Just no valid reason that I can think of not to include weapon swap in a AAA title anymore.
for… why?
in d2 you just used for CTA, in poe you just use it to level new gems
I play a barbarian… I don’t understand? Do you mean a macro to switch out gear directly from the inventory?
You just answered your own question. Blizzard may be a AAA developer but D4 Ăs not.
if it makes you feel any better, D3 didn’t have weapon swap.
Triple A titles with weapon swap: PoE, D2
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Same I dont follow what you want either…
Feel like this part is even a stretch now at this point. Warcraft 3 Reforged, Overwatch 2, not looking good for them.
D2 and poe you can wear 2 sets of weapons, you have a second set on a back bar, it has very limited use
Certain builds valued the ranged and melee of having 2 sets in D2 but that was few and far between, most classes just used it for Call to Arms
In poe it literally just exists as a place to stick some gems you’re not using yet so they get leveled
Weapon swap like that is basically dead in modern games, specially d4 where the only two classes that benefit from multiple weapons (rogue and barb) literally just have all their weapons equipped at once
Yeah but you can bind them to different skills if you wanted too. If its not the most powerful weapon period or for a specific skills that bumps that weapon why would you use the secondary set as anything other than a stat stick. I play barb, are you basically saying you want the other classes to get stat sticks?
I agree. I see no reason why we can’t have a few more skills either. 6 feels really restrictive.
they want a useless mechanic in the game, like no one used weapon swap outside 1-2 builds or call to arms in D2
Jay Wilson said they omitted weapon swap in D3 because they believed it was exploitive. The D4 dev team obviously agrees with that design choice so weapon swap in the future is unlikely.
Personally, I think it’s very helpful. In PoE I use weapon for wide aoe for mapping then weapon swap for single target fights.
The only reason D4 lacks weapon swap i believe is because it would be entirely pointless for a game that has no depth.
its useful to have some off hand CD reduction weapons maybe, like you can just equip from inventory so why not add the quality of life to add a weapon swap button like D2.