Guild Wars 2

The Legendary weapons available to Engineer (besides Flameseeker’s Prophecies) no longer have special animation skills for when you use Grenade Barrage; Grenade Kit tool belt skill. I have both (Predator and Quip) and just tried this out. Don’t know whether this is a bug or intentional. I’ve included two screen shot of my Toon; one wielding The Predator, the other Quip, having selected the Grenadier trait and using Grenade Barrage.

I hope it goes back to the previous special animation of Grenade Barrage since these weapons’ footfalls, unique glows and skills are only seen when they’re being wielded; using kits remove all special effects of these.

This is like half the reason to go for The Predator in the first place.

I love my engineer and have quip. I love and hate using kits. The kits are awesome and fun to use but as soon as I equip a kit, my footfalls and glow disappear. I would love to be able to throw confetti grenades and bombs but mostly I want to keep my glow/footfalls when using a kit.

I don’t care if there’s a sound change for the skills (though that would be nifty).
Changed animations would be wonderful, but I can live without that.
Please let engineers keep their glow/footfalls when using a kit.

Most people spend a lot of time building their legendary to get the special effects and skin only to lose it when you use your class mechanics.

I wonder if this was any other Legendary that lost their effects (i.e. Legendary Greatswords) if there would be more of a plea from the community. I hope that Anet devs read this and resolve the issue if not address the reasons why and make some sort of statement. HoT is taking up a bunch of their time so I’m not expecting anything relatively fast but hopefully something.

There is already a consolidated & very extensive thread about all the bugs haunting the engineer since 06-23.
I suggest using that one, also to keep it active (and pushed). Our class definitely needs a ton of polishing. Unfortunately Anet didn’t leave feedback in it yet. -.-