Guild Wars 2

The Elementalist will hopefully not get sword but rather short bow. If you have played Legend of Zelda, then you know how cool attuning arrows can be.
Reasons:
- The Ele is the King of Hybrids and shortbows have been hybrid based on both thief and ranger.

- Shortbow needs some love. Sword does not.

- Melee mages are already well covered in GW2 while ranged tactics are currently limited.

- Attuning Arrows!!!!!

Hopefully I’ve made my point.

I feel the weapons that are already in plenty of builds will be ignored for the new specs. I see torch, rifle, and or short bow getting the love.

Place your bets. Do you really think we need more melee mage builds?

Not gonna happen. Data mined skills have already been found.

I doubt it will be sword as it brings nothing new to the table.

Seems like they were testing something using the dagger/dagger style as a kind of template. The sword abilities from what we saw are nearly identical to them. I can’t imagine them being that absolutely uncreative.

Plus, one of the data mined moves is called ‘Cone of Cold’ aka a frost mage spell in WoW….that’s not even a clever placeholder. We already have a “cone of cold” anyway, that being the 2 skill on ele’s dagger.

Should have been shield, like a battle mage.

I hope not. And I hope it won’t be sword but I think it will.

Carmello Yello.4875:

Seems like they were testing something using the dagger/dagger style as a kind of template. The sword abilities from what we saw are nearly identical to them. I can’t imagine them being that absolutely uncreative.

Have you seen the new traits? Those proposed for ele are one of the least inspired bit of design witnessed across all professions (except maybe necro).

Also, shortbow is usually 900 range, and would just compete with scepter playstyle-wise. Plus, it being a 2-handed weapon meaning they would have to design 20 skills rather than just 12. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.

Sword would bring a condi melee weapon to eles, that’s completely new.

We only have 1 melee option the moment.

emikochan.8504:

Sword would bring a condi melee weapon to eles, that’s completely new.

We only have 1 melee option the moment.

I hope the sword brings both a burst and a condi style of play, leaving dagger with the more tanky/bruiser role….. as weird as that sounds as dagger would normally be expected for a burst and not a tanky role.

Shortbow could be an interesting weapon if it was fast like ranger’s and not a slow weapon like thief’s. But as pointed out, data mining shows it will be a sword, and I hope it brings something good and new to the table, rather than just turning dagger obsolete.

Plus I’ve already bought Jormag’s breath…

Carmello Yello.4875:

I doubt it will be sword as it brings nothing new to the table.

Seems like they were testing something using the dagger/dagger style as a kind of template. The sword abilities from what we saw are nearly identical to them. I can’t imagine them being that absolutely uncreative.

Plus, one of the data mined moves is called ‘Cone of Cold’ aka a frost mage spell in WoW….that’s not even a clever placeholder. We already have a “cone of cold” anyway, that being the 2 skill on ele’s dagger.

Most of the skills mined are just place holders atm

I already Have the Bolt made, just not forged (cause I have very low expectations on any wep made for ele being viable at this point) and ill just turn the mats into something for my new ele aka engi if the sword (yeah itll be a sword) is a total flop

I’m hoping a Celestial ascended sword will do the job decently ^.^