[LifeLikeSage]

I understand this is a NwN and not Thay specific bug(?) but I am still not understanding of why these issues persist.

My PC Pyrote cannot seem to handle switching out weaponry very well. I have a ranged and melee quickslots and with a secondary PC I have made here all seems to be functioning well...but poor Pyrote, no powerbuild is he, seems cursed with butter fingers! Generally, when I switch from say a bow, to a shield and sword, only the shield will appear. I will have to click the weapon slot several times for sword to switch or resort to bringing up inventory screen to do so "manually". I had a very unfortunate occurrence of this type a bit ago but my unseen allies came to my defense. This isn't really a complaint but would anyone have an idea why some characters have this defect of dexterity whilst others do not?

The shield/sword slot is the one of general defect. Either the items won't swap into hands, or once swapped will not be unequipped without swapping for a bow say, then to unarmed or via invent. screen. As stated this has only been encountered with one PC.

I can recall this issue on a server I played heavily in the past and same issue. Only a certain PC was affected such and what both have in common is the use of sword. Is the sword item the cause of the issue? I checked out using a morning star with shield for Pyrote and it seems to work better than the sword/shield swaps. If anyone can point out anything I might be doing wrongly or otherwise enlighten me I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Let me give you some advice guy, you wanna switch to a sword and shield individually, this means you do not put them in the same quick slot.

I recommend something ergonomic, for example: F2 for sword and SHIFT+F2 for shield, that way you can just hit F2 then SHIFT+F2 rapidly, and avoid having your PC fail on the weapon switch because he/she is too close to the NPC when switching.

Likewise, I can also teach you how to do elite moves like actually slamming a door in an NPC's face (despite the reopening script)

Let me know how it turns out for you.

[muvs]

Thankyou for the advice lifelikesage-LooseWilly and others. I had not tried using the F keys before and will check this out. I will admit that I am not too great with the combat-strategy end of NwNs. I am going to try to change tactics tho as I play less than optimal character builds in general and survivability is important...lest one likes to RP in the Fugue. Which I'd rather not.

I usually do/am not opposed to using the inventory screen to switch etc. but as LooseWilly stated it can be a gamble as it likes to freeze up on me. Using hotkeys seems the way to go tho so I appreciate it. It's about time I learn to play this game a lil better

I still have a feeling there is an underlying issue with the sword item tho as the sword is the most common item to 'get stuck' in main slot and won't swap or unequip, when I use a morning star...just not seeing the problem!

[Animayhem]

heh sounds like sword in the stone syndrome. :P