Guild Wars 2

Love how gw2 made weapons dictate your skills.
But why is there so little weapon categories.
Im I player that likes to see more personally feeling to my characters. I don’t like to fall in line with what is good. But it so hard to do with so little choices.
Engineer is a prime example postal and rifle… Yes yes they have tool kits but it just not.the same… I.personaly believe they should receive a dagger with skills more potion or poison oriented. But that’s a different subject all together.

This thread is manly for what weapons do you want to see in game that are absent ATM. I’ll start with a few I really want.

-Spears (we have them underwater but can’t use them above, that baffles me, and I don’t just mean 2h spears I want to sport a spear and shield)
-Halberd (by far one of my fav weapons of all times.
-Crossbows (another death machine I miss.
-Gauntlets ( no need to make a whole new monk class if warriors can pound some ones face in with their fist, good combo with thiefs guardians and elementalist, who doesn’t wanna hurl flames from there fist?

I have Alot more but I’d like to see every ones ideas on what they want.

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

I’d love to see gauntlets
Also I really thing the focus should get some kind of overhaul for the elementalist because nobody is using it.

a few of the wallpapers and concept arts show 2h axe. just sayin

Whips
Spears
Battle Net

i’m pretty sure they left that weapons for furthers expansions…

flails, the offensive mace to crush someone’s bones inside their armor in a nice wide arc.

Chackrams, Boomerangs

a barbaric 2h waraxe wud be nice

Nyamo.4798:

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

How can you have a whip and not give it to the Domination Mesmer ….

The main weapons i want are Crossbow ,Halbeard and flail

Adine.2184:

Nyamo.4798:

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

How can you have a whip and not give it to the Domination Mesmer ….
The main weapons i want are Crossbow ,Halbeard and flail

IDK i think they sorted flail as mace, i hope i’m wrong=)

I would like to see only 1 weapon back in game, and that’s S-p-e-a-r !

Katana for assassin?

I’d rather see katars for an assassin.

The Blue Ace.2850:

Katana for assassin?

Katana is just a type of sword skin.. it’s not a new weapon.

A lot of this stuff will probably be in the expansions. I mean Elona had spears n stuff. we’ll probably see this stuff in other continents.

i would like to add single target weapon kits that do damage similar to other classes for engineers.
such as: Laser Guns, Sattelite Beam Remote Control(would b fun), Javlins, Turrent kit(multiple turrents w/o need for wasting utility slots)
other fun weapons for this post:
Tower Shields(acts like ur regular weapon+ shield combined(5 skills))
-with a AoE ability aggro on self, like a Taunt/Decoy
Claws(attatched to hands of course)
sniper rifles(very long ranged rifles/sniping abilities)
ninja kunai(throwing knives)
-maybe even a movement weapon with a grab and pull urself to it type, like a rope/grapple hook
tons of stuff i could think of, but those seemed to b most fun to me.

Firelysm.4967:

The Blue Ace.2850:

Katana for assassin?

Katana is just a type of sword skin.. it’s not a new weapon.

Katanas are light 2h swords, while great swords are massive. It is like a sword to a dagger.

Laser guided trebuchets.

tyler.4170:

Firelysm.4967:

The Blue Ace.2850:

Katana for assassin?

Katana is just a type of sword skin.. it’s not a new weapon.

Katanas are light 2h swords, while great swords are massive. It is like a sword to a dagger.

Its still a sword skin making it a moot point .

Nyamo.4798:

Whips for Necro/elem/thief//ranger

Yeah, they should add whips. You can already use one in that event in Ebonhawk where you whip the cows and it looks kitten.

Land Usable POLEARMS.

Cake Monster.7496:

Land Usable POLEARMS.

I second this greatly.

I mean with all the cool looking harpoon skins, you basically already have your halberds and spears, just increase their size a bit and add in some skills and voila.
Could be more polearms if necessary.

tyler.4170:

Firelysm.4967:

The Blue Ace.2850:

Katana for assassin?

Katana is just a type of sword skin.. it’s not a new weapon.

Katanas are light 2h swords, while great swords are massive. It is like a sword to a dagger.

Not all katanas are two handed.

Polearms are not meant for this game, since this game prevent massive luring and stuff.
So warlord and pole stuff is kind of out of option.

Firelysm.4967:

tyler.4170:

Firelysm.4967:

The Blue Ace.2850:

Katana for assassin?

Katana is just a type of sword skin.. it’s not a new weapon.

Katanas are light 2h swords, while great swords are massive. It is like a sword to a dagger.

Not all katanas are two handed.

