Guild Wars 2

And secondly, style! What whip skins can’t you live without?
I’ll start:

• Standard adventuring leather whip (think Indy)
• Verdant “plant” whip
• Multy strain black leather gothy whip
• Colorful circus whip (similar to Quip)

JubeiTM.5763:

Oh boy I have to continue:

• A Snake (an actual daemon snake) or a long tentacle whip (perfect for Necro)
• Metal chain Whip (related)

And for the legendary

• Flaming Whip (related)

All I have to say is to Necromancer + Whip is: Castlevania.
Enough said.

Some ideas: (expecting the whip to be 1 handed)
Elementalist + Whip:
<Fire
— Dragons Hit – Hits the enemy with a burning whip, enflames the enemy
— Flaming Ground Pound – Hits the ground creating a long AoE of fire
— Fire Circle – Damages everything around your character creating an AoE fire ring
+ Burning Cannon – Throws your enemy away inflicting knock down and burning damage
+ Dragons Claw – Holds the enemy tight inflicting fire damage as well as immobilizing
<Water
— ?
— Water Pitcher – does multiple hits healing yourself with each
— ?
+ Cold Ram- Transforms your whip in a ram of ice to hit and knocks them down
+ Frozen Cage – freezes your enemy on hit immobilizing him/her
<Air
— ?
— Critical Shock – attacks your enemy with 100% shocking on hit
— ?
+ ?
+ Amplifier – collects enough energy to create an explosion where your whip hits.
<Earth
— ?
— ?
— ?
+ Thrown Dirt – Throw up dirt with your whip to blind your enemies.
+ ?

Necromancer + Whip:
— Scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
— False Penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
— Hangman’s Noose – channel dark energy through the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)
+ Snakes Grab – Transforms the whip into a snake immobilizing and poisoning your enemies.
+ Dark Domination – Sends fear upon your enemies.

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

Necromancer + Whip:
— ?
— ?
— ?
+ Snakes Grab – Transforms the whip into a snake immobilizing and poisoning your enemies.
+ Dark Domination – Sends fear upon your enemies.

These make complete sense to me!

Roll Ele, equip daggers, use only Lightning Whip. Profit.

Necro whip main hand
1 scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
2 false penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
3 hangman’s noose – channel dark energy thru the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)

Teraphas.6210:

Necro whip main hand
1 scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
2 false penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
3 hangman’s noose – channel dark energy thru the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)

Excellent suggestions, I particularly like the self-flogging… it would be difficult to do with an 8 foot bullwhip, but it is very creative and befitting of a necromancer…

Lets just introduce a new class carrying a whip…The Dominatrix..with a Pet named the kitten wearing a ballgag that can shoot it out of its mouth when whipped by the Dominatrix,causing massive Fear effects on everyone for 10seconds.

Caedmon.6798:

Lets just introduce a new class carrying a whip…The Dominatrix..with a Pet named the kitten wearing a ballgag that can shoot it out of its mouth when whipped by the Dominatrix,causing massive Fear effects on everyone for 10seconds.

WTF)

But you proved one point, these suggestions are getting more and more boring. The new wapons (including whip) have been suggested for almost a years in vane.

JubeiTM.5763:

Caedmon.6798:

Lets just introduce a new class carrying a whip…The Dominatrix..with a Pet named the kitten wearing a ballgag that can shoot it out of its mouth when whipped by the Dominatrix,causing massive Fear effects on everyone for 10seconds.

WTF)

But you proved one point, these suggestions are getting more and more boring. The new wapons (including whip) have been suggested for almost a years in vane.

not to mention the skills often suggested are mainly unbalanced such as: knockdown+ cripple on auto attacks lol

Rezzet.3614:

not to mention the skills often suggested are mainly unbalanced such as: knockdown+ cripple on auto attacks lol

That’s what cooldown is for.

Anet give us spear!!!

The whip is already a held item. Like when u pick up a tree branch. This is seen in the Sylvari personal story line in where you have a whip-like weapon (its called a vine i think but who cares XD). So it’s not a weapon like a sword or mace or whatever, its just a held item. But i think the concept is already there. Also I agree, I want land spears, or better yet some more weapons in general. Like a LEGIT scythe. Not a scythe skin, but a scythe. Just some ideas

Whips and scythes as weapons would be nice for cosmetic reasons… But I think it could be quite complicated to implement them in a balanced fashion.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Teraphas.6210:

Necro whip main hand
1 scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
2 false penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
3 hangman’s noose – channel dark energy thru the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)

Excellent suggestions, I particularly like the self-flogging… it would be difficult to do with an 8 foot bullwhip, but it is very creative and befitting of a necromancer…

