Guild Wars 2

The title asks it all… We know what a sword is, a spear, scepter, gun etc…

What IS a FOCUS?
I tried googling it but I can never get anything that even resembles the items that symbolize a “focus” in gw2.

The only thing I can think of is that it’s just there to represent some inner “chi” or power concentration from the person’s own body… but I’m just throwing random ideas here…

Soo… anyone has any idea?
please and thank you ?:)

It is an item through which you focus magical energies. They were called this in GW1, they are called this in GW2. It makes a lot of sense, if we were to have it linguistically correct then you would call the items a focuser, but that sounds ridiculous, so you call it a focus. Focus: " an act of concentrating interest or activity on something", what are you focusing, magic – A focus.

It can be any handheld item: A bracelet, a dagger, a mug, a cell phone, etc.

Magical focus – a sorcery device used to focus your magical powers. Due to how wide that definition is, the device can come in multitude of shapes and sizes, so it is hard to imagine an “iconic” focus. Especially, since that iconic role is usually fulfilled by staves and scepters (or gw1 wands), which got separated in distinct groups here.

In more tribal terms, it’d be called a “fetish”. A ritual object.

Though I don’t recommend googling that one, either.

When you research a new focus via artificer crafting, the icon given is very similar to a voodoo doll.