ALL katana are 2 handed (they are light enough to be wielded in one hand if you train with them enough, no movie crap here). One handed katana are also shorter and known as wakazashi.
If they bring in katana, then I want no dachi (known as the fuju sword) basically a 6 foot kitana that is hard as hell to learn but once you do it makes any other 2h sword look like crap due tot he raw damage and speed you can get from a no dachi. A greatsword uses it’s bulk to cause damage and is a slower weapon. A no dachi is very much like having the length and cutting edge of a greatsword and the speed of a shortsword along with having the strongest cutting edge the world has ever known…there is a reason people feared no dachi masters…a well used one can kill horse and rider with a single cut and never present a target for them to hit.

That said…I’d rather they avoid the japanese flavor as we virtually have them (katana = reskinned longsword, no dachi = reskinned greatsword…unless they make new weapons rather than just reskins).
The style of the game is more steampunk meets dark ages…so flails, spears on land, halbreds on land, 2h axes, whips (albiet this one seems extremely silly as a whip against fullplate would do NOTHING).

I would also like to see nets be available as an offhand weapon.

Firelysm.4967:

Polearms are not meant for this game, since this game prevent massive luring and stuff.
So warlord and pole stuff is kind of out of option.

meh I disagree. A Halberd or spear would be treated like a gs it hammer.
Just less damage more range and if anything just limit to the amount of ppl it can hit.

alamore.1974:

Firelysm.4967:

Polearms are not meant for this game, since this game prevent massive luring and stuff.
So warlord and pole stuff is kind of out of option.

meh I disagree. A Halberd or spear would be treated like a gs it hammer.
Just less damage more range and if anything just limit to the amount of ppl it can hit.

This game is programmed so you can’t lure more than 6-7 mobs which are normally in current radius, if u lure them to far they return, what I’m trying to say is that this weapon would be useless, because requires a big group of monsters. And i’m against that they would change lands just to implement another weapon, me personally i’m against luring and cleaning big amounts of creatures.

H2H, Glaives, GreatAxes, crossbows, Wand (main hand focus basically. ofc, different skills maybe underwater), diving knife (underwater), buckler (light shield, focused more on parry than blocking), boomerang(already mentioned but as a thief, this would be too awesome) ^^

Two-Handed Axes

How can you not have those? Its a Role-playing Game faux pas! Even the Warrior on the official class preview uses one!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/warrior/

See?!

Firelysm.4967:

alamore.1974:

Firelysm.4967:

Polearms are not meant for this game, since this game prevent massive luring and stuff.
So warlord and pole stuff is kind of out of option.

meh I disagree. A Halberd or spear would be treated like a gs it hammer.
Just less damage more range and if anything just limit to the amount of ppl it can hit.

This game is programmed so you can’t lure more than 6-7 mobs which are normally in current radius, if u lure them to far they return, what I’m trying to say is that this weapon would be useless, because requires a big group of monsters. And i’m against that they would change lands just to implement another weapon, me personally i’m against luring and cleaning big amounts of creatures.

I see your point but as a wvw player I’d take the extra reach. And IM not talking massive ly long just little longer then gs. You wouldn’t be.forced to.change much.
Isms roentgen guy above.me good one on the.buckler. Absolutely love those also give light armored classes a sheild.

this thread is relevant to my interests.

i’d like a waraxe + gauntlet

Assault Rifle , submachine gun and any other weapons that charr would need to do scorch earth policy warfare….against the other races especially the mice / meat (aka humans)

Dual wield Rapiers for Rangers.

Covington pirates can do it, why can’t we ?

Polearms
Crossbows
Chainswords or whips with chain sword skins
Fans – used in mainhand/offhand like daggers but can throw them have them return like boomerangs or reflect like shields.
Ranged thowing knives
Blowguns
Scythes, ala dervish gw1
Gauntlets
Martial Bow Staves- for melee
Caster Orbs – different skills than a scepter
Main Hand Shields- can be thrown…winks at Cappy American
2h Axes, 2h maces

I think after that things kinda fall into catergories of skins….
HOWEVER, you could specialize certain skins to have particular skills much like the Elemental weapons and weapons randomly found around the world already currently ingame.

Yes, spears, we need spears! Spears should be able to stay out of melee range of other weapons. If done right, it’d be amazing.

• Two-Handed Axe
• One-Handed Warhammer
• Two-Handed Flail (Big spiked ball and chain)
• One-Handed Flail (one or more little spiked balls on a chain)
• Polearms (Halberd, Lochbar, Glaive etc)
• One-Handed Pick
• Two-Handed Pick
• Claws, Katar and other Fist weapons
• One-Handed Spear/Trident
• Two-Handed Spear/Trident
• Short Sword/Gladius
• Double-Bladed Spear/Polearm or Iron Shod Quarterstaff & Longstaff
• Sling

Commando kit please for any and all WvW Commanders Except first make Commander an Achievement

-Assault Rifle
-Flashbangs/Frag Grenades
-Sniper Rifle
-Nite Vision Goggles
-“Assassination” utility
-Summonable Apache Helicoptors
and of course,
-Patriot and/or Predator missiles for those enemy zurgs who “just don’t look riiight”

P.S. Anet, I know you already have them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR2Esy83MQ0

I dont play an engineer, but I think a sniper rifle kit would be quite awesome for them. It would be slow, but powerful. The hardest hitting skills would be a directional stand still channel with a clearly visible moving bullet but it should hit hard at longer ranges. Perhaps to balance it a bit it would have low dmg at close range targets, and maybe only do its higher dmg to moving targets at long range but it’s basically the engineer weapon from wvw or pvp if they find a tower to snipe from ^^ No range beyond 1200 however.

