Guild Wars 2

I was day dreaming about a new ranged guardian weapon. I thought about a one handed sawed off shotgun crossbow that a guardian can use as a defensive ranged tool.

Skill 1 – 600 cone medium damage auto-attack that burns your targets for X damage
Skill 2 – blink to your target for a cone AoE knockback for 500 units for X damage (8-10 sec CD)
Skill 3 – Blast the area in-front of you for a large sum of damage while creating a blue fire field that applies a one time blind, X stacks of vul., and a heavy burn damage (long CD)

My idea for this weapon was to keep enemies away from a objective whether it be PvP capping points or protecting WvW dolyaks from ganking thieves. This is just an idea. I only wish for constructive criticism only. Thanks.

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The skills are awesome. But I don’t think a gun of any kind fits with the guard aesthetic or lore. Feels way too anarchistic. We are a class that is very King Arthur, early medieval inspired. And we’re all about old gods, swords and magic. Not guns and machines. If we did have a ranged weapon, I would suggest a crossbow. Two handed crossbows would rock and still fit the aesthetic.

I understand your view point and agree. A gun would not fit our class lore. From your suggestion it would now be changed into a one or two handed crossbow. Thank you for posting

biggkurt.6493:

I understand your view point and agree. A gun would not fit our class lore. From your suggestion it would now be changed into a one or two handed crossbow. Thank you for posting

Cool!!

@ Entropy " But I don’t think a gun of any kind fits with the guard aesthetic or lore. Feels way too anarchistic" I find Scapter, a raindbow-fairy weapon, to be way more anarchistic when i comes to guardian.

If you meant to say Crossbow? Then that would fit a Guardian as a ranged weapon. Those were used by Crusaders historically in real life. And they were one handed I’ll have to look that up.

Silentstorm.7531:

If you meant to say Crossbow? Then that would fit a Guardian as a ranged weapon. Those were used by Crusaders historically in real life. And they were one handed I’ll have to look that up.

I think he did, yes. But most of the crossbows were two-handed because of the weight.

@ PokerTuna – You’re thinking of a “wand” buddy, not a scepter. Scepters were traditional accessories of a king, quite popular in the medieval period. They were also used in religious ceremonies, both monotheistic and pagan. Thus, they fit perfectly with guardians who are essentially religious / spiritual knights. It’s one of the distinctive weapons that separates us from those godless warriors.

Silentstorm.7531:

If you meant to say Crossbow? Then that would fit a Guardian as a ranged weapon. Those were used by Crusaders historically in real life. And they were one handed I’ll have to look that up.

My bad I spaced on the title. Also there are one-handed versions of crossbows that were used by crusaders on horseback because of a push-lever and ratchet drawing mechanisms allowing more flexibility to reload and fire. (All hail the mighty Google)