Guild Wars 2

Hello.
I’m a big fan of pistols and been sitting on the mats for HOPE for some time now.
However. I feel like pistols have such a big niche in this game that I’m in a twist on wether to finish it. Every class that uses a pistol uses it mostly as a niche. Except for pve engi and pvp thief
Further with the leak of the supposed new weapon sets and specs. I see pistols falling even further down the drain. However we can’t be sure since these are not offical releases.

I’d like to hear what other people think about this.

My Thief uses pistols in PvE. You start a fight with mad damage using Unload until your initiative is drained.

Faaris.8013:

My Thief uses pistols in PvE. You start a fight with mad damage using Unload until your initiative is drained.

It’s not the meta build for pve fractals/raids but open world sure u can do whatever u want.

When it comes to meta though pistols are not even close to being viable most of the times

Luimes.4281:

Faaris.8013:

My Thief uses pistols in PvE. You start a fight with mad damage using Unload until your initiative is drained.

It’s not the meta build for pve fractals/raids but open world sure u can do whatever u want.

When it comes to meta though pistols are not even close to being viable most of the times

10 thieves with pistols took down Sabetha recently. Surely, that should qualify as being close to viable. It’s not optimal, but that’s another story.

Feanor.2358:

Luimes.4281:

Faaris.8013:

My Thief uses pistols in PvE. You start a fight with mad damage using Unload until your initiative is drained.

It’s not the meta build for pve fractals/raids but open world sure u can do whatever u want.

When it comes to meta though pistols are not even close to being viable most of the times

10 thieves with pistols took down Sabetha recently. Surely, that should qualify as being close to viable. It’s not optimal, but that’s another story.

Also, I can take down single mobs faster with double pistol than with my staff in low tier fractals. Often, after unloading four times, the mob is already dead or the boss becomes invulnerable again. I usually unload as often as I can and then switch to staff. When my initiative is back, I switch back to pistols for those four might-stacking Unloads. It might be an unusual “rotation” but I don’t think using staff alone has better dps against single targets.

Excelsior.

As I am PvE only, I just use dual pistols and dual daggers. It’s just how I play this game for a long time now and just like people in certain cultures are being raised, it’s about how I am “socialized” with pistols. As someone that plays alone (and thus not getting any flak or unnecessary comments on “what to use” and “what not”) I simply picked it up and played like this trough the game. Why? Because I am a guy that goes aesthetics over pure numbers. Means: I either wear the Sneakthief outfit (with the Anonymity mask) or the Noble outfit with aviator shades and in both sets, pistols and daggers are more or less hidden by my outfit to be as unsuspicious as I can get – until I start to steal and fight. So any love for pistols would be appreciated, because out of initiative, it feels a bit like waiting for a wonder instead of real fighting.

Also, many people don’t like it for the range (check the Thief forums for example) but I often use it to draw initial aggro and then go into a melee with daggers and fistfights. So I basically do not use (a) pistol(s) during reglar combat, either I can take out that one enemy, then I will unload several times or as said, to check my damage from a safety distance and very rarely as interrupter.

(To be honest, I was kinda disappointed the off-hand pistol of my first class, the Engineer, was kind of goofy with the flames coming from it so I was looking if some sane mind at ArenaNet would’ve picked up the idea of actually firing bullets with BOTH pistols, and well, I immediately lopsided for Thief that moment I saw and read “unload”. It’s just something mean to pump lead into someone this way and totally fits a thief, contrary to a huge broom stick [Bo] or sword.)

Also, an Asura wielding dual pistols is just cute. Period.

I love using my hope pistols on both thief and engie (nobody use it as mesmer, lol)… but no new class with pistols in the expansion would be a complete disapointment. With that knowledge, not so sure I would have made one today.

Dawdler.8521:

I love using my hope pistols on both thief and engie (nobody use it as mesmer, lol)… but no new class with pistols in the expansion would be a complete disapointment. With that knowledge, not so sure I would have made one today.

Yeah this is what I’m talking about. Pistols are so so right now. Okay I can deal with that. But no new class getting pistols will push pistols even further back. Shame cause HOPE is by far my fav legendary.

HOPE, Predator and Incinerator are the three magitech themed weapons. All of them are worth making.

If nothing else the next expansion should have a new weapon for each class. Maybe they’ll have a Elite spec for a pistol that you can use.