Guild Wars 2

Hi,
I’m new, can’t seem to find the answer to this anywhere.

How exactly do offhand weapons work? When I equip it my primary weapon goes away. Is it an either/or kind of thing? If so, then isn’t it just another primary weapon?

Help!!

If your primary weapon is a two handed weapon, you won’t be able to use a one hand offhand with it. You want to pair your offhand with a main-hand or either-hand.

If your desired offhand is an either-hand, then you need to use the drop down — right click the weapon in inventory, and select Equip in Off Hand. Or drag it to the correct slot on your Hero Panel. Just equipping it will swap it into the main hand slot by default.

awesome thanks! I came from Lotro, where as an archer, you could use a sword if someone came in close. Was hoping it was the same, but, such is life.

Well, you can, you just need to equip ranged in one set and melee in the other, and hit the ~ key to swap between them once you level up to whatever level it is now that allows weapon swap. The swap is freely done out of combat and has a short cooldown while in combat.

Engineers and Elementalists don’t have weapon swap, as they have other things they swap in and out to change their weapon skill bar.