Axiom.9742

Just to bump this and provide an easy way for all users and devs to see the bug in action, If you install Microsoft PowerToys for Windows and enable the Mouse Crosshairs, these stay on and allow you to track the 'real' mouse position at all times, even when the cursor is otherwise invisible due to steering. The mouse tracking bug becomes painfully obvious as the crosshairs slide all across the screen while steering. Sometimes the cursor jumps back to proper position, but most of the time it lags just enough to reposition somewhere across the screen or jumps to a different monitor (even when in full-screen mode). Turn on the ArcDps Unofficial Extras "clip cursor" settings and instantly the crosshairs/mouse stays exactly where it's supposed to be, even when invisible. Highly recommend PowerToys even if just for native OS customizable Crosshairs, especially nice to verify when clip cursor is working. Can't comprehend how something so fundamental has remained broken, unless it was hard to visualize and reproduce, which it's not anymore.

It's possibly stuck in the armory / inventory. After unequipping some ascended items from each equipment tab, they still didn't pop back to inventory. When attempting to re-equip, they appeared to already be equipped to a phantom/invisible loadout (because they clearly were not equipped to any available slots, but had the icon that they were). Un-equip all fixed it, once I found which items were stuck. There's no 'un-equip from all' for infusions (which would be INCREDIBLY HELPFUL, ANET) , so you may need to figure out if there's a piece of equipment stuck in a phantom/invisible loadout, re-equip it, and then un-equip from all. I only noticed this happen after I had copied one equipment loadout over another, so ymmv.

Attempted to use it and would love to use it, IF IT WORKED with legendary/account bound gear, but it doesn't. Swapping legendaries (or any stat swappable gear) between characters deletes the equipment builds. If it was a real "template" it would be awesome, unfortunately loadouts don't handle legendary gear between toons. Post-update, I'm running a zerker daredevil for everything except wvw, whereas I used to swap between classes and between 20+ toons to best suit group/content needs. I don't buy soulbound items, so unless it becomes a real "template", or goes account bound, I won't be using equipment slots except for FashionWarz. The build-only part is awesome, as I keep a text file of build codes, and could preload my top 3. But due to the equipment issues, and having to manually swap between every game mode, these have become 'lazy' multipurpose builds . So in practice, this devolved into just zombie-mode dps everything, avoiding PvP, and not really swapping builds at all. On the upside, I've abandoned finishing my other legendary equipment, and have lots more free time for working on my PhD and candidacy exams. I prefer to stay positive, rather than feel depressed over being punished for investing in endgame content. There's plenty of enjoyable things outside of GW2.

Using multiple Equipment "Templates" with Legendary armor/weapons, (or any items with sharable stats) is broken beyond practical use. The items are 'Locked' into equipment storage if more than 1 equipment template is used. This prevents items from being dragged to inventory for switching to an alt, unless the item is first 'unloaded' from all templates, which destroys any saved equipment builds. A primary use of Legendary/Ascended/Account Bound items is to share them between alts (even if it means moving to shared inventory to do the move). We can't do that without destroying the template, making Equipment templates beyond useless for account bound gear. I had hoped to be wrong, and that the devs had at least created a persistent cache to retain template info between swaps, to allow sharable items to be easily added and withdrawn. They did not. Equipment templates can't be used for 'added' storage if you use Legendaries, and they can't be used for Equipment builds, unless you take joy in re-specing ALL of your equipment templates, each and every time you switch to an alt. Maybe it's useful for entry-level players with soul-bound exotics or without alts? This feels at best, an unusable addition that will sit untouched in the equipment panel - at worst, a downgrade in QOL that turns simply swapping gear into a convoluted nightmare, should anyone attempt to use it. Edit: I found a use for the Equipment Templates!! It allows you to instantly get naked :3