Guild Wars 2

Fast Hands: Weapon-swapping recharges 5 seconds faster. Sometimes this doesn’t work and it still goes on a 10 second cooldown. Is it bugged? Or am I missing something?

Its bugged, and has been bugged for awhile.

Quick summary of the bug – with fast hands trait:

-First in combat swap is 10 seconds(bug). Subsequent combat swaps are 5 seconds(correct).

-If you drop out of combat, and swap weapons while out of combat, swap timer becomes 5 seconds(bug – it should be 1 second for out of combat swaps like normal)

- Swapping weapons out of combat (and getting the 5 second “out of combat” bug) resets the in combat bug. So next time you enter combat, your first swap is now 10 seconds again.

-If instead of swapping weapons out of combat, you don’t, and then enter combat again, you will maintain the 5 second swap.

So the only way to work with the fast hands trait in its current form is: 1.) you always have to deal with the 1st combat swap bug of 10 seconds. 2.) once you end combat, do NOT switch weapons unless you enter combat again. 3.) this means try to end combat with the weapon set that you use to “move around” in (ie GS).

yea, it’s been bugged forever… Recently described the bug in-depth… ANet has acknowledged the bug but as far as I heard, they pretty much gave up on trying to fix it… they said it’s very difficult to fix (not sure why…) so we will probably never get it working properly unfortunately…

Also… Volley is still not being affected by the Crackshot trait… how difficult is that to fix??! seriously…