Guild Wars 2

With HoT coming out, I really want my paragons.

i think it was confirmed in the PAX after party that they’re not happening, at least not this expansion.

I’d really like clarification on this too. The only thing they said wouldn’t be in was polearms, so I wish people would stop saying spears definitely won’t see terrestrial use based on on vague information.

They confirmed that spears would remain underwater. The spears/polearms in the trailer were just for artistic effect.

But Revenant Uses a Poleram on the trailer. he smacks a new troll on the head so thats not cosmethic. or is it a staff used as a melee weapon? which sounds silly

It was a long thin object with no blade visible.

Lithlius.5087:

But Revenant Uses a Poleram on the trailer. he smacks a new troll on the head so thats not cosmethic. or is it a staff used as a melee weapon? which sounds silly

Staff as a melee weapon sounds silly? Is that what you meant or have I mis-read what you wrote.

You might want to look up Robin Hood v Little John while we round up some weapon nerds to explain things.

Maybe it was some kind of unusual hammer skin? (you know, there are whisky bottles as focus or mace)

Spoj The Second.7680:

They confirmed that spears would remain underwater. The spears/polearms in the trailer were just for artistic effect.

Got a link with confirmation? Only thing I’ve read about not having them is by some dude on reddit.

zenleto.6179:

Staff as a melee weapon sounds silly? Is that what you meant or have I mis-read what you wrote.

You might want to look up Robin Hood v Little John while we round up some weapon nerds to explain things.

The sometimes delicate, ornate, for-use-in-magic, staves of GW2 are a little different from quarterstaves.
I can certainly see some of GW2’s staves being used to physically hit someone with, but there are plenty that look like they would break on contact. That being the case, a GW2 magic-staff as a melee does indeed sound silly.

Rytlocks weapon could have been a weird hammer, or something related to his Revenant abilities, or the art team is full of (to use a nicer word) meanies and put a spear in because their artistic vision was more important to them then the players and the integrity of the trailer.

I’m gonna go with “revenant ability”

Captain Unusual.9163:

It was a long thin object with no blade visible.

Huh? No blade?

Somebody linked a screen shot of it twice showing Rytlock’s pole weapon he had, has a blade at the end.

Can somebody please share that pic again please. Hope it wasn’t photoshopped….

Arewn.2368:

zenleto.6179:

Staff as a melee weapon sounds silly? Is that what you meant or have I mis-read what you wrote.

You might want to look up Robin Hood v Little John while we round up some weapon nerds to explain things.

The sometimes delicate, ornate, for-use-in-magic, staves of GW2 are a little different from quarterstaves.
I can certainly see some of GW2’s staves being used to physically hit someone with, but there are plenty that look like they would break on contact. That being the case, a GW2 magic-staff as a melee does indeed sound silly.

Rytlocks weapon could have been a weird hammer, or something related to his Revenant abilities, or the art team is full of (to use a nicer word) meanies and put a spear in because their artistic vision was more important to them then the players and the integrity of the trailer.

Ah. I was thinking the poster had never heard of a quarter staff, if that’s what he or she was even meaning. Hard to tell what people know about anymore.

I will never understand why Developers do this.

Firth Bethesda teased us with Spears in Skyrim and now Anet.

Spears are the most common military weapon right next to swords. in fact spears saw more use due to their versatility. it boggle the mind that spears are often depicted as just a two handed weapon. or just a throwing weapon when it could be used 1h,2h and thrown.

The assets are in the game there is no need to make a slew of new skins. all they have to do is translate the spear from water to land. they could have a specialization to make use of this.
Warrior>Soldier, 2 handed spear
Guardian > Knight, Spear and shield

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2tsiox/pax_afterparty_lessons_learned/

‘We talked polearms. No polearms in this expansion. Colin said “We warned the art team what the community would think when they saw the trailer, but they chose to make things the way they did.” It looks like a polearm but it is not. No word if they ever will be.’

This is the only information we actually have. We also know that they did basic development for polearms but scrapped it before release, which were also distinct from spears.

Actually ,Spear is the most used weapon on history of mankind….but sadly Anet don’t see it that way. I will be very disappointed if warrior don’t get spear or DH axe or at least a staff . Sorry but warrior is a MALE Class end spear is a must have weapon on hes armory . Spear is the first weapon created more then 5 mill years ago but i guess history don’t apply in GW2…..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear
Oh well SC is coming end my HYPE is over learning that warrior will get some junk weapon that probably wont even apply for a warrior..well to bad
This expatiation will make or break the game for me end so far …..no spear…no money
Have a nice day !

Arewn.2368:

zenleto.6179:

Staff as a melee weapon sounds silly? Is that what you meant or have I mis-read what you wrote.

You might want to look up Robin Hood v Little John while we round up some weapon nerds to explain things.

The sometimes delicate, ornate, for-use-in-magic, staves of GW2 are a little different from quarterstaves.
I can certainly see some of GW2’s staves being used to physically hit someone with, but there are plenty that look like they would break on contact. That being the case, a GW2 magic-staff as a melee does indeed sound silly.

Rytlocks weapon could have been a weird hammer, or something related to his Revenant abilities, or the art team is full of (to use a nicer word) meanies and put a spear in because their artistic vision was more important to them then the players and the integrity of the trailer.

Could you imagine someone beating on someone with Kasmeer’s staff, which is literally only held together by magic?

Seriously. Look at the teaser trailer for HoT after you finished the last mission.
SPEARS EVERYWHERE. Seriously. All the Sylvari fight with Spears! Even the pupil of Mordremoth forms from a corpse, held up by a spear!

I want to use a speargun on land.

If they’re not adding Pole-Arms, Nor land spears, NOR Two-handed axes… Wow…
This will have to be my biggest disappointment with the game so far. ubelievably that a game that haves TORCHES and Warhorns as weapons dont have the most commonly used weapon in world’s history. (Spears) And the most effective and popular as warfare (PoleArms)

I think this is the first “medieval” MMO ever to not include neither Spears, Nor pole-arms nor 2h axes in their weapon choices.

Zee.1294:

Actually ,Spear is the most used weapon on history of mankind….but sadly Anet don’t see it that way. I will be very disappointed if warrior don’t get spear or DH axe or at least a staff . Sorry but warrior is a MALE Class end spear is a must have weapon on hes armory . Spear is the first weapon created more then 5 mill years ago but i guess history don’t apply in GW2…..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear
Oh well SC is coming end my HYPE is over learning that warrior will get some junk weapon that probably wont even apply for a warrior..well to bad
This expatiation will make or break the game for me end so far …..no spear…no money
Have a nice day !

Um. WTF was with that uncalled for burst of “MALE class” nonsense. I mean I am not going to throw around the word sexism but seriously. that was just out of nowhere and uncalled for.