Guild Wars 2

as in which classes do you want to have which weapons and/or new skills for next spec (shouts, wells, etc) in order mine are:

we need more rifle and shortbow on anyone. they just aren’t used as much as other weapons

double pistols for warrior!! plsss

greatsword for ele!! PLZ THIS IS MY DREAM I NEED TWILIHHT ON MY MAIN ELE! Id also like to see wells on ele and new elements (if nothing else at least green energy because green is fairly underused in profession colors and energy could offer sumthin doffurunt.

Unarmed/Fist weapons for Warriors!

~EW

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Unarmed/Fist weapons for Warriors!

~EW

YES! i meant of existing wep pool but since you meantioned it, i want those on all professions. like eles casti g spells with their hands, warriors punching stuff, necros sucking life, etc

Give guardian offhand sword or dagger….

Mace main hand for engineer.

Sword for ele (so I can use my Flaming Dragon Sword on her).

Commonly requested is spear taken for land use and then made for a paragon-like class. That could be interesting for a Guardian

Focus perhaps for Rev to be closer to a Ritualist

Shortbow for ele. I have no reason other than the legendary compliments my ele’s look. Seems like a good enough reason to me..

-Mace Elementalist (both hands)
-Shortbow Mesmer
-Trident Necromancer (you got it, land trident)
-Spear Revenant (yeah, land Spear)
-Foci Warrior (both hands, like punching gloves)
-Rifle Paladin
-Spear gun Ranger (yep, land spear gun)
-Rifle Thief
-Axe Engineer

I would focus on weapons that are not used a lot or the weapons that the majority of classes cant use.

Shield for Guardian.

Scipion.7548:

Shield for Guardian.

I assume you mean re-working the current guardian shield to be more like a proper shield in use?

Warrior : Venom/OH Dagger
Guardian : Conjure(Tome)/OH Warhorn
Revenant : Corruption/Scepter
Thief : Gadget or Survival/Rifle
Elementalist : Mantra/Sword
Necro : Glyph/Torch
Mesmer : Shout/OH Warhorn

Scipion.7548:

Shield for Guardian.

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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shield

Rifle for guardian because they need more range.
Pistol for ele because not enough off hands.

Rifle on Ranger.

Shortbow on Mesmer

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Unarmed/Fist weapons for Warriors!

~EW

Frankly, I think this is the direction they should go with Daggers on Warrior – instead of being directly condition weapons, they should be high on CC, with liberal access to stuns, pulls, pushes, dazes, immobilze, and especially Knockdown (With the Burst being “Takedown”. It’s totally not The People’s Elbow, I swear!)
I even thought of how it works!

Greatsword for rev

Mesmer: Axe/Dagger
Thief: Rifle or Mace
Ranger: Off-hand Sword
Warrior: Shortbow
Guardian: Rifle
Engineer: Mace/Warhorn
Revenant: Greatsword/Torch
Elementalist: Main-hand Sword
Necromancer: Torch

To be honest, I don’t know if this whole new weapon for each spec will be consistent. How many more weapons can each profession equally get? Warriors can use almost everything by now.

EDIT: Updated my list. Put more thought into it.

Riku.4821:

Mesmer: Axe
Thief: Rifle or Mace
Ranger: Off-hand Sword
Warrior: Unarmed would be nice, but that would require a whole new weapon type.
Guardian: Rifle
Engineer: Mace/Torch
Revenant: Greatsword/Torch
Elementalist: Main-hand Sword
Necromancer: Torch

To be honest, I don’t know if this whole new weapon for each spec will be consistent. How many more weapons can each profession equally get? Warriors can use almost everything by now.

They can’t use Staff, Dagger, Focus, Scepter, or Shortbow yet… though I think they’ll get Dagger and Shortbow first, followed by Staff.

Riku.4821:

Mesmer: Axe
Thief: Rifle or Mace
Ranger: Off-hand Sword
Warrior: Unarmed would be nice, but that would require a whole new weapon type.
Guardian: Rifle
Engineer: Mace/Torch
Revenant: Greatsword/Torch
Elementalist: Main-hand Sword
Necromancer: Torch

To be honest, I don’t know if this whole new weapon for each spec will be consistent. How many more weapons can each profession equally get? Warriors can use almost everything by now.

A I’m surprised they’re not working on implementing new kinds. ANet shown it has the resources to pump out regular skins really fast with the Black Lion skins. Making a few new weapon types and distributing them across a few professions and making a retroactive set of skins in a logical way only makes sense.

