Guild Wars 2

I have a winning idea that would be both fun and financially rewarding for GW2. Imagine the dazzling colors as you or friends cheer each other on using pom-poms as a weapon skin? Sylvari characters already dance like cheerleaders, adding in the pom-poms would put the characters over the top!

When characters dance, or exhibit other emotes, do they have weapons (pom-pom weapon-skin) in hand?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

When characters dance, or exhibit other emotes, do they have weapons (pom-pom weapon-skin) in hand?

Nooope!

Negative.

Nein.

and No.

Endless Soul.5178:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

When characters dance, or exhibit other emotes, do they have weapons (pom-pom weapon-skin) in hand?

Nooope!

Negative.

Nein.

and No.

a bit of an exaggerated response considering that you actually can show your weaponskins while dancing

So the right reply would be:

Yes, if you want to show them

Can you? I was not aware of that.

Just tried it in-game…no weapons. Perhaps, you could provide the option I must tick to be able to show weapons when dancing.

Thanks in advance. =)

Just re-equip them while dancing
If they were drawn when you started dancing then they will show

ofc it is probably no official mechanic but still not some especially hard trick or anything shady either

Hmm…didn’t work for me. Sorry.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

When characters dance, or exhibit other emotes, do they have weapons (pom-pom weapon-skin) in hand?

I don’t know about emotes but you can hold one weapon in your right hand when dancing.
1) You have to use a skill first so you’re holding a weapon
2) type /dance.
3) hit weapon swap.
You’ll hold a weapon in your right hand while dancing. You can hit weapon swap again to switch to your other main hand weapon.

So, you’d be able to dance while holding one Pom Pom, but not two.

Oh, ok. I didn’t use a skill first…was just holding the weapon in my hand.

Well, tried that, as well. Didn’t work. I must have an odd client.

I went in game and tried it. It appears to work differently now. (It’s been months since I last tried this).

So what I found was
1) be holding a weapon
2) /dance
3) open up hero panel and unequip then equip the weapon(s)

You can hold both main and left hand weapons now if you unequip then equip, but swap no longer works to change to your alternate set. You have to use the hero panel to equip it first.

Ok. Well, I tried it with the Hero Panel first, but I didn’t ‘use the skill’ first when I did it. Just holding a weapon. I may try it again, next time I’m on.

Regardless, I’m not sure the whole ‘pom-pom’ idea will work if it’s that obscure with weapons and doesn’t work with emotes. (Do we have a /cheer emote in GW2, like we did in GW?) /shrug

Seems like an awful lot of work to hold a weapon in your one hand while dancing.

Endless Soul.5178:

Seems like an awful lot of work to hold a weapon in your one hand while dancing.

Probably because it’s a “bug” and not a designed feature of the game. It’s something players found out they can do, but it’s rarely done since it takes several steps.

Getting weapons to show while dancing takes like 2 seconds to do after you started dancing
Does really not seem like and awful lot of work to me

But considering that it is not designed intentionally by Anet i guess it wouldnt make much sense to introduce something like Pom Poms as long as there is no official function for it

Method I know of to display weapons while dancing is first you need to be in a combat stance that draws your weapon. Then /dance bring up the hero panel while dancing and unequip and then reequip the weapon(s).

I frequently have my ele dancing with her staff in hand, looking like a majorette in search of a marching band.

You can also display a backpiece by hiding and unhiding it while dancing.

thats exactly what i already wrote about how it works

But maybe people will understand it easier with your longer a bit more detailed explanation
Hero panel shouldnt be necessary though – works fine for me when just doubleclicking another weapon in inventory while dancing

Better add a new emote with the pom-poms included.

This was a suggestion for the game to create pom-pom skins for us to use.