Guild Wars 2

It’s really nice to see so many new events and achievements like the new arena. It’s also great to always get new Weaponskins available and i don’t want to actually nag, but REALLY?

Check the two available Daggerskins and then compare them to all the other skins.. Are you serious? Daggers as much of a boring kitten as the ones we already have at the moment. No effects and on top of that they don’t even look decent at all. Why can’t you just make a smaller version of this
or maybe a dagger looking somewhat close to Entropy or Genesis ..

Simply tell me Why do Warrior/Guardians get TWO great looking Hammers and TWO great looking 2h Swords, each with nice effects AND skins, but the new Daggers look as bad as f . . . ?Actually they got 2 Legendary skins available, else like all others! And even the sword-users got their rapier..
Would it be so hard to just give us a full set of all weapons with skins like ‘Lord Taeres’s Shadow’ or a full set of ‘Entropy’ skins?

Each patch i’m waiting in anticipation and get disappointed so hard with those skins.

I just hope there will be some earnest reconsideration about skin-equality between the weapons in the near future…

There are already literally 10 threads on the same topic. I’m sure by now ArenaNet realizes that people are not impressed with the dagger skins (and stakitten and pistols) compared to the other weapons.

and yet another one, because it really isnt fair at all and just sucks

Personal preference. I’m quite fond of Komalie’s Sacrificial Blade, I think it looks really nice. Its got a cool shape to it. The Boot Blade is lame and boring, though (and I could swear there’s already a skin in the game that looks almost exactly like that).

I guess if you’re only into fancy glowy effects the new daggers would be disappointing. And based on your response you might be. It couldn’t have hurt to have something a bit more glowy as one of the new daggers since many other weapon types do have some glowing ones added, but I don’t think that alone should mean the weapons are terrible.

All of these champ weapons have been a pretty mixed bag, though. Some of them look nice, but are basically just reskins of old weapons (sometimes with added glow, like the scroll focuses or the highborn scepter). Some are just using assets previously unused as weapons but used elsewhere. (like Exterminator, which was just the Lionguard flamethrower bundle from Southsun). And then others are actually brand-new skins. There’s not a whole lot of balance overall between weapon types or anything, its just a free-for-all of random stuff being thrown into the loot tables.

i just wanted to hear a legit reason why they put so much more effort into a specific kind of weaponset like (obviously) 2handeds than into the small weapons.
and yes, theres this ,which is exactly the same skin.. so actually it’s just 1 new dagger skin at all.. fair? i guess not

You should see how effen ugly the rifle skins are lol , i wasnt disappointed because i’ve settle with the fact ANET doesn’t like certain weapon types and therefore rather copy and paste some pixels onto them.

No pistols.

/15chars

May I point out that one of the “new” daggers is a reskin, so that boot blade thing doesn’t even count. More importantly, the grand total of new pistols is a whopping fat zero.

So they are bad at making weaponry?

Haven’t you learned yet… If you play PvE and aren’t a warrior/guardian then you are doing it wrong… and Anet will keep punishing you until you do it right.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Haven’t you learned yet… If you play PvE and aren’t a warrior/guardian then you are doing it wrong… and Anet will keep punishing you until you do it right.

careful a certain moderator may infract you for using the word “doing” since it has an alt meaning on modern dictionary…. lolz

and therefore rather copy and paste some pixels onto them.

it actually looks like the same dagger, just with a little higher resolution on the screenshot lulz

it’s a shame that there are no pistols.. Anet always forget about pistols … superbox adventure also without pistols skin.. no comment

what about people using double pistols and only those? (engineer has not swap weapon)..

Isnt it the same with those ghostly purple weapons all mesmers run around with? No Daggers or Pistols

holunder.4682:

Isnt it the same with those ghostly purple weapons all mesmers run around with? No Daggers or Pistols

Actually there are 3 Pistols with the Mist Skin. Quip Precursor, Illya and Lyss.
Still, all 3 are the same.

It amuses me people are complaining about what is essentially free skins. Good lord people, they’ve only just introduced these new loot bags off Champions, yes, the current dagger skins suck. I agree with you.

HOWEVER, they could theoretically easily add in more skins anytime they want. Just grin and bear it, and hope ANet releases some new skins before too long.

I bought cobalt for my guard and was curious to see what new rifle and pistol skins they had for my engineer but was very disappointed. I love the new hammer and great sword skins but they have to start showing some love to other weapons.

Yess and this might just be me but i see this type of thing on heavy armour as well. In every armour skins i have got to say heavy is the best.. It feels like i should have just made a warrior because they always get the cool looking things and are always liked in PVE

SmoothHussler.6387:

… was curious to see what new rifle and pistol skins they had for my engineer but was very disappointed…

I actually kinda liked the portal gun one. The other one isn’t flashy, but it does closely resemble the TF2 Pyro gun… so it’s got that going for it.

The harpoon gun is also pretty snazzy… but… how often do you see that? XD

I love the portal gun looking rifle and want it, though Dulfy doesn’t mention where it drops from. Given it’s named Levvi’s Detector, I assume it’s from something on Southsun.

The complete lack of pistol skins discovered so far makes me sad.

inazuma.7021:

The complete lack of pistol skins discovered so far makes me sad.

Seems Anet doesn’t like pistols and who use both of them..

And staff users get Monsoon…

…yeah…

…certain weapons being totally ignored and/or half-kittened is getting really old.

i don’t like the butterfly knife myself, but that’s because i’ve already spent hundreds of hours in GW1 using them because they were the only daggers bigger than my character’s pinky finger.

however, i do actually like the other dagger, and want to get it for myself.

Is it weird that I prefer the Champion dagger skins over the hammers and greatsword skins?

If I had to guess. I would say it’s more fun to make the bigger weapons, Namely the great sword It has so much surface area to design with it makes it fun for the designer.

I personally think this is why our daggers are the size of short swords and the pistols are equally ridiculously large. What the artist do put into the weapons they want us to see. The problem is they just look overtly large, silly and to some boring compared to the great swords.