I don’t know if this is intended but I personally think it really annoying. Every time I gather something the sword makes the sheathing sound when I am done harvesting. Also the same happens when you land from gliding or break off gliding.
That’s an issue with many legendaries. I don’t think ANet knows how to fix weapon draws in those situations, or they would have done it by now. The issue started sometime last year (around summer, I think) and hasn’t properly been fixed ever since.
ANet hasn’t remarked on this at all, to the best of my knowledge.
The reason our weapons (not just legendaries) sheath has a long (and boring) history. Briefly, gathering would bug out (and give ruined materials) when a character was in combat, under various specific circumstances. After attempting to resolve the individual occurrences (problematic in itself), ANet decided to treat gathering as a special mode: there’s out of combat, in combat, and gathering. (This is why we can’t swap tools unless “ooc”.)
So it strikes me that this can be solved by not automatically sheathing when beginning/ending gathering. I have no idea how big a headache that is to code.
tl;dr sheathing happens with all weapons, not just TSB; ANet hasn’t commented on the status of this issue.
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