Please make weapon switching Viable!.

Currently when weapon switching the skills remain on the default first weapon you have equipped.
To me this makes no sense and cuts out a huge amount of build diversity.
Please GGG change the way this works!.

Make weapon switching with "X" 2 different skill setups.
Have a melee weapon on weapon set 1 and set its skills say Mace strike to first attack slot, This skill will only show up on weapon set 1.
Now you can add a Bow to weapon set 2 and set its skill Bow shot on first attack slot.
Switching weapons now only displays the skill you set for that weapon when switching weapons.

Currently I was experimenting with a build and wanted to use a bow and mace While leveling and testing, But I can't switch weapons on the fly with POE2's current setup.
As switching weapons only displays the skills you set on your first weapon set when switching!.
CTRL+ only works for the bottom row of skills and is not as useful as having a proper weapons switch would be.
being able to properly switch weapons on the fly would make having that weapon switching actually viable.
As of now its practically useless unless you are using 2 different copy's of the same weapon type.

If any of you who read this agree with me on weapon switching please add a comment or a +1.
Hopefully GGG will see this and make a change before release.
Last bumped on Dec 17, 2024, 12:19:39 AM
Also add a skill gem setup for weapon slot 2 as well.
AS currently you can not use 2 support gems of the same type and I think this is a good idea.
But I think if weapon switching it should be a completely different gem setup.
Effectively allowing us to use 2 support gems of the same type but only 1 per weapon switch.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not skill tree wise as smarter people then me may see potential for even more insane builds.
But I want to be able to properly switch weapons.
I am in favour of this as well but i'd take it further.

See my item skill slots thread:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3626506
The way they have it set up currently is so you can use both weapon sets Simultaneously, you can make it so that to use a specific skill you use either weapon set 1 OR 2.
Making the weapon sets have there own set of shortcut bars defeats the purpose of the system that they have set in place, in the attempt to make things way more fluid with weapon sets.

Now I absolutely love the idea of being able to use a second support gem of the same type for skills that are set to different weapon sets like @OpscurumLupus presented. Being limited to a single support gem of each type is harsh enough (even though one of the mercenary ascendancy changes that) being able to run two of the same support but force them to be used with different weapon sets is a nice thought.

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