Mercenary skill swap

Hi, it’s a duplicate of this thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3596399

Playing on PS5.
Mercenary.
Skills - any crossbow that are used in a swap routine.
Attack is on R1.

What happens:
You have some skill loaded(full or not). If you press any other crossbow skill and then press and hold R1 before this skill will be fully loaded, crossbow won’t shoot. You have to release R1 and press it again.

What is expected:
If there is any ammo I press R1 - I do tratatattatata when reload is finished.


Please, take a look. It’s insanely annoying and I already hate Permafrost-Fragmentation swap.
Last bumped on Dec 17, 2024, 6:30:20 AM
I can't figure out how to assign these skills.
One crossbow is used for grenades, another for ammo.
I can get 1 ammo type to work on set 1 and the grenades on 2 , but I can't switch ammo type. Only 1 ammo type works.
I made sure they have the correct set assigned in the Skills menu.

It should be easy to swap (like on pc), just press a skill and it auto switches between sets. I spend 3 hours on this....
I do not want to press a swap skill button every time I change weapon.

EDIT
just found out how. I can see 2 crossbow shot Icons now.
1- remove the trigger button
(because it changes icon if you loaded ammo and it's confusing)
2- You click on the empty space and a menu pops up to choose a skill.
3- You will see 2x "crossbow shot" both are the same Icon.
Now you have to guess what is bow 1 and bow 2.
I could figure it out by the different attack speed.
The crossbow I use for ammo is in the "set 2" slot (in inventory)
4 Take the "crossbow shot" icon you will use for ammo and put it in the "trigger slot'
(I use R2)
5 Assign all the ammo skills to set 2, and all grenades to set 1
(the grenade bow is in weapon slot 1, so "Set 1"


It was confusing because:
- 2 Identical icons that sometimes change to the last ammo used and no clear way to tell what icon goes with what bow.

- ammo uses a trigger icon and grenades don't, yet there are 2 (because there are 2 crossbows)

Anyway, great game. I like it. Maybe put a little info window there that shows
the weapon name when you select the icon?
Last edited by Thawstrike#9762 on Dec 17, 2024, 7:36:41 AM

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