Was watching Bender's WR runs and he seems to do some flying around the screen that isn't charge. @ the start of his Act III on this 1:37 HC run for example. he seems to be swapping weapons and all the sudden starts flying around. I was learning the Barbarian strats and never really played a Paladin casually so I was surprised when I seen the movement in the speedrun. is there glitches involved or is this just standard practice? I took notes on the exact build, all the items of interest type deal but now need to know how to use the skills to optimize this moveset. Thanks dudes!
Hey RNJesus, this is swap casting - performed by having a weapon swap with your desired animation (in this case hammer or zeal) and then swapping to it and very very shortly after weapon swapping pressing the hotkey for the skill you want to use (in this case charge). This is very good cause charge has a super buggy animation. You can also use it to "farcast" skills like charged strike with throw or double your attack speed with frenzy by using the animation of double strike. Also used so much on sin that some players were swap casting on right and left click at the same time. This only works on LoD and on single player. You can still do this on D2R but it will provide no benefit.
To be honest man, this reply is not worded well enough for me to understand the mechanics of this completely but thanks. I will now have something to google to find out how it works . Maybe if you see this could you list like a very detailed list of inputs that is going on like "
- Press weapon swap key, very short wait 2.Use Zeal 1 time w/ right click 3.Let go of right click and Press weapon swap key again 2x times, very short wait 4 use zeal 1 time w/ right click (maybe list the location of the click and if a menu is open)
type deal or maybe just link me the best video , guide on swap casting . Thanks again my dude!
- Have on your main weapon switch the animation you want to use - zeal/hammer
- Swap to other weapon switch
- Press weapon swap and almost simultaneously the hotkey for the skill - charge
- Cast to see if it worked
If after performing the swap you can see charge as your skill you were too slow, if you can see zeal/hammer and that is what you use you were too fast.
Found this one as a reasonable explanation -
