Guild Wars 2

Removing skills from picked up aspects with “weapon swap” button (like any bundle) instead of skill 5 (like tonics) would be very welcome if aspects are going to appear again in the future episodes.

The tonic mechanic was fine in Cliffs where you rarely had to fight and transformation had no time limit, but in both Dry Top and LS where you can pick up (often randomly) respawning aspects by mistake and use them instead of your weapons, it is an annoyance which can lead to you getting downed or jumping/rushing off a cliff to death. Maybe even interacting to get aspects instead of insta-receiving them would’ve been better for a zone full of enemies.

I would like them to expand the UI and give us an enviromental weapon swap.

If I could hit that +1 more than once I would. Can’t tell you how many times I aspect into a fight and hit ` in hopes of swapping to my skills.

With the new event at Crash Site #2, this is getting more annoying. I finally got used to using 5 to swap out, but now I’m also using 5 to drop that magical vine-stunning bar – and it obviously doesn’t work and I’m stuck with bundle skills.

Plus, if you use skill 5 to swap out a millisecond after the aspect expires, mostly likely you use a skill on some roaming mob and get crippled by in-combat speed…

+1

Interact to get aspects: there’s been many times I’ve gotten aspects by accident when running around, once when right by the Champ Giant.

Swap button instead of skill 5. Swap button is intuitive to drop this and get weapons since they are replacing your weapon skills.

This might not even be possible. Aspects are literally treated as a transformations, not a bundle, which is why they use 5 to “drop” them instead of weapon swap. Try to swap one of your utilities while you have an aspect and you’ll see. And I have to think there’s a distinct reason they made them transformations instead of bundles, probably something to do with the time limit (I don’t think bundles can be limited, or at least not limited with a clearly visible timer).

I agree it would be much more convenient if they could be swapped out of, but I question whether its possible.

I agree. If it’s possible to treat them as bundles it would feel a lot more intuitive for combat.

It would also open up that 5th slot for more aspect abilities.