Guild Wars 2

I was talking with friends last night about achievement points and what we’d like to finish up or work on and we all wound up having definition problems.

Here’s how it went:
I mentioned that I was close to finishing a tier of Speargun Master and my friend says that they were very close as well, but had nearly no kills under Harpoon Master.

(Look in your achievements under General>Weapon Master)

So as we looked and discussed this I noticed that my Ranger has a Berserker’s Speargun of Bloodlust. But when you look at the weapon info pop-up, it’s called a “Harpoon Gun”.

I load up my Thief, and she has a Ravaging Verdant Spear of Battle and a Berserker’s Speargun of Bloodlust. The 1st one is called a spear and the 2nd weapon is a harpoon gun.
We were trying to figure out which weapon falls under what achievement type and to be honest it isn’t very clear at first look.

Spears are labeled “spear” on the weapon info window but considered harpoons in this game, and therefore fall under Harpoon Master.
Harpoon guns have Speargun in the title but are labeled “Harpoon gun” on the weapon info window…and they fall under Speargun Master.

TL;DR: it’s not gamebreaking but WTF Anet? Can’t you keep this crap straight at all?

Even reading the wiki just lets you know they just shrugged and said “Whatever dude…”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Speargun “The harpoon gun, also known as spear gun (not to be confused with spear),”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spear “The spear, also known as harpoon,”

Water combat is unpleasant and deserves an appropriately unpleasant naming convention.

Harpoon GUNS are ranged weapons and one type of combat. Spears and harpoons are melee weapons and another type of combat.

It is possible to think too deeply about stuff like this.

It is kinda funny if you put it like this. But really it shouldn’t be too hard to figure it out though.

Vayne.8563:

Harpoon GUNS are ranged weapons and one type of combat. Spears and harpoons are melee weapons and another type of combat.

It is possible to think too deeply about stuff like this.

Guardians can use spears at range. Well first attack skill anyway.

I know that this isn’t game breaking or even extremely mind bending…but that wasn’t my point. I think it is silly of them to have chosen overlapping nomenclature. The fact that they name a harpoon gun “speargun” in the weapon title and call a spear a harpoon nowhere else except in its achievement is just cause for giggles and head scratching.
No one ragequit or logged out over it. We just had a couple minutes of LOLWTF.

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Vayne.8563:

Harpoon GUNS are ranged weapons and one type of combat. Spears and harpoons are melee weapons and another type of combat.

It is possible to think too deeply about stuff like this.

Isn’t the difference between a spear and a harpoon that a harpoon was designed to be thrown whereas a spear was designed for stabbing?

At least that’s the difference in Moby kitten.

Actually guys there are many issues with regards to water weapons in game still. Anet just has not got around to fixing them. 1 is the naming of them, another is incorrect icons or skins in various places and the worst and most obvious are all the karma sellers of them all over the world map either selling incorrect ones or again their icons/skins/names being incorrect.

Example, 9/10 maps the heart vendors sell the “simple” skinned versions on weapons. But oh no not so when it comes to the water weapons. They are usually this:

Spear – Invaders Skin (WvW)
Trident – - Invaders
Harpoon Gun – Steam skin (even then I think it’s the skin for Steam Rifle and not even the Harpoon Gun).

Basically this makes the true “simple” skins very rare to see in game and just looks unprofessional in design/polish. There are various inconsistancies for armours as well with the karma merchants but I will save that issue for another time lol.

Anet you are doing a find job with polishing but please I urge you to not forget to go back and double check on those karma merchants!

It was even worse when some spears had harpoongun models

dunno why people hate underwater combat

Ellisande.5218:

Moby kitten.

I lol’d