Skills randomly change/disappear on keyboard commands

Searching found similar bugs, but I didn't find anything about this issue, which makes the game very difficult to play.

I have two weapon sets, and different skills assigned to Q, W, E, R, T for each one (I think that's normal and expected). When I switch between weapons, though, the assigned skills will randomly change to what's on the other weapon's slot, or become unassigned.

For example, I have cleave assigned to Q when I use my sword and poison arrow assigned to Q when I use my bow. I'll switch from bow to sword because I'm getting mobbed in the middle of a fight, and suddenly poison arrow is assigned to Q when I'm using my sword (useless). Taking the time to remap the key in the middle of a fight often results in getting me dead.

The skills never all remap at once (usually one or two do it at a time) and it doesn't seem to correspond to swapping out weapons, dying, using portals... anything I can figure out. Sometimes it will be fine for a few minutes, then suddenly a particular key just refuses to "stick" and it changes every time I change weapons (both within the same playing session). I am using a QWERTY keyboard, and haven't remapped any of the keys for other commands.

interesting


What happens to me is :


If i have skill 1 in Q from WEAPON SWAP 1
and Skill 2 in Bar skill from a chest or helm or gloves or any non swap gear, then :


Skill 2 will not stick to bar skill when you swap back to weapon swap 1 and RESWAP to weapon swap 2.

let me rewrite this properly ;


SKILL BAR 1

Q = skill from weapon ( swap gear ) .... <1>

SKILL BAR 2

Q = skill from chest ( or non swap gear ) .......<2>


If you swap twice skill will go away from Q and become unnasigned ( <2> unasigner and <1> stays the same )


I wonder if it's what you are talking about, if not just ignore.

Sounds like the same issue, but I'm not totally sure based on your phrasing.

It seems like it happens more often if I'm using a skill gem in armor or something else that doesn't swap with the weapons.

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Dioxazine wrote:

Sounds like the same issue, but I'm not totally sure based on your phrasing.

It seems like it happens more often if I'm using a skill gem in armor or something else that doesn't swap with the weapons.

Well your second sentence is exaclty what i am describing yes.



Since skill gems are bound to a key i think this problem IS a problem for some of us.




I wonder what ggg think of it

if you have two weapon sets and you use attack skills from gems in both sets you have to assign the according skills to different keys.
the key(s) with the skill(s) from the inactive weapon stay(s) inactive as long as it's weapon set isn't selected.

Geradon, I'm not quite sure what you're saying...

There are 5 skill keys. Is the game designed so we are only supposed to use 5 skills total (for example, 3 in melee and 2 in ranged)? If that's the case, why do they swap at all when I swap weapons?

Also, that doesn't explain why skills sometimes disappear entirely from assigned keys- for example, I'll swap to my bow, where Q is normally poisoned arrow, and instead Q is empty.

Agreed. Bumping for explanation, I'd like to know whether it's a bug or a feature. They swap order anyway when you have gems in your weapons, so why can't we specify how they are swapped?