So I remember in classic when I played I could hit a hotkey for a skill and if I was not close to my target I would draw my weapon, and then once I finally got into melee range and swing the move would fire off.

It seems like now when I use the melee ability hotkey it says "Target not in view" or "Target not in range" I still pull out my weapons, then I approach and just use a regular melee autoswing wasting my entire round timer. What this is making me do is having to try and time all my moves perfectly make sure I am right on top of the person THEN use my ability. More often than not in rvr when people are moving around it will miss. This is making it a bane to try and melee people atm. Anyone got a fix for this?


Also as a side questions, is there any way to change a 1hand weapon artifact you have to a 2hand weapon artifact?

well, not sure how to answer the first part of the question. But as to the second part, yes you can respec any artifact weapon and exchange it for a different one, you would need to repair the artifact, then go to the temple at Oceanus and see one of the scholars there who will ask if you want to exchange the artifact for a different weapon type. When you exchange the artifact, it is hten reset to lvl 0 and will have to be re-leveled once more

just something you gotta get used to... the game's shoddy, laggy netcode. you'll eventually figure out the timing, though.

what i normally do when mouse turning to face someone and trying a melee style is count to three, then hit the style. anything less than three seconds and i get the target not in view message.

 

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If you try to use a style and are not in range your weapons will be drawn and you will do an unstyled swing once you are in melee range.

The only time you are given the window to get the style off in is when you have just swung and are waiting for the next swing - if it's in melee range then you'll get the style off.

AFAIK you cannot queue up melee swings.

 

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type /cancelstyle so that cancel styling is OFF. spam the style(s) you're trying to land as you move in range of your target. this will ensure that the style will go off instead of an unstyled attack.

 

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+1

You've never been able to queue up styles in DAoC before you get within range of the target. There is no reason to use a style until you're in melee range anyway so it shouldn't be a problem.

 

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you can on freeshards

 

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I guess this is what I am thinking of.... soooooo much easier, DOH!!

Thanks for artifact advice.