Guild Wars 2

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

honestly I would like a much fancier blade for a rapier than the one linked as [&AgGzqQAA].

sure, but I don’t want a blade that’s wider than my body like this one and 90% of sword skins.

dude, copy the brackets and the text between them and paste them into chat on GW2. any chat works. and it will link a weapon called the Atherblade Sword. it’s a rapier. it is thin. it is long, but by no means wider than your body, unless you are literally a toothpick. But it isn’t flashy enough, not a sword for a “decorated swordsman.”

Yeah, the rapier is thin, I’m talking about every other sword in game. Most have extremely exaggerated wide blades. I don’t like that. A mesmer shouldn’t be wielding Cloud’s buster sword one handed.

Rapier is coming…

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1iwvp9/anet_dev_confirms_rapier_probably_next_patch/

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

honestly I would like a much fancier blade for a rapier than the one linked as [&AgGzqQAA].

sure, but I don’t want a blade that’s wider than my body like this one and 90% of sword skins.

dude, copy the brackets and the text between them and paste them into chat on GW2. any chat works. and it will link a weapon called the Atherblade Sword. it’s a rapier. it is thin. it is long, but by no means wider than your body, unless you are literally a toothpick. But it isn’t flashy enough, not a sword for a “decorated swordsman.”

Yeah, the rapier is thin, I’m talking about every other sword in game. Most have extremely exaggerated wide blades. I don’t like that. A mesmer shouldn’t be wielding Cloud’s buster sword one handed.

You should look into the Mithril Sword then. It is just like the normal uncommon lower level swords but has a nicer metal sheen to it. I use it on my warrior. Also, look into the fractal sword. it looks nice and thin as well, and has a neat white trailing when you swing it or run with it drawn.

Devildoc.6721:

Thalador.4218:

Bread.7516:

anet went from classy design to pop garbage. also still waiting on that classy concept mesmer dress that’s ALREADY in game but not for players.

You mean the one with the long-cut skirt, stockings, thigh-high-boots, and opera gloves?

YES! Gracious Lyssa, please make that attire wearable for players, too!

On-topic: If ANet’s smart, they’ll include the rapier as a new weapon. In which case I’ll be really glad, since rapier is all about stabby-stabbing and actual fencing, and not cutting and slashing.

You’re describing heritage, which is in the game.

No, I’m not.

Many Krytan noble women are wearing this… even the Orrian zombie ladies have this, yet the players don’t. >.<

It would definitely need to be a different weapon type, most animations don’t suit it (keeping in mind the five profs who can use a sword).

IF it does end up as a new type, then there’s the problem of new animations as well as how many different ways to skin a long pointy stick, in future.

So, I’m guessing when the rapier appears it will be a bundle item or part of towngear (like boxing gloves).
OR, it might end up a non-sword weapon, eg Scepter with Rapier skin.
I’m thinking back to Winds of Cantha (GW1) – where we got a wand with katana skin, scythe with bo-staff skin, etc

Devildoc.6721:

Thalador.4218:

Bread.7516:

anet went from classy design to pop garbage. also still waiting on that classy concept mesmer dress that’s ALREADY in game but not for players.

You mean the one with the long-cut skirt, stockings, thigh-high-boots, and opera gloves?

YES! Gracious Lyssa, please make that attire wearable for players, too!

On-topic: If ANet’s smart, they’ll include the rapier as a new weapon. In which case I’ll be really glad, since rapier is all about stabby-stabbing and actual fencing, and not cutting and slashing.

You’re describing heritage, which is in the game.

not heritage and not in-game as a player wearable armor.

http://i.imgur.com/m96kXvy.jpg

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/8/82/Mesmer_02_concept_art.jpg/250px-Mesmer_02_concept_art.jpg

Alacrity.4312:

So, I’m guessing when the rapier appears it will be a bundle item or part of towngear (like boxing gloves).
OR, it might end up a non-sword weapon, eg Scepter with Rapier skin.
I’m thinking back to Winds of Cantha (GW1) – where we got a wand with katana skin, scythe with bo-staff skin, etc

That would be incredibly stupid and would make people even angrier that they were forever denied being able to use it as real weapon.

Anyway, you’re wrong, thank goodness Anet’s not that dumb. As the reddit post that DJRiful linked shows, the rapier is coming, AS A SWORD LIKE IT SHOULD BE, next release. Hopefully as an 800 gem skin, like past living story skins. I’d be fine with that.

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

honestly I would like a much fancier blade for a rapier than the one linked as [&AgGzqQAA].

sure, but I don’t want a blade that’s wider than my body like this one and 90% of sword skins.

dude, copy the brackets and the text between them and paste them into chat on GW2. any chat works. and it will link a weapon called the Atherblade Sword. it’s a rapier. it is thin. it is long, but by no means wider than your body, unless you are literally a toothpick. But it isn’t flashy enough, not a sword for a “decorated swordsman.”

