Guild Wars 2

Staff weapons in this game leave me feeling a bit disappointed. I mean, there are a few exceptions of course. Final Rest is pretty cool, and I’ve been using the Modniir Quarterstaff because it at least has a particle effect. But other than that, they’re pretty lackluster, especially compared to the greatswords in this game.

Today, I was lucky enough to get a fused weapon ticket, yet I was too excited/stupid to remember that I could check weapon-only views to look at the particle effects before hand. I chose the staff because I play a necro, and I assumed a two-handed weapon would look the coolest, but I’m sort of disappointed at how less “shiny” it is compared to how all the other weapons look. My own fault for being hasty, I know, but still.

Anyway, just curious – anybody else feel similarly?

Staffs look amazing. Greatswords and Staffs have some of the best skins.

Look at rifle, pistol, mace, horn. There are a lot of different weapon types that are a lot more left out than a staff imo.

Deified.7520:

Staffs look amazing. Greatswords and Staffs have some of the best skins.

Look at rifle, pistol, mace, horn. There are a lot of different weapon types that are a lot more left out than a staff imo.

Just curious, what staff weapons stand out to you? Maybe I’m not familiar with all of them yet.

Really? I think rifle has some pretty awesome skins: Azure Railgun, Super Hyperbeam Alpha, Charzooka, and even the Vigil rifle looks pretty sweet. Maybe some of the 1H weapons are a little underwhelming, but I’d think that 2H weapons being bigger would give designers more room to work with.

i like imryledien or however it is spelled. it looks sweet and is rather cheep. some of the dungeon staffs are pretty kitten aswell.

Scionyde.2704:

Deified.7520:

Staffs look amazing. Greatswords and Staffs have some of the best skins.

Look at rifle, pistol, mace, horn. There are a lot of different weapon types that are a lot more left out than a staff imo.

Just curious, what staff weapons stand out to you? Maybe I’m not familiar with all of them yet.

Really? I think rifle has some pretty awesome skins: Azure Railgun, Super Hyperbeam Alpha, Charzooka, and even the Vigil rifle looks pretty sweet. Maybe some of the 1H weapons are a little underwhelming, but I’d think that 2H weapons being bigger would give designers more room to work with.

The 2 new ones, the caretakers staff, cinderspire, deathwish, final rest, the crossing, your legendary, destroyer, ebon vanguard one, emberspire, fractal staff, inquest, melandrus gaze, nightmare, modnirr, ogre, memory of the sky, orrian, pact, pirate, tribal, wolfborn,

Most Staffs and Scepters are weak looking to me. They seem to love making melee weapons far more.

Early on I spent a lot of effort to craft a corrupted staff, only to find it has a weak particle effect only on the very tip of it, and the rest just looks like dull dirty ice. You look at the corrupted swords, when you pull them out frost radiates off the entire thing. So much nicer.

The fused staff is pretty nice but its kind of short in length and the end could be more opulent and expansive.

i’m a big fan of the staves. a few off top adding on to Deified’s list..

- Peacemaker’s i’m slowly working towards
- Kodan is one that i absolutely adore

currently using Memory of the Sky and Wolfborn as well. : )))

Yeah the staves look a lot better that many of the other skins. I have a really hard time trying to find any scepter that I really like. The new fused scepter is soooo small that it’s barely noticable, much like the off-hand foci.

Having said that, I really think ANet have a missed opportunity with staff skins to date. I really loved the Toy Staff skin, simply because it was tall, meaty looking and matched really well. With a staff there is the opportunity to make it larger or more decorated. It’s not a weapon that needs to be swung or hefted about, so give it some gorgeous decoration at the top and make it shine!

I spent a little time in game grabbing some quick screenshots. See if any of these are better for you, this is just a small sample of course.

I agree most staffs in this game are not so great looking. For my Ele I have to use the pact staff for now. It’s one of the best looking ones in my opinion so far even tho it would suit a Necro more.

Simple answer:

I personally think that the designers of these ridiculously flashy, tacky weapons are intending to target people who just want a “look at me” effect, and have no concept of taste. In essence, it’s more important for them to be noticed because you are over-the-top than for them to actually look tasteful and well put-together.

There are, apparently, a great many of such who play MMO’s. Or at least someone thinks there are. Come to think of it, there are lots of people who go for the same effect in real life…

http://dulfy.net/2013/03/26/gw2-super-weapons-gallery/ check that staff out .. mmmmmmm

I have felt that staffs are lackluster until I stared playing an engi and OMg what is wrong with pistol skins in this game?
There are none that are even halfway decent looking- at least not that I have found.

I am not a huge fan of flashy weapons with dripping particle effects and prefer more elegant, simple and detailed skins.
The best pistol skins I have found are the Ebon Vanguard Pistols and they are honestly not that great.
On my main I use Imryldeen/ Khrysoar and I love them to bits, the detail on that GS is just astounding.

Morrigan.2809:

I am not a huge fan of flashy weapons with dripping particle effects and prefer more elegant, simple and detailed skins.
The best pistol skins I have found are the Ebon Vanguard Pistols and they are honestly not that great.
On my main I use Imryldeen/ Khrysoar and I love them to bits, the detail on that GS is just astounding.

Have you checked the Lionguard pistols? They’re quite nice

Ameepa.6793:

Morrigan.2809:

I am not a huge fan of flashy weapons with dripping particle effects and prefer more elegant, simple and detailed skins.
The best pistol skins I have found are the Ebon Vanguard Pistols and they are honestly not that great.
On my main I use Imryldeen/ Khrysoar and I love them to bits, the detail on that GS is just astounding.

