How do I fill my weapon meter with shield and sword weapons?

[NasiPuti]

I can't seem to get any stacks or power into the special weapon attack when using anything with a sword and shield. How does it work? Do I need to block instead of killing because it's a shield?

[Elveone]

You generate the bar by doing damage. After the bar is full you cash in the pip by doing a heavy attack finisher, a charged heavy attack, a jumping heavy attack or a counter attack(defend and when you get hit you immediate trigger an attack). The quickest heavy attack finisher is Light Attack, hold heady attack and it is kind of faster than just charging a heavy attack and almost as fast as doing a jump heavy attack.

[NasiPuti]

Originally posted by Elveone:

You generate the bar by doing damage. After the bar is full you cash in the pip by doing a heavy attack finisher, a charged heavy attack, a jumping heavy attack or a counter attack(defend and when you get hit you immediate trigger an attack). The quickest heavy attack finisher is Light Attack, hold heady attack and it is kind of faster than just charging a heavy attack and almost as fast as doing a jump heavy attack.

So it doesn't use the normal system where you press "Q" to activate it?

But truly I've never seen my bar move from 0 no matter how many enemies I kill.

[germality]

It's cuz any ability you use also removes the "pip." Basically fill it up and use Q before using any other abilities and then remember to learn how to use it in-between ability uses. It would be nicer if it was on a Charge use or cooldown.

[Elveone]

Originally posted by NasiPuti:

Originally posted by Elveone:

You generate the bar by doing damage. After the bar is full you cash in the pip by doing a heavy attack finisher, a charged heavy attack, a jumping heavy attack or a counter attack(defend and when you get hit you immediate trigger an attack). The quickest heavy attack finisher is Light Attack, hold heady attack and it is kind of faster than just charging a heavy attack and almost as fast as doing a jump heavy attack.

So it doesn't use the normal system where you press "Q" to activate it?

But truly I've never seen my bar move from 0 no matter how many enemies I kill.

Q is how you activate the ability. I am describing how you gain the resources to activate it :)

Still if your resource bar does not fill so it can be cached then you might be experiencing some kind of a bug.

[NasiPuti]

Originally posted by germality:

It's cuz any ability you use also removes the "pip." Basically fill it up and use Q before using any other abilities and then remember to learn how to use it in-between ability uses. It would be nicer if it was on a Charge use or cooldown.

Thank you for explaining this because I really didn't understand why it would empty out.