Guild Wars 2

So, over the years, it’s been pretty well justified by people as to why certain classes do not have a weapon swap option. The arguments for leaving things as they are make sense to me, and I’m not looking to change that.

What I’d like to see is an “out of combat” weapon swap ability for these classes.

Currently, GW2 can detect when you are out of combat and change the cooldown on swap to be instant, or, when in combat, make the cooldown be 10 seconds.

What I’m proposing is a cooldown “in combat” of infinite time (impossible to swap), and a standard “not in combat” cool down of 0 seconds.

Naysayers will skip most of this post and simply reply with “you can already do that through the equipment panel”, however this out of combat swapping would also resolve the issue of main-hand/off-hand weapons going back into inventory into the wrong bag, wrong spot, etc.

we have an out of combat weapon swap… you open your bag and double click a different weapon, and voilà, weapon swapped!

in all seriousness though, I would like the option to have weapon swapping out of combat for those two classes.

for engi, there is no weapon currently good enough to be an off set for hammer.

Aside from that there is Lightsbane :P (depending on your gamemode I suppose) I think this would be pretty helpful, it would also allow more flexibility to those classes. However, I’m not sure how that would affect PvP/WvW. Perhaps it would still need a cooldown even out of combat in those areas.

Would be an interesting option, but I’d prefer to go one step further: finally give us the option to save a bunch of different builds in PvE and WvW (PvP got such stuff, didn’t it?). That’s something I miss so much when I think of other MMOs – saving builds and gear and then changing all with just two clicks.

ok i walk in wvw and a random ranger hits me wile im on a kittenty weapon set what do i do?

You die?

/15 charrs