Alright, long story short, I settled on making the Flux Matrix focus as my primary offhand. It set me back 40 Mystic Coins, some amount of money, and 86 skill points. When I equipped it and went to see what it looked like in combat (I won’t bother discussing how poor most foci look when “sheathed”) I was extremely disappointed.
The item is hardly visible with the male light Heritage armor equipped and based on it’s position I’d assume the same is true for most armors. It’s position when wielded is around the wrist instead of something like being grasped in the hand. I’m hoping the lack of these animations is just a bug or a relic of the game being so new, but I fear for the worst when I think of how awful some Guild Wars 1 foci looked when equipped.
I’ve attached the most flattering image of the item I could.
