Guild Wars 2

Presently, it is possible to have 2 weapon sets equipped and to swap them while in combat. There are also cases, though, where you may want to switch to a different set for something while out of combat. In order to do this, you need to open your inventory or hero pane, find the set that you want to use, and either double click or drag it to the appropriate slot. Depending on how much you have in your inventory, and what weapon sets you have with you, this can be time consuming, and covers up a large portion of your screen. If swapping from a 2 hand weapon to 2 1 hand weapons, this can also be made more difficult as the items will often end up in different places in your inventory than where they were before.

Would it be possible to add an out of combat weapon swap as well? This could work similar to Guild Wars 1, with a small list of 4 icons (or more) that could be clicked on the bottom of the screen. The first item dragged into one of these icons would be set as the primary weapon, and the second would be set as the offhand. The items would remain in your inventory (or equipped if that’s where they were). Ideally, when you clicked on one of these icons, whatever you currently had equipped would take their place, to make it easy to swap back. For example, if I have my Sigil of Perception Sword and Focus equipped, and my Sigil of Force Sword and Sigil of Battle Focus in “Slot 1”, then clicking Slot 1 would equip the second set, put the first set in my inventory, and change “Slot 1” to equip the first set on click. Alternatively, If I have My main sword and another sword equipped, and “Slot 1” has my main sword and a focus selected fro out of combat speed boosts, then on click, my main sword would stay equipped, my offhand sword would go to my inventory, my focus would be equipped, and “Slot 1” would be updated to Main Sword + Offhand Sword.

This would make it much easier to have different sets ready for different situations, but, since it could still only be used out of combat, wouldn’t result in any increased power.

I support this

Would be a nice convenience for sure

Going a step further, I’d like an easy way to switch weapons AND traits for different situations; maybe even gear too. When switching from dagger to staff, I might want to switch the renewing stamina trait to blasting staff, for instance.
It’s a real pain coming up to a wall in WvW that I’d like to nuke with meteor shower, and having to switch to staff and change my trait(s). That may sound lazy I suppose..

I had a similar suggestion post which got completely ignored, maybe yours can make a difference.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Additional-weapon-swapping/first#post1696948

I 100% agree. It gets so annoying switching from staff to daggers while ooc playing an Ele especially since my inventory is always close to full and the daggers always go in different places. This goes with armor as well, I would keep my second set on me if I had a spot for it. it just takes up too much room and is definitely time consuming. I’d love an option for this with a trait template as well. +1

There is a feature that helps with this a bit, as long as you don’t care where in your inventory your items are going. Go to your Hero panel. If you right click on any armor piece or weapon you get a drop down list of everything you have that can go in that slot, color coded by rarity. Click to equip the one you want, it will swap. Watch out for swapping in a two hand item for two one handers, as the second one hander will get dumped into your top bag.

It means knowing which items are the ones you use and which are recent loot you’ll be ditching, and you don’t get tooltips on the listed items to help with that, but it is much faster than searching a giant inventory.

QoL things we would like more YES
Rushed buggy zergy content NO

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@Alienmuppet – I agree, it would be very nice to have an ability to swap traits all at once rather than just one at a time, I just figured this would be a lot less work.

@Donari – That’s interesting. I never knew about it before, definitely helps with some things, downside I found is, I have several Zenith blades, and they all show up the same in there, but it helps for sure.