Guild Wars 2

OK, my main weapon set is dual daggers. I want my second set to be the single pistol with off-hand empty for ability called “Repeater.” I only have the single pistol for the second set and game drags my off-hand dagger from set 1 (dual dagger) to the second set. So now, I get the off-hand dagger abilities along with pistol abilities. Tried switching pistol to set 1 and daggers to set 2, still no difference. This can’t be right.

It is right. It simplifies the two sets. In so many games before you would need multiples of the same weapon to do this. If you wanted D/D and D/P, you would only need to have one dagger in your main hand, instead of buying two.

The weapon sets are not intended to be empty, with the exception of being at level 1 starting out.

It is a QoL feature, not a bug.

So the Off-hand empty abilities are worthless? I see your point but I don’t understand why the abilities would be in the Hero/Skills and Traits/ Weapon Skills.

Those are temporary abilities for the start of the game. Remember when you created your thief and you had no off-hand weapon? This is why. The thief is special in this case because it’s 3rd/middle ability is a combination of your main and off-hand weapons. When you start out, without an off-hand weapon, you would have only 2 abilities rather than 3. Take any other class and they have 3 abilities for the main hand, and 2 abilities for the off-hand. It’s just a special situation with the thief and it’s variable 3rd weapon ability.

The special thief that is not so special… Thanks