Guild Wars 2

When you have a drawn weapon and swap to the shield, a sword will appear out of nowhere and fly into place on the shield, like in the intro video to the Super Adventure Box. Currently, drawing the shield itself will not activate the “flying sword” animation. Is this a bug? I hope so, and I hope it gets fixed!

its glitchy for me to say the least..

Sometimes the sword will fly down on drawing the weapon or on switching to it but at least 60%+ of the time i use the super shield all i see is a faint shimmer of light come down and vanish before it hits the shield. Like the light in the area is reflecting off what should be the sword flying through the air but the game has failed to load it successfully.. If you get me lol.

You’re an engineer using the shield, yes?

For whatever reason, the only way I’ve found to get the full animation to play on my engineer is to equip and unequip a kit. Then the full animation with the ‘flying sword’ will play when the kit is stowed and your shield comes back out.

Simply drawing your shield only triggers the spin as engineer.

+1 engi bugs!

It’s not just on engineers. I have the same issues on my warrior.

Only way I can get the full animation to play is to either weapon swap with the shield already drawn or gather nodes while the shield is drawn.
Simply drawing the shield only yields the spinning animation – no sword dropping.