Scabbards For Weapons

[RainRain 591]

IIRC, if you're in battle you cannot switch weapons if still engaged.

The purpose of this item is to allow you to do so, at the added cost of being slower for the weight addition.

it would appear on the HUD and if you right click -> use, it will instantly switch anything in your right hand with whatever is equipped on your scabbard.

But at the cost of resetting your attack timer in pvp.

It wouldn't work if you're trying to switch out a shield + 1 hander with a 2hander of course, it would just refuse to do so.

i would imagine up to two being able to be wielded, to allow dual wielding to take advantage of this too

along with all of this, the secondary weapon would be viewable at the hip area of the person

Edited June 20, 2012 by RainRain

[cooutlaw119 16]

great idea

[Iulianx 90]

Yes I would really like to see a weapon holstering system even if just for it to be more visually pleasing.

You should be able to have 2 scabbards on each side and one on the back for 2 handed weapons + a shield slot. Beside the obvious practical use of switching weapons finally you won't see everyone poking people with their erect swords 24/7. Would be a nice eye-candy, I never liked to have my weapons equipped all the time and clipping into objects.

[Klaa 4,871]

Aye, deed holders could have an option to reguire weapons sheathed.

Scabbards and sheathes can also function as additional hotbars for activating knives, blades, or whatever.

EDIT: theres actually nothing stopping someone from swapping out weapons on the fly already.

Edited July 1, 2012 by Klaa

[Lancelot 765]

I forget the number of times this has been suggested one way or another, but once again I'll give it a big +1.

[Sir Arowhun 473]

Could just use the toolbelt. +1

[Tinkerer 107]

Could just use the toolbelt. +1

I presume you mean for the UI, Using a toolbelt wouldn't equip, just activate.

Personally I like the idea because i a) dislike walking around with weapon obscuring the view all the time and because its a pain to expand all the body sections to physically equip the weapon and or shield when needed. I probably wouldn't carry different weapons with me, but it would still be the same system whether you just had the one, or wanted to switch weapons (for which there should be an attack delay in combat) or sheath them entirely.

Should be no issue about switching from 1h + shield to a two-hander. Just puts both away when swapping, In reverse however, yould have to click the 1h weapon and the shield to re-equip both.

+1