@keylessword4029 THIS. It's so painfully long that I'm finding out it's pretty useless in a lot of use cases that I thought would be cool. Saving yourself from fall damage is at the top of my list.
Also I feel you, with what you said about having a third weapon. I'd love to have a third UTILITY weapon, which could be limited to allowing you to equip certain things (grapple, throwing knife, blowpipe? Maybe? Or like, maybe you should always be able to have a sword, and the other two weapon options can be ranged. Just... something because there are so many cool new weapons, but with the current state of the game and the players, there are only a few safe load outs you can run and not get absolutely wrecked.
I don't know. I don't know how to make it work without it being too OP. But all I know is, my favorite weapon is the throwing knives. I'm deadly with them. But I'm painfully aware of their limited number before having to "reload" so I usually need a secondary weapon in combat. Depending on what I'm doing, that's either a sword or a gun. I'm really struggling now, because I'm having so much fun with the grapple gun and want it equipped always, but having it with the throwing knives is NOT working for me. Even just on quests - imagine on a tall island with multiple cliff levels. You run around with the grapple and your exploration is SO much more satisfying and controlled, rather than getting frustrated looking for a ramp up you've walked past six times. But then you get a group of skellies spawning on you. That's at least three of your five knives / bullets, if you don't miss at all. And what if you then have more spawn? Or night time comes and phantoms spawn? Or another pirate ambushes you? You have two bullets, and a grapple gun that's REALLY fun to use for exploration, but cripples you by removing either the limitless hit potential of having a sword equipped, or at the very least 5 additional bullets to do damage with. It's just impossible to run with a grapple full time the way I want to, because I'm having so much fun when I do have it equipped. I'd love for someone to come up with a solution to that.
And don't even get me started on trying to run grapple/blowpipe. It's impossible. But I really want to run this loadout so I can a) work on commendations b) play with the new toys Rare gave us and c) I really like the utility that the blowpipe provides, but it's ALSO super slow since it's such a strong weapon. That's a fair balance. But if I get ganged up on by four or five enemies, one slow blowpipe and a slow grapple gun is really painful. I need a real weapon with me. So I have to sacrifice one of the cool shiny toys that I'm quickly falling in love with that are genuinely changing the way I play the game in really satisfying ways, so I can carry a boring weapon and not die over and over again. No thanks.
And also, Rare, PLEASE let us 'favorite' our weapons in a new first page of the armory so that we don't have to scroll for ages to select our most used weapons in our favorite skins. That's also really frustrating.
