Guild Wars 2

I really feel like this game is missing a melee staff user.
I know guardians can stand in melee range and easily use their staff, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about someone who twirls/flings/flails around a staff/spear/etc for doing damage.

But instead, we just have a million people that use greatswords all the time.

/bump
No melee staff lovers out there?
Or possibly make spears usable out of water?
Or possibly even a halberd/polearm?

Yes indeed. That was my thought in this thread too.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/If-you-could-add-one-weapon-to-each-class/page/2#post863153

The staves in GW2 are more so delicate looking magic weapons. Basically big Sceptres.

Personally I’d love to see the Ranger get to use a Staff and act more like a spell casting druid. If that happened I would immediately make a Ranger, even if it was purely for flavour and it was the worst balanced class ever.

Spears, Halberds and Polearms would be great though.

Polearm would be cool, it could just be along the same lines as a greatsword but with different skill set. I’d like a melee staff if they made some sort of martial class to wield it (sorta like a Vanguard Saga of Heroes Monk/ Disciple)

I’m thinking Darth Maul

Nashaan.3160:

I’d like a melee staff if they made some sort of martial class to wield it

You are incorrectly using the term “martial”. There are already more than enough martial classes (Warrior, Guardian, Ranger, Thieve, arguably Mesmer and Engineer).

Perhaps you meant a class that would more be stereotyped as unarmed (a kind of peasant/secret agent/monk) or something more “oriental”?

Orion Templar.4589:

I’m thinking Darth Maul

That’s what I’m talkin bout!

But what about a QUARTERstaff? And have it be a separate weapon from the staff altogether?

Instead of being like a regular staff that is essentially a big scepter…why not have a quarterstaff with studs on each side and they can hold it in the middle…kind of like Darth Maul but more like this: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120402113857/merlin1/images/c/c8/Quarterstaff.jpg

Surbrus.6942:

The staves in GW2 are more so delicate looking magic weapons. Basically big Sceptres.

Personally I’d love to see the Ranger get to use a Staff and act more like a spell casting druid. If that happened I would immediately make a Ranger, even if it was purely for flavour and it was the worst balanced class ever.

Spears, Halberds and Polearms would be great though.

Melee staff for rangers? That would be awesome!

Expanding on the quarterstaff idea:

You could give it to:
Thief: 2h melee weapon
Ranger: 2h melee weapon that’s more speedy…and not a gs. (Everyone already uses GS)
Mesmer: 2nd melee weapon (so its not just swords)
Necro: 2nd melee weapon (so its not just daggers)

Then of course you could give it to warriors because they’re the weapon masters, and give it to guardians so they have a speedy 2h weapon…you could give it to the engineer as a utility staff in which things pop out the end…and you could give it to eles so they simply have a melee weapon…

And that would mean everyone gets a QS…I don’t think that’s very right, so lets just go with Theif, Ranger, Necro, and Mesmer.

Kantharr.2308:

Melee staff for rangers? That would be awesome!

No no no! Druid staff for rangers!

the fun thing is that a swords master would be at a hardcore disadvantage to a staff master in real life… the simple staff has 3 very obvious areas to strike you with, the length can be used to block, sweep, strike with the tips, change direction of the attack, springboard other moves, etc etc… the only thing a sword really has going for it against the staff is the blade, though even that is useless if the staff guy breaks the swordsman’s wrists before he even gets in range of his blade

Like i did on other threads i will throw in my support for Guardians getting spears/lances/halberds to fight on land.

These weapons are awesome.

I really dont like the quarterstaff , it is ultimately a stick , a big stick. And that is it. So i toss my support for halberds , but not for these ones.