Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m having some issues with this game that I recently bought. I am not able to attack using any of my primary weapons. Weird thing is, I am able to use them if I place them on the secondary slot. Is this a bug? Am I missing something here that’s gameplay related?

what profession are you in and what weapon were you trying to use?

Guildwars 2 has no “Auto attack” as you may be used to from other games.

What you do have is the 5 skills you gain from equipping a weapon or two.

As such, Equip you weapon, select a target and press 1 in order to use your regular skill for that weapon.

There is no such thing as a regular “attack” in GW2.

Also explain a bit more about your issue, What class are you playing, what weapons are you trying to equip?
Have you tried creating a new character to see if the issue remains?

Thanks for replying, guys.

I am a thief and I am trying to use two sets of weapons: dual pistols and dagger + sword combo.

For example, I won’t be able to attack using dual pistols when dual pistols equipped on the primary weapon slots. But if I move dual pistols to secondary slots (swap), suddenly I’m able to attack.

Also, I’m able to use skills just fine but it’s the “regular” double click attack and hold ctrl + right click “attack” that do not work. This is my first character, I’ve had other characters before that I’ve deleted but it was working for them.

Edit:

I think I get what you’re saying, Sevenix.

Double clicking initiates the attack? Without setting number 1 to auto-attack I would have to keep pressing 1 to attack?

If you equip no weapons, you cannot attack.
Your “Auto-Attack/Normal-Attack” will be weapon-skill #1.
You can set this to Auto-Attack (CTRL+RightClick) or repeatedly press 1 to attack.
Otherwise there is no “standard attack” like most games have.
Your only attacks are literally the 5 from weapons, 1 healing, 3 utility, and 1 elite. Beyond that, you can’t so much as punch a mob.

Now that that is cleared up, there are still other factors that would prevent you from using your weapons.

You cannot use any weapon until you have repeatedly used it to unlock all the skills associated with that weapon.
Two-Handers have 5 skills total, 4 to unlock.
One-Handers have 5 skills total, 4 to unlock: 2 in main-hand and 2 in off-hand position.
Off-Handers-Only have 2 skills total, both need unlocked.

At any given time your skills will unlock in order of 1-2-3-4-5. If you equip a sword and a dagger, and unlock all 5 skills (3sword,2dagger) then swap them from mainhand to offhand, you will need to unlock 4 skills again (2dagger,2sword) and will always go 2-3-4-5 in order of unlocking. Now if you switch the sword (now in off-hand) to a pistol, you need to unlock 4 and 5 again (pistol). then if you swap pistol to mainhand and dagger to offhand you need to unlock 2 and 3 (pistol again).
If a weapon has a #1 skill, it will always be unlocked.

You can only use 1 set of weapons up until level 7, then your second set becomes available on swap, and you can use them also as long as you have the skills unlocked.

Thank you. The problem was solved.