Guild Wars 2

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

The difference being that Mesmer CHOSE to be range limited. You go D/D you have no choice. You don’t go staff when roaming and Scepter is very meh to say the least.

“The Mesmer equipped only melee weapons” → “The Mesmer chose to be range limited”.
“The Elementalist equipped only melee weapons” → “Cruel mind-controlling aliens with their invisible beams made me do it!”

See, that just undermines the whole argument. You’re pretty obviously judging the same decision making process by a player with different scales, because it’d suit your argument a whole lot if you could present such a “No choice”-situation. Only, in trying to present one, you rob the original idea of out of combat weapon set saving & equipping – a pretty neat QoL feature for everyone – of any basis, because you try to turn it into an “My Ele is underpowered”-whine.

Carighan.6758:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

The difference being that Mesmer CHOSE to be range limited. You go D/D you have no choice. You don’t go staff when roaming and Scepter is very meh to say the least.

“The Mesmer equipped only melee weapons” -> “The Mesmer chose to be range limited”.
“The Elementalist equipped only melee weapons” -> “Cruel mind-controlling aliens with their invisible beams made me do it!”

See, that just undermines the whole argument. You’re pretty obviously judging the same decision making process by a player with different scales, because it’d suit your argument a whole lot if you could present such a “No choice”-situation. Only, in trying to present one, you rob the original idea of out of combat weapon set saving & equipping – a pretty neat QoL feature for everyone – of any basis, because you try to turn it into an “My Ele is underpowered”-whine.

Seeing as D/D is pretty much our ONLY viable weapon when it comes to Roaming, it is not like we have much of a choice now is it. Hell, Could equip a staff and still have issues due to how slow the cast times are and everything.

Just because we chose D/D doesn’t change the fact that everyone else can CHOSE to run Melee only weapons or have a mixture.

Now if we had a reasonable off hand weapon that offered ranged ability such as Pistol (duel pistols would rock!) then it would be okay but when not running staff your ONLY option when it comes to offhand weapons is Melee. For main hand sure you can go Scepter but it is still not as good as D/D or even D/F is in my opinion, a few decent skills but everything else is weaker than D/D

Basaltface.2786:

runeblade.7514:

Why can’t Warriors/Rangers/Guardians/Necromancer/Mesmers/Thieves get a out of combat weapon slot too? Why should engineers and Elementalist be the special snowflake?

>_>… cause you already can do that with any other class…

Wow. WOW! You dare to mock me when you have no idea what you are talking about?

Warriors/Rangers/Guardians/Necromancer/Mesmer/thieves have to go to their inventory and take their mobility weapon out too if they want to switch it out from their fighting weapon set.

runeblade.7514:

Wow. WOW! You dare to mock me when you have no idea what you are talking about?

Warriors/Rangers/Guardians/Necromancer/Mesmer/thieves have to go to their inventory and take their mobility weapon out too if they want to switch it out from their fighting weapon set.

Wow. WOW! You do know that not everyone has them in the inventry. Most actually run with them. The amount of times i have been fighting Warriors and them use GS to run away shows that people do use “mobility” weapons for combat as well.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Just because we chose D/D doesn’t change the fact that everyone else can CHOSE to run Melee only weapons or have a mixture.

Yes, but you lose the mixed-case, not the edge cases. Other people have pure-ranged sets, so do you. Other people have pure-melee sets, so do you.

If your weapons are underpowered, that’s a wholly different issue. :P

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

runeblade.7514:

Wow. WOW! You dare to mock me when you have no idea what you are talking about?

Warriors/Rangers/Guardians/Necromancer/Mesmer/thieves have to go to their inventory and take their mobility weapon out too if they want to switch it out from their fighting weapon set.

Wow. WOW! You do know that not everyone has them in the inventry. Most actually run with them. The amount of times i have been fighting Warriors and them use GS to run away shows that people do use “mobility” weapons for combat as well.

A few warriors with a GS means most warrior/rangers/mesmers/necromancers/guardians runs with a mobility weapon. So smart! And that is why D/D ele and triple kit engies should get a out of combat weapon set instead of Axe and board warriors/GS mesmers/Longbow ranger/Scepter and dagger necro/pistol and dagger thieves.

They don’t deserve to get out of combat switch. They should be clicking on the inventory like a plebian while Ele and engies should be able to click on a button to instantly switch because they are the special snowflake.