Guild Wars 2

I really (I mean REALLY) love this game, and I have a personal suggestion for you, ANet.

I would love to see my character wielding crossbows (Double wield One Handed Crossbows for Thief and Two Handed Crossbows for Ranger and similar), and I think it’ s a cool addition that everyone would like. In case someone won’ t like it, he can still choose other weapons. I think aesthetically crossbows are pretty cool, so I think you would appreciate my idea.

I’ d love too see more content from you, ArenaNet

Greetings

A single crossbow would be a good weapon, an alternative to simple bows for ranger or an ambush weapon for thief. The problem is that a crossbow carries exactly one shot, which would make a barrage-esque ability impossible. Still possible by MMO standards to have it for single-target DPS, though, especially in doing high direct damage and delivering poison.

Cossbows make the most sense as additional weapons for…
ranger (it’s not technically a gun yet)
warriors (soldiers tended to use crossbows as fire and drop weapons)
guardians (they seriously need another ranged option and ARE soldiers)
engineers (it uses gear technology and fits with their theme)

Crossbows would be awesome. I wouldn’t mind a polearm type of weapon either.. Maybe a land spear? The class/weapon combinations would be really cool.

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Crossbows would be awesome. I wouldn’t mind a polearm type of weapon either.. Maybe a land spear? The class/weapon combinations would be really cool.

I know so many people want a shortspear/shield weapon option combo for guards and/or wars.

Well I’m thinking of a spear on my mesmer, reminds me of phantom lancer from dota :P

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

A single crossbow would be a good weapon, an alternative to simple bows for ranger or an ambush weapon for thief. The problem is that a crossbow carries exactly one shot, which would make a barrage-esque ability impossible. Still possible by MMO standards to have it for single-target DPS, though, especially in doing high direct damage and delivering poison.

Muzzle loading pistols and rifles also only carry one shot and can take even longer to reload – that doesn’t stop us from having skills like Unload, Repeater or Sneak Attack where the pistol fires 5+ shots in rapid succession.

If they don’t want to give us lots of options in offensive skill selection a la Guild Wars 1, more weapons would be a good. Polearms and crossbows are a good place to start.

Crossbow would be good to have. I could imagine that it would be the in between for the rifles and longbows. I so wish I could use a two hand halberd.

Well, what about a rotating arrow crossbow? Like, having a clip of arrows, that you can shoot in rapid fire like the pistol unload? I also made an idea of a set of skills for the crossbows:
Thief with double crossbows:
1 normal attack, less damage than the pistol, cripples for a very short time
1a stealth attack, when in shadow it also bleeds for 5 seconds
2 poisonous shot, AoE poisons, if you hot the target it creates an AoE poison for 2 seconds, and you roll backwards
3 dancing shot, your character runs towards your enemy shooting a barricade of shots and jumps on him, knockbacking him
4 acrobatic shot, your character jumps over the head of your enemy (like dancing daggers) while shooting a blindness shot to the enemy’ s head
5 disarming shot, makes foe vulnerable and week

So it’ s all about evading and applying conditions, but in the thief style

Ranger heavy crossbow, 2 handed:
1 normal shot, less range than the longbow but more damage, and cripples
2 barricade, shoots 5 arrows quickly
3 poison, shoots 3 poisonous arrows simultaneously to three different enemies
4 charged shot, takes time to charge, but knockbacks enemy
5 pet shot, shoots an arrow that makes your pets attacks critical for 10 seconds

Didn’ t know well about this one, but yeah, that is my idea and i hope that anet will read it

As if quick-fire muskets aren’t ridiculous enough. I’ll give my vote to crossbows and their insane firepower, IF every bolt you fire puts the whole weapon on a 20s cooldown.

I disapprove this. It’ s boring as hell

In a world of infinite ammo, if a slingshot is just a skin for a shortbow, how is a crossbow differant from either a shortbow or longbow?

I would LOVE to see additional weapons added in the future! Crossbow is actually an option I hadn’t thought of, and it would be great as either a slow, heavy damage dealer or as having quick-fire options (this game is certainly more about being interesting than being realistic).

Also: liking the land spear, but I would probably end up labeling it the Polearm class so you could have spears, partizans, halberds, glaives, etc.

Another possibility might be Fist Weapons (like in WoW), which would include brass knuckles, katars, spiked knuckles, etc.