Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

Since there is a lot of debate about adding existing weapons and non existing weapons to classes Idd like to add another one: The tome.

The tome could function as a main hand weapon. Any magical profession could wield this (guard, ele, mesmer and necro) with own designed skills.

I havent seen any1 suggest this but casting spells from a book is like… so magically.
What do you think?;D

Greetings, V.

We already have this, it’s called a focus and it’s an offhand weapon.

This is an interesting idea only what if it were more like a two handed focus. It would be to a staff what a hammer is to a two handed sword.

nopoet.2960:

This is an interesting idea only what if it were more like a two handed focus. It would be to a staff what a hammer is to a two handed sword.

Sounds interesting. ^^

There are a couple of elite guardian skills that are basically this: Tome of Wrath (offensive spells) and Tome of Courage (support spells). They do look impressive when someone is using them. Not sure how they would fit into the other professions.

The guardian elite skills Tome of Wrath and Tome of Courage are seriously the coolest and best looking elite skills in the game.

A two handed tomb actually does sound pretty cool. It would obviously have to be ranged focus because melee with a book seems weird.

Kal Spiro.9745:

A two handed tomb actually does sound pretty cool. It would obviously have to be ranged focus because melee with a book seems weird.

Maybe melee with a mesmer! I love beating my enemies over the head with a good book!

Edit: I’m not sure they’d implement such a weapon because of the Guardian Elite Tome skills. It’s still a fun idea though!

Thanatos.2691:

Kal Spiro.9745:

A two handed tomb actually does sound pretty cool. It would obviously have to be ranged focus because melee with a book seems weird.

Maybe melee with a mesmer! I love beating my enemies over the head with a good book!

Edit: I’m not sure they’d implement such a weapon because of the Guardian Elite Tome skills. It’s still a fun idea though!

Guardian’s don’t have to get it.

Some sort of two handed, short range magic weapon could be useful…

I’d rather see a tome as an off-hand weapon, so we can combine it with a sword and be all awesome like Robin from Fire Emblem / Smash bros 4.

But I guess that would be too similar to what we already have: the focus, except the main difference would be that most foci are ugly as hell and an opened-up tome like Robin has will look much much much much much much much more awesome.

Kal Spiro.9745:

We already have this, it’s called a focus and it’s an offhand weapon.

And most people with any design sense agree that was a terrible idea from the very beginning. We have four magic based classes, and three more that still use magic to some degree. Permanently limiting the game to three magic based weapons is insufficient, but everything we could possibly use to expand that repertoire is covered by the any-random-crap-that-somewhat-fits-in-your hand weapon, commonly known as the focus.

The focus is the problem, not the OPs suggestion.

I’ve been wanting this for two years! Tome is at the top of my list of new weapons I want added, right next to non-aquatic polearms. Actually, those are the only two, but still…

It should be two-handed, for extra visibility of animations and skins. I’m imagining powerful non-projectile ranged attacks, (like necro scepter 1), and AoE, with long channels. Maybe even skills that work like reading a story, where you get different effects popping at different points during the channel; the last effects would be strongest, but most vulnerable to interruption.

I like this idea! I love to use focus but I also wish they could be more impressive. This would be a good solution