Guild Wars 2

Hi there, are we ever going to get weapon sets like in gw1? Of course there has to be some rebalancing because switching with some weapon swap runes are a bit too much with this.
I find it hard to believe that people doing pvp or wvw are not sometimes in a situation that requires a totally different set of weapon(s). But in combat you cannot switch(what genius came up with this btw?)
It would allow d/d ele’s to do something else besides picking their nose while they are in a keep trying to defend and almost nothing can be done.

Woops, no-one remembers or perhaps there is no need for it. Not one is getting into that situation where you go, it would be nice if I could access my other weapon set now.

Well first off, eles do not have access to weapon swapping because they already have more skills than a class with weapon swaps.

Second off, allowing multiple weapon sets wouldn’t work from a balance point of view. There would be literally zero reason not to take Sigil of Perception/Bloodlust/Corruption/Life. And what about skill cooldowns? Would you really allow for Eles to have two weapon sets with separate cooldowns? Because let me tell you, that would cause some serious issues with Water-based healing. And what about Warriors with their weapon swap cooldown reduction?

Third off, even if you somehow implemented this, the only thing that would happen is people asking for in-combat trait templates so that they can make their sets even more powerful. And guess what, that would just about break the game completely.

Well weapon swap should be different than weapon sets I agree. I am not saying I know the answers =)
But it feels kinda stupid for my d/d ele to defend a keep in wvwvw and not being able to switch unless I walk almost the opposite of the battle. If that even works.
And to be honest i do not care if it makes people stronger fighters, it makes everyone more powerfull and might even make it a bit more diverse.