The crossbow is a weapon which for all intents and purposes should be in GW2, and would make tons of sense on the engineer, warrior and thief, which are running out of reasonable options and in the case of the thief, has a ranged deficiency while needing to uphold the capacity for stealth, which the rifle doesn’t uphold very well, unless focused on the revealed mechanic like my proposal (See signature).

Frankly, I imagine a crossbow working nicely on any profession except maybe the necromancer and revenant for thematic reasons.

Obviously things can’t go overboard, as a lot of weapons are similar in nature and could simply be released as skins (even a crossbow could be made as a rifle skin). That said, some subdiversity here would be nice.

They’re going to continue with the specialization weapon thing, though. Otherwise they’re likely either power-creeping profession playstyles which already exist, or not doing enough to justify using the line. The new weapon, and subsequently, specializations, are a big part of expansion pack sales.

Fenom.9457:

Scipion.7548:

Shield for Guardian.

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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shield

Didnt the shield guardian for months, I thought anet removed it ! Thank you for your intelligence and generosity, i’m so stupid ><

I would like to see either Ranger or Thief equiped like the Warden from LOTRO. The Warden used both a spear and a javelin along with a notched offhand shield. Take the under water spear and the centaur lance, and you’re in business. Spear for melee and javelin for ranged. Both being main hand weapons carried in the back. The shield had a cutout section on the upper right corner so you could use the melee spear. Something different anyway.

I’d love to use my staff underwater with my druid. That just makes sense.

Warrior – Shortbow
Guardian – OH Sword
Revenant – Greatsword
Engineer – MH Mace
Ranger – Hammer
Thief – Rifle
Mesmer – MH Pistol
Necromancer – OH Torch
Elementalist – MH Sword

I still want MH/OH Torch Thief Arsonist with black fire Shadow Form.

I also want Dagger for Revenant with something Ritualist related.

Doggie.3184:

I also want Dagger for Revenant with something Ritualist related.

I strongly considered putting Revenant Dagger over GS in my list. It would be a really cool spec’.

Engineer – Mace/ Shortbow
Mesmer – Axe (either hand)
Elementalist- MH Sword/ Shortbow/ MH Pistol
Ranger – Mace/ Shield
Necromancer – Torch
Guardian – OH Sword/ Rifle
Warrior – MH Pistol
Revenant – Focus
Thief – Rifle/ Torch

Anyone with a land-spear would be awesome. I’d rather seem some lesser used weapons get love before we start handing out great-swords again.

Warrior – two handed axe or greataxe….. its time…really

Necromancer – Sword main hand
Mesmer – Pistol main hand
Ranger – Rifle
Warrior – Spear for land
Revenant – add the 2nd underwater weapon that wasn’t added in HoT but was supposed to be
Elementalist – Greatsword
Engineer – Shortbow
Thief – Torch off-hand
Guardian – Dagger off-hand

Shortbow or main hand pistol for mesmer
Rifle for ranger
Greataxe or halberd for warrior

Regarding mesmer I’m in favour of the following (in order of preference from most to least):
1 – Mainhand Axe
2 – Mainhand Focus
3 – Spear (land)
4 – Hammer
5- Longbow
6 – Rifle
7 – Shortbow
8 – Mainhand Pistol

Rising Dusk.2408:

Warrior – Shortbow
Guardian – OH Sword
Revenant – Greatsword
Engineer – MH Mace
Ranger – Hammer
Thief – Rifle
Mesmer – MH Pistol
Necromancer – OH Torch
Elementalist – MH Sword

Hammer on ranger, someone want there bunny thumper back?

Haven’t thought about it too much but I do think it’s about time that Thief got a long range weapon.

Rifle could be good, make them the “Sniper” class since thief is all about big damage while trying to stay out of sight as mush as possible. I would leave the skills up to anet to figure out.

Edit: I posted before reading everyone else’s ideas, after looking over them just now it seems that Thief and rifle is a common thought for a lot of people.

I want an asura launcher. Not a launcher made but asuras but one that shoots asuras as projectiles.

Sniper thief is about the worst possible balance decision they could make for the class, though. It’d have game-wide consequences if balanced just even within the confines of the next batch of elites. It’s just too strong.

Yea, it fits conceptually, but it’s not even remotely possible to balance reasonably well without giving other professions mechanics which invalidate all other existing builds. That’s unreasonable just for the additions to one class.

