Guild Wars 2

I find it kinda disappointing that we have 3 whole sets of weapons that see very little use in the game. So much so that these weapons have been left out of the designs for future black lion weapon skins. It just comes from the territory of being locked into the least liked mode of gameplay in the game.

But what if they don’t need to be locked like that? It wouldn’t be too big of a leap for arena net to establish these weapons on land. I’m not saying “Copy paste” the skills at all. That wouldn’t work considering many of them have skills that require the XYZ access. But using these weapons on land could help prevent these often really cool and interesting weapons from being forgotten in the depths. I imagine using a trident to summon minions on my necromancer. Or a spear on my guardian to stack conditions. A very different function then what they had underwater but interesting all the same.

This is something I hope they do before HoT. And I started thinking about this after that MASSIVE tease in both trailers with the spears.

Since they are unlikely to put them in as new weapons, it would be nice if they would make the skins available as staff skins. Some of the underwater weapons have very nice skins and would make excellent staffs.

Maybe, when we will have to deal with the water dragon, they will be of use.

Dadnir.5038:

Maybe, when we will have to deal with the water dragon, they will be of use.

I too hope we see some more underwater content.

Also, there are dozens of ‘aquatic weapons on land plox’ threads already. why do you guys keep making new ones?

Harpoon gun simply doesn’t work without water. That is all there is to that. And while I don’t see why spear and trident couldn’t be used on land in the most basic of manners, they would need brand new skills. If you are doing that, why not just bring in brand new weapon types?

Ralanost.8913:

Harpoon gun simply doesn’t work without water. That is all there is to that. And while I don’t see why spear and trident couldn’t be used on land in the most basic of manners, they would need brand new skills. If you are doing that, why not just bring in brand new weapon types?

Harpoon guns can be used on land. They’re most often mounted to a boat but they could be used. I wasn’t going to discuss the idea of expanding the weapons we should be able to use underwater but what the heck, I’ll mention it. I think underwater combat should have more weapons available to it as well as aquatic specific utility, elites and even healing skills. But thats a really large conversation for another time.

As for the spear and trident. I think they are the easiest to adapt to land.

Ralanost.8913:

Harpoon gun simply doesn’t work without water. That is all there is to that. And while I don’t see why spear and trident couldn’t be used on land in the most basic of manners, they would need brand new skills. If you are doing that, why not just bring in brand new weapon types?

Possibly as a gun skin? They might need a different animation to make them really work but it’s not impossible.

However the spears and tridents could be easily adapted to a staff skin.

Astral Projections.7320:

Ralanost.8913:

Harpoon gun simply doesn’t work without water. That is all there is to that. And while I don’t see why spear and trident couldn’t be used on land in the most basic of manners, they would need brand new skills. If you are doing that, why not just bring in brand new weapon types?

Possibly as a gun skin? They might need a different animation to make them really work but it’s not impossible.

However the spears and tridents could be easily adapted to a staff skin.

Staves already ‘share’ some skins with tridents just like rifles ‘shares’ with spearguns, and to the OP about the idea of using spearguns out of water, yea you can but there’s no resistance, like when you’re in water, so the recoil will slap you silly in the face everytime you try to shoot it.
Maybe if we ever get to play as largos or fight against the deep sea dragon they’ll expand upon the underwater combat, but i don’t see that happening any time soon.

I am glad they dont make them for Black lion collections anymore. Would make getting the whole set for 3AP unneccessary more expensive.

Samhaim.8956:

Astral Projections.7320:

Ralanost.8913:

Harpoon gun simply doesn’t work without water. That is all there is to that. And while I don’t see why spear and trident couldn’t be used on land in the most basic of manners, they would need brand new skills. If you are doing that, why not just bring in brand new weapon types?

Possibly as a gun skin? They might need a different animation to make them really work but it’s not impossible.

However the spears and tridents could be easily adapted to a staff skin.

Staves already ‘share’ some skins with tridents just like rifles ‘shares’ with spearguns, and to the OP about the idea of using spearguns out of water, yea you can but there’s no resistance, like when you’re in water, so the recoil will slap you silly in the face everytime you try to shoot it.
Maybe if we ever get to play as largos or fight against the deep sea dragon they’ll expand upon the underwater combat, but i don’t see that happening any time soon.

Logic? in my Guild wars? We can’t have that. There is no logic. Have you seen the size of an asura’s head? HAVE YOU?

I hope someday anet has the guts to release a full underwater expansion focused on the largos lore and an underwater dragon (or something else).

Lily.1935:

Logic? in my Guild wars? We can’t have that. There is no logic. Have you seen the size of an asura’s head? HAVE YOU?

Yes and its beautiful 8(

Tabootrinket.2631:

I hope someday anet has the guts to release a full underwater expansion focused on the largos lore and an underwater dragon (or something else).

And that would be an expansion I sit out of. Believe it or not, some people hate underwater content. Doing a full expansion based on it would be an overall terrible idea.

Samhaim.8956:

Lily.1935:

Logic? in my Guild wars? We can’t have that. There is no logic. Have you seen the size of an asura’s head? HAVE YOU?

Yes and its beautiful 8(

That it is. But that wasn’t my point. A head that size with a body that small wouldn’t work very well in real life. More then likely the asura race would be malnourished or die in child birth. And according to what I’ve read they develop faster then humans, which wouldn’t be possible with the rather slim hips of the asura. Their offspring would need to continue to develop outside of the womb which would mean that they most likely would have a very long childhood. My guess would be that they wouldn’t fully mentally develop until at least in their mid 20s. But thats more a guess pulled out of nowhere. Their calorie intake would have to be quite high relative to their body mass. The bodies would run hot and they’d need a way to cool themselves. Dogs use their tongues, we sweet, some animals use their ears I believe. I could see the asura using both their ears and sweet to keep their massive brains from overheating. Which could make sense in their world why large ears are considered attractive. It could be a sign of good thermal regulation. But then there is also the problem with their spine supporting the head. They seem to be very similar to mammals on earth but we can’t actually call them mammals considering they aren’t earthlings. For simplicity though, we’ll call them mammals. If their bone structure was strong enough to keep their head up like that and their muscles the same way they would still have to eat far more frequently then humans to keep from malnourishment. I imagine the answer to all these problems is “MAGIC!”. So I say, harpoon gun on land can be explained away with magic as well.

It was confirmed spears from the trailer were just artistic design and Anet was sorry for giving false hopes.

RashanDale.3609:

Dadnir.5038:

Maybe, when we will have to deal with the water dragon, they will be of use.

I too hope we see some more underwater content.

Also, there are dozens of ‘aquatic weapons on land plox’ threads already. why do you guys keep making new ones?

I rather suspected, as soon as profession specialisations were announced, that perhaps in the future we will see new underwater themed profession specialisations. In addition, special underwater mastery tracks.

Would seem legit that a huge underwater revamp would occur on the unveiling of Bubbles.

I know Underwater combat is what everyone loves to hate. Personally I don’t mind it, but feel that it could use a bit more variation in weaponry, and the additional mechanics that specialisations or masteries could easily bring to the table.

I wish there was more under environments even pvp there is very little ocean battles