Item activation is broken or just me?

Yeah, I completely agree, either this is a bug or it's just really really bad logic. I get so frustrated with those two items you mentioned, HoL and Wand of Speed. For example if I'm running away and activate HoL, sometimes my Demigod turns around and tries to attack someone and inevitably takes damage. And the two main uses of Wand of Speed - chasing and retreating - are made almost impossible because of this issue. By the time I've realised I need to retarget after activating, the fleeing Demigod has usually got far enough away to outrun me. And I've died lots of times from trying to run, activating the wand, then staying in the fray. Even one second wasted is easily enough to be killed.

This post is probably longer than it needs to be but I needed a good rant after last night's continual frustrations.

I've noticed SOMETIMES it doesnt stop you. But the fact that it does at all is VERY irritating.

The only times I've noticed it DOESN'T stop you is when you are not in range of anything you can attack. Otherwise it'll always stop you.

That definantly might be it

I just hit the F key for the item I'm activating and spam a move command most of the time.

/Signed

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. It can be hard when trying to spam an attack though if you need to click a specific target. (That would be a shameful admission in a game like CS... )

Just remembered a question I had on the topic of items, is it possible to order your items, i.e. place them in different slots? Occasionally I use the wrong item if I'm getting used to it being in one slot, then it changes to another when I buy a new one, etc.

You can but you can't drag it from one slot to the other ( at least I haven't been able to do this ). What you can do is right click on the item to drop it on the ground, then move over 1-2 feet and drop the other item on the ground and then pick them up in the order you want them show up in your inventory.

Ahh hadn't thought of that, thanks. ;)  I wonder if they'll change it so you can drag items to new slots easily?

One kind of obvious way to avoid the stop and turn is to activate the wand before you are going to be running/chasing someone down. With the latter, you might waste some wand usage in activating it when they don't run, but usually you'll have a good feel for whether they will be retreating or not.

Doesn't help so much with the HoL though.

You just have to anticipate the need to give another order immediately afterwards and do so right after activation.  It's annoying, I hope it will be fixed, but that's how it works.

To be honest, I don't sympathize with the HoL.  The thing is royally overpowered right now to begin with.

I understand the work arounds to using items the way they are. You still stop for a least .3 seconds ( giving your attacker one more hit or a change to be in range for the coupdegras ) if you keep issuing movement commands which is what I do now. I haven't gotten very good at looking into the future and knowing I need to blow my wand of speed before I actually need to blow my wand of speed.

/shrug

This is just my complaint and hopefully they'll add this to their list of issues which need fixing.

Mashing a move action while using items is super risky, because of the lag it will often CANCEL your item use.  If you are patient and wait until the item is actually used your risk standing there because of the bug.

Extremely irritating.

Agree again. This is definitely flawed logic at work.

bump-ba-bump

The current funtionality is super annoying!!!!

Quote for truth

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