Heh, i find myself once more considering “fanny packs”.
Was looking closely at the flamethrower, and once you remove the generic backpack you can have one flask at the hip, and another across the lower back.
Same goes with bomb kit, where the distinct element is a big keg (hello St. Bernard).
Grenades, tool and med kit could have distinctive elements at the hips.
And elixir gun could adopt something similar to flamethrower.
As long as ANet avoid (or minimize) back items with long draping elements (and given their reluctance on capes, that is almost a certainty) adding a lower back attachment point, and reusing the one handed stowed weapon points, should allow back items and engineer kits to coexist.
I guess they could even tie it into the back item checkbox. Box checked, give us the hip slung variant. Unchecked and we get the “hobo” version.
