Guild Wars 2

“Crossbow” or “Xbow Repeater” could be cool weapon added to a future expansion.

Warrior: poison based moves with a rapid fire as the adrenaline move.
Guardian: Supportive bolts and good damage
Ranger: Slow but very damaging
Engineer: Explosive bolts for great AOE damage
Thief: Long range raw damage.

What do you think of it?

YES! Not enough games use crossbows in my opinion . I could see it on the Engineer and Thief and maybe Warrior . Some things i could see for it

Theif
Immobilize ,Poison and blind
Engineer
Burn, Bleed ,Vulnerability and a Knockback

Warrior
Stun,Vulnerability, a Pull and Bleed

The Adines idea is … not so good, engineers allready got ton of knockbacks im against any more of them. The class with most knockbacks getting 1 more dont sound good. Thiefs got bow with imobilize and poison allready, If they made crosbow it has to be non condition damage based weapeon with hight damage as bow got all utiity you need pistol main hand has conditions. All i can say. Warriors with stun and pull on 1 weapeon are kitten too.

Hell yes to Guardians and Thiefs for Xbows^^ Thief needs a far ranged heavy hitter and Sbow doesnt work well. Crossbow could be 1000 range so it isn’t beating longbow use and hit like a longbow while being as slow.(Most games whether it be MMO or strategy games like SH, xbows are harder hitters but shorter range; bows are longer range but lighter hits and less accurate at far range). Thiefs are supposed to be quick I know this but in WvW it is hard to participate when all skills are fairly weak unless you are up close melee which is risky when in a mosh pit of AoEs and whatnot. Maybe some thief skills could be(in a sort of order of 1-5 all at 1000 range unless specfied otherwise):

1st attack regular shot; 2nd attack deals bonus dmg to moving targets(5%). [Attack speed 1 shot every 1.5 seconds] {Combo Finisher: projectile}

Black powder shot: hit area with smoke cloud to cause blinding and knockdown. Cloud duration 4 seconds, 200 radius. Knockdown duration 1 second. [5 initiative]{Combo finisher: smoke} Range: 900

Satchel Shot: Shoot foe for dmg and place a remote bomb onto them. Activate to daze foes nearby for 1s (200 radius); can be activated as soon as it is used and up to 5 seconds later(Can be activated mid air but only up to 1000 range. [4 initiative] {Combo finisher: blast}

Fatal wound: fire crippleing shot into enemy; cripple for longer if they are running away. (Front, 3s) (Back or side, 5s) Does not stack. Charge shot for 1 second. [4 initiative]{Combo Finisher: Projectile}

Skull buster: Long range shot, more damage to far ranged targets. Charge and stand still for 2 seconds. Dmg at below 800 range(normal), 800-1000 range(10% bonus), above 1000 range(20%). Max range: 1200 [6 initiative] {Combo finisher: projectile}

Too be honest “Dual” mini crossbows would be great (single handed, 1 for each hand), slow rate of fire, but very fast traveling, but can have things like explosive arrows, a net etc.

And a option for a larger crossbow two handed

Of course I can only see this given to rangers (and those who can use long bows)

Sorry but Crossbow would definitely not suite thief, give them a rapier or boomerang hehe

i wouldn’t mind my thief having a crossbow, we really lack weapon options ¬¬

plus, crossbows could lead to all new cool skills without having to rewrite the shortbow. like rope and dart, or spread shots, or stuff like that. shortbows have the AoE and mobility, crossbows have the attack speed and splash damage.

Sef.6918:

Sorry but Crossbow would definitely not suite thief, give them a rapier or boomerang hehe

“crossbows would not suite (sic) thief, give them a boomerang”.

wat.

Chik En.8973:

Too be honest “Dual” mini crossbows would be great (single handed, 1 for each hand), slow rate of fire, but very fast traveling, but can have things like explosive arrows, a net etc.

And a option for a larger crossbow two handed

Of course I can only see this given to rangers (and those who can use long bows)

that’s just copying diablo now. and we have guns already for that kind of stuff.

this thread got lost so i decided to give it a bump.

I’m sure there’s plenty of you that want a crossbow!

Sef.6918:

this thread got lost so i decided to give it a bump.

I’m sure there’s plenty of you that want a crossbow!

yes we do, if it’s a proper, two handed crossbow, and not that diablo stuff of one handed crossbows. we have guns for that.

BrunoBRS.5178:

yes we do, if it’s a proper, two handed crossbow, and not that diablo stuff of one handed crossbows. we have guns for that.

Nah! We want pistol type crossbows and 1000s of thieves dressed in black calling themselves Waylander or Dakeyras