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why do YOU stow your weapons after a fight?
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its something cool guys do to assert their dominance or something super rp'ers do.
I dislike the look/animations of drawn weapons for the weapons I mostly use, frankly most look ridiculous.
Take a screenshot of me standing over a dead body, gotta look good for it
well, the fight is done, threat eliminated
Not Even Coverage is the Only broken thing in WVW.
Doesn't it take you out of combat faster?
Same reason I stow weapons in combat, to not spam abilities into CI or full counters. Just so used to it at this point.
Whenever I'm not using skills, I stow.
~ God Tier Guardian
Yeah, the idle animations with weapons drawn aren't particularly good IMO.
The great god Lagki demands sacrifice!
For the illusion to get faster out-of-fight
To stop whatever I was casting so I don't waste cds =D
I will continue to waste dodges though
To save the frames
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I do it cus vallun does it
Kids stow weapons after a fight.
Real pro BM'ers stow weapons and stay still in the middle of the fight.
Dont mind me, I just randomly spam 35 skill-buttons
25.02.2020 edit - Nevermind, now I spam only 29 skill-buttons
I like my charr on all fours vs being on their hindlegs all the time.
stowing weapons is for wimps. real men auto attack the confusion off.
Soon™ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) nom nom nom🥔
Fun Daredevil
Would you run around with scissors in your hands?
Weapon stow is a command you must have in a readily available key to interrupt skill activations and avoid getting your skills wasted by interrupts and getting yourself killed by retaliation or confusion, so it takes no time to use it when I'm done punishing the unworthy.
Eventually it comes naturally. You do it without thinking. Like punctuating.
Can you imagine ending a sentence in chat without an appropriate end mark like some sort of crazy person?
Of course not. We are all reasonable adults here. Adults use terminal punctuation.
Stowing your weapon is the terminal punctuation of fighting.
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To avoid my auto-attack xD (for range weapons)
Do it like Zlatan
i do it because I like pressing my buttons, its like when you see players jumping or stowing randomly as they move. sounds silly but kind of a habit.
Stow weapon would be cool if it actually worked on aa reliably. On skills it's fine but in AA you sometimes have to spam the hot key many times before the aa stops, shame anet cant add "cancel action"like in gw1.
I do it because it's like adjusting your suit as you walk into a building - stowing weapons asserts the mechanical cleanliness/efficacy of your play. That and I don't actually own any suits. So.
You need to put that last sentence in your signature.
I stow to help signal an area is clear.
I don't. Dodge jumps with a drawn twilight look awesome.
Me? I just feel that's the right thing to do. Battle over, no need to run around with drawn weapons.
however, I've made such an habit of this that I regularly kill a foe, stow, then immediately use a leap skill towards a nearby target. :P
because it makes me look like a pro even though i am garbage
also stowing + standing still during fight like above posters said makes me look super pro like i've won WC several times even tho i am garbage
because i play Human and MALE human or even MALE sylv with drawn weapons your chr walks like somethings in there butt lol
cuz we saw the pros do it first and we like to be wannabes and to give the illusion of being dominant and cool.
I mean its good for getting people mad and rattled too! easy whisper block from salty kids too
hey fake it until you make it right?
Because is has become a habit.
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Only rookies stow their weapons. Real winners /sit by their spoils and wait for their return
Red = Dead...or someone runs away. Either way it's gone.
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I don't. in fact, as soon as i'm visible, I start swinging my weapons like a madman to let them know I see them and i'm coming for em. to really rustle their jimmies I use both dodges and my heal, just to point out i'm not afraid of anyone and that i'm super tough.
te lazla otstara.
fingers crossed meta ~
I do it as a sign of respect after a really good duel with my opponent. I tend to bow afterwards too. Dojo discipline I guess. Never thought it as an insult until now.
If you don't random perma jumpdodge in addition you are not half as pro as you think and never play warrior then!
"playing revenant is borderline exploiting" - up condimirage 2k18
Do it with thief. Dodgejumpbound for extra acrobatic skillz!
"playing revenant is borderline exploiting" - up condimirage 2k18
Naah, with Dash you have a little jump at the beginning. I... think not for the whole length though. Can't quite remember, can't test ist right now.
With Bound you just jump a little higher. It looks awesome!^^
Never noticed that! I will closely look at this next time i play thief and abuse it from now on!
"playing revenant is borderline exploiting" - up condimirage 2k18
I used to /bow after good fights, however the toxicity of PvP made people think I was doing it as an insult...so I started /salute
Red = Dead...or someone runs away. Either way it's gone.
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Yeah you're better off with /salute... /bow usually means you are ready to duel or asking to engage in one.
You move faster with your weapons stowed last I checked. Hell there are times where I am kiting on Necro I try to stow after a cast mid combat. I don't mean any BM ever, at least not seriously or out of malice. I do apologize to anyone who thinks I have jumped on their corpse. I have a bad habit of bunny hopping in every single game, even to my own detriment and there are times I forget.
The lines are blurry between noble and hypocrite and outright bad-mannering. Stowing weapons is something I've done out of habit from frequent kit switching since the beginning of time.
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I draw weapons before and stow them after a fight (or if I am trying to retreat)—always!
(Except for the still broken running animation on Human females 
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I do not really know, why I do so. Maybe it is a habit from other games. But for me it is mainly for aesthetics. And I love the different running animations per race and gender of GW2
Ever since I bound it to mouse3 button there really isn't a reason to not do it.
Never said I'm the best, but I believe I'm better than you.
I used to duel...a lot...so that much I knew. When people started to see /bow as a bm gesture (as in haha I won, come at me bro) i had to change it up as i am rarely like that.
Red = Dead...or someone runs away. Either way it's gone.
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Eternity draw effects or to not trigger FC/Confusion/Ect.
I never did that but thanks to this thread I am starting right now and it‘s getting addictive
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I have to have my hands free to fist bump my buddies after ganking da baddies. x) Sorry, I know it's borderline archaeo-posting hehe but I can't believe I "missed" this thread when it was originally posted. I thought I was the only one who sheathed my weapon after each encounter, either for RP reasons (have always been into RP) or because I have OCD, I can't decide which.
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in tpvp: for get out of combat faster and get health for the next fight, it works RLY
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I never noticed people doing this.
If I find an opponent that I deem honorable, I make sure to punctuate the end of our encounter by dodging randomly, auto attacking their corpse, and wasting my heal for good measure.