Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing for about six weeks or so, have gotten my first character to level 80 and I’ve started and deleted a few alts along the way.

By now, you’d think I would know how weapon unlocking works: start with two attacks, use those attacks to unlock the third attack relatively quickly, use the three attacks until the fourth attack unlocks, then use those four while the fifth one seems to take its time unlocking!

However, I’ve run into problems with my new level 23 warrior and “Harpoon Gun” — despite what I’d consider a “normal” amount of aquatic adventures and unlocking all five attacks with “Spear,” “Harpoon Gun” remains stuck on “two attacks, third 0% unlocked.” Last night I fought multiple battles with kraits with ONLY my Harpoon Gun (getting myself killed in the name of science a few times) and Split Shot remains stuck at “0% unlocked.”

I’ve tried switching which equipment slot I put the harpoon gun into, I’ve tried equipping ONLY a harpoon gun and NO spear, and I’ve tried different harpoon guns along the journey from level 1 to 23.

This certainly looks like a bug to me, but I can’t find any mention of it on these forums — has anyone else hit the same “wall” with unlocking weapon attacks, or can anybody point me towards a thread with the same issues?

Thanks in advance!

Update: definitely seems to be a bug, but fixed now — thanks (?) to the GM or whoever fixed this issue for me, not that I got any sort of update to my problem ticket.

I just tried some more underwater fighting a little while ago.

First fight: Third attack was still at zero percent unlocked, no progress as the fight wore on — enemy defeated and BOOM! “Such-and-such unlocked!” across my screen.

Second fight: Zero percent, no progress on the fourth attack at all — enemy defeated and the same thing — “Attack Name unlocked!”

Third fight: same thing — no movement as the attack “unshaded” or “un-grayed itself out” and then as soon as the enemy was defeated, the fifth attack unlocked.

Three fights, three unlocks — this might be a new record for speedy weapon unlocking — but I also had to wait 23 levels to get there.