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Friday, September 20th 2013, 7:49pm

Gear Slots randomly changes

My gear slots are set to Slot 1: Off/No Gear Slot 2: DPS Gear Slot 3: Healing Gear, they're specifically set so I know where each set of gear is. The slots randomly changes (anything from 1-2 times per day to 5-6 times per day) when my game gets a Critical Error (< not pointing fingers but I crit a LOT, anything from 5 to +10 times a day) or when relogging. This is a major annoyance esp when I crit in the middle of an instance run, log back in and need to swap gear to a potential wipe/death. I use a macro to auto swap my gear and it is (without the use of expletives) extremely annoying when I click my swap macro and swap into dps or healing gear when I wanted to swap to offgear (kinda beats the point of swapping in the first place).

Is there any way this can be prevented? Would appreciate any advice on how to stop my gear slots swapping. This is a problem that has been around for me since the introduction of the 3rd gear slot. Apologies if this topic has been asked before, I'm asking now as the random gear slot swaps seem to be occurring more frequently.
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Friday, September 20th 2013, 8:09pm

Hiya,

I suggest checking the thread Useful Macros and go to page 3 (approx. post #42) and read suggestions there.
I think your issue is related to that macro you have being a little outdated.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge of macros will reply with instant fix, but this might help you in the interm.

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Friday, September 20th 2013, 8:45pm

Hiya,

I suggest checking the thread Useful Macros and go to page 3 (approx. post #42) and read suggestions there.
I think your issue is related to that macro you have being a little outdated.

I'm sure someone with more knowledge of macros will reply with instant fix, but this might help you in the interm.

~ Beren


Thanks for the reply I'll look into the macro, though I'd like to ask whether that macro prevents my gear slots from changing because that's my main issue...not swapping the gear itself it's the actual change in gear slots. My outdated swap macro still swaps to slot 1 but my concern is whether my dps gear will stay in slot 2 and not to change 1 or 3 and the same with my healing gear.

*I got a critical error about 2 mins ago, currently my healer gear has swapped to slot 1, dps gear is in slot 2, off gear is in slot 3...this is without even touching my macro. The random changes in gear slots is what I'm asking for advise on.

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Friday, September 20th 2013, 9:13pm

while i do not use a macro to switch gears sets, i do experience the same problem that babubu is referring to...not so much the macro not working, but the slot #'s actually switching what set of gear is in each slot...
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Saturday, September 21st 2013, 2:37am

It seems to be something to do with logging out in slot 1 or 3 gear. I usually leave my mage gear in slot 2 and when using it it rarely switches, but tends to swap if i am in rogue gear(1 or 3) and log out....at least thats what i have noticed.
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Monday, September 23rd 2013, 5:46pm

I agree.. it's a crapshoot whenever I'm toggling my 3 item sets

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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 12:45am

Just wondering if any tech savvy person has any new advice on this problem yet. Testing on whether logging out on certain # gear slots will help atm, at the moment Gear Slot 3 (healer gear in my case) seems to look good but since problem occurs on random crits/relogs it's difficult to control I'm always on Gear Slot 3 when my toon dc's/logs out.

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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 12:56am

ive noticed the only time my slots randomly change are on days with heavy server lag, kinda like i swap but the gear doesnt update fast enough or something
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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 3:14am

I've noticed my gear slots randomly hanging as well, figured it was a bug so no biggy, hopefully people arent logging onto my acoutn and messing with me, silly gm's.
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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 7:20am

My gear randomly swapped when I ported from Rorrzan to Sarlo today. I had been making dirty statted pieces for priest, and was swapping back and forth a lot when this happened.

I was scared out of my wits when I swapped back to slot with where I have my mage gear and found it empty.
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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 1:55pm

I have the same problem with Gear Slots. And worst part is, when I'm using fast my macro to swap gear in instances, sometimes it will swap to my other gear slot and not to the empty slot.
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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 3:17pm

I have been plagued by this problem for a long time with an addon I have enhanced to auto-swap my gear when I switch class combos... The addon is fully aware of the new swap functions.

My best understanding of the problem is this:
The slots may get reordered if you LOG OUT (or in, who knows) while you are in "off" gear...

I know the definition of "off gear" is not very scientific, however:

In my case, I have a specific slot I want active for each primary class. I setup my addon to know what slot is for what class.
As long as I always logout a specific class with its assigned gear, things stay put.
However, if I swap to look at my gear for my other classes and forget to swap back before I log out (or I crash), then most likely my gear is going to move around when I log back in. Since my addon records slots, I know exactly where things SHOULD be, and thus I am 100% sure things get reordered.

I did a lot of experiments a while back to determine if there was any pattern to the movement, and I was not able to find any pattern... Its not like slot 3 is special and moves around specifically, nor is there a specific slot for a specific class, or anything of the such... However, I do think its somehow associated with changing primary classes since my addon auto-swaps for me as I change classes, thus I swap alot and notice when its wrong. I will go for weeks without seeing an issue as long as I only let my addon swap. However as soon as I swap gear manually to look around, or swap for death protection, I start to see this issue (if I log out/crash).

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Thursday, September 26th 2013, 11:12pm

Dangit Zhur if even you're having problems and can't work it out then I have no hope QQ

Trying to keep my toon on gear slot 3 (healer gear) at the moment (whether I'm on heals or dps) to see if it helps, random crits (which happen a lot) is not helping my case.