Guild Wars 2

A while back I saw a thread dedicated to mesmers using pistols main hand. I didn’t think much about it until I made a mesmer of my own and I realize how useful of a resource a main hand pistols. I think main hand pistols for mesmers should be featured in a later update.
Examples of Attacks:
Main Hand 1: The standard one two shot with a third shot at the end that causes a clone to appear
Main Hand 2: A rapid fire attack similar to what the Phantasm Duelists do.
Main Hand 3: The Magic Bullet attack would be moved here and given a quicker cooldown.
Off Hand 4: The Phantasm Duelist attack would be kept the same.
Off Hand 5: An AOE attack that would combine both the pistols power to make a sort of magical discharge attack that would give standard damage to enemies in the AOE along with a knockdown and a 2 second daze.

Sounds like it would be a bit OP to me. Quicker cool down on magic bullet, basically 2 duelist attacks (yours and the phantasm) plus AOE damage with knockdown and daze? I play mostly Mesmer but in your scenario I think that’s asking for a bit too much. Plus Mesmers already have a pretty decent selection of weapons compared to some other professions.

It could always be scaled down i’m not a dev I just thought it was a novel suggestion to base a main hand pistol on.

What i would like to see. The offhand skills would remain unchanged as this would mean that it wouldnt change up X/Pistol combos

Auto Attack:
Chain 1: Fire Shot X damage plus Bleeding(2stacks, 1 second)
Chain 2: Fire Shot X damage Plus Bleeding(2stacks, 1 second)
Chain 3: Fire shot X damage Plus Confusion(1 stack, 2seconds) Plus Range Clone

Not quite sure what the 2nd skill could be though

The 3rd one could be different depending on the offhand used example:

Pistol/Pistol: Blistering Barrage – AoE attack, Fires both pistols for X number of seconds causes random conditions to those damaged

Pistol/Torch: Blinding Shot – Fire shot at target, Stealth for X number of seconds and then fire a shot that blinds target upon stealth exit

No. They’re casters and they should only “dabble” in the pistol category. Also, then there would be three professions with 2 pistols which would mean there would be more professions with dual pistols than there would be with a shortbow, longbow, and rifle. The Mesmer’s Magic Bullet already overlaps too much with the thief’s IMO (it was even called Trick Shot at first). But I’m not sure what new weapons would be good if they were to add weapons >_>