Guild Wars 2

So much for that.

Yup… and I was so happy when i read the patch notes.

As I feared….
Great fix. :\

I blew 190 gold buying a Decorative Molten Jetpack in preparation for this change.

So much for that.

Working as intended.

VIVorcha.7853:

Working as intended.

Can we get an ANet response on this? Is this working as intended?

Didn’t see any changes mentioned in the patch notes. Or am I going blind?

huwpewpew.6075:

Didn’t see any changes mentioned in the patch notes. Or am I going blind?

“Weapon skills that hide the player’s weapon will no longer hide their back-slot item.”

DISAPPOINTMENT! gosh… e.e’

Phineas Poe.3018:

huwpewpew.6075:

Didn’t see any changes mentioned in the patch notes. Or am I going blind?

“Weapon skills that hide the player’s weapon will no longer hide their back-slot item.”

I think everyone misunderstood that patch note.

Kits are not weapon skills. They’re utilities. That had nothing to do with kits, never did.

What that patch note actually changed was that certain thrown weapon skills would hide weapons (in an attempt to “simulate” the weapon being thrown, I assume… throw weapon, its not in your hand any more). Those skills would also hide your back item at the same time for some reason, which made little sense. Ranger Axe immediately comes to mind since all axe skills are thrown skills, which essentially made your back item blink in and out of existence constantly when using Axe.

That’s what was fixed in the patch. Your back item now stays when using such skills.

Its still not perfect, your offhand weapon still disappears even when you’re throwing your mainhand weapon (Ranger axe / warhorn will make both axe and horn disappear when you use any of your axe skills, for instance) but at least its an improvement.

What a joke. =/

I want to suggest that everyone uses “/bug” and reports this issue. We have posted about it for over a year now with no true fix. All I can think to do is annoy every Anet employee in every fashion that we can until they change it just to stop getting bug reports on it. As far as I am concerned, every engineer player should “/bug” report it once a day if need be.

It’s absurd that our only option to get things addressed is ‘be incredibly annoying about it,’ but that’s looking like all we can do.

This complaint (thread) is like saying ‘conjure still replace weapons’. When you have the back piece displayed your weapons are wielded, and equipping a kit replaces your weapons.

Granted, ,there should be a way to customize the kit aesthetics like there are ways to customize weapon aesthetics, but that is a different argument.

Mountain

Effex.3049:

This complaint (thread) is like saying ‘conjure still replace weapons’. When you have the back piece displayed your weapons are wielded, and equipping a kit replaces your weapons.

With all due respect, take a moment and look at the photo I posted.

You really think that this “complaint” is unjustified?

If they’re going to be hellbent on making Engineers have no reason to wear cool back pieces, at least fix the clipping issue where our back pieces reappear the second we start attacking. Because it looks awful.

“Weapon skills that hide the player’s weapon will no longer hide their back-slot item.”

Even if it read “Kits no longer hide their back-slot item” it doesn’t say anywhere that it makes the kit backpack (hobosack) disappear. It just says it doesn’t make the backpiece disappear. Which means they’ll both display and clip horribly…like they do.

Phineas Poe.3018:

I blew 190 gold buying a Decorative Molten Jetpack in preparation for this change.

So much for that.

Just logged in to say God Day & Um.
I saw this while scrolling through the engineer subforum and I got that agressive mandril/revealed werewolf/Saw the Arc of the Covenant sort of shocked face when I saw how much gold you spent. Hopefully Arenanet gives you 100g and a cold compress for your pain and suffering.

Again, God Day & Um.
(also arenanet’s profanity filter is tooo good)

I’ve already resold it. I never equipped it on my Engineer.

johnsonade.9547:

… and I got that agressive mandril/revealed werewolf/Saw the Arc of the Covenant sort of shocked face …

laughed so hard

It’s showing my back slot item. Underneath the kit back graphic. I’m wearing two backpacks on my lowbie engineer. Hotfix this kitten, jesus, is anyone even working?

I stopped using most kits about a month ago for the majority of my play time on my Eng and switched to a pistol/rifle build. Got tired of most combat kits in general, the only ones I keep on run with are the med pack and tool kit and those 2 are mostly for the tool belt functions.

Takes a bit to get use to when you aren’t trying to rely on kits as a main damage source but it can be rather fun. Kits in general become rather boring after a while and can be down right frustrating since they all seem to have been designed to be useful in certain situations but you can only trait into making at most 2 function decently.

It also allows me to enjoy the cosmetic visual of my weapons and back piece free of obstructions. Maybe kits in general are too reliant for this class and should be adjusted further to not feel necessary. Perhaps allow Eng to wield a melee weapon without a kit and further tune up turrets and gadgets

At least then people would feel like they have equal options instead of forced into nades or FT as a main source of damage.

Celwina.2598:

It’s showing my back slot item. Underneath the kit back graphic. I’m wearing two backpacks on my lowbie engineer. Hotfix this kitten, jesus, is anyone even working?

Don’t hold your breath. I’ve probably reported that bug a thousand times since I first noticed it in beta.

+1 to the disappointment here.

I’ve basically stopped playing engineer, since I can’t stand how the kits clash with my T3 Sylvari armor.

Almost made an engineer. Then didn’t. Hope they fix this.

rodadams.5963:

+1 to the disappointment here.

I’ve basically stopped playing engineer, since I can’t stand how the kits clash with my T3 Sylvari armor.

“Oh look, less people are playing Engy, what should we do?”

“Cater to fixing the classes with higher population.”

Wtf?

johnsonade.9547:

Phineas Poe.3018:

I blew 190 gold buying a Decorative Molten Jetpack in preparation for this change.

So much for that.

Just logged in to say God kitten.
I saw this while scrolling through the engineer subforum and I got that agressive mandril/revealed werewolf/Saw the Arc of the Covenant sort of shocked face when I saw how much gold you spent. Hopefully Arenanet gives you 100g and a cold compress for your pain and suffering.

Again, God kitten.
(also arenanet’s profanity filter is tooo good)

LOL!!!! @ the cold compress and the beginning of your post! Awesome almost spit out my water at the screen!

I’ve been real hesitant to login lately because this sortof thing. Is it really too much to ask that something that’s been a problem since beta be fixed by now? I mean we don’t really have any legendaries to look for, the kits don’t do as much damage as they should, the very LEAST we should have is better cosmetic options, they don’t have to see our kit pack even in PVP there’s just too much that’s happening for them to do anything about it. Do backpacks really need to be on the engineer anymore (kit versions)?