This weapon can't be used by your profession....except it can.

Has anybody been getting the message that a weapon you are trying to equip can't be used with your profession, when it is a weapon your profession uses?

It first happened to me last week, when my engineer key farmer was wielding double pistols and I got a drop of a better pistol. After replacing my worst one, I tried to swap the two equipped pistols so the better one was in the right hand, but got the 'wrong profession' error message. So I un-equipped the pistols and tried to re-equip them, but it still told me I could not use them. Logging the character out and back in fixed the problem, and I didn't think any more of it until this week, ranking up my next key farmer (warrior.) I got to the level where underwater combat is unlocked and was given an aquabreather and a spear. And when I tried to equip the spear, it told me I could not use that weapon with my profession.

Seems like something odd is happening.

Were you mounted at the time? I get that error when I try to switch weapons while mounted, and as soon as I unmount, it works ok.

You were probably mounted.

Not necessarily.

I had this happen yesturday, only slightly different. I was on my Revenant, and a spear in my inventory had that text. I could not equip the item, despite having a spear already equipped. Odd thing, the spear I had equipped also had that text. I was not mounted at the time.

I went and dove underwater.

Only after doing that were the spears equippable/useable.

As Stitch and Mikeskies said, it happens (for whatever reason) when you're mounted.

Mounting is an example of the game disallowing changes to our builds while "transformed." The same can happen under the use of most tonics and some toys. And, I believe some profession mechanics also cause the same issue, which is probably what @Kong.3280 experienced.

That said, the error message is, at best, misleading. So I still think it's worth reporting (ideally, using the in-game /bug reporting tool, so the devs can easily review the logs to see what exactly was going on). I don't expect ANet to address this soon™ let alone soon, but with more data, they can probably make quicker progress when they do decide to act.

I don't think I was mounted. But can't be totally 100% positive. I will watch and bug-report if it happens again when I am not. Thanks!

@"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:Mounting is an example of the game disallowing changes to our builds while "transformed." The same can happen under the use of most tonics and some toys. And, I believe some profession mechanics also cause the same issue, which is probably what @Kong.3280 experienced.

I have noticed (rarely) at times when I dismount and go into combat the game still seems to think i'm mounted. I can not use skills or do anything, until I mount and dismount again. It's possible this is what happened when i noticed the issue.