It seems Polearms are already in the game. When did they add this? And is anyone else slightly disappointed that you cannot use your underwater spears on land?
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Too bad.
Sadly today everyone associates swords with fantasy/middle ages when in reality the polearm was in all times more widely used even among knights.
I believe the polearm was, like many weapons converted from farming tools. The “hedge cutter and layer” would use a tool called a “billhook” to grasp branches and trim them by pulling down and the hook would grab and trim the branch. They had lots of variety in design with one handed axe like versions as well as some on the end of a pole.
I could be wrong though. :-)
When I first launched GW2, first thing I was gonna do is to equip myself with a two handed axe or a polearm… welp, that was unexpected when I saw polearms to be an underwater weapon and axes are only in one handed variant.
I highly doubt that Anet will ever implement both of these due to balance issues, but there is a slight chance that those might get merged into a halberd (as you know it: part axe, part polearm).
Let’s say warriors get a more axe-“ish” (brutal) aspect and guardians polearm-“ish” (defensive/distant) of such weapon.
Of course Revenant might try it as well and strangely I think that rangers might get it due to hunters being profecient with spears/polearms in their hunts (not from WoW point of view).
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If this gets much more attention then we might hope for next expansion to include new weapons instead of elite specializations (it could cover the part of our character’s evolving more and more as we drill deeper into the dragon menace).
I’m pretty sure land spears exist largely for technical reasons, as a weapon type for enemies that use spears on land (mostly amphibious races, plus some centaurs and the mounted mordrem guard).
Many spears look more like polearms, and some weapon sets have alternate spear skins that look more like polearms than spears.
Main hand spears and polearms would be a great weapon to add, not only as specialization, but as a new core weapon. Warriors and Revenants do not have a 1-handed ranged weapon. A main hand throwing spear (a.k.a Javelin) would work great for that.
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Yeh, but in another thing it would suck due to only few classes gaining access to this weapon. If such thing was ever to be put in game then it would be reasonable to do so with a whole new expansion throwing in bunch of different new weapons as well, so that every class gets some, for example:
Polearms/halberds for soldier classes
Fist weapons for adventurer classes
Spell tomes (or some other kind of magical miscallenous) for scholar classes.
Those are actually skill effects. The weapon itself is probably a different type of weapon, like a dagger, a sword or a bundle.
When they use the skill, the weapon is hidden and replaced by the whip effect. Like when an elementalist uses lightning whip.
Considering how most weapon skills won’t use the weapon’s model for their effects (e.g: Thrown axes, spears, hammers or greatswords only look like the weapon for legendaries) whips would need to be done from scratch if they want their skills to look like the whip at all.
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I hope it’s a sign they’ll be adding mounted combat, like jousting. It’s a great idea for a PvP or WvW map at least anyway where you have teams of 20 and the groups decide beforehand who’ll be in an attacking team or who’ll stay behind to defend. Numbers would vary between attackers/defenders until a 4 defender/16 attacker meta or whatever is established. It’ll be like conquest but without NPC’s and the players themselves knock down doors not summoned bombers. Being mounted would offer a mobility advantage and there’d be a breakbar for dismounting. If you’re dismounted in that way you spend 3 seconds stunned. Victory would be declared after channeling at the opposing team’s base. So someone could say, “Ele, use staff and static field around the channeler!” so anyone who tries stopping him will be dazed, and necro to set up a field to block projectiles to counter those trying to interrupt the channel without risking a daze.
I hope so becuase game that has torches/focuses/scepters that are surely not a default choice of arms in other games, should truly put in a bit of more real weapons.
(Fun-fact: spears and later polearms were the most common weapons since the dawn of mankind and first civilizations).
I saw an interesting thing while checking out spear and trident skins… there is a polearm that looks well… like a polearm and it has that white weapon quality look like those you can buy from weapon merchants.
It’s an another hint/wink at polearms overall.
Also I had this one wild thought, what if spears could keep their weapon skills on land just like underwater? Some of those could work out I guess, perhaps just change auto attack to melee range (or thrown as some guards might like it). It really feels like those abilities could work on dry land as well.
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