am using the Omen Scepter's "Malice Lv.5" to build critical strike chance for my Totems to benefit from.

But for some reason, every time I cast Shockwave Totem, it keeps switching to my Weapon Set #2; and no I DO NOT have it bound to that button. It just simply does it no matter what I do.

Baffling, cannot even begin to understand the reasoning behind it. It's either a bug of some kind, or possibly even... Intentional!?

If this is intentional, for some strange reason, that is absolutely BULL and should never ever be a thing that should happen... for some reason.

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ISSUE FOUND!

The Omen Scepter when equipped makes the Shockwave Totems switch to Weapon Set 2. When unequipping the Omen Scepter, the skill performs as normally without switching.

What the hell is going on here?

The shockwave totem skill requires "Any Martial Weapon, Unarmed"

Sceptre's aren't martial weapons, so you can't use the skill. Since you have a weapon swap that does work (either a mace or unarmed) it switches to that automatically because it's the only valid way to use the skill.

Not a bug, as far as I can tell.

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Etainz#2663 wrote:

The shockwave totem skill requires "Any Martial Weapon, Unarmed"

Sceptre's aren't martial weapons, so you can't use the skill. Since you have a weapon swap that does work (either a mace or unarmed) it switches to that automatically because it's the only valid way to use the skill.

Not a bug, as far as I can tell.

Utter garbage.

So melee totems will once again be very weak, underutilized, and can't even stack our own damage auras on anything with them cause their tied to "Non-Melee?!" equipment, etc.

A SCEPTER CAN STILL BASH HEADS. It's solid, it fits in my sweaty palms.

Fun, very fun GGG.

You can still use a 1h mace with an offhand sceptre, if that's what you want to do. Or even just a scepter, with an empty slot (unarmed).

Since it's "Any Martial Weapon" it works with everything except wands, staff and sceptre since they're caster gear. You can also use weapon swap to cast the totems with one set, then switch to another for something else (for example a sceptre with the malice aura). The gem specifically says it doesn't use your weapon to attack, so it's a pretty broad weapon restriction honestly.