[SM] Advancing stance bars doesn't work?

[Momekic]

I haven't played my SM in a long time, well long before any of the recent patches, but from what I remember the skills advanced the main bar between 3 actions bars. You would start on Normal stance, it would change to Improved, and then move to Perfect. Right now, I hit a Normal stance ability and it moves to Improved, but none of the Improved stance abilities will work. I hit them but they just don't fire and thus I cannot move to Perfect stance.

How does this work now? Can you still advance bars for the stances like this?

[Aethilmar]

I haven't played my SM in a long time, well long before any of the recent patches, but from what I remember the skills advanced the main bar between 3 actions bars. You would start on Normal stance, it would change to Improved, and then move to Perfect. Right now, I hit a Normal stance ability and it moves to Improved, but none of the Improved stance abilities will work. I hit them but they just don't fire and thus I cannot move to Perfect stance.

How does this work now? Can you still advance bars for the stances like this?

So stances should just work with a vanilla UI (no mods). If they don't, you probably need to repair or download the client again.

That you mention hotbars switching makes you think you are using a mod. I would try disabling it to see if it works vanilla and then go from there.

[Omegus]

I haven't played my SM in a long time, well long before any of the recent patches, but from what I remember the skills advanced the main bar between 3 actions bars. You would start on Normal stance, it would change to Improved, and then move to Perfect. Right now, I hit a Normal stance ability and it moves to Improved, but none of the Improved stance abilities will work. I hit them but they just don't fire and thus I cannot move to Perfect stance.

How does this work now? Can you still advance bars for the stances like this?

This was never built into the game for the Swordmaster. You need to use the PlanB add-on for it.

When NerfedButtons was banned, PlanB got (partially) caught in the crossfire. If you were using the "hidden" ability pages 6 and 7 for Improved and Perfect (a common config) then now they can only be swapped into the first action bar.

The latest version can be downloaded here if you don't have it, and in the comments is the chat command to properly set it up to rotate action bar 1 between pages 1/6/7 depending on balance: https://tools.idrinth.de/addons/planb/

[Martok]

Plan B works well enough. No SM should leave home without it.