Guild Wars 2

Making certain weapon types Water Only, was a bad idea.

Spears could have been a cool weapon to use, yet was made into a water weapon.

Same for Tridents and Spearguns.

The key problem is, that most players arent into Water Combat in this game, like it was hyped up to be..

We are limited in the number of Land Weapons as is,
and moving water weapons to land would greatly improve the land combat variety.

spears yes.
Spearguns? that really only is an underwater weapon
tridents? basically different staff skins.

I think making land spears would be pretty good, and have pretty good playstyke in combat though

Yes, I hope they make spears usable on land in the future.

Spears on land would be nice since we did have them in gw1, other than that all water weapons are fine as they are and no need for them for land use. Please stop trying to turn this game into something that it is not. Its like asking to use land weapons under water for greater water combat weapon variety.

Play enginer for water combat they have tons of cool stuff

If they can make spears and tridents look less awkward to use than a guardian’s staff then I’d support them pretty easily. No need for spear guns, in my opinion, since rifles and longbows are enough. Crossbows though….

I see no reason to why we couldn’t have all UW weapons have skills on land.
It’s a game, a fantasy game.
We already have greatswords shooting projectiles

phys.7689:

spears yes.
Spearguns? that really only is an underwater weapon
tridents? basically different staff skins.

I think making land spears would be pretty good, and have pretty good playstyke in combat though

speargun equivalent for land would be crossbow.

Well I think underwater combat in general was a mistake haha. They don’t have the resources to manage two different combat systems (it’s questionable if they have the resources to manage one).

Land spears has to be a thing that happens at some point. It can fill as a midrange melee weapon, a combo finisher generator, or a heavy control projectile and just about all professions can use at least one of those roles. Weapon models are in place already, a lot of them look really awesome. There’s just no reason not to do it.

Lightsbane.9012:

speargun equivalent for land would be crossbow.

You know, now that you mention it, it probably would be pretty easy to convert many of the speargun models into crossbows.

jokke.6239:

I see no reason to why we couldn’t have all UW weapons have skills on land.
It’s a game, a fantasy game.
We already have greatswords shooting projectiles

they could, but there is really no advantage to spear gun and Trident.
Who should get access to spear gun, why wouldnt they be using rifle? What would spear gun offer?

Trident, would either have a style similar to a spear, or it would be similar to a staff. put most tridents on land, and they would just look like a staff in most cases as well.

the only real advantage to bringing those two to land would be they have already designed weapons for them.

we actually have a lot of the weapon types.

what we are missing
polearms (staff used for fighting, spears, halbeards fit into this)
hand to hand types
throwing weapons (maybe dagger has a slight bit of this)
great axe
crossbows
gunblades (yeah this is real apparently, though was poorly executed)
whip type
sectional(nunchucks 3 part pole, 2 part pole etc)
and chain type

that basically would cover every weapon type possible, out of those options,

id probably want
hand to hand (preferably with a martial artist class)
polearms
great axe
chain type weapons could be pretty interesting