As a Ranger, I can tell you 1,200 m is nice but really not great, especially for a “sniper” class.

As a archer IRL I can’t tell you how many times I’ve defended hills and thought “realistically with a longbow a company of archers could hold the enemy at either gate from the Lord’s room.” I can only imagine a sniper would feel the same way.

At any rate, my post was a joke so watch the video and laugh…but dont take it seriously

gauntlets for elementalist, it would be the kunfu-mage class, i would play that

POLEARMS! Especially for guardians, warriors, and for some reason mesmers.

Greataxes! Two handed high damage with KD/Stuns would be great

Engineer needs another weapon definitely.
- Pistols: mix of CD and outright DPS —> result: crappy damage
- Rifle: not enough damaging skills: we have n°1 skill that allows constant fire, but no volleys or whatsoever
- Grenades: hardly viable in pvp: targets move to fast to actually hit them with the grenades (cause of ground-targetting). A good change would be that you allowed grenades to target players instead of ground!! Please think this over.
- Bombs: only good thing is the “Good ol’ Bomb” there, all the rest is pretty sucky.
- Turrets: too high recharge time to make it a good weapon
- Shield: good for blocking projectiles, nothing else
- Mine: only 1 mine? Takes to long to recharge
- Flamethrower: low dmg, misses a lot when moving around
- Elixir gun: crap

I like the idea of a sniper gun, to allow the engineer to become more of an offensive class, rather than having to run away all the time cause your skills are loading and cause you actually don’t have any big dmg skills that allow you to quickly finish fights, such as the warrior, the thief, the mesmer have.

JemL.3501:

gauntlets for elementalist, it would be the kunfu-mage class, i would play that

Mesmers are totally glamour type of mage so new weapon would be nice to be something glamorous like hand fan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fan
Even main illustrations from ANet depict female mesmer with hand fan.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mesmer

Downside: many people could take this as feminine but male emperors of Far East used this.

Elementalist would be nice to have orb of power something like monarch’s had to further more ilustrate power of elementalist as it suit to that type of mage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign%27s_Orb

Downside: many players would like their weapon clearly visible and orb is quite small so it could require extra visual effects like focus: Anomaly
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Anomaly

Reality: ANet will not introduce new weapons as it require a lot of balancing and they struggle with existing ones. More weapons is more headache for them.
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/17/gw2-dev-livestream-jan-17-transcript/

Sorry guys, I am not hatting or being negative or something, just look the transcript closely, especially Philosophy for weapons/traits & class balance

Another suggestions for engineer weapon apart from sniper gun would be this:
a handcannon!

Inkubus.7529:

JemL.3501:

gauntlets for elementalist, it would be the kunfu-mage class, i would play that

Mesmers are totally glamour type of mage so new weapon would be nice to be something glamorous like hand fan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_fan
Even main illustrations from ANet depict female mesmer with hand fan.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mesmer

Downside: many people could take this as feminine but male emperors of Far East used this.

Elementalist would be nice to have orb of power something like monarch’s had to further more ilustrate power of elementalist as it suit to that type of mage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign%27s_Orb

Downside: many players would like their weapon clearly visible and orb is quite small so it could require extra visual effects like focus: Anomaly
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Anomaly

Reality: ANet will not introduce new weapons as it require a lot of balancing and they struggle with existing ones. More weapons is more headache for them.
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/17/gw2-dev-livestream-jan-17-transcript/

Sorry guys, I am not hatting or being negative or something, just look the transcript closely, especially Philosophy for weapons/traits & class balance

Well weapons are more feasible then a whole know class.

I like the idea of a hand.cannon for engineer.
Staffs another fun one.
Slings
Rope darts or flying claws( claws or blade on the end a rope.

Don’t we already have staff? ^^ Anyways another suggestion: runestones for the wizard classes.

Piano wire for the thief.

I was not thinking magical more on the lines of a quarter.staff. For those who like to beat ppl with a stick.

Glad to see this thread.getting some love. I should have done it new we ’organized but meh to late.now

Haha smacking with a stick. That sounds like banners a bit.
But hey! Let it come. A battlestaff-ish thing then.
Thnx for making this thread.