Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have one weapon builds in the future?
Everyone dual-wields in Gw2 which is even weird to a degree.

Give every weapon 5 skills, as if it were two-handed. That would bring more build diversity and even personality.

A Sword Warrior
Dagger Thief
Axe Ranger or Necro
Even a Shield Guardian

Leave your feedback.

would the one handed weapon have two-handed stats?

You’d be missing out on sigil/upgrade and bonus stats by having a one-handed weapon fill all of your weapon skills and no offhand.

maestrochino.7104:

would the one handed weapon have two-handed stats?

That’s a good question.

Maybe scale them if you are only using one?

zenleto.6179:

I have a sword warrior and he isn’t too bad. I run him around Orr and he hacks away at the evil dead quite well by themselves or in 5s and 6es. Grouped with someone playing a 2hander though I feel he’s below what he should really be. So, yeah.

I have a shield guardian and she saved the day during the Marionette, and other events, more than once so I’d say they aren’t in a bad spot. I’m not an awesome player but I get a decent go out of her.

I’m embarrassed to play my axe ranger in front of people…

I don’t have a dagger thief so I can’t really comment there.

The OP isn’t talking about using one-handed weapons in combination with off-hand weapons, they’re talking about only having the one sword, dagger, axe, scepter, mace OR a shield equipped.

MakubeC.3026:

maestrochino.7104:

would the one handed weapon have two-handed stats?

That’s a good question.

Maybe scale them if you are only using one?

Then why not just use a two-handed weapon?

Guhracie.3419:

zenleto.6179:

I have a sword warrior and he isn’t too bad. I run him around Orr and he hacks away at the evil dead quite well by themselves or in 5s and 6es. Grouped with someone playing a 2hander though I feel he’s below what he should really be. So, yeah.

I have a shield guardian and she saved the day during the Marionette, and other events, more than once so I’d say they aren’t in a bad spot. I’m not an awesome player but I get a decent go out of her.

I’m embarrassed to play my axe ranger in front of people…

I don’t have a dagger thief so I can’t really comment there.

The OP isn’t talking about using one-handed weapons in combination with off-hand weapons, they’re talking about only having the one sword, dagger, axe, scepter, mace OR a shield equipped.

Then maybe the OP can tell me that since only having a shield equipped would be dumb. I can’t imagine for a second that that’s what he means. He asked for feedback and I provided some.

Guhracie.3419:

MakubeC.3026:

maestrochino.7104:

would the one handed weapon have two-handed stats?

That’s a good question.

Maybe scale them if you are only using one?

Then why not just use a two-handed weapon?

Because it would give you different skills than a regular TH.
Imagine skill 4 and 5 for a dagger in your Ele.

The problem would be what you mentioned before:

Guhracie.3419:

You’d be missing out on sigil/upgrade and bonus stats by having a one-handed weapon fill all of your weapon skills and no offhand.

The sigils are very important now that TH weapons take up to two. But it can be resolved in several ways in my opinion:

• Make every weapon take two sigils. One main sigil and one secondary that would only activate while single wielding.
• Make weapon stats scale while single wielded.

zenleto.6179:

Guhracie.3419:

zenleto.6179:

I have a sword warrior and he isn’t too bad. I run him around Orr and he hacks away at the evil dead quite well by themselves or in 5s and 6es. Grouped with someone playing a 2hander though I feel he’s below what he should really be. So, yeah.

I have a shield guardian and she saved the day during the Marionette, and other events, more than once so I’d say they aren’t in a bad spot. I’m not an awesome player but I get a decent go out of her.

I’m embarrassed to play my axe ranger in front of people…

I don’t have a dagger thief so I can’t really comment there.

The OP isn’t talking about using one-handed weapons in combination with off-hand weapons, they’re talking about only having the one sword, dagger, axe, scepter, mace OR a shield equipped.

Then maybe the OP can tell me that since only having a shield equipped would be dumb. I can’t imagine for a second that that’s what he means. He asked for feedback and I provided some.

MakubeC.3026:

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have one weapon builds in the future?
Everyone dual-wields in Gw2 which is even weird to a degree.

