Guild Wars 2

So I’m playing a grenadier Engineer, and I’m getting sort of disappointed with the bugs with it, but also the construction of how engineers work.

Do weapon stats apply when you equip a kit? It doesn’t seem so, which is disappointing because Engineers only have one weapon anyways, so one would think it’s simple to just have the only active weapon bestow stats to kits… I’ve heard they are fixing this in an upcoming patch though, not sure.

Also, Short Fuse, a trait for Engineers… It says that grenade skills recharge 20% faster, but it doesn’t apply to the grenade kit? At least last time I checked it didn’t. So it’s essentially only useful for your toolbelt skill? Do I have that right?
Are there any plans of fixing that?

Finally, what’s the deal with my back item? If I have it as not showing, but I switch to grenade kit, it shows anyways! IE: Have a backpack equipped, don’t want to show a giant cluttered pack on my back, so uncheck the box in the top left corner of the icon for my back piece. It’s gone when I have pistols out. I switch to Grenades, it appears back. Anyone else heard of this? Is this on purpose? Are my grenades in my backpack?

thats a grenade back pack.
just look closely at it, its full with explosives.
as for traits it should apply them , but i thought the tool tip was just bugged

Grenades not scaling with your weapons is not a bug. It’s the same for other temporary weapons too, like Ele’s conjured weapons (although that gives you bonus power for a while). They do scale with power on your armour though, so it’s still okay