If someone new puts a shield on WeaponSet2 and blocks, they're in trouble.

Preface:
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This only relates to people who are new to the point of not knowing about the Weapon Set mechanics, which are easily the most complicated part of PoE2 by a mile. I've met a few myself at this point, which speaks to the volume of people that don't understand this.


If they have a random shield + weapon in switch, they're in dangerous territory. If they also bind something else to left-click, they're just gonna have a miserable time until they discover these mechanics, if ever.

If you launch with this, you're going to accidentally filter some non-zero percentage of players with this. Hopefully you're already aware of it.

Anecdote:
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And to put it into perspective, this happened to Kripparian on his first playthrough in a minion context too.



Potential Solution:
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Maybe the solution involves deactivating all skills from WeaponSet2 by default? That way, the system automatically unfucks your bad decision when you use any other skill.
Last bumped on May 2, 2025, 5:36:22 AM
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Maybe the solution involves deactivating all skills from WeaponSet2 by default? That way, the system automatically unfucks your bad decision when you use any other skill.


It doesn't do that already? I hadn't noticed an issue, maybe I set it up right first time and didn't spot that skills could use both, I just thought it defaulted to weapon set 1

But if that's not how it behaves, then it absolutely should

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