Give every weapon 5 skills, as if it were two-handed. That would bring more build diversity and even personality.

I’ve bolded the important bit for you.

zenleto.6179:

Guhracie.3419:

zenleto.6179:

I have a sword warrior and he isn’t too bad. I run him around Orr and he hacks away at the evil dead quite well by themselves or in 5s and 6es. Grouped with someone playing a 2hander though I feel he’s below what he should really be. So, yeah.

I have a shield guardian and she saved the day during the Marionette, and other events, more than once so I’d say they aren’t in a bad spot. I’m not an awesome player but I get a decent go out of her.

I’m embarrassed to play my axe ranger in front of people…

I don’t have a dagger thief so I can’t really comment there.

The OP isn’t talking about using one-handed weapons in combination with off-hand weapons, they’re talking about only having the one sword, dagger, axe, scepter, mace OR a shield equipped.

Then maybe the OP can tell me that since only having a shield equipped would be dumb. I can’t imagine for a second that that’s what he means. He asked for feedback and I provided some.

Haha, it wouldn’t be so dumb. You can manage to attack while only using a shield man.
Go watch 300 or play a dual-shield-wielding warrior in Dark Souls.

A shield Guardian would be OBVIOUSLY be targeted to defense skills, but still, you can kill stuff with a shield if you try. You have your other hand and your legs free. You can kick, punch, bash, smash…use your imagination.

MakubeC.3026:

zenleto.6179:

Guhracie.3419:

zenleto.6179:

I have a sword warrior and he isn’t too bad. I run him around Orr and he hacks away at the evil dead quite well by themselves or in 5s and 6es. Grouped with someone playing a 2hander though I feel he’s below what he should really be. So, yeah.

I have a shield guardian and she saved the day during the Marionette, and other events, more than once so I’d say they aren’t in a bad spot. I’m not an awesome player but I get a decent go out of her.

I’m embarrassed to play my axe ranger in front of people…

I don’t have a dagger thief so I can’t really comment there.

The OP isn’t talking about using one-handed weapons in combination with off-hand weapons, they’re talking about only having the one sword, dagger, axe, scepter, mace OR a shield equipped.

Then maybe the OP can tell me that since only having a shield equipped would be dumb. I can’t imagine for a second that that’s what he means. He asked for feedback and I provided some.

Haha, I wouldn’t be so dumb. You can manage to attack while only using a shield man.
Go watch 300 or play a duel-shield-wielding warrior in Dark Souls.

A shield Guardian would be OBVIOUSLY be targeted to defense skills, but still, you can kill stuff with a shield.

I don’t need to watch a movie or play another game. I’m out.

Honestly, my preference would be to have a greater variety of weapons available to the professions and then new weapon types introduced before I’d be interested in adding a system where you get two new weapon skills for only wielding a one-handed weapon.

I want engineers to be able to use hammers and maybe staves, thieves to be able to use axes and rifles, and elementalists to be able to use a mace. Then I want great-axes, polearms and crossbows.

It’s an interesting idea, but ultimately there are just so many other things that would be more worthwhile, in my opinion.

The thought has crossed my mind, especially with the thief main hand weapons having their own unique skill#3 if you dont have anything in the other hand. You only see those skills on lvl1 when you dont have your first off-hand weapon yet. And then never again.

MakubeC.3026:

Wouldn’t it be awesome to have one weapon builds in the future?
Everyone dual-wields in Gw2 which is even weird to a degree.

Give every weapon 5 skills, as if it were two-handed. That would bring more build diversity and even personality.

A Sword Warrior
Dagger Thief
Axe Ranger or Necro
Even a Shield Guardian

Leave your feedback.

One handed weapons in this game are viable.

Haven’t you met dagger wielding thieves in WvW? or PvE ? Or sPVP?

You mentioned warrior – with the latest patch warrior’s best dps weapon is an axe – you won’t do more damage with any two handed weapon more than you do with your axe.

Basically there’s no reason for what you’re proposing to be aimed just at one handed weapons.

The real plight here should be give all weapons more skill to choose from.

Preferably using some form of drop-down panel allowing us to choose what we want on our weapon and what not.