Have you checked the Lionguard pistols? They’re quite nice

Hehe I have them too- used them from lvl 45 and yes the are very cool.
I still keep them as an alternate set but after 35 lvls I needed a change.

All staves are amazing just for the animation alone.
There’s still a lot of cool skins tho http://dulfy.net/2012/11/13/gw2-staff-skin-gallery/#18

The new Guild staff skin is probably one of the best guild skins imo. Looks like a glaive kinda. :s Unfortunately I don’t really have a class that uses staff primarily. Have a necro but prefer scepter. :< and Elementalist Staff skills are boring to me.

Yeah, not many great staff skins in my opinion.
Got the Ebon Vanguard staff for both my Elementalist and Guardian, and it’s one of the few skins I really like. Too many staff skins look plain, bland and uninteresting. The legendary looks neither cool, nor nice, and doesn’t fit the theme of the Elementalist, Guardian or Necromancer profession.

I like the Human Tier 1 Cultural Staff and the Ghastly Staff from the AC Vendor. Either of those are very well done, and have nice but understated effects.

I do like the Ghastly staff and I use it, it’s ornate without being too gaudy – though I wish it was possible to turn off the night particle effect (the blue glow). It’s not bad but I’d prefer just having the base staff all the time.

I also use and like the Ebon Vanguard staff. The human tier 1 and 2 cultural weapons (also available via drops) are also good – like mentioned above me, they have understated particle effects that look good without being flashy.

One of my personal favorites is the Gnarled Walking Stick (the HoM reward) – it has a cool particle effect that’s not over the top or flashy. But unfortunately it’s not available to everyone.

This is my favorite staff in the game. The way the light swings around is awesome.

People knock putting legendaries and high-end skins on Asura, but with the lower viewing angle, I can zoom in all the way all the time and see my character (and other Asura) really well while I play.

Scionyde.2704:

Deified.7520:

Staffs look amazing. Greatswords and Staffs have some of the best skins.

Look at rifle, pistol, mace, horn. There are a lot of different weapon types that are a lot more left out than a staff imo.

Just curious, what staff weapons stand out to you? Maybe I’m not familiar with all of them yet.

Really? I think rifle has some pretty awesome skins: Azure Railgun, Super Hyperbeam Alpha, Charzooka, and even the Vigil rifle looks pretty sweet. Maybe some of the 1H weapons are a little underwhelming, but I’d think that 2H weapons being bigger would give designers more room to work with.

The thing is, not everyone likes oversized, brightly coloured and show-off-y, and all but the Vigil rifle of those guns are precisely that. I really would not want staff “equivalents” of those.

I do think they could do with more staffs with particle effects and glowing bits, because that makes sense on a staff, but bigger, showier, and so on the in mould of stuff like Azure Railgun or Charzooka? I’d rather not.

Sericenthe.5310:

I like the Human Tier 1 Cultural Staff and the Ghastly Staff from the AC Vendor. Either of those are very well done, and have nice but understated effects.

The Caretaker Staff? Yes that is indeed awesome- i use it on my ele I love the little glow at the top.

The Modniir Quarterstaff and Flame Staff are also nice. It would be nice if they fixed the bug on the Flame Staff so it had the effect when wielded. I also like the Aureate Staff.

MisterEction.9382:

This is my favorite staff in the game. The way the light swings around is awesome.

I just like how your screenies appear to animate if I scroll down at the right speed :P

I pretty much always default to the Ebon Vanguard staff. The rest are not that great. Imryldyeen/The Legend and the Peacemaker staff are nice but don’t fit with my color scheme. I would like to see more staves like those, less tribal or organic type designs.

I love the Pact staff. It looks great. My only complaint is that the glow effect on the shaft could be a bight more defined. It doesn’t really pulse like I feel it should.

http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x464/weezer1201/Pact_Quarterstaff.jpg

My only other complaint about staves in general is that there are so many “reused skins”… The level 80 Tribal Staff looks like the level 40 Tribal staff looks like the level 5 Tribal staff (just an example. I don’t know if there is such a thing as a level 5 Tribal Staff or not.) I feel like the higher you go in level, the more “special” a staff should look.

Cheers!

Staff is my main weapon and I’m also not overly enamoured with the current choices, currently just using the guild one.

The staff I’d like to see is pretty simple, I’d just like a straight obsidian black staff with lightning effects, no flashy bauble on the top or bottom, just simple. Could also some in many colours lol.

The staves in this game are very lackluster. I’m used to the elaborate staff designs in WoW and most staves in GW2 appear dull in comparison.

I agree most aren’t to my liking at all

Funnily the Guildwars stave’s were a thousand times nicer looking to me..

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Staff

I chose the Peacemakers in GW2..

I use The Crossing, and I’m quite happy with it.
Aside from the lantern going a little bonkers when I jump around.

I love most staffs in this game.

Necro is using Godskull Crosier. I just love the savage look.

Guardian is using Deathwish, looks great on a norn.

Mesmer is using Ebon Vanguard Staff when I use staff.

I’m not a big fan of fluffy particles on weapons.

I would personally like to see a few more fantasy and not goth/undead/dark themed staves. It seems most of the cool ones are either that or asuran built (so almost look advanced).

I kind of like emberspire and the verdant staves, but they are not amazing.

Some staffs are okay, but the fractal staff has me completely disappointed. No trail effect or fog. Just 2 rotating tiny cubes.

I will agree there isn’t many staff skins that stand out (flamboyantly). Except maybe Bifrost.

Most are pretty bland. But some have some minor cool effects. Personally I love the Warden staff (tier 3 sylvari staff). Its not amazing, but honestly I have yet to see another person use it but me. O.o

i wish there were better hammers QQ