Mercenary - Bow & Crossbow. Primary left mouse button fire

I am having issues with Crossbow "Basic Bolts".
I cant fire Basic Bolts with my nouse left button.
However, bow works fine, but not crossbow.

On my mouse right click button, I have crossbow rapid or frost. Works great.
On my mouse left click button. I have Bow shot which works fine, but when I choose crossbow basic bolts. It wont fire & the character wont move.
What did I miss?

You need to have both "load (x) rounds" and "fire/shoot" on your skill bar

I know it's kind of unintuitive

I simply dont understand how this work.

I removed all of the skills from QWERT buttons, so I have nothing on those keys.

I removed gems from skills.

I cleared all slots, except for the left Mouse button.


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Now I add bow as primary weapon & choose bow shot & I hold shift down & I use mouse left button & it fires. Works as it should.


I then remove the bow & add crossbow & do the same...I hold shift down & I use mouse left button & it fires. Works as it should.

I now add the gem "Armour Piercing Rounds" in skills & I link it to Q Key & also to my mouse right button.

I keep shift down & fire (Crossbow shot) with left mouse button, it works.

If I use mouse right button, it resets the mouse left button & wont fire as I right click, but if I left click, it fires the "Armour Piercing Rounds" & the crossbow shot disappears.

I dont want the mouse left button to change after I right click with "Armour Piercing Rounds".

That's just how crossbows work.

Instead of having different firing skills, all crossbow bolt skills come with one shared "Fire/Shoot" and one "Load Ammo" skill from the skill itself.

When you fire, it'll fire whatever ammo you have loaded (if you don't load a different ammo first, it's the standard shot).

If you use an ammo skill like Incendiary Shot, that'll load incendiary shots into your crossbow and now the Fire/Shoot will use the incendiary bolts.

It allows you to use one button as your "fire projectile" choice and just use your other buttons to switch what that one button does.

I want to use the crossbow with skills for my mouse right button & only use crossbow shot with my mouse left button.

I reload new ammo from the keys QWERT.
To my understanding, that is not possible?
Is this correct or incorrect?

What you are looking for isn't possible with crossbows.

One type of shot ammo loaded at a time.
You can mix in grenades though.

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POEHero#6816 wrote:

I want to use the crossbow with skills for my mouse right button & only use crossbow shot with my mouse left button.

I reload new ammo from the keys QWERT.
To my understanding, that is not possible?
Is this correct or incorrect?

You need 2 crossbows for that.
Also make sure to remap the interact button (LM button standard?) or you won't be able to open chest n stuff.

Crossbow loading is so wonky and makes no sense and I'm not surprised to see it confuse someone using click-to-move on PC.

It feels a bit more intuitive when you use WASD and honestly, I played click-to-move on every ARPG ever since the 90s including 10 years of PoE1 but after getting used to WASD in PoE2 it makes click-to-move feel so inferior I don't even like going back to PoE1 for the new leagues for long anymore.

Back to crossbow ammo-loading, I think switching ammo should result in a fully-stocked clip, every time. The way they have it now doesn't even make sense from an animation standpoint because you can see a clip spring out every time you switch ammo types.

Like if you load in your Armour Piercing Rounds, and you have 20 "bolts" in the clip, fire them off, and then switch to High Velocity Rounds or Fragmentation Rounds where you have 3 (+1 from Double Barrel Support and +1 from crossbow implicit) and you fire all 3, when you switch BACK to armour piercing rounds, you should go back to 20, NOT 0 - because then you have to re-load a re-load!

This is made even worse because when you exhaust that re-re-loaded clip of 20 AP rounds again, when you switch BACK to HVR or FR, you will have to re-re-load THAT empty clip!! And it just keeps repeating! You have to reload twice every time from then on out!

Here it is visualized:

Shoot 20 AP bolts
[Load HVR]
Shoot 3 HVR bolts
[Load AP]
[Reload AP]
Shoot 20 AP bolts
[Load HVR]
[Reload HVR]
Shoot 3 HVR Bolts
[Load AP]
[Reload AP]
and so on

They also need to have some way to assign a dedicated "make this button shoot only this specific kind of ammo" skill on the skill bar because using a weapon-swap key-bind workaround just to not go insane while switching back and forth between frag and permafrost rounds is a band-aid solution.

Even the OP is confused by the way ammo-loading works lol.

Crossbows are so cool but they need a lot of love mechanically unless we want people to gravitate towards 1-skill spam builds.

So I need another crossbow to be able to shot standard crossbow bolts with my Left Mouse Button.

I did purchase another crossbow & I did manage to shot standard crossbow bolts but, if I by mistake press on....lets say "Permafrost" & the last crossbow I shot from was the new crossbow. It will reload the new crossbow with Permafrost, while I got Armour Piercing Rounds on my Right Mouse Button which is the old crossbow.

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POEHero#6816 wrote:

So I need another crossbow to be able to shot standard crossbow bolts with my Left Mouse Button.

I did purchase another crossbow & I did manage to shot standard crossbow bolts but, if I by mistake press on....lets say "Permafrost" & the last crossbow I shot from was the new crossbow. It will reload the new crossbow with Permafrost, while I got Armour Piercing Rounds on my Right Mouse Button which is the old crossbow.

You need to assign every skill you're using to 1 crossbow and basic bolt to the other one, can be done from skill panel.