Guild Wars 2

You learn something new every day.

I have always ignored weapon sigils that activate “on weapon swap” for my Elementalist main, since they can’t swap weapons. (I have a level 80 Engineer as well, who I figured was in the same boat. But I don’t play him nearly as often).

Only now, after two years of gameplay, did I stumble across a blurb from someone that indicated my assumption might be all wrong. So I WIKIed “Weapon Swap”, and sure enough:

• Engineers can trigger on-swap effects by changing kits; elementalists do so by switching between attunements.
• Switching to an environmental weapon will also trigger on-swap effects.

Right now sigils say “when you swap to this weapon while in combat”. I understand that they probably state it this way for brevity’s sake. But you don’t look at sigil tooltips very often, so couldn’t they more accurately say “when you swap to this weapon while in combat or change attunements/kits”?

Just a suggestion. A super-easy suggestion to impement that would’ve saved me two years of wallowing in ignorance.

Probably won’t happen, as it’ll take too much development time away from the Living Story.
/sarcasm

But seriously… they still haven’t even added a note/hint to “Unique” items and the fact that you can only equip one of such an item while still being able to buy more than one, which happens to be the polar opposite to the very definition of “Unique”.