Rifle in that case is either sustained damage with no stealth and no burst or a control-oriented weapon with low damage. I can safely say any sniping ability with even close to a 2.0 coefficient is game-breaking for the thief at 1200-1500 range with stealth capacity.

Fade to Black.7042:

Greatsword for rev

Same

Axe offhand for Necro (ranged power weapon that grants might, fury and pulsing AoE damage) with an Axe main hand revamp (#1 and #2 skills should hit up to 3 enemies near the targeted one, #1 should deal more damage).

spear, as a land weapon
any class

Randulf.7614:

Commonly requested is spear taken for land use and then made for a paragon-like class. That could be interesting for a Guardian

Focus perhaps for Rev to be closer to a Ritualist

Shortbow for ele. I have no reason other than the legendary compliments my ele’s look. Seems like a good enough reason to me..

spear, kitten it!
spear on all the classes that can use it!

DeceiverX.8361:

Sniper thief is about the worst possible balance decision they could make for the class, though. It’d have game-wide consequences if balanced just even within the confines of the next batch of elites. It’s just too strong.

Yea, it fits conceptually, but it’s not even remotely possible to balance reasonably well without giving other professions mechanics which invalidate all other existing builds. That’s unreasonable just for the additions to one class.

Rifle in that case is either sustained damage with no stealth and no burst or a control-oriented weapon with low damage. I can safely say any sniping ability with even close to a 2.0 coefficient is game-breaking for the thief at 1200-1500 range with stealth capacity.

Usually when we take an elite line we have to sacrifice something. If it’s done right it could just be that stealth is not needed when using a rifle. They have to find new ways for people to play thief, needing stealth in almost every build pigeon holes people too much and gives the class very little variety. Rifle or not Thief needs a long range option to help balance out all the classes. As for stealth that may or may not need to be taken in to consideration. I think Thief has a few issues at the moment with regards to stealth, one is its one of the only other ways for Thief to heal himself. Maybe if Anet addressed that, stealth may not be needed so much in builds and variety could be more possible.

Besides all that look how they added a long range option to guardian and not making it too over powered (as in not so much so better than Ranger, yes I still prefer a ranger LB over Guardian), the same could/should be done for thief.

Necro: wtb chrono shield! 100 gold!

DeceiverX.8361:

Sniper thief is about the worst possible balance decision they could make for the class, though. It’d have game-wide consequences if balanced just even within the confines of the next batch of elites. It’s just too strong.

Yea, it fits conceptually, but it’s not even remotely possible to balance reasonably well without giving other professions mechanics which invalidate all other existing builds. That’s unreasonable just for the additions to one class.

Rifle in that case is either sustained damage with no stealth and no burst or a control-oriented weapon with low damage. I can safely say any sniping ability with even close to a 2.0 coefficient is game-breaking for the thief at 1200-1500 range with stealth capacity.

Oh plz! Whatever! Don’t even pretend like crit Killshots from stealth, at 1200 range, would be close to broken. It’s not even like Thief has the highest crit damage modifiers in the game either.

Paulytnz.7619:

DeceiverX.8361:

Sniper thief is about the worst possible balance decision they could make for the class, though. It’d have game-wide consequences if balanced just even within the confines of the next batch of elites. It’s just too strong.

Yea, it fits conceptually, but it’s not even remotely possible to balance reasonably well without giving other professions mechanics which invalidate all other existing builds. That’s unreasonable just for the additions to one class.

Rifle in that case is either sustained damage with no stealth and no burst or a control-oriented weapon with low damage. I can safely say any sniping ability with even close to a 2.0 coefficient is game-breaking for the thief at 1200-1500 range with stealth capacity.

Usually when we take an elite line we have to sacrifice something. If it’s done right it could just be that stealth is not needed when using a rifle. They have to find new ways for people to play thief, needing stealth in almost every build pigeon holes people too much and gives the class very little variety. Rifle or not Thief needs a long range option to help balance out all the classes. As for stealth that may or may not need to be taken in to consideration. I think Thief has a few issues at the moment with regards to stealth, one is its one of the only other ways for Thief to heal himself. Maybe if Anet addressed that, stealth may not be needed so much in builds and variety could be more possible.

Besides all that look how they added a long range option to guardian and not making it too over powered (as in not so much so better than Ranger, yes I still prefer a ranger LB over Guardian), the same could/should be done for thief.

Oh, I agree completely that the thief should have, and to a fair extent, needs a 1200 range weapon.

