Currently using a bow as a main weapon, with crossbow and musket in the weapon swap bar at the bottom. Whenever I cast Snipe/Headshot/Covering Fire, the game freezes for a second, fps drops to ~10-20, skill casts, game freezes again while swapping weapons back, and then it finally goes back to the regular ~60 fps.
Also tested this with just a bow/musket in the weapon swap bar, and still had the same issue, which means adding a 3rd weapon wasn’t the problem.
Levelled as a QS with the bow/crossbow on weapon swap and never had this issue when swapping to a crossbow to use QS skills, so I assume there’s some issue with swapping to a musket.
Any solutions?
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the same happens with S. Reiter.
If I use a bow and then try a SR skill (xbow + pistol), it freezes two times.
I have a Cataphract and it also happens with me when I have lots of weapons in my inventory after so much grinding. It might be the cause.
cannoner here , same thing 
i feel you pain bro xD… i avoid using manamana in moment because this :(. If you switch in areas high lvl 250+ the mobs kill you in the “freeze time”.
Happens with my s reiter with xbow/shield and xbow/gun also.
I remember hearing the problem is the sudden stat changes (you can see it change with the stat menu open) that happens as soon as you begin to use the skill that somehow causes it to stutter for a bit.
I’ve been experiencing this as well on my Musketeer and while relogging or switching channels “resets” the lag for a short time, this needs to be fixed ASAP as it makes a lot of classes unplayable, especially in dungeons. At the moment you just can’t play those builds to full potential. For the time being, I have removed the skills requiring a bow from my bars which makes me sad seeing how much time and silver I spent getting them and countless attributes to improve them.
@Staff_Julie @STAFF_John @STAFF_Ines @STAFF_Ethan, please make sure this issue is resolved quickly. I really don’t want to have to reroll because of this.
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Same problem here with my Rogue/Musketeer. Auto swap makes my fps go 10-20.
Weapon swap is bound to ingame ping, a ping around 200ms or higher results in slight freezes.
It happens because you send a signal to swap equipment to the server and have to wait until the signal has been processed, the higher your ping the longer it takes.
I had the same issue when I was playing on Klaipeda, but once I transfered to EU Fedimian I haven’t experienced any FPS drops / freezes when switching weapons.
I have a ping of about 50ms on Fedimian and my game still freezes when switching weapons.
Same Problem here.
Ping can be as low as 20ms for me and I still get freezes.
Same problem here, as a cannoneer, always that I use Cannon Blast, cannon siege, etc. my game freezes for 2~5 seconds.
I use Crossbow/Mananmana on the first slot
Crossbow / Cannon on 2nd slot
Same Problem here 
yup same problem here as well, if using 2h bow and using cannoneer skills -.-
Issue is still persisting, never had this problem until i entered evac I noticed it got worse somehow.
Edit: Restarting client clears it up but it comes back within 10 minutes of musketeer skill usage.
SR here. confirmed game freezes for 2 seconds even when swap weapon manually
Same problem here with my Cannoneer. IMC, please, help us.
I think it’s the system message (when your weapon’s durability is lower than 30%), I think it works similar to that of the world chat spam before, the system message is what cause the “freezing”. I had tested myself when I cast my musket skills while I have kcrossbow w mana2 and rifle on quickswap. I noticed the lag from the system when I equip the equips with low durability. Hope IMC do something abt it.
Il just gona bump this. Pretty frustrating bug its as if the client has some kind memory cache issue. Since it slowly starts to freeze more often whenever I swap them for more than 30min± and had to restart the client to get rid most of the freezes temporarily. 
Same here !!!
Bump. Cannoneer here, lag / dropped fps whenever I use a cannon skill with my 2h bow equipped.
I don’t think it’s ping related, I’ve been at 80ms or under on Orsha every time I’ve //pinged.
I made a post on reddit about this and someone recommended cutting my inventory as much as possible. I tried and it did seem to help slightly with menu / map opening lag and it made my weapon swap lag a tiny bit better. Still frustrating though, causes me to start needing HP potions on cooldown when I’m fighting large groups of the hard hitting melee mobs due to the extra hits I end up taking.
As mentioned by someone I also think it might be related to the durability check, it gets much worse when my bow hits 30% or less and I’m getting the system message.
One more interesting thing I’ve noticed that might help track it down. I’ve only seen this happen in the “fortress battlegrounds” map. When the swap lag starts getting bad a clone of my character will sometimes appear somewhere on screen when I use a cannon skill. I’ve got a shadowplay capture of this happening if anyone is interested, freaked me out a bit at first lol.
Hopefully they can pin this down, it’s making higher level stuff a bit difficult, and in boss fights with many people around my cannon skills or alt - z weapon swap will refuse to trigger at all.