Guild Wars 2

I know this is a pretty long stretch but something that came to my head a few months ago as a future investment for GW2 would be, what if we had focus/shield/warhorn/torch in mainhand?

Mainhand Shield/Offhand Shield (yes it sounds silly but it is fantasy too)

Also, alot of Focus look like fist weapons.

Another idea of note is regarding underwater weapons like spears and tridents, why not just give them overland versions of certain abilities and keep the rest as they currently function.

Also, rename Harpoon Gun to Crossbow and potentially reskin some of its stuff.

Eh, just a few musings about the futue weapon types of Gw2, I mean I know folks want Scythes and other things but it was food for thought.

Opinions?

that would probably help with killing things with these weapons. I have actually mentioned the main hand focus thing in some specialization weapon topics that came up a few months ago. Land spears are always cool, hopefully that is coming at some point in the future.

Mainhand shield is the most riddiculous thing I have seen EVER. Name me any fantasy (book, game whatever) where someone used 2 shields at once, for whole fight ofc.
What warhorn should do in mainhand? Big no.
Focus is focus and fist is fist. If they add fists, it’s fine, I’d like it. But leave focus in offhand.
Spear/trident as land weapons is k. If You rename harpoon gun, You’ll shoot with xbow underwater? It’s better to create whole set of xbows if there would be a need.

The only thing which is k is mainhand torch imo. But for mages only, optionally guardian.

well to be fair, off hands could be unique hand equip with different skill sets as per main/off hand set....

kuben.9826:

Mainhand shield is the most riddiculous thing I have seen EVER. Name me any fantasy (book, game whatever) where someone used 2 shields at once, for whole fight ofc.
What warhorn should do in mainhand? Big no.
Focus is focus and fist is fist. If they add fists, it’s fine, I’d like it. But leave focus in offhand.
Spear/trident as land weapons is k. If You rename harpoon gun, You’ll shoot with xbow underwater? It’s better to create whole set of xbows if there would be a need.

The only thing which is k is mainhand torch imo. But for mages only, optionally guardian.

Dual wield shields in the souls games were a thing and they were not to be trifled with.

Also various swordmanship styles that favored the shield in the main hand for superior defense is also a thing. The Korean deungpae for example was generally seen in the mainhand.

kuben.9826:

Mainhand shield is the most riddiculous thing I have seen EVER. Name me any fantasy (book, game whatever) where someone used 2 shields at once, for whole fight ofc.
What warhorn should do in mainhand? Big no.
Focus is focus and fist is fist. If they add fists, it’s fine, I’d like it. But leave focus in offhand.
Spear/trident as land weapons is k. If You rename harpoon gun, You’ll shoot with xbow underwater? It’s better to create whole set of xbows if there would be a need.

The only thing which is k is mainhand torch imo. But for mages only, optionally guardian.

Cao Ren in the Dynasty Warriors games used a main hand Shield.

Idk if I’d want main- hand shield, but I do wish we could have some more skills for off- hand only weapons. (Shield, WH, Torch, Focus). I love smashing my shield into things, I just wish I had more ways to do it.

In FF2 i think you can actually equip 2 shields. I dont think you can attack/do any physical damage with it, but you can likely cast spells (ive never actually used it in battle more than a few times).

I like the idea of underwater weapons being usable above water.

And what about two-handed axes? They seem strangely absent, especially in Norn areas. Did someone round them all up and have them melted down over the course of the last 250 years?

Scythe and Spear(Land) existed in GW1 so why not here

Main hand Shield for a Mesmer or and Engineer would make sense though not sure what the off-hand shield does the reflecting and abilities of a Mesmer could make use of it.

Also Captain America main hands a shield and that’s Murica’ so nuff said

To be honest I’d rather they seperate skills from the weapons or at least give us some sort of customization for the weapon skills.

Other weapons like Crossbow, Polearm, Knuckle, Tonfa, Great Axe,, Launcher/Cannon, and so forth would be nice but in a game that forces skills and weapons to be combined I doubt they’d be made available part of the reason I think skills and weapons should be separated to a degree as a new weapon would require a new play-style in this current set up.

i doubt we will see new weapons…but if we do, i think a good idea would be an “enhancement” of existing weapon types – for example, focus weapons could be expanded to also include fist weapons – since they look kind a similar anyway… staff wepaons can be expanded to include polearm weapons…bows could be expanded to include crossbows, maces could be expanded to include flails etc. etc…

All I want is weapons to be dyeable. However Anet makes money off of using the same skin just with different colors, so doubt they will.

There’s no fundamental reason why shields, foci, etc couldn’t be used in the main hand. Each weapon in this game serves to channel some type of magic, so it’s just a convenience to associate the skills with a ‘weapon’. ANet might just as well have used a bag of bombs, a bag of seeds, an effigy, a fruit, or a pot of poison. Oh wait, they did all of the above…as bundles, rather than main-hand weapons.

Even so, I get a headache considering even the idea of dual-wielding shields.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Even so, I get a headache considering even the idea of dual-wielding shields.

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