Guild Wars 2

Over in the Necromancer forum, the debate on new weapon skills continues and I had one idea that may be of interest.

What if the torch could reveal hidden clues like invisible symbols marking a path, the outline of a door, locations of ghosts, highlight interactive objects like harvest points, and (maybe?) hidden thieves?

Scratch that “hidden thieves” part and it’s good!

I like that idea. But I would like to have a torch hotkey that you could just press to equip the light source so you wouldn`t have to keep opening your bags to equip a normal torch. Hell, I`d love a toggled lightsource so I don`t have to do dungeons all the time with the gamma jacked up.

While I see how it would go with the torch aesthetic, it would disadvantage torch-less profession (which is a majority) without notable reason. Profession aren’t supposed to make or break the content, and not being able to follow clues “because I”m a XXX" feels like needless segregation.
So, for it to work, we would need to put the same feature on some other weapon/utilities so that everyone get access to it.

I think it should be a bundle item anyone could use, or a “racial” skill that everyone has access to.

Check out: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Light_of_Deldrimor

It used to be a lot of fun.

I always like in doo how you could search for hidden areas and traps. Maybe if they added a search hotkey the animation could be holding a torch with your character hunched over looking around.

I like idea too that have for some of the particle effects weapons. I have the cobalt sword then when drawn lights up the area. If they had a light hotkey like daoc and eq2 has,I wouldn`t need to up the brightness in dungeons cause some some are so dark in areas and I cannot see. I like being able to see but upping the gamma ruins the immersion of going through a dungeon.

And it should attract a swarm of moths that eat your face off.