Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I mentioned this I think a long time ago in the warrior forums, and more recently I think in dragon bash. And a couple of people thought it was a good idea so here goes (don’t know if anyone submitted the idea before so sorry if it’s been brought up before):

I liked the great deal of customization of the gw1 skills. One solution is to increase the number of healing/utility/elite skills or even add more weapons. (Personally I wouldn’t mind more elite skills to choose from though). But I have another suggestion.

Increase the number of weapon skills and let us choose which we want to use.

For example, make the auto attack a hardwired skill for that weapon. But for slots 2-5 give us choices. For a 1h weapon give us 8 options and let us pick the two that we want for an off hand give us another set, same for a 2h weapon (maybe with slightly more options).

There’s 2 ways to implement this.

1) Have a big pool and let us pick which ones we want for each slot
2) Tie 2-3 skills for each number and force us to choose which we want to use.

Personally I like option 1 as it recreates the feel of gw1 customization, while still keeping within the gw2 spirit. But number 2 would be easier to develop/balance (do you want to choose an AoE burst skill or a higher spike single target skill, instead of getting to choose both).

This would also allow different builds to not be pigeon-holed into one style of play/weapon and for those that PvP would allow for more surprise and add another layer to the meta (you’d have to think twice before saying X profession using Y weapon must be a bunker/burst/etc.).

Was wondering what the rest of you guys think about this idea?

I think it would good to obtain further weapons skills through end game content or quest lines. Players could opt for different themes for their weapon skills and then apply them to a weapon sort of like transmutation. So if you do a “vampire” quest line for example, you could obtain vampiric skills such as a swarm of bats aoe or something. It could just be visual and not OP if people are worried about it.

Yeah it would be great to have more skills both utility and weapon. After making your way to level 80 I got really bored of the same skills all the time.

Same here. I’m only level 32 and I feel like there should be more weapon skills for warrior. Greatsword is my favourite weapon. (I also unlocked other weapons skills as well) There should be a way for players to pick and master certain weapons.

Polearm, javelin, scythe, crossbow and fae blades are all potential weapons they should consider adding, they could scatter these between the existing classes and add some diversity a long with new skills