Guild Wars 2

Hi, i was just thinking, that would be nice for guard to be able to use bow (short or long , no matter) that would give us more possibilities in ranged combat and also give us normal range weapon, well warriors can use rifles/bows thiefs have pistol, dual pistol, short bow , i would like to see us using bow really.
Share your thoughts plz

Well apparently the devs are going to open up more weapon types to all classes at some point, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them get a bow.

My only hope is that we get an offhand sword.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Well apparently the devs are going to open up more weapon types to all classes at some point, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them get a bow.

My only hope is that we get an offhand sword.

Offhand Sword would be awesome, but I’d take Longbow over OH Sword every day of the week.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Well apparently the devs are going to open up more weapon types to all classes at some point, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them get a bow.

My only hope is that we get an offhand sword.

I want axe

Bow is the only spirit weapon we don’t have access to as a normal weapon.

I think the bow for the Guardian should work like the Bow from The Immortals where the bow shot pure light energy therefore it wasn’t affected by gravity or wind. It just fires in a straight line.

I can already see the skills now.
Skill 1; Arrow of Light; Fire an Arrow made of pure light energy

Skill 2: Blinding Shot; Fire an arrow that explodes at the target’s location blinding them and all nearby foes for 3 seconds

Skill 3; Trailblazer; Fire an arrow at your target that leaves a trail of fire behind it. This fire cleanses a condition from all allies that pass through it.

Skill 4; Unyielding Arrow; Fire an arrow that sticks to your target. This arrow applies torment and bleeding that lasts 6secs every second for 3 seconds.

Skill 5; Triple shot; Your next 3 attacks fire 2 additional arrows.

Svarty.8019:

Bow is the only spirit weapon we don’t have access to as a normal weapon.

Yeah, i had the same thoughts some time ago, thats why this would be most logical to give us bow, long bow.

I agree, Anet give us guards longbows!!!!

Longbow
Sword OH
Mace OH
Warhorn

Dirame.8521:

I think the bow for the Guardian should work like the Bow from The Immortals where the bow shot pure light energy therefore it wasn’t affected by gravity or wind. It just fires in a straight line.

I can already see the skills now.
Skill 1; Arrow of Light; Fire an Arrow made of pure light energy

Skill 2: Blinding Shot; Fire an arrow that explodes at the target’s location blinding them and all nearby foes for 3 seconds

Skill 3; Trailblazer; Fire an arrow at your target that leaves a trail of fire behind it. This fire cleanses a condition from all allies that pass through it.

Skill 4; Unyielding Arrow; Fire an arrow that sticks to your target. This arrow applies torment and bleeding that lasts 6secs every second for 3 seconds.

Skill 5; Triple shot; Your next 3 attacks fire 2 additional arrows.

Not bad conceptually, though your Skill 4 is off target. Guardians are “holy” and I suspect we will never get bleeding or torment.

What we really need is at least one daze/stun/interrupt. And a blast finisher. Definitely a blast finisher.

I could go for a main hand pistol that shot light beams (faster than orbs, if you please). I’d rock it with my offhand shield. Sounds styleriffic to me.

Berner.7289:

Dirame.8521:

I think the bow for the Guardian should work like the Bow from The Immortals where the bow shot pure light energy therefore it wasn’t affected by gravity or wind. It just fires in a straight line.

I can already see the skills now.
Skill 1; Arrow of Light; Fire an Arrow made of pure light energy

Skill 2: Blinding Shot; Fire an arrow that explodes at the target’s location blinding them and all nearby foes for 3 seconds

Skill 3; Trailblazer; Fire an arrow at your target that leaves a trail of fire behind it. This fire cleanses a condition from all allies that pass through it.

Skill 4; Unyielding Arrow; Fire an arrow that sticks to your target. This arrow applies torment and bleeding that lasts 6secs every second for 3 seconds.

Skill 5; Triple shot; Your next 3 attacks fire 2 additional arrows.

Not bad conceptually, though your Skill 4 is off target. Guardians are “holy” and I suspect we will never get bleeding or torment.

What we really need is at least one daze/stun/interrupt. And a blast finisher. Definitely a blast finisher.

The idea behind the 4th skill was “holy torment”. Torment brought on by forces that support the Guardian who fires them. If not the torment condition it could just be another binding blade type attack that does damage overtime until the arrow dissipates.

The second skill could be a blast finisher.

Guardians are like the knights of the Medieval Age, they do not use bows because it is an honor thing to them – they kill by honorably looking their defeated foe in the face. So “No!” on a bow.

Crossbow is what you guys mean.

LONGBOW, I want it, NAO!

Rigel.3092:

Guardians are like the knights of the Medieval Age, they do not use bows because it is an honor thing to them – they kill by honorably looking their defeated foe in the face.

Or by rapidly swiping a scepter at them like a tennis racket from 50 feet away and hoping said foe doesn’t move in the 2 seconds it takes the little orb to wobble its way over and smack them. Because that’s honorable too.

Rigel.3092:

Guardians are like the knights of the Medieval Age, they do not use bows because it is an honor thing to them – they kill by honorably looking their defeated foe in the face. So “No!” on a bow.

yah, specially when that knight would grab a piece of wood and start throwing orbs of light at the enemy, or a even smaller piece of woond and make a shield out of it…

Imagination, you lack it.

