It worked fine yesterday, today it no longer works. Green "targets" line up fine, but says this ability is unusable right now. The "F" temporary ability circle is there, but there is no actual ability graphic in it. Cannot complete several of the quests in Dragonbone Vale without this temporary ability.
Bug report # 674,004.
EDIT: Not sure what changed, but the grapple ability is working again today.
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At first (after I had succeeded to switch loadouts) Sniper Perk, the bonus of my equipped ring, was equipped in the grappling hook slot.
After I changed loadouts the slot was empty, like in OPs screenshot.
Logging out / going to character select and back in solved it.
It seems to me this bug might be related to the problem where people got sent artifact modifications in their mail and had enchants equipped in their weapon modification slots in their stead.
Edit: I uploaded a screenshot: https://imgur.com/ol4HisK Apologies for the heavy f.lux blue-filter application.
if you switch back to the loadout from the one not currently working you will find the gapple works again
leave dragonborn vale and go to strongholds or PE and then switch loadouts and return, it should fix it
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