Guild Wars 2

I’ve recently made my first elementalist. She just hit level 11 but still does not have the weapon swap ability. The other professions I tried already had before level 11. So I’m wondering, is my character bugged? Or do elementalists just get it later? Or do they never get it?

Elementalists don´t have weapon swap. Instead they have the different attunements.

Elementalists have Attunements (your F1-F4 skills). These attunements give you 5 different skills per attunement, effectively giving you 20 skills at a time. This is balanced by the inability for Elementalists to have a weapon swap.

As others have said, elementalist don’t have weapon swap, instead they can switch attunements. Switching attunements also counts as a weapon swap for sigils on your equipped weapons.

Both eles and Engies are unable to weapon swap . Eles have twice the weapon skills of other classes through attunements already if imagine how game breaking it would be if they were given 40 weapon skills

The fact that attunement swap = weapon swap is a fantastic boost for ele over what other classes have.
Lots of things proc on weapon swap and since an ele can do it every couple of seconds means a big advantage if you build/trait with that in mind.

Rainforest.5926:

… Switching attunements also counts as a weapon swap for sigils on your equipped weapons.

OMG. I did not know this…and I’ve played since release. Granted, in my defense, I’ve only played my ele sporadically and he’s just level 25, but still

/my powers of observation are amazing.

Contiguous.1345:

The fact that attunement swap = weapon swap is a fantastic boost for ele over what other classes have.
Lots of things proc on weapon swap and since an ele can do it every couple of seconds means a big advantage if you build/trait with that in mind.

Yes and no. Since all the on swap have a cooldown anyway being to swap faster than the cooldown doesn’t provide much of an advantage. On the other hand it is a kitteneaper since you only need one of the sigil whereas other people would need one on each set but you also lose the ability to have two different on swap effects.

Picking up and dropping certain bundles also count as a weapon swap. Both actions count as a swap.

Batdogi.7142:

Rainforest.5926:

… Switching attunements also counts as a weapon swap for sigils on your equipped weapons.

OMG. I did not know this…and I’ve played since release. Granted, in my defense, I’ve only played my ele sporadically and he’s just level 25, but still

/my powers of observation are amazing.

The same goes for the engineer. Even using just swapping to the med kit counts as using a heal skill. Its the sole reason all of the “on heal” bonuses from traits and sigils have ICD. but swapping in and out of kits for them counts as weapons swapping as well.

Khisanth.2948:

Contiguous.1345:

The fact that attunement swap = weapon swap is a fantastic boost for ele over what other classes have.
Lots of things proc on weapon swap and since an ele can do it every couple of seconds means a big advantage if you build/trait with that in mind.

Yes and no. Since all the on swap have a cooldown anyway being to swap faster than the cooldown doesn’t provide much of an advantage. On the other hand it is a kitteneaper since you only need one of the sigil whereas other people would need one on each set but you also lose the ability to have two different on swap effects.

Oh very yes. It’s not as simple as that. For example there’s a heal skill that fires on weapon swap and a food that clears conditions on heal skill. Think about it. Not many people know that. There are other combos too.

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Contiguous.1345:

Khisanth.2948:

Contiguous.1345:

The fact that attunement swap = weapon swap is a fantastic boost for ele over what other classes have.
Lots of things proc on weapon swap and since an ele can do it every couple of seconds means a big advantage if you build/trait with that in mind.

Yes and no. Since all the on swap have a cooldown anyway being to swap faster than the cooldown doesn’t provide much of an advantage. On the other hand it is a kitteneaper since you only need one of the sigil whereas other people would need one on each set but you also lose the ability to have two different on swap effects.

Oh very yes. It’s not as simple as that. For example there’s a heal skill that fires on weapon swap and a food that clears conditions on heal skill. Think about it. Not many people know that. There are other combos too.

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The food refers to the #6 skill. This the same as the rune sets with various on heal effects like Rune of Tormenting applying confusion.

I haven’t tested it so it is possible Sigil of Renewal is counting as a heal skill but that would be a bug at best since it would be inconsistent with other things which heals not counting as a heal skill, sigil of water for example.