Guild Wars 2

What with the tendency of people around about now to talk about new playable races, me and a friend were talking about potential new classes to go along with any new races they decide to add.

We started thinking about what needed covered and there really wasn’t much we could think of, so we began going through new weapon ideas to see if classes could be based around any we could come up with.

One idea which interested me was of a boomerang type weapon.

Skills 1-5 applied traits to the weapon with a theif/necromancer/warrior type bar being strapped to F1.

F1 would fire the weapon and depending on how many traits you applied, the metre would go down, acting as a cooldown for releasing further powered up shots.

For example, using skill 1 would apply a fire fuel to the boomerang. You’d press F1 and it would be shot at the enemy and apply burning as well as dealing damage. Since only 1 effect had been applied to the boomerang, the metre would only go down a little.

If, say, you’d applied all 5 skills (fire fuel, barbs for bleeding, chilling fuel, poison and something like vines for binding), the metre would go down entirely and you’d have to wait for it to be recharged enough to use again at one of 5 stages: 1 for a single skill, ranging to 5 for all of them.

I quite liked it and it spun on to go into other weapon ideas and therefore more classes. Say a blend between Ranger and Theif, Tengu-style, able to use this weapon, dagger, axe, sword and shortbow or something?

I’d be interested in hearing more ideas anybody could come up with.

When quaggans are a playable race, they won’t need weapons. Their teeth and claws are inherent melee class weapons. Quaggan Thief FTW!

The Dragons stand no chance! I’d love to see Primordus rise with a wee Quaggan backpack.

While new races are out of the question, I would like a boomerang-type thing too.

Several times, I have wished for a version of the Glaive from Krull:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k_5bgtZ4QSY/UV70xvBt7UI/AAAAAAAAASM/dVdCnqiZLQA/s1600/the-glaive.jpg

GuzziHero.2467:

While new races are out of the question, I would like a boomerang-type thing too.

Several times, I have wished for a version of the Glaive from Krull:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k_5bgtZ4QSY/UV70xvBt7UI/AAAAAAAAASM/dVdCnqiZLQA/s1600/the-glaive.jpg

That’s not a glaive. Whatever the video game industry/your favorite fantasy fiction might tell you, a glaive isn’t a throwing weapon. But don’t let my pet peeves rain on your parade.

In Krull, it is named The Glaive. Hence the capitalisation

We’ve had a lot of these threads since launch.

But they didn’t really go anywhere.

If you really want to see you idea come to fruition, instead of spitting ideas out here: put in an online application to work for Anet.

Devs have to consider time, development costs, scheduling, technical limitations, balance and all sorts of mess that could stretch over a year because of the idea droughts and other hiccups as well as “issues already in the game” they have to deal with. Not to be faced with the fact that the new ideas will have to mesh with everything that’s currently in the game now.

Anet probably has nowhere near the amount of resources to do this lol.

darkace.8925:

GuzziHero.2467:

While new races are out of the question, I would like a boomerang-type thing too.

Several times, I have wished for a version of the Glaive from Krull:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k_5bgtZ4QSY/UV70xvBt7UI/AAAAAAAAASM/dVdCnqiZLQA/s1600/the-glaive.jpg

That’s not a glaive. Whatever the video game industry/your favorite fantasy fiction might tell you, a glaive isn’t a throwing weapon. But don’t let my pet peeves rain on your parade.

i would actually much prefer an actual glaive. polearms ftw.

Thiefs with The Glaive would be amazing

Pull the archer out of the ranger and leave the pet.. Bam. New class.

Doesn’t seem like folks understand ongoing software development…

Maybe something interesting with races and weapons will happen once GW2 reaches half-life.

That weapon is called a shiruken and is basically a larger version of a throwing-star. A glaive is a pole arm style weapon with a sweeping curved blade on the end. Basically, a spear with a sword on the end of it. There are versions like the halberd that have an armor-piercing tip with a less prominent blade but glaives are used in a bo-staff sweeping kind of manor.