Guild Wars 2

How do you guys like the new Balthazar Weapons? I’m not a fan of the sword, rifle, and bows. However, the Great sword looks amazing! It looks like it’s the perfect balance between a Hilt and blade. The blade isn’t too long or wide either!

They’re ok. Not my cup of tea, but I’m sure others will like them. The more choices the better.

I like the GS, not too often that we get a sleek and smooth looking one. Not that interested in the rest, they look good though. (I think the bows are a bit bland)

Love the sword! Dont like the bows though!

I would like them more if weapons could be dyed. I don’t care for their default tan/gold color at all.

Great sword looks alright, the blade is nice, but they should have made the cross guard a little larger and curved upward, the pommel should have had the balthazar hound head on it in some form, to keep with the theme.

The Hammer is alright. Nothing to go crazy over but better than the other stuff.

The shield is too small, which makes me sad, could have been better looking as a kite shield and not some little oval.

The rest of the weapons are uninspired frankly. The bows look terrible. The sword, terrible, the axe and staff, terrible.

The Sword may be ok. But not sure about the Axe. May be too small..

if weapons could be dyed, the possibilites will be insane

Agreed with Vindictus in regards to the shield; it feels a little on the small scale. I would have loved a full wolf’s head instead of a mere roundness.

Overall I like these weapons as they’re not too flashy or glowy/sparkle-like. For once they’ve released something practical looking. As others have mentioned; not a big fan of the tan-ish color either but I’m sure I can find a decent look with these skins.

They look cheap and plastic to me. These weapons + outfit represent one of the HUMAN gods and yet it looks like it was painted by an Asura child with too much pink and made by the Iron Legion.

Balthazar was/is the Human god of FIRE and WAR, there’s a lack of FIRE colors and dripping blood on all of these items. The fact that they all look like pink toys made by the Charr is blasphemous!

To each their own, but I would agree that the bows not good at all, but how often do they produce bow skins on par with any of the others?

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Great sword looks alright, the blade is nice, but they should have made the cross guard a little larger and curved upward, the pommel should have had the balthazar hound head on it in some form, to keep with the theme.

The Hammer is alright. Nothing to go crazy over but better than the other stuff.

The shield is too small, which makes me sad, could have been better looking as a kite shield and not some little oval.

The rest of the weapons are uninspired frankly. The bows look terrible. The sword, terrible, the axe and staff, terrible.

Agree with the shield being too small. On a max size Charr and Norn it looks so awkward.

Sword and hammer look awesome; thats’ probably why I got them!

Shield is too small, yep. Bows look too slim; given the overall design of the set they could’ve been more “meaty” if you get what I mean.

GS looks nice, not really fitting for my characters, but it’s nice. The staff is awesome too, again not really fitting my characters but I do like it. Many of the weapons I feel like they just have ridiculous sheet metal thrown onto them though.

Eh… dissapointed at the firearms…though the pistol got it better then the rifle atleast. Nice ones regardless and they look like they hurt….unlike other sets i dont want to mention.

Besides the SB and Rifle I love them all.
The simple design and homage to GW1 is something the game needed IMO.

I like the scepter, the staff, the axe, and the horn, the rest I’m not crazy about.

The sword and Warhorn are fine.
Other ones look like cheap plastic toys..

I’m glad they make cheap skins, so that I wouldn’t have to waste too many tickets on them.

i feel the hammer, bows, shield and focus could all use some more love.

The hammer feels sloppy. The head of the hammer should be outfacing not down facing.

Imagine instead the wolf like heads being perpendicular to the grip instead of parallel to it. It would have enabled far more detail work to go in making the product look and feel better than it is.

The pistol is my favorite, but it’s no match for SAB pistol and it’s pewage.

I like the greatsword. Finally a GS that is not oversized paddle or too flashy. Maybe my guardian will finally get new skin to replace the Ascalonian GS. He has been searching for a new sword for over 2 years.

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I would like them more if weapons could be dyed. I don’t care for their default tan/gold color at all.

This. I would be more inclined to buy them, and match them with my dyed Balthazar armour, if we could dye the weapons as well. Just looks odd having Balthazar armour and Balthazar weapons in different colours, and I do not want to dye my armour the same as the weapons.

Hopefully dyable weapons will be added to the game at some point, and maybe by adding the Balthazar weapons it will highlight the need for it even more.

GS; Sword; Pistol and Hammer are 10/10.