Guild Wars 2

The fact that you can’t wear a disabled off-hand with a 2H weapon is quite annoying when it comes to the setup of your invetory. As a thief, I like to swap between some amount of weapons, including the shortbow. The problem is now, that when I go from shortbow to dagger+dagger for example, it leaves a spot open, and a drop will fill it. Later, when I want to equip my shortbow again, my dagger will be in the middle of my drops. I always have to place it back to where my weapons belong in my inventory, and it annoys me quite a bit, and I think I’m not the only one.
I’m here with the suggestion to make it how it was on GW1. Let us equip a dagger with a shortbow for example, but have the dagger disabled (in the off-hand spot). All your weapons in your inventory will remain in place (a certain amount of slots), and nothing else will really change.
I think we should be encouraged to use more weapons sets than we can handle and this change would support it.

Obviously two handed weapons should take up two inventory slots, then they would always fit properly.

You could always have an Equipment bag/box in your inventory. That would prioritize the dagger dropped into your inventory to that specific bag.

Rauderi.8706:

You could always have an Equipment bag/box in your inventory. That would prioritize the dagger dropped into your inventory to that specific bag.

Yea until you loot an equipment-type drop.

Exactly, the problem is that you loot items you can equip aswell, there is no bag available which prioritizes the gear you are actually wearing.
About 2H weapons taking up 2 slots … I’m not sure that would be efficient, inventory will be full much sooner. But it would be a step forward at least, and be better how it currently is.

Agreed, this deserves some kind off fix and I think OP has the simplest solution. I carry one of each weapon type and swap out of combat often, so I encounter this all the time.

The worst part was when I was still using Rares and was always afraid Id forget and sell my sigil’ed gear by accident.

Yeah, I’ve been noticing this lately in dungeon runs, I’ll switch out weapons and I go crazy trying to find my single hand weapon that was split from my off hand.

Having a 2H equipped with the offhand staying in the slot it was (but disabled) is a fantastic idea. I absolutely hate scrambling to find wherever the game dropped my offhand when moving from 2H to dual wield.

edit: I’d also like to note that there’s an odd bug, or perhaps not explicitly stated anywhere, that if you equip a 1h weapon and have an offhand-only weapon in your inventory, it will automatically equip the offhand. I tried to just have my axe equipped the other day, and Howler would auto-equip and I could not unequip it. Kind of annoying.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

edit: I’d also like to note that there’s an odd bug, or perhaps not explicitly stated anywhere, that if you equip a 1h weapon and have an offhand-only weapon in your inventory, it will automatically equip the offhand. I tried to just have my axe equipped the other day, and Howler would auto-equip and I could not unequip it. Kind of annoying.

This is not a bug. If you want to equip two different 1H+1H sets, using the same off-hand, you can make use of this, and only buy one for example.

Yeah, I started playing GW1 shortly after GW2 launched, and I found it odd that GW2 didn’t have this function of disabling the off-hand slot like the way shields and focus items would turn off in GW1 once you switched to a two-handed weapon. I’m hoping they implement this in there next feature patch, whenever that may be.

Also, I’d love to have an updated version of the equipment bag in GW1 that actually has a feature that will save the order of weapons you have stored in it, or at least prioritizes the weapons you use most frequently and those weapons will be in the top slots. The current bags we have don’t quite cut it for me.

I’d like to be able to assign specific inventory slots to specific items, that way whenever they are not equipped they will automatically go to that specific slot (moving any item that happens to be in that slot to the next available slot).

This is how us ele’s feel :P.

Kenzo.6584:

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

edit: I’d also like to note that there’s an odd bug, or perhaps not explicitly stated anywhere, that if you equip a 1h weapon and have an offhand-only weapon in your inventory, it will automatically equip the offhand. I tried to just have my axe equipped the other day, and Howler would auto-equip and I could not unequip it. Kind of annoying.

This is not a bug. If you want to equip two different 1H+1H sets, using the same off-hand, you can make use of this, and only buy one for example.

What makes it feel like a bug is that the offhand that auto-equips is not shown as equipped in the hero panel, thus making it impossible to unequip. That, I believe, is a bug.

What has irritated me most about this bag system is that they should have LEARNED from GW …it was only in GW:EN that they finally decided to give us equipment packs that would hold your weapons and armor you use. I suppose now they might say it’s impossible to code it into GW2 ….or stay silent until they feel they can put it on the gem store for 800 gems or whatever ridiculous amount they would charge. Anet, don’t do this again…I am seeing signs of it starting and I will not buy into it. I will stop making any effort to support the game if it becomes clear they are just going to keep little QoL things like this out until the masses will cry to pay for them. Resettable attributes came along not even a year into GW. A year and a half later they decide to make traits adjustable without cost and out of combat…while I was happy for it…I still ask what took so long?

I know…it’s a game, but seriously…why can’t we have equipment packs here too and be able to swap weapon sets out of combat? Even Elementalists. Did all of you just forget everything you learned working on GW?

This needs to happen! Swapping weapons is SO annoying for this reason.

This is annoying me so much, that i don’t switch vom 2h to 1h weapons anymore.
Please change this.

Agree. Another solution would be to introduce a proper gear bag.

It would be a bag where only accountbound/soulbound gear gets placed in it. Or only gear can be placed in the gear bag if you unequip it or place it directly in the bag yourself (prevents acc bound exotic drops etc from cluttering the gear bag). Previously i used exotic fractal bags to try and do this but with ascended gear it no longer works. :/

spoj.9672:

Agree. Another solution would be to introduce a proper gear bag.

It would be a bag where only accountbound/soulbound gear gets placed in it. Or only gear can be placed in the gear bag if you unequip it or place it directly in the bag yourself (prevents acc bound exotic drops etc from cluttering the gear bag). Previously i used exotic fractal bags to try and do this but with ascended gear it no longer works. :/

no no no no, don’t suggest this, they might implement it instead of templates or easier switching :/
Plus, I really don’t want to have to deal with inventory for everything.

Well personally i think they should both be implemented. We should have a bag where only our gear goes into. Although the op’s suggestion would make such a bag unneeded in most situations. There are times where you would still want one even if its just to keep all your multiple weapons separated from your loot.

First world problems. lol jk.

IMO, it’s annoying but I don’t find it that much annoying to suggest a change. Still, it could be good to have a change.

knives.6132:

First world problems. lol jk.

I was just thinking this lol

It’s a minor minor inconvenience.

This is the main reason I don’t bother swapping weapons. Especially on my ele.