I have lived with this annoyance (and the indignity of my fellow players telling me I'm dropping the ball) for a while, but never thought to ask if it was different for anyone else. I don't know if this is a PS3 thing, a setting on my side, a glitch, or what.

When I am in a fight, if I need to select an item (like in the boss battle in Haukke, or in Arum Vale needing to eat a Morobol Fruit), my weapon stance drops in order to interact with the item. This happens whether I use the target selector and X the item, or if I use a mouse and right-click the item. Stance drops as soon as the item is used.

The result of this is that I have to get back into weapon stance (and if I try to do so by clicking L3, 80% of the time, it just selects the enemy but does not change stance, requiring a cancel, then stance change again), then re-select the enemy, and by then the agro has dropped.

As a Tank, this is a disaster, and leads to all sorts of recriminations (most of which I feel are justified).

Just now, failing Arum Vale, I asked if anyone else was having the problem - no one else was, nor had they ever heard of it; we had to abandon at the first mini-boss.

I've made do with it until now, but I cannot get past Arum Vale with this issue.

Most of my friends are on PC, and they say they've never heard of this. I've Google'd it and cannot seem to find any reference. Then again, until just now, I assumed this was something that happened to everyone, and that I was just a loser for not being quicker at getting back in.

I opened a Support Desk case, to see where that goes, but I'm hoping someone here has a faster answer.

Does anyone else see this issue? Does anyone know of a fix?


Thank you!