Guild Wars 2

The thing I miss most about weapon swapping is the ability to have a different weapon for different situations. On my mesmer alt I’m using sword/pistol for soloing, and swap to staff for large events or places I want to stay ranged. But even though elementalists have 4 attunements to work with, compared to other classes 2 weapons, they all work at a similar range. If I want weapons at different rages for different styles of play I’m forced to switch out from my bag, and even then sometimes the situation changes mid-combat.

An idea I had for a way to remedy this, without just giving elementalists a weapon swap and therefor 8 sets of skills to use, is to let us have 2 weapons, but tie them to our attunements. When you switch attunements, the game will set you to the appropriate weapon as you set up before hand.

The simplest way to do this, and one without a UI to create, would be to say the first weapon slot corresponds to fire and water attunements, and the second to air and earth. In this scenario elementalists would still start with fire and water attunements, but not learn any more until level 7, when they would get the other two at the same time.

A more versatile approach, but one which would require a special UI to set it up, would be to let you choose for each element which of your two weapons to use. So outside of combat you could choose to use your staff for fire and air attunements, and dagger/dagger for water and earth, for example. In this case I don’t know if it should be allowed to have 1 weapon for 1 attunement and 1 for the other 3 or not.

In either case, you could just leave your second weapon slot empty to achieve what we have now with all 4 attunements tied to a single weapon.

All Ele weapons are made (at leat in theory) to fulfill some main duties.
So playing with dagger you will have mobility skills and with staff you will be able to keep enemies on distance.

By binding weaps to attunments you will receive moslty 2 unfinished half-means, each losing on functionality.

My god they really need to address this!
The only 2 proffs that can’t weapon swap are Ele and Engineer. Why the hell does mesmer need a weapon swap and not Ele? There are so many key abilities in Staff and good dps in scepter/dagger. It’s a pain -_-

I would like to see in-combat weapon swap for elementalist but there should be heavy downside for doing it because having weapon swap for elementalist would be HUGE advantage. I’m thinking something along the lines of locked out of all attunements for 10sec, can’t swap back for 10sec should do it