Guild Wars 2

Anyone else find the slotting kind of weird? on a norm I use Dual sword/Staff
(I include Defense, Deny, and CC to be utility.)

OH Sword: 4 Utility / 5 Phantasm

Focus: 4 Utility / 5 Phantasm

Torch: 4 Utility / 5 Phantasm

Pistol: 4 Phantasm / 5 Utility?

GS: 4 Phantsm / 5 Utility?

Staff 4 Defense / Chaos storm?

I kind of forgive staff… mostly because 2,3 makes sense for it… clone generation and phantasm and unlike sword or gs they are not your 2ndary attacks (exluding side utility potental ei Blurred frenzy is also a deny)

But does anyone else find it weird when they go to hit 5 and it ends up not summoning your phant and you go “Crap I wasted my utility!”

It’d be nice to set each weapon skill to whatever slot you wanted and it stay when you swap or change wep. (but then I guess people would just do 2,3,4,5 rotations and be done with it)

Maybe I’m just blowing wind since it’s adaptable practicing with each weapon, but I do kind of question why it’s like this?

Also I take “Nope, just you noob l2p” as an answer :p

Is it inconsistent? Yes, even for Aquatic Weapons, skills that generate clones, etc.
Does it matter? No. Most folks will be able to make the adjustments as they switch weapons. Likewise, it’d be pretty bland. The only that needs to be consistent, imo, should be auto-attack, which it is for Skill 1.

I ultimately agree with you… I guess some part of me just wishes I could put all phantasms for the off hands and GS on 5 and focus on 2,3,4 :p

It’s worse on an elementalist.

Their skills are all over the place.

I think skills are ordered based on their CD, so skills with longer CDs will go towards the back. Chaos Armour and Chaos Storm are an exception because Chaos Storm used to have 40s CD, same as Chaos Armour; and they didn’t change the order when they reduced Storm’s CD.

Embolism.8106:

I think skills are ordered based on their CD, so skills with longer CDs will go towards the back. Chaos Armour and Chaos Storm are an exception because Chaos Storm used to have 40s CD, same as Chaos Armour; and they didn’t change the order when they reduced Storm’s CD.

Yeah this exactly.
It makes it very weird ofc, but there is a fairly real reason for the ordering.

I personally would prefer that the 4 Utility / 5 Phantasm standard was across all offhand weapons at the very least, but it’s not a huge deal that it’s not. Would be nice though.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Staff&oldid=204844 (WARNING: OLD ENTRY)
Staff was also 4 Phantasm / 5 Utility before we have wind of chaos as #1.