Guild Wars 2

Moneymaking suggestion! I would love to see a katana skin for single-handed swords , just a scaled down version of Belinda’s greatsword. I’d buy one in a heartbeat, zero regrets. I’m sure an appreciable chunk of the player base would too.

I finally picked up a Belinda’s greatsword skin with the most recent sale, and I keep thinking that some of my single-handed sword toons would look great with a comparable katana-esque skin.

Yes, it’s probably cliche, plays on the West’s odd/ill-informed/enduring fascination with Japanese swordcraft, doesn’t really fit the more fantasy environment of GW2, blahblahblah…. I’d still buy it without a second thought.

Apologies if there is such a skin out there and I just haven’t found it, or if a thread like this exists and the search function just failed me.

It would be nice to have a katana for some asian themed characters or maybe a chinese dao/jian. From what I know, the quetzal weapons that the tengu in auric basin use are exactly this (they have a katana sword and wakizashi dagger skin). So technically they could add them in, but maybe they can’t atm since they have no lore reason to add it.

The closest thing to having a katana in game atm I think is the mordrem saber, ceremonial sabre, or the augury of death if you are fine with those.

The quetzal weapon codes have been datamined but as Wynn notes they may exist just for the NPCs even though we can preview them.

I know I really want them (I like real-looking weapons), so as long as they aren’t a raid reward I will do what I can to get them if ever they show up.