Now this is just a thought but what about treating Weapon skills like Utility and Healing skills? What you do is add a pool of nine main-hand and six off-hand skills for each weapon, the basic skills would unlock the same way they already do but the “pool” skills could start to be unlocked with skill points at or around level forty. I think that this would add a lot more play variety and would also stretch the practical uses of skill points a little farther.
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The idea is to allow the Weapon Skill slots to be customized in a manner similar to the Utility and Healing Skill slots(see pic1) with abilities being unlocked with skill points(pic2).
Two-hand Weapons would have a pool of twelve skills used across all five Weapon Skill slots.
Off-hand Weapons would have a pool of six skills used in the last two Weapon Skill slots.
Main-hand Weapons would have pool of nine skills used in the first three Weapon Skill slots.
Adding Weapon Skills shouldn’t affect players current builds other than giving them more room to customize and as the skills would be on the the character and not the weapon it shouldn’t conflict with ANETs design philosophy.
I could see pvp balancing being an issue but if the skills are fairly generic when they are first implemented then they can be “grown” into more profession specific skills while being tuned.
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It’s cool, I never played GW1 so I don’t really know how the combat was. The main reason I suggested this was because, I while really enjoy playing my Theif, with only four weapons to choose from it often feels like I’m fighting the way I have to rather than how I’d like to.
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