Guild Wars 2

I been curious about something.

Its been a major request to scrap the idea of underwater only weapons, and bring those weapons on land some how.

But I wonder whats been taking so long to see a response (verbal or physical) regarding this.

Is Anet’s GW2 development team, having technical difficulties doing this,

or do they simply refuse to do so all together?

I have never seen a request for that, and frankly, it seems a silly idea. The under water attacks are very specific and a large number of them would simply not work on land. I say leave it as it is. It works and it makes sense. No reason to waste time fixing something that is not broken because a couple of players may have issues.

It could be that like me this is the first time they’ve seen this ‘major request’.

I’m on this forum pretty much every day and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone mention this idea before. It could be that the devs also aren’t aware that anyone wants the system changed.

What would be the point? The underwater weapons all have land equivalents already (harpoon gun – rifle, spear – sword, trident – staff) and the skills themselves would make little sense on land. The only benefit would be making underwater legendaries a little bit more worthwhile.

I can’t say I remember seeing interest in being able to use harpoon guns or tridents on land. I’ll occasionally see a mention of spears, likely because Paragons could use spears in GW1, and they’re just a more common historical weapon than the other two, but…

As Danikat said, it would certainly make underwater legendary weapons more desirable, but I don’t see much reason for it otherwise. If they’re going to implement more land weapons, I’d rather they just implement some new class/weapon combinations, like…I don’t know, main-handed shields for guardians, or something. They have a lot more options that way, the options are generally more sensible, and it doesn’t blur the lines between terrestrial and aquatic weapons.

i think that land spear might be a cool weapon for certain classes, but the spear guns wouldnt really make sense and tridents essentially are staves.

Never heard this request before now have to say. I’d personally rather they improved the skills on the weapons underwater first. I love the underwater stuff, but the combat can be a bit hit and miss

phys.7689:

i think that land spear might be a cool weapon for certain classes, but the spear guns wouldnt really make sense and tridents essentially are staves.

Its silly to throw a wepon as the main means of attk and have it come right back in your hand. May be more on the lines of a polearm would fit a spear like land wepon better.

Having sea weapons as on land weapons is strange and make no sense because of the skills.

I would rather see more weapons usable underwater as well as utilities but, for that to work, underwater combat would have to be overhauled and upgraded. It would also be nice to see entire zones underwater.

I’d love to be able to use them on land. In reality you could use those same weapons on land anyways so why not?

And I want Torch underwater!

I’ve seen plenty of rumors that they’re toying with the idea of a polearm introduction…

I as well have NEVER read or even seen a forum topic on this and would have said then and now that IMO would be ludicrous at best, BUT, the availability of a wider choice of underwater weapons I totally endorse.

Spearguns would not work on land and tridents are indeed like staves.

Spear is a strange weapon. It is not great two handed weapon on land and in one hand it should always be paired with a shield like this. Which would be cool.

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5518/warden1.jpg

I would love to use this Spear on land. Though i’d have no idea how they would use it’s particles and unique animations.

Really besides the spear I see no point…..
The trident is just a staff if you think about it and the Harpoon is a rifle. We already have land versions of those all we need on land is the spear or a similar weapon.

Ameepa.6793:

Spearguns would not work on land and tridents are indeed like staves.

Spear is a strange weapon. It is not great two handed weapon on land and in one hand it should always be paired with a shield like this. Which would be cool.

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/5518/warden1.jpg

Meh, it’ll play kinda like this in WvW
http://youtu.be/xOToH_gaAkQ?t=26s

Paulytnz.7619:

Really besides the spear I see no point…..
The trident is just a staff if you think about it and the Harpoon is a rifle. We already have land versions of those all we need on land is the spear or a similar weapon.

You mean just like how we have Long Bow and Short Bow which are pretty much both bows but with different skills in the game?

As much as this post makes no sense at all, I would really quite enjoy seeing a swarm of Piranhas swimming through the air devouring my opponent

From the recent pictures of the atlas something stood out to me in one of the pictures, the one that says adventures of all races storm lions arch, i first thought that the 2 characters to the right in the picture were using staffs, but on a closer look it looks to me they are both using spears.

Spears need to be taken out of the water, those amazing skins!

Yes, we need to get spears on land. They already have skins for them that work perfectly, we just need them actually implemented on land.

We really need fishes chase you on land .. that were great times in Everquest 2 when Fishes camped players at the Nektulos Forest gates

And of course .. Land-Sharks

I want to use my Kraitkin as a staff (always have)…so I support this idea.

Knighthonor.4061:

Paulytnz.7619:

Really besides the spear I see no point…..
The trident is just a staff if you think about it and the Harpoon is a rifle. We already have land versions of those all we need on land is the spear or a similar weapon.

You mean just like how we have Long Bow and Short Bow which are pretty much both bows but with different skills in the game?

There is a difference between longbow/shortbow and what two different types of staves would bring. The shortbow has less range and fires a lot faster than the longbow. The longbow has more range and is great for aoes. All a new staff would bring would be new skills. They can just do that with existing weapons and they should anyway – that is let us swap out/in skills per weapon.

As for the trident I would def not mind there being a skin for it as a land weapon, perhaps a staff or even a 2 handed sword.