Guild Wars 2

Lately I’ve been fiddling around the idea of using different weapon sets for different situations. For instance I might try shortbow+axe/warhorn and other times I might try shortbow+longbow. It would be nice to have a quick way of doing this. A game that did something like that was Diablo 2. You could easily switch between two different weapon sets.

Why would this be good? Well I think primarily for the convenience factor, but it’s existence could encourage players to partake in weapon set swapping when they may not have otherwise thought to do it.

I made a screen of what I am talking about below. I’m not a graphic designer so pardon the bad image editing. You might argue that your average user might get confused by this or just not like it. I disagree with that, but if need be they could put an option to disable the swapping of weapon sets and hide all related UI. Obviously you could only weapon set swap out of combat.

OMG, I though I was the only one to think about this… Yes, weapon set swap would be great, even if the cooldown was longer than the regular weapons swap. Im hoping Anet is hearing this out, since it doesnt really damages the balance of the game, specially if the cooldown for this is long, and it solves some issues too.

How many times have I tried as a ranger to fight from close with a monster, but am currently using lb/sb setup? I have to leave battle, which sometimes is impossible, and then GO to the menu, THEN drag the weapons, then equip my sword. And no, weapon set swap should be available in combat too, because it allows players to change their tatics depending on the monster that it is fought. Right now, if you dont know the monster, and you brought the wrong equipment, your dead.

Please ANET, read this and think about it!