Guild Wars 2

It would be awesome if we could setup weapon sets that we can easily switch between out of combat. Having to search through bags or the Hero screen in between fights is annoying and can be dangerous in the open world. I know we aren’t supposed to have the weapon switch because we have stance switches in combat bla bla bla, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have access to this feature out of combat.

I know other games have macros that you can setup to switch weapons but I haven’t found this feature in GW2.

My thought exactly! It’s ridiculous really what I have to go trough every time I want to switch a staff for two daggers between fights for example. Not to mention that by having no weapon swap slots elementalists have less inventory space. Sure, only by a little but it’s still true.

If every class can equip two weapon sets and swap between them with a push of a button, same should be possible for elementalists as well.

Only difference should be that they wouldn’t be able to swap while in combat.

it’s a sticky situation. If pressing “~” switched weapons out of combat, i would, at the very least, always start with my staff and spam my swiftness buffs before switching to d/d. So, as long as i initiate the combat, i can, at the very least, give myself about 45s swiftness for the battle, something i couldn’t really do alone with d/d.

I am using swiftness as an example cuz i have the most experience using my staff just for swiftness buffs, but i’m sure the same methods could be applied other ways.

Another example— i could get 25 stacks of might with d/d out of combat, switch to staff and unleash some lethal AOE.

Albeit, you could theoretically do both these things currently, but having to manually switch weapons lowers the motivation to do that all the time. Not to mention having your inventory take over the screen makes you vulnerable.

I would like an easier way to switch weapons too, but like i said— it’s a sticky situation :P

VikToRiuS.5426:

My thought exactly! It’s ridiculous really what I have to go trough every time I want to switch a staff for two daggers between fights for example. Not to mention that by having no weapon swap slots elementalists have less inventory space. Sure, only by a little but it’s still true.

If every class can equip two weapon sets and swap between them with a push of a button, same should be possible for elementalists as well.

Only difference should be that they wouldn’t be able to swap while in combat.

No they did this because mages are able to switch between attunements,
but i agree, all stave skills work the same (for me) and sometimes i want to get another weapon when im fighting, a weapon that will suit me better in that situation.