Guild Wars 2

In the future anet did state we would have more specizalations to grow into. What would happen with weapons skills? Right now the warrior has access to the most weapons except pistol, shortbow, dagger, and staff.

Eventually are we going to get complete reworks on weapons? I really hope this happens. That way every weapon down the road could be viable as these new traits work directly for the new specizalations. Will we see guardians using maces? This could even be a great step forward for fixing terrible skills like guardians shields which are useless and could really change the game up.

Not sure how long future specizalations take, they should do this maybe every 6 months to a year. Will really keep the game fresh and moving and create so many builds in the game. Plus simply changing some skills and adding new traits really would be pretty simple.

Thoughts?

one a year is most likely……..so just based on warrior (and not counting using offhands as mainhands and vice-versa), that would be 3 yrs after HoT. that would be a 6yr game life…..if it all ended then, it would be a highly successful game.

so no need to worry about this issue.

I don’t think we’re getting more than 5 elite specializations. Despite that, the following are weapons that the Warrior cannot use right now:

MH Dagger
OH Dagger
MH Pistol
OH Pistol
Scepter
Focus
Torch
Shortbow
Staff
Trident

That’s 10 weapons that the Warrior can’t use right now. I’m counting MH/OF separately unless they show a class that gets one and can equip it in both hands, but in general they count as a separate weapon. Even if you count MH/OH together and ignore the aquatic weapons all-together, that still leaves 7 new weapons a Warrior spec could use (6 if not including the not-yet-revealed elite spec). This would mean that, even at 6 months between specs (which is very optimistic), there would be no less than 3 years of continual spec releases across all classes until they need to repurpose weapons.

also, classes with fewer Weapons like the Engineer have more room for new Weapons before chaneging the ones they can currently use.