Guild Wars 2

How offhands worked in GW1:

You could dual wield an offhand and a 2h, and the offhand stats wouldn’t count.

You could switch out a 1h for a 2h without the offhand being unequipped and dumped in the inventory! (And subsequently salvaged by a greedy mouse hand)

I’m sure it’s been suggested before but here it is again, in case anyone from anet can confirm/deny a feature like this in the works.

There is a reason you cannot dual wield a 2h weapon and an off hand weapon, and it is simple, YOU ONLY HAVE 2 HANDS! Nearly every class gains weapon swapping at 7th level (the Elementalist and the Engineer do not because of their own mechanics).
As such you can swap a 1h +offhand to a 2h with a simple push of a button.

You… Are missing the point.

You don’t actually hold a staff in one hand and a focus in the other, the offhand is disabled while they’re both “Equipped”

It’s a simple inventory management trick that means you don’t have offhands getting dropped at random spots in your inventory, and furthermore it was one of the great features of GW1 that’s missing in GW2.

If you have more than 2 weapon sets (My guardian has 3×1h, 2xoh and 3×2h for 9 total) and switch them out a lot, offhands getting dumped in amongst the blue loot is a pain.

In fact I never use my GS or Hammer on my guardian specifically because it dumps an offhand into my inventory, even though they’re otherwise very good weapons.

That would only affect Elementalists and Engineers, though, since everyone else has 2 weapon sets which means they can easily have 2-4 weapons equipped (thus, not in the inventory) at any given time, whereas the Elementalist/Engineer can only have 1-2.

Esplen.3940:

That would only affect Elementalists and Engineers, though, since everyone else has 2 weapon sets which means they can easily have 2-4 weapons equipped (thus, not in the inventory) at any given time, whereas the Elementalist/Engineer can only have 1-2.

Nope. Let me give you an example. Say you’re a guardian with sword/shield and scepter/focus (totally random, just go with me here)

You equip a hammer. The sword and hammer switch places but the shield is dumped at the first open slot in your inventory!

If the shield stays in place but “Disabled” then switching out weapons won’t put it somewhere in the inventory, problem solved,

gasp our inventories have been compromised!

Can you just put a giant disabled on all the stuff in my equipment panel so that I don’t have to worry about holding it all? Thanks.

I guess we could always use our ‘Scelerite Karka Shells’ as hands… Right?

I know this and I hate this, you can sell weapon you dont want to

weapons need two things:
1) two sigils for 2H weapons
2)binding for two 1H weapons (with this using just 1 inventory space)

of course I dont believe this will happen, but there is another way and it is fractal exotic bag….working great