Guild Wars 2

code for one such item ingame [&AgGPcgAA]
source http://www.gw2db.com/items/weapons/polearms
what do you guys think?
what are your expectations?
is this insanity?

Intriguing. I’ve been hoping for a poleaxe for a while, but this is just as good.

Not that this really concerns me. Can’t see Mesmers being able to use Polearms.

EDIT: After querying ingame, a few people said they are actually in the game. Apparently, the Kodan use polearms making them an NPC only weapon.

On another note, that skin is a Whisper’s Spear.

id like to use spears on land

I would love to use spears for terrestrial combat as well. xD Though, it’d be interesting to see how a Thief would use a Spear. Tridents should also capable of terrestrial combat.

It can be one of those weapons almost every class can use—casters/guardians get Trident and the adventurers/heavies get the spear. Pretty much the same as underwater.

You can find this polearm in Rythloks office during the first Flame and Frost ‘mission’, when Braham knocks on his door to ask for help.

Would love them as a terrestrial weapon. Thiefs piercing through enemies’ armors, Rangers throwing it in enemies’ faces, Warriors whirling around… Would be nice!

I want two handed axes ala dark souls! now we’re talking real weaponry.

Spears on land? Maybe they’re going to add everyone’s favourite abomination from GW1, or had plans to add them at one point. I think in an early piece of art it showed scythes and some other weapons that aren’t currently used too.

Actually, a completely redesigned paragon could be pretty interesting, they could fit somewhere between guardian and ele, as ranged support, shouting and throwing magical spears.

Maybe this item is in the database but never used, a cancelled weapon category maybe?

Forget using spears on land, I want a halberd! If you don’t know what they are imagine a long spear with an axe on the end.
Won’t get ’em though.

I’m still hoping for two-handed axes as well. Halberds and on land spears would be cool too.

I certainly wouldn’t expect every class to be able to use them either. Warrior could get two-handed ax, engineer a hammer maybe, mesmer a main hand pistol, and so on.

Do you people even read previous made posts ?

“The Angriest Bear.7894

You can find this polearm in Rythloks office during the first Flame and Frost ‘mission’, when Braham knocks on his door to ask for help."

So its possibly only a weapon for NPC’s,that its available to see in the database doesnt mean a thing really.

For necromancers, an “executioner” style, two-handed battleaxe for power/crit builds!

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id like to use spears on land

It seems that Paragon tradition went underwater with LA throughout the years.

More seriously, they probably didn’t want to “clutter” builds with more weapon skills, thus relegating the ill-fated weapon just for underwater combat-though I admit this makes ZERO sense lorewise (unless I miss the bit where this was logically explained.) So yes, it boggles the mind, but should probably have a technical reason rather than a logical one.

I still think there a major different between a spear and a polearm. Spears tend to be very simple and mostly for throwing where a polearm is a gen. term that covers a lot of pole mounted weapons.

I would not mind seeing in GW2 an weapon that is line aoe not cone like most melee weapons are. Maybe a 250 or 200 ranges a bit more then the other melees.

Would love to see polearms and two handed axes in the future.
And some cool and extraordinary one handed weapons as well :P

A polearm is essentially any hafted weapon with a long enough haft — and can be every bit as simple as a spear; a pike is essentially a polearm-length spear.

Light spears, such as javelins, are mostly for throwing. Most spears are heavier and are either cheap infantry weapons (often for peasant levies) or are meant to take on cavalry or large game. The traditional “boar spear” includes a crossbar to stop the pig from charging down the shaft of the spear and killing you after you have skewered it. In this role, spears actually are little different from thrusting polearms, and only slightly different from the lighter slashing polearms.

The heavier slashing polearms are, more or less, long-handled great axes, though many have thrusting points.

It would be easy enough for a “polearm” animation to include spears and most forms of polearm; only the strict poleaxes would be any different, and those could use the same animation as a great axe.

The conflation of polearm and spear is only an issue if some classes throw the weapon and others do not. Having separate “Polearm” and/or “Javelin” weapons, however, helps to differentiate between those weapons and the existing underwater “Spear” weapon.