Guild Wars 2

immediately after setting a Ranger’s trap, the Swap Weapon Set function will fail to work for a short moment.

how to reproduce:

1. equip Fire trap, viper’s nest, spike trap, frost trap, or healing spring on a Ranger character.
2. have two different weapon sets equipped.
3. use the Trap, and when the cast bar fills and the trap succeeds, quickly press the weapon swap button

the result: weapons will not swap. no other skill in the game causes this, not even Thief traps or Dragonhunter traps

Could be to do with the 0.5 second arming time of the trap, essentially it’s an aftercast on all ranger traps (only ranger traps have this aftercast). So maybe that is blocking your weapon swap but it’s supposed to.

as of today, Thief traps now have a similar 1-second arming time, yet it does not block the ability to swap weapons. please give Ranger traps a look, and how they can’t swap weapons during the arming time!

I noticed this after I started getting better with the shortbow/axe condition ranger. It can completely mess up the flow of weapon swap rotations after placing traps which can cost you in raids.

It would be good if anet could fix this issue.