Guild Wars 2

Is the back item incorrectly classified as a weapon to be hidden during some skill animations (like your weapons disappear during certain skill/chat animations), instead of as armor?

I haven’t done a thorough testing of what skills and on which classes this happens, and I’m not sure if this happens with other/all back items or with skills of other/all classes, but I know that during certain skill uses (throwing down traps) as a Ranger (and thief, I imagine) the Holographic Dragon Wings back item completely disappears for a second or two.

This may be due to the triggering of the ‘throwing down’ animation, but why would the back piece disappear unless the back item is incorrectly tied to weapon displaying, which is hidden during some animations, instead of as armor? So, when throwing a trap your weapons disappear while the animation plays…the back item is armor, not a weapon, and so should not disappear. With the back item disappearing during trap throwing, it would be equivalent to becoming completely naked or just having your boots disappear while throwing the trap if this issue was instead with another piece of armor that was incorrectly marked as a weapon to be hidden during the animation.

Tying this also into other animations, I’ve also seen back items disappear along with the weapons when “/dance”ing. I don’t know why “to prevent clipping” is the reasoning for their removal during this act, but I do not consider it to be valid; clipping during boxed animations is expected, this does not mean you remove all items that may clip. If you did hide all the items with major clipping, we would all be dancing naked as the armor does plenty of clipping while “/dance”ing.

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I originally meant to simply mention the wings disappearing during trap throwing, but branched out to related issues while writing this. No need to give a response, I do not expect one. Just bringing an issue to your attention that you may be unaware of and also giving my opinion on a related topic.

Back to the game.

this happened to me too, except that i used the skill ride the lightning and right after the skill animation finished my holographic shatterer wings dissapeared. The only way was to untick and retick the hide/unhide button on the back armour slot. It’s annoying to keep having to do this ^^; i hope it will be fixed soon!~

I think this might just be a thing with back items, my charr plushie usually disappears whenever I attack

I think all back Items do that during certain attacks. I’ve seen a guild flag and guild backpack do it too.

Yep, pretty annoying bug.

same thing happens to some weapons when using skills like when im playing as a water ele and auto attack my daggers and back item will all vanish

Could be worse, see attached image. :P