Yeah, the rapier is thin, I’m talking about every other sword in game. Most have extremely exaggerated wide blades. I don’t like that. A mesmer shouldn’t be wielding Cloud’s buster sword one handed.

You should look into the Mithril Sword then. It is just like the normal uncommon lower level swords but has a nicer metal sheen to it. I use it on my warrior. Also, look into the fractal sword. it looks nice and thin as well, and has a neat white trailing when you swing it or run with it drawn.

The common crafted swords look really crude and not elegant.

Fractal sword would be nice but that’s a random chance on top of a random chance. Random chance of dropping any skin (and a rare chance at that) and then random chance of dropping the skin you want. It’s the worst of both worlds.

athuria.2751:

I’m pretty disappointed with it too—I would have even taken another skin besides the rapier, if only it wasn’t so bulky. The amount of thinner and/or more elegant options for swords leaves a lot to be desired.

effin THIS.

The overabundance of wannabe buster swords and ridiculously over-sized pauldrons is irritating to begin with; but the lack of alternatives is just criminal.

It would be a nice addition to the oversized swords in the game. It fits the mesmer and would even work on a necro just fine.

Urrid.4593:

No Rapier.

Instead we get strange funky stuff and apparently its not easy to get AT ALL.

I opened 15 black lion chests and got 6 scraps. That’s it. Common my behind.

6/15 is actually very common…like your odds of getting a mf booster instead of a xp booster or something

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

Devildoc.6721:

blakkrskyrr.7413:

honestly I would like a much fancier blade for a rapier than the one linked as [&AgGzqQAA].

sure, but I don’t want a blade that’s wider than my body like this one and 90% of sword skins.

dude, copy the brackets and the text between them and paste them into chat on GW2. any chat works. and it will link a weapon called the Atherblade Sword. it’s a rapier. it is thin. it is long, but by no means wider than your body, unless you are literally a toothpick. But it isn’t flashy enough, not a sword for a “decorated swordsman.”

Yeah, the rapier is thin, I’m talking about every other sword in game. Most have extremely exaggerated wide blades. I don’t like that. A mesmer shouldn’t be wielding Cloud’s buster sword one handed.

You should look into the Mithril Sword then. It is just like the normal uncommon lower level swords but has a nicer metal sheen to it. I use it on my warrior. Also, look into the fractal sword. it looks nice and thin as well, and has a neat white trailing when you swing it or run with it drawn.

The common crafted swords look really crude and not elegant.

Fractal sword would be nice but that’s a random chance on top of a random chance. Random chance of dropping any skin (and a rare chance at that) and then random chance of dropping the skin you want. It’s the worst of both worlds.

did you even go onto the TP and preview it? it has a different texture. the swords themselves are what you’d expect them to look like in real life as a knight’s sword.

DJRiful.3749:

Rapier is coming…

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1iwvp9/anet_dev_confirms_rapier_probably_next_patch/

I like that, I guess the animations part is why it didn’t make it in this patch. The mesmer skills can go with a rapier if you just have 3 thrusting animations rather than 2 slashes and a thrust, and then blurred frenzy made into a series of thrusts rather than slashing all around.

Heck, what I’m picturing in my head reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPbxOimrjYg#t=3m27s

hey, don’t hate, one of my favorite JRPG’s in a long time.

I could just see my mesmer “Un deux trois!”

Thief also has 2 slashes and a thrust for their sword autoattacks. Infiltrator’s strike is a thrust, flanking strike’s first hit is with the dagger, and the second hit (larcenist’s strike) is a sword thrust. Pistol whip is all slashes so it’d need adjusting

Guardian’s flashing blade is a thrust after the teleport,, and again it’s 2 slashes and a thrust for the autoattack animation, and the 3rd skill is a sweries of slashes (with projectiles)

Warrior is different (though it used to be the same) with the autoattack chain being 3 slashes in different directions (final thrust used to be at the end), savage leap is again, a movement towards the target and a thrust, final thrust is a thrust, and flurry is a series of slashes.

Trend seems to be autoattack is 2 slashes and a thrust (though warrior was changed), a teleport skill with a thrust at the end, and possibly a series of slashes. So really all they need to alter is the autoattack first 2 slashes (3 for warrior) and the series of slashes animation (pistol whip, flurry, zealot’s defense, they share the same base animation with added effects (well each race/gender has a different one but male charr warrior doing flurry looks exactly like male charr thief doing pistol whip)

Odd ball out is ranger, since their sword chain is distinct. They only have 1 thrust, all their other sword attacks are slashes.

I just want my scelerite sword, but sadly I will probably never get ;_;