Guild Wars 2

I assumed it was a known issue, but I had a quick look through the forums and didn’t see anything about it, so here goes…

Occasionally while playing the game, the ability to weapon swap ceases to work. Regardless of how many times you press the tilde key or click the UI buttons, the weapon you currently have selected stays out.

The only way to restore the ability to swap weapons is to get out of combat and manually un-equip and then re-equip one of the weapons. From that point onwards, weapon swapping works normally (at least until it bugs out again).

I don’t know exactly what causes the issue. I haven’t had it occur with enough frequency to diagnose the circumstances under which it occurs. It typically happens around once a day while I’m playing either my Necromancer or Guardian (both of which tend to get stuck using the staff).

I’ve talked to a number of guildmates about the problem. They have all had it occur to them at least once or twice over the last few weeks. Some of them have had it happen to them while playing Ranger or Warrior, so I’m pretty sure the issue is not limited to specific professions and weapons.

Anyone else have this happen?

Just want to confirm that this has happened to me on multiple occasions as well. I have been unable to identify what is the possible culprit for the prolonged inability to swap (i.e. stuns/kbs/kds).

Have had this happen several times. One thing that helped was picking up a banner (might work with any other object that replaces your skill bar); upon placing it back down, the weapon swap button was no longer grayed out. Would be better, of course, if it just didn’t happen at all (especially during a boss fight, right after switching to your offset).