Guild Wars 2

Now I understand why eles cant swap in combat and I’m fine with that, but how about a hot key we can use so when we are out of combat it can be a simple one click process vs having to hit H then locate the weapon set you would like.

Id really like to see something like 3-4 hot keys for weapon sets so I can swap between Staff, scep/dagger and whatever else we’d like.

Before this turns into another combat swap up/op blah blah blah thingy.

It would be great, and has been requested since first beta weekend.
Reply back then was that they wanted to do it properly and make a complete template system, so you can switch whole sets of gear, skills, traits and such in a rapid manner.

im with you on this ele’s with true weapon swap would be insane, just looking for something to make it easier during gameplay

+1 to this. I would love to see this.

Hell this would be good for all classes. +1 for you guys

GW1 had a template system, for all your skills and whatnot, and you could save and link your entire build to your party members who could then save or load up the template.

I would like to see a similar system

Yes, we really need this. I hate to open my bag or Hero windows and look around for my main weapon + other trash loot gears.

Give ele weapon swap it makes no sense not to. With other classes it allows to stack up power of prec on a secondary and then use a different sigil on a primary. The staff and DD as a combo is not that different to a Warrior with GS rifle. It seems unfair that Ele doesnt have it. Although would need a cool down that is impacted by attunement. So you can not swap when attunes are on cool down. (To stop Nuking through all daggers and then all scepter etc)

Talindra.4958:

if they do that now, the other prof will scream their lungs out! :P

I am Guardian Primary and I am screaming my lungs out in favour

Barnabus Stinson.1409:

Give ele weapon swap it makes no sense not to.

It makes plenty sense, and if you read through some of the older threads you’ll learn why.

Out of combat swap is fine for me, though maybe it could be made part of a larger build swapping system like we had in Guild Wars 1.

Out of combat weapon swap would be great in PvE, but still overpowered in WvW/PvP.
Imagine enabling Obsidian Flesh and then bum rushing in with Ride the Lightning.

BRAiNZ.7480:

Out of combat weapon swap would be great in PvE, but still overpowered in WvW/PvP.
Imagine enabling Obsidian Flesh and then bum rushing in with Ride the Lightning.

And that is why. :-) People are creative enough to find overpowered combos with out of combat swapping. Imagine what they coukitten with in combat swapping…

Aye, gief out of combat WS. Its a pain switching between staff nad D/D or S/D
Cant see any reason why we cant have it

BRAiNZ.7480:

Out of combat weapon swap would be great in PvE, but still overpowered in WvW/PvP.
Imagine enabling Obsidian Flesh and then bum rushing in with Ride the Lightning.

But there’s nothing stopping that now, it’s just a pain.

Out of combat weapon swap, or the trait swapping the devs mentioned way back would be awesome for every class, not just elementalists.

Why stop at just weapons?

Maybe it’s just me, but I would like it if all classes (not just Elementalists) had two different gear ‘templates.’ When out of combat, a single key would allow for swapping to the other template. If a slot in the template you are swapping to is empty, it would just retain what was in that slot before the template swap was initiated.

That would be cool if you could set up gear sets anything to make some ingame functions smoother and less cumbersome

lol i was about to make this thread myself. its good to know that there are others who think the same way. this would also be good for engineer.

Yea, a weapon swap for OUT of combat would be such a great adding to the game! I’m already tired of having to click “H” to just give a swiftness buff to my party… Since it’s out of combat, I don’t see how it could break the game balance. It certainly would coop with the “play and not get ready to play” mentality of Arena Net.

BRAiNZ.7480:

Out of combat weapon swap would be great in PvE, but still overpowered in WvW/PvP.
Imagine enabling Obsidian Flesh and then bum rushing in with Ride the Lightning.

If this actually becomes an issue, then simply make it so every time you swap weapons all boons/self-effects/whatever Obsidian Flesh-like skills are called are removed from you. It’d make everything on so many different classes easier.

An out of combat weapon swop is all I would ask for since it would be extremely OP if we could. I just hate fumbling through my inventory to find my focus or staff after I have looted about 6 of each. Nothing worse than equipping that blue staff instead of your exotic in the heat of a battle (after you run away to drop combat lol).

Seeing how the devs locked build and weapon switching in tpvp I wouldn’t hold my breath. But would be nice for hot joins, wvw and pve where u just mess around anyway

Yeah just a locked-in-combat weapon swap would be great. Having to go to the H menu every time is annoying. Just lock it in combat, and keep us two weapon sets, it’s not that hard. We’re losing 2 inventory spaces after all.