Guild Wars 2

I am an Engineer and I have a weapon in my inventory called Speargun. Whenever I equip it it automatically goes to my Aquatic Weapon slot. (Note that I tried to equip it in my Main/Off-Hand weapon slot(s) but I was not able to.)

The description for the weapon says nothing about it being aquatic.

I have a couple questions regarding aquatic weapons:

1. If weapons don’t specify in their description that they aquatic how would someone know without first equipping it?

2. Are there any weapons that can be equipped in both the Aquatic Weapon slot and the Main/Off-Hand slots?

Thanks!

-T

P.S. The primary thing that caused me to ask this question is I was browsing the Trading Post today looking for better weapons. Since I am new and I don’t know which of the Engineer weapons are aquatic I didn’t want to risk buying anything.

1. Aquatic weapons are tridents, harpoon guns and spears.

2. No

Would be awesome if you could use those tridents
as spears on land.

Only weps an Eng can equip on land are pistols, rifles, & shields. As a point of reference, hit H to open your hero panel, and click on the icon on the left to look at your weapon skills. That will show you the breakdown of which weapons you can use and where.

As an Engineer myself, I stick to grenades underwater. I’ll use the speargun/harpoon gun for net and thats about it. With grenades I’ll just use Elixirs like Elixir U to throw grenades faster.

The quick answer is to open up your hero panel and look at the weapon skills tab. It will show you all of the weapons you can equip and where, as well as what skills they give you.