Merc issue/bug

[RakkSixx]

Initial attack is crossbow shot. It defaults on left click. Once you "load" a different type of round the left click default becomes that round or any other round you select.

The issue/bug is you can never go back to basic/attack crossbow shot, unless you take all your skill gems out of socket. If you attempt to assign crossbow shot to any other key bind it doesn't matter because the current ammo takes priority, or technically becomes you primary/default shot.

The problem. All your different ammo types use mana. Since you cannot go back to standard attack due to the ammo issue/bug you can run out of mana at times, especially in a boss fight and empty your vial too and when you out of mana and cannot swap back to basic attack, you can't attack.

If anyone knows a work around please let me know.

[Sloop]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I have Crossbow Shot on LMB and this fires whatever ammo you have chosen to load. I haven't the room to have hotkeys all the ammo types, so I ignored the AP ammo and have Basic Bolt set to MMB (a key I rarely use, but then I rarely, if ever, use Basic Bolt) and hotkeys for Frag and Frost.

I don't use Grenades because I think they're slow, weak and take too much mana for multiple shots. Level 2 Grenades don't seem to do an awful lot of damage really, well at least in my opinion. I used an Uncut Skill Gem to get the Frost Bomb spell, also lvl 2 now, which is on my RMB. Cooldowns. timers, mana and blast radius for each are pretty much the same, however Frost Bomb does 29 to 44 Cold Damage.

Grenade builds clear Cruel difficulty bosses in seconds

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Pliauskis:

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I have Crossbow Shot on LMB and this fires whatever ammo you have chosen to load. I haven't the room to have hotkeys all the ammo types, so I ignored the AP ammo and have Basic Bolt set to MMB (a key I rarely use, but then I rarely, if ever, use Basic Bolt) and hotkeys for Frag and Frost.

I don't use Grenades because I think they're slow, weak and take too much mana for multiple shots. Level 2 Grenades don't seem to do an awful lot of damage really, well at least in my opinion. I used an Uncut Skill Gem to get the Frost Bomb spell, also lvl 2 now, which is on my RMB. Cooldowns. timers, mana and blast radius for each are pretty much the same, however Frost Bomb does 29 to 44 Cold Damage.

Grenade builds clear Cruel difficulty bosses in seconds

Damn, I somehow clicked delete instead of edit on my post! I need more coffee...

I was going to say that the OP is right - Basic Bolt just doesn't stay on the hotbar. Hmmm.

I'm talking when starting out when there's no such thing as a build yet, as grenades without support skills are rubbish. I dare say Grenades do get much better later on, but then so does Frost bomb, and having two explosive skills to use sounds fun.

[Sloop]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

Originally posted by Pliauskis:

Grenade builds clear Cruel difficulty bosses in seconds

Damn, I somehow clicked delete instead of edit on my post! I need more coffee...

I'm talking when starting out when there's no such thing as a build, as grenades are rubbish. I dare say Grenades do get much better later on, but then so does Frost bomb, and having two explosive skills to use sounds fun.

yeah, early on HVR for bosses and Galvanic shards for mobs clear everything

later when you can afford passives to boost cooldowns, area of effect of grenades and are able to spam them non stop, they overtake

[lordfletch]

mine is completely bugged only nads work, cant fire the shotgun / crossbow , hope they will get round to fixing it , looked for a work around but no joy.

[Furor Teutonicus]

completly bugged

[RakkSixx]

i thought it was just me missing something but apparently it isnt.

[RakkSixx]

Seriously not being able to unload special ammo and do a basic non mana consuming attack is stupid. Every class has that option, but mercenary loses that option in first 3 minutes of tutorial when he equips his very first skill gem. Hey look, I right click and now I do AOE burst shot. Cool. Now I want to go back to normal shot. What? No unload current ammo and even if I equipped "crossbow shot" on a keybind it will never go back because every ammo i load becomes "crossbow shot". ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ borked.

Oh you can hit G and unequip the gem to get crossbow shot back. That makes sense.

[KiwiBoyle]

Originally posted by lordfletch:

mine is completely bugged only nads work, cant fire the shotgun / crossbow , hope they will get round to fixing it , looked for a work around but no joy.

Yeah that happened to me too as soon as I unlocked the explosive bolt

[Saryn]

I have not noticed this bug but I have bound basic bolt to Q. My build is literally just scattershot and chaining on Basic bolt because everything I have tried so far has been ass.

[Takkik]

No bug on my side, you have a basic shot skill that load your basic ammo. You have an extra skill for the basic ammo load.

[Eerie Gloom]

playing on the standalone so that's why it doesn't show as my owning it just for clarification - if you're mouse and keyboard/WASD, just left click one of the skills on your bar and select 'Basic Bolt' not 'Crossbow Shot' Basic Bolt is the default ammo. however if there is a bug preventing you from putting on your bar, that's a different story altogether.

[Frostbeast]

I use full lightning build. It is very powerfull too. Better for group clearing. You just need one attack to kill everything in your sight and even out of your screen.
But, against big enemies i use normal shot. I use it, with scatter shot, 100% more shock and lightning infusion (and another gem) to instantly shock the target and burst them down with shockburst rounds.
I could use High Velocity Shot. But its weaker and has less ammo.

[G0ty]

? Just have my basic attack on q, so I just press q and after that I can shoot normal bolts with left click ...

[Zenji]

I've found the way to fix this issue . I play on pc with mouse and keys. first there is a difference in crossbow shot and basic shot . crossbow shot should be your main way to shoot. mine is set to right click, the crossbow shot will switch to what ever ammo type you select . in order to select the none mana shot you right click the Q, or any other slot, and choose basic shot . this allows you to shoot the basic shot using no mana and can be switched to like any other ammo. so you'll switch ammo to basic shot not crossbow shot . crossbow shot is just the hot key to fire any of the selected ammo types but basic shot is the ammo option for none mana shots

[Ponder]

Crossbow shot is a type of ammo like other shots. You have to set it to one of your hot keys and load it like your other shots. Once loaded, you will use it using left click like other shots.

You can set crossbow shot to your hot keys by clicking on your skills in the lower right menu and selecting it from the popup menu. I have crossbow shot set to my right click, and I swap to it all the time.