Overall I like the ele and have enjoyed playing it as my alt. Having said that the lack of a weapon swap system has allowed for a sense of tedium to set it. To clarify I’m not talking about hot swapping in combat, I understand we get the attunements.
What I usually do is run staff in WvW, however I usually like to switch to d/d for various reasons. The process for this is to open my inventory, double click on the first dagger, double click on the second dagger, then close my inventory.
The process to switch back to staff involves opening inventory, double clicking on staff. One dagger will go back to my weapons bag the other into general inventory. I move the dagger from general inventory so I don’t accidentally merch it later. Then I close my inventory.
This might seem fair but after you’ve done it more than 20 times in a session the whole process gets very tiring.
I propose slots to allocate weapon sets that we can allocated a hot-key to. The rules for not swapping to in combat can still apply but anything to reduce the ridiculous repetition involved to swap weapons atm is better. As the system currently stands it involves unnecessary fiddling which distracts from the gameplay not enhances it.
This could even be applied to other professions. Again it doesn’t have to be swappable in combat, but even a key for your ‘back-up’ weapons that you could use to cycle through weapon combos out of combat.
tl:dr – Ele weapon swap system is ‘fiddly’ and needs consideration.
EDIT: The more I think about this the more it can apply to all professions. I’ve just come to notice it more on the ele.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
