Guild Wars 2

Not sure if it’s just me this is happening to, or if it’s something to do with my settings, but I’ve noticed since the last patch that other characters around me have their weapons drawn while just standing in an idle state.

The screenshot I got was of three people with sunrise, zenith GS and super GS skins, all drawn and not stowed on their backs. I notice that some people with shields have them drawn and carried around now as well, and even people with staves too.

I’ve been through my settings and although I altered the frame limiter to unlimited and the character model and quality both to medium (thanks to the abolition of server-side culling), I can’t find any reason why this would be happening. Other toons I’m looking at are just carrying around weapons unstowed and it made me wonder what exactly happened.

Has anyone else noticed this, or perhaps their character doesn’t auto-stow their weapons? Mine always has it’s stowed automatically, not that I mind looking at unstowed weapons but it just caught my eye yesterday while waiting for an invasion map, and again today.

Same here and nothing seems to fix it.

You can hotkey to equip/unequip weapons. Maybe they want to show off the weapons?

It’s probably the result of how everything is loaded now.

Regardless of your settings, when loading players/objects, it first loads the nameplate, then the low quality model and finally what they really look like.

The low quality model appears to have the weapons out by default. When the high quality model is applied, it probably doesn’t reset their weapons and thus, they will probably stay like that until they take out their weapons and put them away.

Yargesh.4965:

You can hotkey to equip/unequip weapons. Maybe they want to show off the weapons?

Hotkeying isn’t the problem for me, my weapon is stowed all the time and I have a hotkey for mine, it’s all the others around me. If they wanted to show off the weps they’d adopt a stance while holding it, but no these are standing ‘idle’ with weapons drawn but relaxed, as you can see in my attachment.

same here, i see others with weapon drawn but relaxed

Dev response in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Merged-Players-have-weapons-glued-to-their-hands