That said, sniping from stealth is a huge problem. High coefficients on the thief are dangerous, as the post above mine demonstrates. The 1200 range advantage and huge mobility and crazy damage modifiers the thief has access to is something I don’t think that can be reasonably balanced if the rifle is designed for substantial damage.

I’ve rigged a suggestion which attempts to really shake up the way the thief plays, and am always looking for more feedback (see signature).

Tman.6349:

Oh plz! Whatever! Don’t even pretend like crit Killshots from stealth, at 1200 range, would be close to broken. It’s not even like Thief has the highest crit damage modifiers in the game either.

Even as a diehard thief, it blows my mind that some people are willing to suggest that the sniper concept is reasonable and could even be remotely balanced.

Oh right … almost forgot these.

Main hand shield, focus, torch, and warhorn.

My wish list:

Elementalist: Off-Hand Sceper, gaining use of Spirit Weapons.

Revenant: After the HoT story I would suggest that a Trahearne Legend with Greatsword seems quite likely (although probably not my favourite), perhaps with a larger amount of hard and soft crowd control abilities mixed with protective support.

Guardian: Paragon, landspear. Yes, I went there. If the Crystal Desert was to be the next expansion destination it would seem more fitting than to give us the paragon-type specialisation in a jungle region.

Mesmer: MH Pistol, gaining a set of skills which cause environmental effects such as the ability to call down phantom rockfalls onto enemies, open up spectral crevasses in the ground to pull foes in, throw illusionary tree trunks at foes to knock them back etc. I’d really like Mesmer to play more on the “illusion” side, and I don’t just mean clones & phantasms. Again, if we go to the Crystal Desert for the next expansion, the whole mirage theme fits.

Ranger: hammer

Revenant: greatsword; which was highly requested even before the live beta of HoT. I’m still wondering why it never happened. It makes more sense for a heavy armor class to have a greatsword than a lightweight like a mesmer. Elite spec = shield. Seriously, who even uses a shield on any profession? I almost never see any players with a shield, and that goes for all professions that can use it.

Warrior – ON-LAND spear or great axe
Guard – Spear or halberd
Revenant – Axe in main
Thief – Rifle (still no good ranged weapon…) or arbalest/crossbow
Necro – Sword in main or great axe
Engi – Mace in main
Ele – Sword
Mes – no idea
Ranger – removed longbow (because there is nothing better then a ranger with a longbow) added spear or 2h greataxe

Seriously gusy… rifle for ranger because bowbear is not enough… This game need gunbear… and more skills like that 4 on LB so apes would legally bash their heads into their kayboard for pushing everything even further away…

Git Gud.

dual dagger for guardian and stealthwars, since we already have bow and traps.

And needs to be OP so i can prettend to be good.

NOTE: got nothing against thiefs, just just asking for somethign to carry me away on guardian, i already have that on other classes.

Warrior:
Pistol – both hands
Dagger – both hands
Shield – mainhand

Elementalist:
Longbow – maybe

Thief:
Rifle

Weapons not in the game:

Elementalist:
Books

Warrior:
Greataxe
Spear
Polearm
Glaive
Halberd
Crossbow
(can you see a theme?)

Warrior – Dagger main hand (I cant see warrior getting out of that brawler stereotype just yet)
Guard – Axe main hand ( guard needs a good one hand Condi melee weapon with some burning skills)
Rev – Focus off hand (Snaff) longbow (Eir) snaff is my preferred pick I just think it too soon for eir
Ranger – Rifle ( if the ranger don’t get more ranged weapon types it not living up to its name)
Engi – Mace main hand (it needs a weapon to compliment the off hand shield)
Thief – off hand sword ( I want say rifle but I think anet want keep the thief close quarters for balance)
Mesmer – Hammer (no logic for this pick but it my main and I want a freaking hammer)
Necro – Torch ( it a popular pick and a condi off hand for burning could be cool, but due to necros condi dominance I expect it have a defensive none condi nature for balance)
Ele – swo….nope changed my mind going say shortbow ( I just think anet will troll on this one for last expac because they know you want sword. also I think anet don’t want ele to have weapons the same as the conjure weapons that why I expect no ele greatsword,hammer,axe,shield or longbows)

Sarie.1630:

My wish list:

Revenant: After the HoT story I would suggest that a Trahearne Legend with Greatsword seems quite likely (although probably not my favourite), perhaps with a larger amount of hard and soft crowd control abilities mixed with protective support.

This is poetic, I LOVE this idea, although I hate Mr T. this would be really cool.

I would just like to see short bow and pistol get more love with any classes tbh.