Guild Wars 2

Pole weapons thread.

Sooo… I’ve been browsing here and there through gw2 lore, watched some cutscenes and pictures, even a bunch of old threads.
Let’s get straight to the point:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Polearm

Any hope of having those in the future? Perhaps along with Living Story season 3?
I really wonder why we get spears underwater but not on dry land.
Pole weapons are not something extraordinary and it amuses me how we have torches, foci, warhorns and scepters that are not kittenual sight in most of MMORPG’s.

When I decided to buy GW2, first things that caught my interest were guardian tomes and spears along with some other stuff.
Oh imagine my dissapointement when I found out that spears are underwater weapon and tomes were made into weak elites (but that is another story.)

There is even an unknown character holding a polearm as it watches how Pact’s fleet gets destroyed in LS2 final cutscene (that one really teased me.)
Check out pic attached. Those these look like weapons that should be used underwater? For me they scream “Use me in dry land combat!”
Do you wish for this weapon type to make an appearance? What professions and what roles should they have?

I love me some polearms

indeed, my greatest weapon-related gripe is that spears are not available as land weapons

I agree, I’m so fed up of staffs coming out that look totally ridiculous on my Dare Devil. There’s like 4 or 5 acceptable skins.

Tringsh.2380:

I agree, I’m so fed up of staffs coming out that look totally ridiculous on my Dare Devil. There’s like 4 or 5 acceptable skins.

Yup, but I am really concerned and even afraid that Anet will try to solve polearm problem with adding staves that look like pole weapons which already happened with few like Lightward battlestaff, Reclaimed staff and Guild pillar. I really hope they won’t do that.
Now as I watched more cutscenes, there are lots of literal spears and pole weapons that are used in combat on land… why is that players can’t have it?

In Data files these already exist, as for looks you could just take underwater spears, pull them out and let them dry on the sun so we can pick’em up and fight.
The thing is to make animations and skills (some traits too).
You call balance issues? Well… how about adding elite specializations, these require balance too but on larger scale while pole weapons would add much to the combat system with only 5 skills to balance through certain professions.

EDIT:
Even then, this weapon might have an extra utility, to let us trade its last 2 skills to equip an offhand in their place (shield for example.)

Herald with spear would be cool tbh

Revenants already have their fun with staves, but I guess they could have it though.

Rodzynald.5897:

Even then, this weapon might have an extra utility, to let us trade its last 2 skills to equip an offhand in their place (shield for example.)

Liek a hoblite? As far as I know they’re Shield and Spear.

Heck yes! Drool
I could imagine my ranger being a total boss swiping this around in wvw zergs.

I hope next expansion give as new weapon types and tengu.

As much as the Paragon was a sort of “miss” in the first game, I’d be SUPER STOKED to see them be the next warrior Elite Spec. IMAGINE THAT FOLKS. Maybe with new Leadership type skills or something :o

polearms would be great…but my warrior hankers for a greataxe more.

Yup, personally I see this weapon as a guardian and warrior choice for sure. Ranger could have it as well to be like a primal hunter. I kind of see mesmer or elementalist working it just like in this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Umweou6DNQ

I will always support this idea when I see it crop up. Spears would be great on my ranger, I’d also love one on an elementalist.

Rodzynald.5897:

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EDIT:
Even then, this weapon might have an extra utility, to let us trade its last 2 skills to equip an offhand in their place (shield for example.)

Ooohhh now this is an interesting idea but I’m not sure I can visualise it working with anything that wasn’t a shield. A sort of stance change ability for a warrior using a spear could be good, being able to switch between two handing it and wielding it with a shield that was separate from normal weapon swap. Not sure how that could work stats/skin-wise but still, while I’m dreaming hehe.

I would enjoy it if one of the profession’s that got a spear had them as a thrown weapon. It doesn’t have to be guardian that gets it. Thief could be an interesting spear thrower as a sort of ranger-esque specialisation. Elementalists I imagine being quite daredevil-y with a spear.

…so what I’m getting from all this is, if I’m understanding you right is…

…bikini armor? I’ll take it, so long as female Charr can wear it.

Zephyria.6103:

polearms would be great…but my warrior hankers for a greataxe more.

I think greataxe can work as a greatsword or hammer skin. So not its own weapon type but a skin.

Agemnon.4608:

Zephyria.6103:

polearms would be great…but my warrior hankers for a greataxe more.

I think greataxe can work as a greatsword or hammer skin. So not its own weapon type but a skin.

It would depend if you could make such a weapon unique and interesting.

I could possibly see a Greataxe type weapon having a couple of moderate AoE skills + debilitating conditions but high damage/slow activating Single-target burst damage. If it was a high damage AoE type of weapons it would be too similar to Greatsword. If it had high CC it would be too similar to Hammer.

So thusly, it would depend on if the weapon could be made to be unique and if the players would accept what type of gameplay it could offer.

One thing I wondered though about the introduction of ANY new weapons. Would they backdate all skin groups and make a polearm of every theme that exists in the game or would they introduce only new sets? Or would they simply modify underwater weapons like the spear?

I think that pulling out underwater spears would be just fine. Perhaps throw one legendary and it should be good.
It seems kind of convenient, spears are already in the game, just change’em to polearm once out of water.
I guess that might be a great addition to combat content with new xpack or living story season.

would be sweet.

Did anyone play the diablo-like Sacred? I have fond memories of my Barbie/Seraphim whacking away with her polearm using some kind of multi-attack animation. Good times. Ooh! And remember the BFG skill?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Zephyria.6103:

polearms would be great…but my warrior hankers for a greataxe more.

A greataxe skin could very easily fit into the polearms category. Historically the line between an axe with a long shaft and a polearm is a bit fuzzy.

Poleaxes are a thing. Halberds too. Glaives are visually more like a spear but functionally more like an axe.

Looks like this thread sinks in too easily. I guess that people are not very interested in polearms.
But this ain’t true! We need’em and we want’em for more diversity in combat.