Guild Wars 2

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

edit: I’d also like to note that there’s an odd bug, or perhaps not explicitly stated anywhere, that if you equip a 1h weapon and have an offhand-only weapon in your inventory, it will automatically equip the offhand. I tried to just have my axe equipped the other day, and Howler would auto-equip and I could not unequip it. Kind of annoying.

This is not a bug. If you want to equip two different 1H+1H sets, using the same off-hand, you can make use of this, and only buy one for example.

Exactly, the problem is that you loot items you can equip aswell, there is no bag available which prioritizes the gear you are actually wearing.
About 2H weapons taking up 2 slots … I’m not sure that would be efficient, inventory will be full much sooner. But it would be a step forward at least, and be better how it currently is.

The fact that you can’t wear a disabled off-hand with a 2H weapon is quite annoying when it comes to the setup of your invetory. As a thief, I like to swap between some amount of weapons, including the shortbow. The problem is now, that when I go from shortbow to dagger+dagger for example, it leaves a spot open, and a drop will fill it. Later, when I want to equip my shortbow again, my dagger will be in the middle of my drops. I always have to place it back to where my weapons belong in my inventory, and it annoys me quite a bit, and I think I’m not the only one.
I’m here with the suggestion to make it how it was on GW1. Let us equip a dagger with a shortbow for example, but have the dagger disabled (in the off-hand spot). All your weapons in your inventory will remain in place (a certain amount of slots), and nothing else will really change.
I think we should be encouraged to use more weapons sets than we can handle and this change would support it.