Guild Wars 2

DOW Mageski.2097:

Yea GS is OP in this game. I would like to see more balance when it comes to other weapons such as Axe and Sword for classes in this game. A example might be Axe for Ranger and Sword for Guardian, both are out classed by the GS in these classes.

Huh? Greatsword on Ranger is pretty mediocre and definitely one of the less utilized weapons. It’s basically a defensive utility weapon, and one of the class’ lowest DPS options.

Condas.7056:

I don’t know… Infinite Light is pretty kitten impressive, and probably the only skin I have yet to see on a player. Well exluding underwater legendaries.

I can show you mine

IndigoSundown.5419:

Bismuth.3165:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Maybe they thought that since many of the attack animations with GS are so poor, the legendaries had to look good to compensate.

guardian and mesmer animations aren’t that bad, and mace/axe have worse animation than the GS, invalid arguement

Spinning animations in GS. Sorry, argument reinstated.

Your point is that the GS animations are bad that they had to make awesome legendaries to compensate, my point is that GS animations aren’t the worst, spinning animation on guardians look nice and we have nice animations for mesmer and ranger, worst animations would probably be shield, axe, mace and warhorn…

Kuzzi.2198:

Except for The Crossing, I have not seen a staff I like yet. This sucks as I have almost 2k hours on a staff elementalist, and that staff is clearly meant for necros.

Please Anet, release a nice staff for once.

There are a few very nice stakitten , though there probably aren’t as many as greatswords.

I’ve always thought Deathwish is pretty striking: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Deathwish.jpg

And looking over the wiki’s gallery of stakitten (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_staves), I think the charr staff (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Charr_Staff.jpg) and the inquest staff (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Inquest_Staff.jpg) are cool looking.

But, yeah, there has been a lot of love given to Greatswords and some other weapons have gotten a lot of lame entries by comparison recently.

Olba.5376:

Well, Greatsword is the biggest weapon in the game by a pretty decent factor.

Thus, greatswords have a much higher inherent visibility than any other weapon type. This automatically results in the players using more Greatsword than any other weapon. This is especially true if Greatsword happens to be among the best weapons for your profession, such as with Warriors.

And even from a designing point of view, if I was tasked with designing weapons and given the choice between an tiny off-hand weapon like Focus or Warhorn and a massive two-hander like Greatsword, I would sure pick the latter. Unless I had a desire to design for the former for some reason.

But honestly, we as players do not know how they choose the skins. We know very little about the designing process itself. Do the artists submit the skins and some get accepted while others don’t, like when submitting an article for a news paper? Or do they commission a certain quantity of skins for any given release? It’s clear that in some cases, they are doing entire sets with a specific theme.

I consider myself lucky beyond even the luckiest Mystic Forge addict for even finding skins in the game that I really like. And for the fact that those skins are useable on the profession that I like. And that there are some pretty skins for the weapons I prefer using.

I’d definitely like to see more communication between the artistic design team who is creating these weapons and the player base.

My frustration is that my main is a thief and I have so much trouble finding skins I like, especially shortbow and pistol skins. I really like the class, but I feel limited in how I can look. That’s never a good thing in an MMO.

I also really dislike when game companies start making all the new skins REALLY expensive like what they have done with the aetherized and zodiac weapons. Forcing players to effectively play the RNG lotto with real money for new skins is kind of pathetic, and I much prefer being able to just buy 500-800 gems and know I’m going to be able to get a skin, like with what they have done with Magitech armor, etc.

Bismuth.3165:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Bismuth.3165:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Maybe they thought that since many of the attack animations with GS are so poor, the legendaries had to look good to compensate.

guardian and mesmer animations aren’t that bad, and mace/axe have worse animation than the GS, invalid arguement

Spinning animations in GS. Sorry, argument reinstated.

Your point is that the GS animations are bad that they had to make awesome legendaries to compensate, my point is that GS animations aren’t the worst, spinning animation on guardians look nice and we have nice animations for mesmer and ranger, worst animations would probably be shield, axe, mace and warhorn…

I won’t debate what is essentially a matter of taste over other weapon animations. Yes, some of them are bad. My objection to the spinning moves is one of immersion. I can tell you that anyone who used a spinning move with a real GS is asking for the same treatment an unarmed fighter would get by opening a fight with a flying kick.

That said, joke withdrawn. I can see it was not all that well thought out.

It really depends on your tastes. The reaosn why GSs look more elaborate than other weapons is basically because they’re bigger and you actually can put that much detail onto it.

If you stuck too much detail unto a dagger, it’d just look like an elaborate mess.

Xae Isareth.1364:

It really depends on your tastes. The reaosn why GSs look more elaborate than other weapons is basically because they’re bigger and you actually can put that much detail onto it.

If you stuck too much detail unto a dagger, it’d just look like an elaborate mess.

GS favoritism is mainly because there are a huge variety of epic GS and a lot unique ones, whilst other weapons have low variety and look bad…

Xae Isareth.1364:

It really depends on your tastes. The reaosn why GSs look more elaborate than other weapons is basically because they’re bigger and you actually can put that much detail onto it.

If you stuck too much detail unto a dagger, it’d just look like an elaborate mess.

I disagree. Greatsword have unique shapes and some have more or less detail than other weapons but they still come out on top as the best looking skins in general.

I’m not asking for overly detailed weapons. I’m asking for unique skins with a more serious asthetic design and better particle effects than what we have now.

Wallach.7291:

DOW Mageski.2097:

Yea GS is OP in this game. I would like to see more balance when it comes to other weapons such as Axe and Sword for classes in this game. A example might be Axe for Ranger and Sword for Guardian, both are out classed by the GS in these classes.

Huh? Greatsword on Ranger is pretty mediocre and definitely one of the less utilized weapons. It’s basically a defensive utility weapon, and one of the class’ lowest DPS options.

I don’t see any favoritism in terms of Greatsword gameplay, merely the skins. In fact I think each greatsword on the four different classes feels very unique and have quite a variety of situational usefulness.