Well technically you wouldn’t need to use the full length just grab a length or use it while it’s coiled

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

And secondly, style! What whip skins can’t you live without?
I’ll start:

• Standard adventuring leather whip (think Indy)
• Verdant “plant” whip
• Multy strain black leather gothy whip
• Colorful circus whip (similar to Quip)

Oh boy I have to continue:

• A Snake (an actual daemon snake) or a long tentacle whip (perfect for Necro)
• Metal chain Whip (related)

And for the legendary

• Flaming Whip (related)

Engineer Whip Skills:

Main Hand
#1: Body Strike Strike your foe’s vital parts and apply Vulnerability
#2: Go for the Eyes Strike your enemy’s face causing Blindness
#3: Sonic Boom Use your whip to create a powerful wave resulting in a sonic boom. AOE Effect. Foes stroked this way will get 2 seconds of Daze.

Off Hand
#4: Static Entangle Entangle your enemy’s feet and immobilize for 2 seconds. You can pull the Whip resulting in the enemy’s Knockdown.
#5:Whirligig Wrap your enemies plying Weakness every second (3 seconds max). Optionally pull to turn them intro a whirligig and applying 8 stacks of confusion.

Gotta say those main hand for engie sound more like thief

1 sonic crack – hyper accelerate your whip to create a sonic assault. Range 600
2 gadgets reach – pull enemy in close. Strike with the butt of the whip to daze
3 digeredoo – spin the whip rapidly above your head. Dmg enemies in close range. Apply confusion ti those within 600. Whirl finisher

New weapons are cool and all but I’d much rather see crossbows.

DeceiverX.8361:

New weapons are cool and all but I’d much rather see crossbows.

I love crossbows. If you were to create a thread for crossbows, I’d hop over and support you.

This thread, however, is about whips.

Teraphas.6210:

Gotta say those main hand for engie sound more like thief

1 sonic crack – hyper accelerate your whip to create a sonic assault. Range 600
2 gadgets reach – pull enemy in close. Strike with the butt of the whip to daze
3 digeredoo – spin the whip rapidly above your head. Dmg enemies in close range. Apply confusion ti those within 600. Whirl finisher

I wanted to make it unique AND supplement skills that the engineer is missing. What you say at nr.2 … don’t we already have the ToolKit magnet pull+pry bar hit ?

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

DeceiverX.8361:

New weapons are cool and all but I’d much rather see crossbows.

I love crossbows. If you were to create a thread for crossbows, I’d hop over and support you.

This thread, however, is about whips.

Could YOU open the Crossbow thread? You have the gift of words.

Thank you Unfortunately, I don’t have that much inspiration in me for crossbow skills right now (the weapon type seems super straight forward to me), or I would.

Your whip ideas are really cool, by the way, I’ll add them to my post!

I recently played the early Sylvari mission which kits you with a whip and a full bar of skills, and it was amazing. The Nightmare Court also use whips, and I noticed last night that the Consortium in Southsun Cove also use them against the settlers. Considering the animations are already in the game I think they could easily give them a little touch up and add them as usable weapon types. +1 to this post.

If I would have known about this, I would have rolled a Sylvari character sooner. Shame that you can’t replay the personal story instances, so I’m going to have to make this one count.

Why are these not in the game?

I whip crack in real life, and think it would be an amazing addition to the game.

My god I love this idea. This would make an excellent addition for an expansion! Devs, I hope you truly consider this. We need more variety like this!

Excellent weapon suggestion !

I don’t have anything to add but support. A lot of support. +1

Did I see whip as off hand? Screw that! make it main-hand for ranger! FK YES!

Today I created a topic about the new weapon I’d like to see and ; guess what ! It was the Whip. However I deldeted it to make it more centralized discussion to here.

I would like to see the Whip on classes like the Necromancer, Ranger, Thief and Mesmer.

I find it would all fit thematically to each and any one of them

Maybe vary in some range differences between the classes.

Bleeds, CC, disarms, and such all fit the weapon type perfectly and some of the suggestions mentioned here, are exactly what i had in mind for them too !

Aerick Blackmoore.8167:

Bleeds, CC, disarms, and such all fit the weapon type perfectly and some of the suggestions mentioned here, are exactly what i had in mind for them too !

:D

Do you have any ideas for whip types / style?

Whips sound kind of gimmicky to me. I’m not sure whether or not they’d have a future in-game.

That said, I think whips would fit the standard Necro, Theif, Ranger definitely. I also love the idea of a Mesmer with a whip ‘cause they’re such a unique class anyway.