Guild Wars 2

With the implementation of right click on skill to quick select another (Finally! and TYVM Anet!) I’ve been wondering if giving weapon sets the same treatment would also be desirable.

Now I am NOT suggesting having more than the current two equipped weapon sets. That would still remain. What if you could right click on skill 1 and choose a new mainhand or two-handed weapon from your inventory? If your weapon set used an off hand, you could right click on skill 4 to choose that. Like choosing skills, you could not do this during battle, and the current swap of 2 weapon sets would still be the same.

The benefit of this would save us from opening the inventory screen for those of us who using different weapons for different situations or even weapons with different sigils for different situations.

For example I main a thief in pve. I prefer d/p, staff, and sb. Most of the time my swap sets are d/p & sb. Sometimes I prefer staff over sb. With this setup I could keep my 2 sets as d/p & sb. When I want stfff for some battles, I could right click on skill 1 and select staff. This would replace my equipped sb for the staff in my inventory and move the sb back into inventory. When the battle was over and I wanted the sb again for motility, I could right click again on staff #1 and choose my sb and move my staff back into inventory.

The biggest problem I see with this is that your inventory can quickly fill up with blues and greens that would also fill the choices when you right click on weapons skill. So, there would need to be a way to filter the list. Possible solutions are only account/soul bound weapons show on the list, weapons in certain bags like equipment or invisible, or the user can mark (new functionality) preferred weapons which are the only ones to populate the right click list. Being able to mark preferred utility skills would also be desirable, but that’s a topic for another day.

Thanks for reading, and what are your thoughts? Is this something that would be nice to see some day? What weapon sets would you choose between if you already find yourself popping the equipment screen up to change weapons depending on the situation?

I don’t know. I certainly wouldn’t ever use it. I have my inventory sized so that I can have it open and still see what I’m doing and I know exactly where in my bags all my spare weapons are, so using this sounds far more confusing for me than simply opening my inventory and equipping them that way.

But I can imagine that some people might find it useful.

The big problem I see is that it would be a lot of work for Anet to implement. The right click to change skills option is just adding another way to access an existing function, this would require building a whole new interface. Especially if you want the ability to customise which weapons appear in that list. I’m not saying it can’t happen but I suspect it wouldn’t be something we’d see done any time soon.