Guild Wars 2

A friend of mine picked a sclerite shield when he finally got his weapon ticket. He already had the backpack on his asura.

Imagine our surprise when we find out that when the shield is on the back, it covers the entire tentacled mess. Or, well, that was no surprise. The surprise was that when he grabbed the shield to wield it, the tentacles were gone for a second, then the whole creature skittered from the shield to his back and locked on as normal.

Seriously. Whoever designed the interaction of those two things, GOOD JOB!

I’d love to see a video of that!

It kind of sounds like you’re describing a bug I experienced with the gift bag back item on my Guardian. When I have my shield on my back my backpack won’t display. When I then wield my shield the backpack appears attached to the shield, then slides over to where it’s supposed to be. I have no idea why this happens, but I suspect it’s not intended.

That’s the behavior of all back items when you use a shield. It happens for backpacks too. It’s really amusing with the back banner, because it looks like it’s unfolding or something.

If it is a bug, it is a most awesome bug. At least now I am convinced the backpack is alive!