UO Second Age

If you have a torch or a candle in your left hand (right side of your paperdoll) and you have say a kryss in your other hand... and let's say you have a dress hotkey to dress a war fork... if you hit that hotkey you will disarm the kryss, then disarm the torch, then arm the war fork. Any idea why this is?

there was something else with torches also .. i was like "hmm, thats odd" .. i THINK (dont remember exactly what i was doing now) that maybe drinking a potion with a torch will undress the torch --- even though its 1 handed.

forget if there was something else also... but generally it seems like maybe the torch has a 2 handed flag on it when it should be 1

Yeah, I think you're right.

I tried to set up some macros on my fencer such that I could carry a torch while pvping, and just undress it when I wanted to drink a potion and then redress it, but I remember there were some weird complications.

Anyways, no big deal of course, but just something to think about if anyone happens to have strong memories of whether it's inaccurate.

Try drinking a potion with the torch equipped, but turn off "auto disarm to drink potions". That will tell you whether or not it's a server problem or a razor problem. I'm guessing it's razor.

Clever!

When I double-click a potion with a kryss in one hand and the torch in the other, with the Razor function disabled, I see "You must have a free hand to drink a potion."

When I have two full hands and the Razor function enabled, I cannot drink it.

When I have a free hand and a torch, and the Razor function disabled, I can drink it.

When I have a free hand and a torch and the Razor function enabled, I can drink it.

So it looks like it's not an issue with the Razor potion function.


Now, I have a Razor dress hotkey for Toggle Kryss. With Kryss and Torch in hand, I hit the hotkey and the kryss disarms. Then, when I hit the toggle again to arm the kryss, I end up first disarming the torch, then arming the kryss.

Lastly... when I have a torch in one hand and a kryss in the other, and I use the in-game hotkeys for Arm/Disarm Left Hand and Arm/Disarm Right Hand, it functions as expected (it does exactly what I tell it).

Because of this last point...

Verdict: Razor issue.

What you could do, is create macros that do the dress function for you manually.

Something like

if (left hand = free)
arm torch
else
disarm torch
endif

would function the same as a toggle dress macro.

It would let you pvp with a torch (though, that's a bad idea in itself)

Yeah - that much I do know (the macro idea).

But, with a full second action delay, I just need to chug far too fast in most pvp situations to make it worthwhile. The first potion has the one second torch delay, but the second and successive ones have a two-second wait (re-arm torch from previous macro, then disarm it again for this new potion).

Would have been fun though!