(edited by SaltyDave.7346)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Weapon
If you check the usable weapons for classes here, you can see that Thiefs are far behind other classes when it comes to variety of weapon usage. Elementalists can swap between 4 different elemental “style” which compensates the low amount of weapons they can use (addig a new one would be nice anyway), however Thiefs can’t do that, and the variety of weapon combination skills (hotkey 3) are really really low compared to the options of other classes simply because these skills require very specialized playstyle and alternative weapon set in order to compensate the weakness of the other set. This is how it should be done, don’t misunderstand me. But as a Thief, I feel extremly limited after I tried out a mesmer, a warrior and a guardian. Rangers are hilariously limited to shortbow only, in order to be effective.
Extending weapon usage for this class would be a huge addition to their build diversity, like allowing thiefs to use a new offhand weapon (sword maybe? Or torch?) or maybe a totally new weapon (which should be ranged, because shortbow dominates now and pistol skills are mostly useful in close combat which is really weird and really really uncomfortable to use, not to mention it can’t compete with a shortbow in PvE, especially in dungeons).
A support for longbow or rifle would be great. These 2 weapons are really underused anyway, because only rangers and warriors can use longbows, that’s 2 classes out of 8. Compared to other weapon types, longbow is really really unpopular and cannot be used effectively anyway, just like hammers in PvE, but this is a different topic.
So please, give a new weapon to thiefs!
(edited by SaltyDave.7346)
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