Guild Wars 2

Did a quick search and couldn’t find anything so I’m asking here.

In the preview window the Aetherized sword’s piston moves and looks hilarious (which is besides the point). The dagger and greatsword however do not move. Is this a bug?

Curious since the Whispers weapons all looked like they could fold but did not until recently. It took a few threads on the forum about those issues until the problem was acknowledged and the Order of Whispers weapons got folding animations.

I’m not sure either.

Both the Dagger and the Greatsword have the same exact mechanism (visually) that the sword does which controls the movement. So by extension I’d expect them all to move.

However, there are other inconsistencies with the weapons as well between those that share similar features. The spear has a rainbow glow coming out of the spinning turbine, for example, while other weapons which share that same sort of turbine (like the mace) do not have a glow.

Some of the weapons do not have steam coming out of them, even though almost every single one of them has little vents for steam. Off the top of my head those include the staff, the spear, the torch, the scepter, and focus. Maybe that’s because all of those weapons have another particle effect (sparks, fire, rainbow glow) and weapons can only have one? Or is it a bug or just inconsistent?

I just don’t know. Maybe its a bug, maybe its intentional (perhaps it was determined that the movement for those two weapons was too much and left out?).