Guild Wars 2

if it gets any flashier, you might get hit with a reveal buff

but yea more skins!

Kirito.8796:

I feel the named exotic daggers are a little lacking and was wondering if a mists type dagger could be implemented? Don’t get me wrong Incinerator looks amazing, but its a little too far out of reach. I’m craving daggers with particle effects!

Is that dagger really worth 100g? (the other 100g dagger pretty much looks the same too)

DUDE…it’s a glass shank…it doesn’t get much cooler than THAT lol

Yes, and the other expensive dagger (not counting incinerator and spark) is a brick of ice, Jormag’s Needle Really insane, especially if you compare to Vision of the Mists, Eidolon, Foefire’s Essence and a lot other epic looking weapons from the MF…

Yeah .. there are really not many nice dagger skins. At the moment i just use the T3 Sylvari skin on my Necro and Elemtalist.

I quite like Claws of the Desert (PvP Salient Dagger skin), which actually inspired me to make an Elonian themed Thief, and the Centurion’s Claw, but apart from that, the rest are pretty average. I guess the issue with daggers is that they’re too small to really add much detail to them.

The MF dagger has a nice lightning animation to it if you are just looking for partical effects.

Adding more flashy dagger skins would be sweet apart from : corrupted shards , winterskin dagger , forge dagger and arah one i dont find any of them appealing. The fused weps were awesome but only a few got lucky ’enuff.

I agree with this topic. Daggers are a bit lack luster. Incinerators are not a little bit out of reach but a lot Especially two of them. Some more mystic forge recipes and skins would be nice..some more daggers, some more staves and bows. There are so many focii…whats the deal with that?

I actually agree with this. Most of the dagger skins are either boring or ridiculous. And the legendary dagger isn’t even a dagger… its a blowtorch? I guess its not as bad as the pistol with tassles or the bow that shoots unicorns, but that’s not saying much.

I have a thief with a couple of Claws of the Desert
and an elementalist with a couple of Moonshanks
(she’s a bit celestial from left to right, moonshank, lunaria, syzygy, solaria, moonshank)
and I have to say I quite like both those models.

Orian daggers are OK but other than that the other dagger models are quite meh.
The Incinerator does nothing for me.

http://www.lineage2media.com/icarus/icarus%20dagger%20lineage%202%20media.jpg
one of my favourite dagger skins, with added particle effects it looks legendary. ArenaNet could really learn from art designers of Lineage II… there are some really beatiful piecies
Just another random google picture: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/4356/theghost14.png Angel Slayer with probably +5 enchant on it

actually, i like some of the dagger skins. hammers on the other hand…..

Have to agree here, sort of.
Well, apart from thieves with daggers, they can do one ;p

If it wasn`t for me having HoM daggers I`d not have any interest in their designs at all.
Having said that, Mystic ones tend to be popular, even though they`re lack lustre…

I feel the same way about shortbows. Ever since I started playing MMORPG’s, I’ve always been a collector of glowies, I’m like a skritt.

More shiny please.

I don’t need anything fancy, a regular shortbow skin, with a particle effect like this would be right up my alley.

Throw pistols in there while we’re talking about it.

Edit: ok seriously I’m getting “kitten” throw into my posts, and its annoying.

gennyt.3428:

Throw pistols in there while we’re talking about it.

Edit: ok seriously I’m getting “kitten” throw into my posts, and its annoying.

but…but…..kittens are so CUTE!

Dulfy has a whole gallery of daggers you can look over.
http://dulfy.net/2013/03/11/gw2-dagger-gallery/

The peacemaker weapons, including the daggers, have a sparkly, purple smoke effect.

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gw2-peacemakers-dagger-3.jpg (ignore the PvP note at the top. The owner was looking at a PvP picture. You buy it with karma and use it in PvE)

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

Remember its Nexon thats behind the pain when it comes to Gem Store RNG chests/tickets.

Between NCSoft and Nexon I’m really starting to not like Asian business model.

Back on topic I understand why daggers get so little love. Who wants to spend so much time painting on such a little canvas. Also why we have so many shiny great swords.

Tagus Eleuthera.7305:

I actually agree with this. Most of the dagger skins are either boring or ridiculous. And the legendary dagger isn’t even a dagger… its a blowtorch? I guess its not as bad as the pistol with tassles or the bow that shoots unicorns, but that’s not saying much.

I love my Incinerator. It makes a pretty cool sound when you throw it, it causes a cosmetic burning effect on whatever it is you’re attacking, the arm holding it is always on fire, and you leave a trail of fire when you run/walk. That’s a LOT cooler than some of the legendary weapons.

Conncept.7638:

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

I’m gonna HALF agree with you. I DO think the method of getting one of those skins was terrible. On the other hand, I’m GLAD they made it difficult for people to get. It ensures that the people who DO get it, appreciate it more.

