Guild Wars 2

It would have been ideal to finally get polearms introduced as a weapon type with a new set of masteries. Especially since we have a fair ammount of skins to them that is mostly just collecting dust now that anet is not as pro water combat as they used too.

I wasn’t aware that all the details of the new expansion have been released. Have you a link?

Yeh, it also bugs me a little bit. Polearms would be quite a nice addition to some classes (tho it would be unfair to those who wouldn’t get it).
Still, poleaxe/weapon is basically my favourite kind of arms and I am constantly triggered when in GW2 cinematics I see a fair ammount of fighters using such long weapons, we got skins, we even got a weapon named “polearm” in wardrobe and it looks like merchant quality item. There is even a wiki page that is about polearms.
Moreover, as a roleplayer I even like to pretend that my guardian can use poleweapons but mechanically staff (and its skins) feel kinda off.
I wish they introduced it as a new weapon for some professions. I would be mighty happy if they did.

The new expansion is coming and … it won’t include all of the 873523 features requested by people

I wasn’t aware they’d intended to add Polearms.

I have wondered what they’re going to do once they run out of weapons to add with elite specs. Warrior is going to end up being able to use all of them long before the other professions so they’ll either have to give them something else or invent new weapons.

But I didn’t know they were already planning a new one. Where have you seen this?

Danikat.8537:

I have wondered what they’re going to do once they run out of weapons to add with elite specs.

Since the weapons are locked to the elite and you can only equip one elite at a time, nothing’s stopping them from reusing the same pool of weapons over and over. They can also reuse the core weapons; an elite for the warrior’s greatsword for example.

“new expansion coming and still no greataxes”
Demand is a necessary requirement in order to produce something, but you can’t just produce something because there’s only demand. I’m in no way advocating the devil, but I honestly don’t know if anet can deliver to the demand. I want spears as much as the next guy, but only if anet can deliver a grandiose, and not some half-baked product

I can’t remember ever being put off a game by which version of DX it used. Or even checking which versions it used.

Danikat.8537:

I can’t remember ever being put off a game by which version of DX it used. Or even checking which versions it used.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone here really does, either — they instead use it as a “proxy” for their real complaints:

One, that they would like graphical performance improved, possible mistaking that a higher DX version would cause that implicitly, or that it would imply a rewrite that makes it happen.

Two, that not upgrading is a sign the game is “abandoned” and dead. Which seems … like a poor way to measure that to me, but hey, some folks see what they see.

I’m hoping Anet will bring back:

- The Ritualist, Paragon, and Dervish
- Dhuum’s scythe skin
- Scythe as a new weapon (would work well for necromancer’s specifically, as a specialisation weapon)
- GW1 armor and weapon skins
- Abaddon themed stuff – outfits/armor/weapons
- Varesh Ossa armor skins – her outfit was amazing, but it would be awesome to mix and match some of the armor, so hopefully it wouldn’t come out as an outfit, and as separate armor skins, they would cost more in gems. Win-win for Anet.