Guild Wars 2

When i play my engineer at 80 i feel less rewarded for getting cool weapons.

Its true pistols are not glamorous due to their small size and yea we dont have a lot to go after anyway…but this is not what truley bothers me.

As kit use is pretty important to the class. Most builds will involve using atleast one kit…may it be flamethrower grenades bomb what have you…..but when you use these kits you cannot see your weopon. The flamethrowers last trait even encourages you to keep the flamethrower out for long periods of time. All this time spent with my weopon unseen.

Now before many of you brush this off as a minor issue as its just cosmetic….let me remind that the end game rewards in EVERY aspect of the game are only cosmetic. So i have to grind/farm or what have you in hopes of earning a cosmetic award…weopons being the funnest to earn for most. So its disturbing in a cosmetic driven game that i cant see my reward half the time due to kits hiding them….and as it stands now theres no way to get cooler looking kits.

Solution.
For flamethrower/elixer gun. Instead of you pulling out a flame thrower or elixer gun YOUR current weopon becomes the flamethrower/elixergun…you would still get the backpack on your back showing the weopon choice, and a hose coming around to your current weopon “pistol or rifle being your only options anyway”. Then we could assume the engineer modified his weopon to shoot these things.

Pros. Rifle already looks like these guns. Pistols are already assumed to be modified to shoot flamethrower and glue anyway.

For Bomb kit/grenade kit/tool kit/med kit. I would replace the large backpack with your rifle holstered to your back or shield holstered to your back. Duel pistols would still showed holstered to your sides. This way, you can atleast still see the weopons you earned. The backpack has no cosmetic upgrades as it stands now so the trade is well worth it.

In closing. Make it so we can see our weapons even when using kits so that we dont feel as shafted for going after legendarys and not being able to see them incase we decide to speacialize in heavy use of a certain kit/kits.

Sound good?

to simplify the wall of txt. “make it so we can see our cosmetic weapons we earned even when using kits”.