ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

All of the sudden, possibly due to changing from bow to sling, shooting with my temporal warden is messed up.
The "shoot" hotkey is set to the "1" key. Previously, if I had my melee weapons equipped, I could press "1" and weapons would automatically swap to bow and everything worked fine. Now, if I have my melee weapons equipped, the hotkey is greyed out. If I have my sling equipped, pressing the hotkey will switch automatically (and mistakenly) to my melee weapons, and I will get the error message "you must wield a bow or a sling (no shooter)!".

So, either this is a bug, or the warden's skill is only intended to work for bows, not slings. I transmogrified my bow after I got the sling, but in order to test this, I purchased a bow and arrows. It works fine with the new bow.

And now re-reading the description, the skill tree says "...will freely swap to your bow when activated..." (not "to your ranged weapon").
Okay, maybe this isn't a bug. I'll still post this in case any other newbie out there experiences the same thing.

well, it is intended to work with bows, and not slings.
but it also good to know that the talents switch away from sling, even if no bow is equipped.