Heads up about Artificers and Mounts

[doubledge]

There's currently a conflict between Artificer Runearm Use and mounts.

While the feat "Rune Arm Use" is enabled, you begin charging your runearm when it's off cooldown. However, when beginning to charge your runearm on a horse, you dismount.

This normally wouldn't be a problem, but mounting does not disable the feat.

TL;DR: Turn off your runearm autocharge when summoning your mount!

[droid327]

Same applies to Pale Shroud, AFAIK. Yeah its super annoying.

I had to bind the RA toggle to the hotkey right next to my horse so I could hit them both together. And then I always forget to reactivate my RA until the first fight of a quest when I try to fire it ><

Hope that's fixed in the next patch.

[Sonoma]

I have a hotkey (G) to equip my cannon/crossbow, and another (X) to equip a blank weapon set. I always sheath (X) my weapons when I am not using them, so 'mount' is Thumb key, dismount is (G), ready to fight. Charge is always on. After the fight, X, Thumb Key, and I'm ready to go.

edit: thumb key on mouse

[LeoLionxxx]

I have a hotkey (G) to equip my cannon/crossbow, and another (X) to equip a blank weapon set. I always sheath (X) my weapons when I am not using them, so 'mount' is Thumb key, dismount is (G), ready to fight. Charge is always on. After the fight, X, Thumb Key, and I'm ready to go.

edit: thumb key on mouse

Ah, so you can have the Rune-arm charge feat active without having the Rune arm equipped? That's handy. Not wearing a rune-arm is probably more noticeable in a quest than it not charging!

[HungarianRhapsody]

I have a hotkey (G) to equip my cannon/crossbow, and another (X) to equip a blank weapon set. I always sheath (X) my weapons when I am not using them, so 'mount' is Thumb key, dismount is (G), ready to fight. Charge is always on. After the fight, X, Thumb Key, and I'm ready to go.

edit: thumb key on mouse
What benefit do you get from having your weapons sheathed?

[Sonoma]

What benefit do you get from having your weapons sheathed?

Ah, I can have my runearm charging and still mount the horse. Equipping the arm dismounts me, and I'm ready to fire.

When I log on, I turn on stances and the runearm charging feat, leave it on all the time. I got in the habit of sheathing because standing in front of a banker trembling in a half crouch looks weird. All of my characters are of course super heroes and by definition cannot look weird.