Guild Wars 2

Do you know how to sheath your weapon?(put it away)

Go into your options and then controls, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list and find “show/stow weapon”, bind the key to anything you want(I use Z). Brandish your weapon for all to see!

There is also another really neat trick with this too, very annoying as well.

Tap 1 and your bound key repeatedly and very fast! (1z1z1z1z1z1z)

This will cause your character to start the animation(with sounds and special effects!) for attacking then put the weapon away. Its very fun and looks awesome with guardians/mesmers/elementalists!

I also personally feel that this helps to break combat in some situations to regain out of combat run speed but I have not truly tested it.

Assigning a button to weapon sheathing doesn’t really affect your gameplay. The only way to get out of combat is to physically be out of combat (run away from enemies or kill them.)

I may just be imagining things, but I feel as though it may cancel the autoattack, at least for a split second. If you prefer to leave auto-target on, then your character has the tendency to keep autoattacking your target (or picking new targets) as you run away. If you can prevent that, then yeah, you may get out of combat a little faster.

It can also help interrupt your attacks that NEED to be interrupted and are hard to do so otherwise (e.g., guardian scepter auto-attack when hit by confusion.)

It’s not super-effective by any means, and it’s definitely not instantly breaking combat, but it’s something. I have it bound anyway just for ease of taking screenshots and whatnot, and I sometimes use it for this purpose since it’s there.

Sheathing weapons will interrupt any channeling skills, it’s a good way to stop some of the annoying skills that keep attacking even after your enemy is dead or when you want to run away. For example, rangers’ rapid fire and elementalists’ arc lightning.