Swapping between staff and other weapons
Personally, my invisible bag is my last bag slot, so instead I have my staff in my very first inventory slot. The biggest hassle for me is when my dagger is in my first bag and I have to scroll down towards the bottom for my focus. I’m thinking a better way might be to keep your weapons in your last bag and click on the icon on the left for your last bag so you’re not scrolling down for your OH.
If you’re in PvE, you can just use ice bow instead and only equip staff for the speed.
There’s no way around it, it’s always a pain in the god kitten kitten . I hate it too — we all do.
If Elementalist could simply weapon swap, it would put the profession on equal ground with the others.
I will never delete my Elementalist but the profession is no longer my primary because in my opinion, the other professions are more balanced.
If Elementalist could simply weapon swap, it would put the profession on equal ground with the others.
yep.
Also give Polymorph or Supply Crate similar skill as Elite right?
That would finally make ele be on the same balance level as other classes.
not.
Did I ever tell you, the definition, of Insanity?
If Elementalist could simply weapon swap, it would put the profession on equal ground with the others.
yep.
Also give Polymorph or Supply Crate similar skill as Elite right?
That would finally make ele be on the same balance level as other classes.
not.
This response flew right over my head. Apologies. Also, my comment was only in my opinion.
True.
If Elementalist could simply weapon swap, it would put the profession on equal ground with the others.
yep.
Also give Polymorph or Supply Crate similar skill as Elite right?
That would finally make ele be on the same balance level as other classes.
not.
Yeah um… this.
We can’t have in-combat weapon swap. Our weapons are already designed to be (and balanced around being) incredibly versatile. We’d be properly broken if we could combo together, say… focus fire field, scepter/focus blast finishers, then D/D blast finishers. FAir burst with the ability to swap weapons? Might stacking on one set then switching to Staff for an AoE nuke?
Some reasonable out-of-combat weapon swap would be really nice, sure, but if it’s ever to be implemented for Ele it might as well be done for everyone else too.
We want build switching! Previously used sets of traits and gear you can save, and quickly and easily switch to OOC. If you don’t have gear with exactly the same stats/upgrade components in your inventory, you can’t load the build, there we go.
Fancier things (like build sharing) could be dealt with later once we had at least this basic feature! -_-
There is a reason why Elementalists do not have weapon swap like other classes.
It would give them total of 50 weapon skills if they would have.
It’s 40 weapon skills more than other classes… would be way too OP.
Same goes for Engineer. It doesn’t have weapon swap because it does have them as utility skills called Kits.
Plus, each utility skill bring a unique 2ndary skill to their toolbelt which doesn’t share cooldown with primary utility skill.
It’s pretty obvious why Engineer and Elemenalists do not have weapon swap option, and to do it, they have to do it out of combat and manually.
If you really want to bring something fresh and balancing to any class, consider also the impact on other classes.
Did I ever tell you, the definition, of Insanity?
there is a huge difference , between elementalist attunements and engineer kits . kits have no cold down and engineer can fight and swap from range to melee in any moment (eng weapons are all ranged but for example bombs or toolkit are melee ) .
there is a huge difference , between elementalist attunements and engineer kits . kits have no cold down and engineer can fight and swap from range to melee in any moment (eng weapons are all ranged but for example bombs or toolkit are melee ) .
yes, but they use utility slot in exchange for it.
For me, it’s an expensive trade off.
Because if not, then could always grab some elixirs, turrets or some other tools like Googles.
Yet remember that weponary is limited for Engineer.
Pistol/Pistol/Shield or Rifle.
Classes are balanced in case of how they work.
The only problem are traits which sometimes, turn out to be extremely powerful in some builds and situations.
And that’s what I have suggested.
Point out a constructive, reasonable and fair suggestion for a change to desired class, that will not shake off the balance and will not have an enormous impact on other classes too.
Did I ever tell you, the definition, of Insanity?
Here’s to hoping both ele’s and engi’s get an out of combat weapon swap next feature pack. Or a way to designate certain inventory slots for unequipped offhands.
Buy exotic fractal 20 slot bag. Place the bag in your LAST inventory slot. Place all weapons armor pieces there. If you got more then 20 buy two exotics (place both as last bags). Then when you switch weapons/armor, they go straight back to the ‘last part’ of you inventory, not mixing up with the rest. I’ve gotten so used to it that it’s a piece of cake. If i vendor noone of my exotics show in the first part of list cause they are safely at the end.
I can switch very fast with this method too, because the weapons stay in the same slots most of time, so you find them easely.
Legendary weapons can be hidden now!
No excuse anymore for not giving ‘hide mounts’-option
No thanks to unidentified weapons.
No excuse anymore for not giving ‘hide mounts’-option
No thanks to unidentified weapons.
Buy exotic fractal 20 slot bag. Place the bag in your LAST inventory slot. Place all weapons armor pieces there. If you got more then 20 buy two exotics (place both as last bags). Then when you switch weapons/armor, they go straight back to the ‘last part’ of you inventory, not mixing up with the rest. I’ve gotten so used to it that it’s a piece of cake. If i vendor noone of my exotics show in the first part of list cause they are safely at the end.
I can switch very fast with this method too, because the weapons stay in the same slots most of time, so you find them easely.
Yup , its the easiest way.
The problem is anet increased the duration of how long you are now in combat. In early 2013 and late 2012 it was easy to swap.