Guild Wars 2

Eles should be able to equip different weapons to attunements so the player can play with all the skills he wants without getting stuck with 1-2 skill sets that the player hates, Like Air and Water with S/D. A good example is you can have D/D for your fire attunement, Staff for Water/air and Scepter/D for Earth.

Any objections?

Honestly , Anet most likely is having a hard time balancing 40 static skills. You want to mess that up badly here.

Not gonna say it is bad or good. But im gonna say dont complain when ele skills are even more UP cause now they can combo in crazy ways , and you MUST do that to be effective.

There is a reason that ele cannot swap weapons… because with the atunement they got more skills than everyone else, even with only one weapon.
I can understand it might annoys you I guess… but can’t have everything.

Zeefa.3915:

but can’t have everything.

I know, it was only a suggestion.

I’m very happy with my Ele, thought at the beginning it would be better to be locked out of attunement swap while in battle and have a weapon swap – but after learning how to stance dance I realize the choice they made from the get go was the best.

Now, if they’d enable us to swap waepons efficiently outside of combat I wouldn’t complain – but then again I would also like to run 2 templates of traits that I can swap out in PvE even if doing so without a trainer cost me 5 silver instead of the 3.5 charge currently…

So I don’t hope for much.

I believe during early beta Eles did have weapon swap. But as it turned out having 40 skills makes you rather OP since you have something for every scenario. Although your suggestion still limits the amount of skills to 20 it might make the ele too strong since it will be too versatile. But only testing could prove if its overpowered or not.

With great versatility comes a distinct down-tuning of our skills. I’d love out of combat weapon swap though and an increase on the duration of our staff crowd control skills after the nerf to Evasive Arcana and combo finishers in general.

MarzAttakz.9608:

after the nerf to Evasive Arcana

You mean the fix, right?

RinKyu.4317:

MarzAttakz.9608:

after the nerf to Evasive Arcana

You mean the fix, right?

Yep, just like the ranger animation fix.

I think a more realistic suggestion would be to allow weapon swapping in combat on a much longer cooldown. What’s the standard cool down? 10s? I would like to see eles have a 1m or 2m CD. That way if you’re running d/d and you come up to a keep, you can swap with your staff instead of running 300m away to an area with no mobs and waiting till you get out of combat, going into your hero screen and switching to staff.