Guild Wars 2

Or Bo Staffs as some would refer to them.

Being a long time fan of City of Heroes, this power set in particular was a long time coming and brought with it some amazing animations for what the game could pull off. I wonder, if at all, when we’d see it for Guild Wars 2. My preferred choice of class to use it would be the Elementalist, with their ability to switch attunements – adding additional elemental attacks to their skills. It would be neat, Eye of The Storm could literally turn into a hurricane/typhoon while in Water attunement. Guardians and Thieves would be my next best choice in also being able to use the weapon type. But I just want to see a new weapon type for staffs in particular that is more reminiscent of Donatello from TMNT, less point and clicking and more bashy-thrawping.

Hell, it’d be a good opportunity to introduce a Monk class as well along with it assuming more classes are being put on the drawing table. I would love to relive my EQ experiences, well minus being unable to roll a lizardman :P

For References:
City of Heroes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjNW4sKuQC0
From Real Cultures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHvvEKpkLw4

I would love this but sadly with a normal caster staff already in the game I doubt it will be considered for a new weapon when they finally add one some day since the two are similar in appearance.

But I don’t know MAYBE.
The only obvious different weapon I can think of is two hand axe so bo staff may have a chance.

Oh and I would love a monk class too

+1 to this all the way!

I’ve actually been thinking of suggesting they implement the current staff weapon as a melee weapon for the warrior. However, now that you have suggested a melee staff weapon in general, I can see how it might be useful for other classes too, like ranger, guardian, and mesmer.

As for the similarity in looks, all the current staves have a focus/ornament/accessory at the top of the staff, however a quarterstaff or bo staff would likely not have any bulky ornamentation at the end and would be more well balanced. I could easily see a quarterstaff having some nice ornamentation like the ends being capped in metal, having engravings, etc. but they would certainly have their own distinct look to them.

@Tiger: As for monk class, do you mean healer or hand-to-hand combatant with light armor (like a Shaolin monk)? They’ve already made it quite clear they aren’t going to have any dedicated healer classes in GW2, but a hand-to-hand combatant could be interesting.

@Bron: Oh I mean like a Shaolin monk.