Guild Wars 2

Why classes lose your weapons when cast some spells?
Elementalist for example when cast earth spells with scepter, the scepter disapear of your hands, and the same cast with lightning, the scepter is here, the same movement.
Guardians, Rangers when cast self heals the weapons disapear, why this? programers errors?

This is Unacceptable for one 2012 game….i love gw1 but gw2 idk…

Actually, in that pic of yours, the scepter is still there. Albeit, quite difficult to see, because of the colouring. It’s the HoM scepter, no?

Yes that pic is casting lighting spell, when you cast a earth spell for example, skill 1 earth the same scepter disapear, and yes is a HoM scepter.

Ugh, sorry, misread your post. Maybe you should have used the Earth one as an example to illustrate the disappearing?

Look the same movement casting earth spell, skill 1, the scepter disapear, and weapons disapear in other professions too

i kinda wish the ele could do magic without a weapon. just the hands. idk, my own opinion. makes it more like they have the magic inside themselves rather than through what they wield. but yeah, i understand where you’re coming from. i also wish arcane magic was its own attunement

Hmm, I don’t see why the scepter would disappear — I assume this is a graphical glitch? It will probably be fixed at some point. For now, be happy the skill actually works. :-P

@ blakkrskyrr: Maybe a staff, scepter, or some other item is required to focus/channel/direct the elementalist’s power, so it manifests into a spell rather than (possibly dangerous) magic “noise.” Or, it could be like playing a musical instrument — your knowledge and skill are what allow you to play it, but no matter how good a musician you are, the guitar sounds don’t come out of you directly.
As for “arcane” being its own magic type — maybe if they make a full-blown Mage class in some future expansion, you’ll get what you wish for. However, the emphasis of the class is on controlling the elements through magic, and adding a fifth attunement would probably overcomplicate and/or overpower the class.