Bow is for sissies.

Let’s do it Captain America Way, shield as Main hand and off hand woohOOooo

Guardian (and mesmer) is a great platform for turning martial weapons into magic weapons. Longbow would be a cool candidate, especially since the “bow of justice” / “light arrow” theme is already in the ether, as others have noted, as a spirit weapon. It’s a great fit for the theme, and many guardian players are wanting more ranged options. If they decide to give classes more weapon options, I hope this is at the top of the list for guard.

I feel if we ever got a bow (short or long) it would be a support focused weapon…

We all know the Pet system is generally broken in gw2, so it might be interesting to see spirit weapons become like Ele conjurations ( without dropping the copy )

You can equip a spirit bow/gs/hammer/sword+shield for a minute – the auto attack remains the same as the non-spiritual counterparts (and perhaps most of the other skills too ) but one of the weapon skills is the same as the spirit command and sends the weapon away from you as a ranged attack (ie knockdown, healing rain, weakness, aoe damage).

I’m not going to tax my brain in the morning to work out what kind of skills the bow might have, but I guess cleansing should still be one of them…

Guardian axe

I wouldn’t like a bow for the Guardian. I played a Paladin in WoW and my Guardian reminds me of my pally that I loved so much. My pally couldn’t use a bow. The comparison between my Guardian and my Paladin is the only thing that’s keeping me playing GW2 at the moment.

Some kind of ranged weapon would be a plus. I would vote short bow over long, as i don’t feel we should get to much range. But given the choice, I think it would be kinda nice to have a speak like the old Paragon from Guild Wars 1. Just a thought. I am not opposed to nay new weapons being added to my guardian (or any class) I like variety.

Dirame.8521:

I think the bow for the Guardian should work like the Bow from The Immortals where the bow shot pure light energy therefore it wasn’t affected by gravity or wind. It just fires in a straight line.

I can already see the skills now.
Skill 1; Arrow of Light; Fire an Arrow made of pure light energy

Skill 2: Blinding Shot; Fire an arrow that explodes at the target’s location blinding them and all nearby foes for 3 seconds

Skill 3; Trailblazer; Fire an arrow at your target that leaves a trail of fire behind it. This fire cleanses a condition from all allies that pass through it.

Skill 4; Unyielding Arrow; Fire an arrow that sticks to your target. This arrow applies torment and bleeding that lasts 6secs every second for 3 seconds.

Skill 5; Triple shot; Your next 3 attacks fire 2 additional arrows.

Guardian Longbow shooting bolts of light is just. so. awesome.

Please. Just please.

Kilandros.2098:

Dirame.8521:

I think the bow for the Guardian should work like the Bow from The Immortals where the bow shot pure light energy therefore it wasn’t affected by gravity or wind. It just fires in a straight line.

I can already see the skills now.
Skill 1; Arrow of Light; Fire an Arrow made of pure light energy

Skill 2: Blinding Shot; Fire an arrow that explodes at the target’s location blinding them and all nearby foes for 3 seconds

Skill 3; Trailblazer; Fire an arrow at your target that leaves a trail of fire behind it. This fire cleanses a condition from all allies that pass through it.

Skill 4; Unyielding Arrow; Fire an arrow that sticks to your target. This arrow applies torment and bleeding that lasts 6secs every second for 3 seconds.

Skill 5; Triple shot; Your next 3 attacks fire 2 additional arrows.

Guardian Longbow shooting bolts of light is just. so. awesome.

Please. Just please.

Guardian spear for land…
Spear of Judgement: throw a spear that pierces targets in a line. 900range

Righteous Assault: (Like 100b only weaker, but you teleport to your target and you slash 5 times, burning your target and inflict weakness. If blinded, you deal more damage.) 600 range

Guard: you block ranged attacks and if you are struck with melee, you unleash a powerful attack, stunning your target for 2 seconds and apply 5 stacks of vulnerability.

Blinding Defense: similar to Zealots Flame, but you reapply blind to nearby foes up to 4 times for 3 seconds. (Blinding Orb: you throw an orb of light at your target and nearby foes, which blinds and weakens them)

Mystic Eruption: (like fiery eruption) you pierce the ground with your spear causing holy light to erupt around your target inflicting vulnerability and you gain retaliation. (10 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds)

I would actually be opposed to this, because I think that every class needs a weakness. Guardians’ weakness is having overall the worst set of range abilities in the game (that and a lack of condi damage other than burning). It feels like a good tradeoff for what we do get: survivability, group heals/boons, CC, condition purges, and more. If the devs patch over our main drawback, either a) we become clearly OP or b) other classes get a major boost, too; while rangers desperately need one, warriors clearly don’t.

As cool as a holy bow or some such would be. Wouldn’t mind that land spear idea, but call it a halberd or glaive.

They should give us a bow. Long or short. That would be awesome. Sadly, I don’t think adding more weapon choices for professions is a priority to them. I’d personally like to see a bow rather than a revamp of old living stories.

I would kiiiiiill for a longbow (or short…) on my guard.

That’s pretty much the primary reason I made my warrior

I’d love it if the guardian got a longbow, with a side of healing arrows preferably. ;0

Also, longbow > shortbow style-wise imo.

By the six, I commands this thread to be raised from the depths of October 2012!

Still wouldn’t mind LB or inland spear.