Guild Wars 2

For one I feel like Engineers who have no desire to use kits should be able to swap between the Pistol and Rifle loadouts , is there some breakage here I’m not seeing?

And the second, kits like grenade,mine,bomb should replace tool belt skills when activated so we still have access to our guns IMO. Idk it just looks silly to me running into the middle of a battle with nothing but a backpack, not to mention to me it’d raise our effectiveness. Im sure similar things have been repeated, but after looking at the main site and seeing the whole “symbol/badge of guns” representing our class, the Actual limitations I feel complete contradict that BA visual representation.

that’s a neat idea i haven’t heard yet (at least not put in quite that way);

equipping a kit (in its utility slot) replaces the F slots with the kit skills rather than supplying secondary/supplementary pseudo-utilities.

Although, that would make things pretty frenetic during combat, and perhaps a bit overpowered since you’d essentially be equipping two fully realized weapon sets at the same time. why not just have pistols in 1-5 and rifle in F slot then too? (see what I mean?)

Neat idea though!

From a game perspective, though, re: pistol/rifle swaps … the swap key (~ by default) is also the drop bundle key, and is for every class, so when we equip kits, it becomes the drop bundle key. something tells me the benevolent anet designers are having issues with conflicts between kits, bundles, and swaps, and so opted to remove weapon swaps in our class since we get kit swapping that is only bound to the 1sec GCD, and they didn’t want to bother resolving conflicts between kits and other bundles. just a guess, though.