Pustulio.8207:

Conncept.7638:

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

I’m gonna HALF agree with you. I DO think the method of getting one of those skins was terrible. On the other hand, I’m GLAD they made it difficult for people to get. It ensures that the people who DO get it, appreciate it more.

Okay sure they are difficult to get in the sense you have to go through RNG, but they take 0 skill, just like all the new skins they are adding. Just roll the heavily weighted dice until you get it.

This doesn’t give you prestige – it gives you deep pockets. Everytime I see a molten weapon or eyeball blinking at me, I don’t think “wow that person worked hard”. I think “must be nice to be able to spend all that $$ for a chance at an item”. And I’m certainly not alone on that sentiment.

And yes I see you don’t like how they are implemented, but the “appreciating” receiving has nothing to do with the effort put ingame. That’s just silly.

Pustulio.8207:

Conncept.7638:

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

I’m gonna HALF agree with you. I DO think the method of getting one of those skins was terrible. On the other hand, I’m GLAD they made it difficult for people to get. It ensures that the people who DO get it, appreciate it more.

Except they won’t, at least not for long. The majority of the people who win the lottery, when polled only a short time after winning, don’t even care for what they won anymore. And feel nothing more than shame, guilt, depression, and frequently gain problems with substance abuse and suicide they showed no signs of prior to winning.

There is no appreciation to be had or happiness gleaned from things gained by random chance, especially when gained at the expense of millions of others’ disappointment. In extreme cases (which I’m not saying this is) it even causes incredible unhappiness.

And yet that is exactly the business model ANet has been creating, millions of customers get cheated in spite of what they invest, and a handful are rewarded for nothing. And in the end, nobody wins but ANet; at least until the point where they’ve cheated every last customer and run themselves out of business.

Pustulio.8207:

Conncept.7638:

We just had a flashy dagger added, the Molten Alliance daggers. Unfortunately instead of making amends and finally putting effort in to any weapon besides greatswords, ANet decided to deliver a big ‘screw-you’ to its fans and hide them behind one of the most greedy and asinine RNG drops ever to grace a non-F2P MMO.

I’m gonna HALF agree with you. I DO think the method of getting one of those skins was terrible. On the other hand, I’m GLAD they made it difficult for people to get. It ensures that the people who DO get it, appreciate it more.

I ran about 35 keys runs, got about 40 keys, and didn’t get one. A friend got a key for completing an area, got a ticket. She didn’t even know what it was for. I had to tell her. Yeah, she really appreciated it more than the people kittenally* tried to get one.

RNG for these is awful. I don’t care if everyone else and their dog has one. I care about how my character looks and just wanted to buy one of them, or two to make a set like for my dagger/dagger ele.

Edit: really*. Forum filters are whack now

Think how anyone using a Scepter feels : (

HOM daggers r enough for me til something comes down the pipe. Would definitely like to see more skins though. I was a fan of the talon daggers, the oni daggers, the chromatic shards, the jade daggers, the forgotten dagger skins, the tormented daggers and the DRAGON SCYTHES from guild wars.

Other than those, didn’t really like the skins. Most other games I have played seemed like they had a better selection geared to my taste. All subjective and to each his/her own.

Question wrapped up in a whine bundle: Why oh why are the pink glowey weapons that have that awesome Mesmer Phantasm aura to them have to be modeled after the crappiest lowbie weapons ingame,(not counting the shield Wall of the Mist as it’s modeled after the crappy day version of the AC forge shield)? Why man whyyyyyyyyyy.

BTW, I too used 40 keys trying to get a fused wep, no go…RNG hates me. Heres to hoping for more permanent weapons.

Personally I don’t value the glowies I have in other games because they were hard to obtain (which most weren’t) I value you them mostly because they look nice.

Not that having some hard to obtain skins is a bad thing, but the game is definitely isn’t lacking in them. (legendaries, infinite light, mjolnir, foefire’s essense, aether, visions of the mist etc) Not including legendaries, but some have been working for months just to get a hold of one of these skins

I don’t think it will hurt to add some weapons with simple designs that have a little flash to them, that aren’t easy to get, but not oppressively mystic forge difficult either. Think of it as more middle ground items to obtain while someone is working toward the bigger goal.

I miss my Assassin’s Ceremonial Daggers from GW1, it’s true.

Zaxares.5419:

I miss my Assassin’s Ceremonial Daggers from GW1, it’s true.

I wonder who the god was in the Guild Wars universe that decreed that daggers should stop dropping in pairs and at what point/date it happened?

I like my mains (Necro) dagger it has a purple electric flash animation over it, I don’t know it’s name offhand (no pun intended) though sorry.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_daggers