Guild Wars 2

I fully understand the whole reason for not having weapon swapping on the elementalist … but since I can open my inventory and swap weapons manually while out of combat, why don’t they allow us to use our actual weapon slots and swap normally as long as the character is out of combat?

yh i want this as well, i would also like in combat but that wont happen

I was thinking this a little while ago also.

I dont care for swapping in combat but to have a click of a button to change to another weapon while travelling or to prepare for a future battle would be extremely convenient.

Technically, Elementalists have 2 less inventory slots than all other profeesions without the weapon swap capability

I posted about this over a month ago. As a staff ele, I need to switch
out to dagger when Im getting to the main zerg in WvW (for Ride the
Lightning). Its a pain opening the inventory and swapping weapons.

When you switch back to your first weapon, the current weapon than goes back
to the first slot in your bags (near the trash drops). That than requires dragging
it back down to the bottom of bags near my other weapons.

Weapon sets would make it so much cleaner.

while I agree that out of combat weapon swapping would make the most common back and forth swaps a bit easier, there is still quite a bit of inventory weapon swapping to be done.

- staff for keep defense
- focus offhand for defending seige
- alternate dagger with sigil of corruption for stacking cond. damage

some kind of minimalist weapon swapping interface that would work with keybinds would be really nice. something like the skillbar, but where you assign weapons to keybound slots so you could equip specific weapons with a keypress (out of combat).

It’s a convenience issue that would be handy, but there are far bigger fish to fry with the class (RTL and MG pathing for example). It’s not hard to pop open the H screen and double-click on your Staff/Daggers quickly as it is.

New threads on this topic seem to pop up the moment the last one hits page 2-3…

Anywho, it’s generally a well supported idea, but as Mahanaxar said, it’s a “convenience” issue so it’s probably on the backburner. It’s been suggested since the BWEs so hopefully it’s somewhere on the to-do list. I’m in full support of this being done at some point.

Since the first reply touched on it, I’ll make a statement here: This topic is for out of combat weapon swapping. In-combat weapon swapping on elementalists would be horribly OP due to the spam of combo fields and finishers. It’s already 20 skills for the ele vs. 10 for other classes. Making it 40 vs 10 is flat out insane :P

Thunderbrew.7034:

I posted about this over a month ago. As a staff ele, I need to switch
out to dagger when Im getting to the main zerg in WvW (for Ride the
Lightning). Its a pain opening the inventory and swapping weapons.

When you switch back to your first weapon, the current weapon than goes back
to the first slot in your bags (near the trash drops). That than requires dragging
it back down to the bottom of bags near my other weapons.

Weapon sets would make it so much cleaner.

Get one of the “hidden” bags for your weapons

I really have no understanding of the logic that moderators use to perform the actions they do … there was no reason to move this thread.

That being said, I edited the title so that at least some semblance of context exists.

Anet is currently working on a more advanced version of this, that also allows players to swap trait builds and equipment, instead of just weapon swapping for eles.

It’ll take a bit longer, but all professions will benefit instead of just eles and engis.

ThiBash.5634:

Anet is currently working on a more advanced version of this, that also allows players to swap trait builds and equipment, instead of just weapon swapping for eles.

It’ll take a bit longer, but all professions will benefit instead of just eles and engis.

Out of curiosity, where did you get your information? They have posted nothing to that effect to my knowledge and I’ve been keeping up with their posts fairly well since release.

It’s been a while back, somewhere deep in the Elementalist forum. This isn’t the first time this suggestion has come up.

I’m gonna go ahead and rez this thread because it’s a great suggestion. There’s virtually no difference between giving us an out-of-combat weapon swap and me opening my inventory and swapping manually. It would just be a LOT easier if I didn’t have to dig through my bags to find what I want.

Add my vote for it. No reason to not have it since it can be done anyway.

I have an elementalist so would welcome this function.

But then again I think, how is this any different to other classes asking for a third weapon slot that they can swap to out of combat instead of having to open their inventory and replace one of their weapon sets.

e.g. A warrior running Greatsword for melee fights, has something and a warhorn in his second weapon slot for mobility, maybe he wants a third weapon slot for a ranged weapon that he wants to equip in WvW if he comes across a massive aoe fest he doesn’t want to jump straight into.