Guild Wars 2

I would like to see this happen.

I like the Kormir thing.
And Trident for the Necromancer Specialisation summoning mermaids that slow/fear/chill enemies and heal allies :P

You have to ask this about spear or polarm what roll will it fill that is not already filled? Most of the time weapons like these will be melee but a bit longer ranged so say 300 with some leap mobility and or throwing effects. For the most part GS fills this roll already for a lot of classes.
What the game is missing for weapon class is say a physical dmg close ranged fast melee. Daggers are close to this but often are more magic weapons and maces are slow. So i say weapons like 2h2 and or fist weapons or 1h club weapon would fit.
There a lack of a magic mid ranged weapon (maybe spears can fit this but i do not think polarms would).

The trick is to sit down and make a list of weapons and the rolls they fill and see what is missing when coming up with a new weapon type for gw2.

Both the kormir spec and the necro spec i was thinking of are not in the game.

Jski.6180:

You have to ask this about spear or polarm what roll will it fill that is not already filled? Most of the time weapons like these will be melee but a bit longer ranged so say 300 with some leap mobility and or throwing effects. For the most part GS fills this roll already for a lot of classes.
What the game is missing for weapon class is say a physical dmg close ranged fast melee. Daggers are close to this but often are more magic weapons and maces are slow. So i say weapons like 2h2 and or fist weapons or 1h club weapon would fit.
There a lack of a magic mid ranged weapon (maybe spears can fit this but i do not think polarms would).

The trick is to sit down and make a list of weapons and the rolls they fill and see what is missing when coming up with a new weapon type for gw2.

I disagree with this assessment. The weapons in gw2 rarely feel like how one would use that weapon on land. Perhaps the 1skill is on that track… but lots of weapons skills are just “spells” that fit.

Nero dagger 2, and axe… and greatsword.
Guardian sword 2,
Ravnant sword 3, and 5
Engineer hammer 2, and 4.

There are more examples, but we wouldn’t be breaking some kind of thematic feel.

However, spears and be thrown, which gives us a niche that doesn’t exist, except for rangers MH axe. Which is a melee weapon you can also throw.

Also, tridents are the ‘thrusting’ 2 hander. Hammers are the ‘swinging’ and greatsword becomes the ‘hybrid’.

This could be revnants ranged conditions weapon. Also could be 1 handed on some classes, like guardian having a hard hitting 1 hander to pair with shield, for pure thematics.

What would be really cool is, if every class got either spear, or trident depending on what they can use underwater (btw, we would need some work around for engineer here, as it gets neither) then, have each class handle it diffrently. For example. Elementalist might use trident as a two handed melee weapon. Necro may get main hand spear, or two handed trident. Guardian having 1 handed trident, or 2 handed spear.

Also, it ought to be added to the base class, rather than as an elite weapon. Otherwise we’ll wait forever for them to design elite specs, then everyone and their kid sister would suddenly be wielding spears and tridents exclusively.

As for the revnants idea above… I love it. That should be a base revnants legand. And honestly, giving the revnant a new trait line that is base class would be totally fine. They can still only use 3 at a time, and the Rev needs work. A new legend and trait line would make up for having 12,(17 after the change) utility skills to everyone else’s 20 something.

I had asked for a land spear years ago for Necro. The profession has nothing but scepter to stack condi damage so Necro’s are stuck auto attacking with it. A bleed-bursting condi weapon is needed for weapon swap to melee range and I thought a spear would be nice. Scepter has no power and greatsword, though it was originally capable of becoming a hybrid weapon, had all of its condi nerfed and was never compatible with scepter builds.

+1 to this. I definitely want a spear, and I’d love it if it was for all base professions.

+1 would love to see underwater weapons actually getting some use, even if it’s moving to land based combat.