Guild Wars 2

Tell me that this wouldnt be awesome on spec for warriors?!

:D

He is clearly a thief archtype, not a war, with all his acrobatics, medium armor, and he is called the viper of dorne which is def a thief name if i ever heard one.

The mountain is definitely a war, he even has the downed abilities, the knock down and the last stand thing where they get back up and fight.

That being said, i agree, spears would be bad ace in this game and wish anet would implement them.

spears are already in game as underwater weapons.
What we would get is halberds (some are in the code already)

Then again you cant give the new shiny weapon to a single class (via specialization)…and giving them to ALL classes at once isnt going to work either..

The only thing that gets close to spear/halberds atm is revenants ability to use staffs in melee (just use a spear/halberd staff skin and there you go. im sure theyll add more of those when hot gets released)

I absolutely love this idea and have been banging on about it for ages in the game. Several creatures already use spears (as terrestrail weapons) ingame, like the Modniir for example. Their weapons are the same models used for the underwater spears. There is no reason that we can’t also have terrestrial spears too. Quite a lot of the harpoon models are used for rifles and staffs models for tridents.
Personally I think that if they ever did add a terrestrial spear weapon, the devs dug themselves a small hole by naming the current spear a spear. Its not what first springs to my mind when I think of a spear (like, I imagine it being a terrestrial weapon before an aquatic one). To be fair though, I can’t think off hand what they would have called it instead.
I reckon a simple solution would be to just make some weapons both terrestrial and aquatic or add it as a Throwingspear. In the same way we have Swords and Greatswords, we’d have Spears and Throwingspears. Or, maybe call one a Lance?

Added: I would also love to see some other weapons added to the game too. Things like Whips, Halberds, Poleaxes and Crossbows. Maybe even a Flail.

Theres also the fact that the art team loves to torture us by putting them in every freaking cinematic. Seriously guys why you do dis. We must have them.

I love the idea of a spear in game as something other than underwater weapons ..

in real life the shield and spear was the BEST weapons in use until those insane barbarians in the north started to run around naked, painted blue and with hand and a half sword (I feel for the roman armies as even though i am descended from those crazy barbarian the very appearance of these berserks would sure freak me out)

I don’t think we will get them but it really would be a cool look at the same time ..

sadly I will also say as a rule weapon + shield in this same is often a substandard set up in most classes that can use it (it is an interesting look that just doesn’t function very well with the game mechanics)

pupi.2465:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHdFSpoObY

Tell me that this wouldnt be awesome on spec for warriors?!

:D

You do know the fight didn’t end in the guy with a spear winning :P

CureForLiving.5360:

pupi.2465:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHdFSpoObY

Tell me that this wouldnt be awesome on spec for warriors?!

:D

You do know the fight didn’t end in the guy with a spear winning :P

Thats only because of the OP warrior downed state. I mean come on, knock down and bash skull in are 2 pretty OP abilities when combined.

(For anyone that doesnt understand what a joke is: in no way do i think warror downed state in game is OP)

Wow, wasn´t aware GoT did this Xena crap. Time to re-evaluate I guess…

If only… The business about melee staves has me worried though. I’m super leery of the idea of melee staff for 2 major reasons. Precedent in both gw1 and gw2 has staves being used as caster foci (object through which to channel magic) and the majority of staff skins reflect this. They tend to be lean and rather fragile looking, definitely not melee weapon material, with a few exceptions.

And perhaps my larger gripe in the face of the “melee staff” hype… Polearms. They are already in the game, just unused. Melee moves with staves and polearms would both be nearly identical, which makes it feel like making staff suddenly melee is quitting right before the finish line… If any of that melee staff stuff comes true for the Rev, I think it will be the cairn of land spears and halberds, simply for the reason above… One guy with a staff will be doing the exact same moves as anyone with a polearm.

What makes it worse, I’m still unclear whether the Rytlock clip of him going at the mordrem was even a hint at all, or a second case of the art dept running wild… (srsly, put a leash on those guys if it was). Still waiting on more clarification of what else the Rev will have… I just keep hoping they change their minds on the whole “no new weapons” thing and allow polearm instead of going the melee staff route.

Momekic.8603:

CureForLiving.5360:

pupi.2465:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHdFSpoObY

Tell me that this wouldnt be awesome on spec for warriors?!

:D

You do know the fight didn’t end in the guy with a spear winning :P

Thats only because of the OP warrior downed state. I mean come on, knock down and bash skull in are 2 pretty OP abilities when combined.

(For anyone that doesnt understand what a joke is: in no way do i think warror downed state in game is OP)

You’ve never been killed when a warrior pops up with veng, finishes you off, rallys and hops happily away, have you? Clearly the guy in that clip didn’t get his proc

Inimicus.7162:

If only… The business about melee staves has me worried though. I’m super leery of the idea of melee staff for 2 major reasons. Precedent in both gw1 and gw2 has staves being used as caster foci (object through which to channel magic) and the majority of staff skins reflect this. They tend to be lean and rather fragile looking, definitely not melee weapon material, with a few exceptions.

And perhaps my larger gripe in the face of the “melee staff” hype… Polearms. They are already in the game, just unused. Melee moves with staves and polearms would both be nearly identical, which makes it feel like making staff suddenly melee is quitting right before the finish line… If any of that melee staff stuff comes true for the Rev, I think it will be the cairn of land spears and halberds, simply for the reason above… One guy with a staff will be doing the exact same moves as anyone with a polearm.

What makes it worse, I’m still unclear whether the Rytlock clip of him going at the mordrem was even a hint at all, or a second case of the art dept running wild… (srsly, put a leash on those guys if it was). Still waiting on more clarification of what else the Rev will have… I just keep hoping they change their minds on the whole “no new weapons” thing and allow polearm instead of going the melee staff route.

They said more than one time that they’ll add new weapons in the game for sure.
And the devs know how much we want a polearm on land.

Jandopo.2107:

They said more than one time that they’ll add new weapons in the game for sure. And the devs know how much we want a polearm on land.

They have in the past, but they specifically mentioned with HoT that there will be “no new weapons”

IIRC it was Colin in an interview just after the announcement

What I would like to see is the ability to put spear skins on staffs. As revenant is getting melee staff, why not throw a spear skin on it and wammo, all problems are gone! Plus its not like casting spells with a spear cant be done, had it plenty in gw1 =P.