Guild Wars 2

Blowtorch on 3, and the electric shot on 4?
This would be an indirect buff to shield, in that p/s and p/p would be a more reasonable trade off one way or another, since the main hand would get the primary damaging ability.

but then s/p wont be meta when holosmith comes out for all dps builds.

insanemaniac.2456:

but then s/p wont be meta when holosmith comes out for all dps builds.

Putting a condi offhand with a power mainhand feels dirty anyhow.

Does having a major stat for both power/condi (such as vipers) work well in that case, then?

I used to want this, but I hope it doesn’t happen. The synergy with holosmith is quite delightful.

Kaizoku.1298:

I used to want this, but I hope it doesn’t happen. The synergy with holosmith is quite delightful.

And some of us want it even more now because of just how out of hand that “synergy” might become.

Shield has been a terrible pick since launch, pistol mainhand is underwelming and always has been, rifle is just plain aweful, and scrapper doesnt offer anyhting of value to most builds to even make taking it for hammer a worthwhile choice. If holosmith goes live without swapping pistol 3 & 4 like we’ve been asking for since launch, then we are likely to end up with S/P as our only real weapon combiation.

Additionally, if they make this swap, then shield and the then controll based offhand pistol will likely see some buffs. All our weapons might actually see much needed buffs for once even.

Yeah, I don’t want that amazing synergy because it will just make the other choices pointless. I think if those abilities are swapped, it will put shield and pistol about on the same level with some minor tweaks.

Rifle and hammer are just a whole different issue though. Lots of ways to address it, but one of my favorites was making blunderbuss based entirely on raw damage, and making use of the ammo system to give it 2 or more charges.

Hammer, I’m not sure, scrapper is new to me

Yeah… S/P might be kitten scary haha..
Wouldn’t mind though mwuhwahwahwa

Don’t want it swapped since it would mess with s/p. If they want p/p or s/s to be more appealing than s/p, then they need to address shield and main hand pistol without messing up our offhand pistol.

Agreed. /15 chars

I’d still use pistol offhand. :P Speaking of which, can we add some AoE poison to Pistol #5 (glue = poison?) and make it cast faster or something? It’s slow and doesn’t help much in PvP…