Guild Wars 2

So I was able to get my hands on one of these cool staves, finally have a staff I like with acceptable compromise. (bones aren’t quite my thing but at least it’s not skulls.)

Usually when receiving a new wep for the skin I instantly salvage it, reskin my ascended and move on. However this time I thought hey I’ll slap it on for fun, and to my surprise on my mesmer it gave me the weapon set of Dual swords.

For those who don’t understand what I mean by this:
I have a staff equipt and my weapon skills are [Mind Slash], [Blurred Frenzy],[Illusionary Leap],[Illusionary Riposte], and [Phantasmal Swordsman].

-Now before I go on, I need to point out that [Illusionary Leap] is bugged with this weapon. It will not spawn a clone and goes strait to cooldown. ALSO all clones spawned use [Winds of Chaos] -

Personally; bugs, being unable to ascend, balance issues of going to PvP with the same looking weapon and no obvious indicator I switched weapons aside. I EFFING LOVE THIS!

Was this intended to be a melee based staff for all players, and [Illusionary Leap] is just bugged? (wish it was account bound so I could try on other classes) or is this some sort of bug left over from Dare Devil?

I personally really like the touch of being able to directly melee with staff but have no real interest in playing DD, thus having this on my mesmer is a God send.

If anyone else has this and had a similar experience please share, I’m kind of hoping even if unlikely that this was intended and some skills are just bugged awaiting a fix.

Odd; is it repeatable?

I tried googling but couldn’t find it- there was a thread the other day saying that there’s a certain sword new in HoT (can’t remember the name) that when equipped on revenant acted as an axe. So it looks like it’s a bug not limited to this staff.

Yeah I think it’s just a bug. That’s just my opinion but makes the most sense to me. However it is a cool thing and if they would make similliar intended weapons like this in the future that would be pretty sweet.