I'd like another melee option
Staff is a great close ranged weapon. Not quite a melee weapon, but it does benefit from being closer to your enemy.
Daggers tend to be single target weapons, which forgoes the AoE advantage most melee weapons come with.
Although yes, more melee weapons would be nice. Kind of unfortunate that the Greatsword wasn’t a melee weapon, the Axe or Hammer just doesn’t seem like anything a Mesmer would wield.
More options would be great.
I would love a rapier…
..so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should
This is an interesting idea. In fact – considering the traditional uses of Daggers – I’ve always been surprised there’s not at least an offhand option for Dagger. It could slot in as a defense/trickery weapon. Of course, considering we’re dealing with a class of ‘magical duelists,’ it’s arguable that some of our weapon choices don’t fit that theme much. [GS is a ‘dueling’ weapon? :P]
As for fractal’s idea – the main problem is that to do ‘proper’ Rapier [i.e. mainly a thrusting sword] is that we’d have to convince ANet to code in Rapier and its associated combo/specials. Although, it could be pretty friggin stylish.
Hell, I’d even be satisfied with some style options/skins for our current loadout. Why not Fan skins for Focus?
Malegryne (Sylvari Mesmer), Lannka (Asura Thief) – Ferguson’s Crossing: [PRD/BRB/OMFG]
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
Other 80s: Any but Warrior
You can get a legendary focus that is a lute
..so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should
Not really an option for melee, but I’d like to see a MH pistol option for the Mesmer if we’re daydreaming about additions to skill profiles.
This is an interesting idea. In fact – considering the traditional uses of Daggers – I’ve always been surprised there’s not at least an offhand option for Dagger. It could slot in as a defense/trickery weapon. Of course, considering we’re dealing with a class of ‘magical duelists,’ it’s arguable that some of our weapon choices don’t fit that theme much. [GS is a ‘dueling’ weapon? :P]
As for fractal’s idea – the main problem is that to do ‘proper’ Rapier [i.e. mainly a thrusting sword] is that we’d have to convince ANet to code in Rapier and its associated combo/specials. Although, it could be pretty friggin stylish.
Hell, I’d even be satisfied with some style options/skins for our current loadout. Why not Fan skins for Focus?
Why not have fans be a new weapon type with their own skills rather than just a skin?
I think anyone who has watched Big Trouble in Little China or played Mortal Kombat is familiar with fans as potential weapons.
I think it would have been cool in general if each class had one unique weapon that only it could use. Fan/Rapier for mesmer, 2H Greataxe for warriors, etc etc…
I think it would have been cool in general if each class had one unique weapon that only it could use. Fan/Rapier for mesmer, 2H Greataxe for warriors, etc etc…
Oh god, Rapiers and Fans… I’m.. oh god… yes…
Not really an option for melee, but I’d like to see a MH pistol option for the Mesmer if we’re daydreaming about additions to skill profiles.
YES!
Rather see Scepter become a frontal cone akin to elementalist dagger with a 33% chance to generate a clone per hit … and add main hand pistol as our other ranged option. Too many slow moving ranged lob attacks.
80 Elementalist (RotV), 80 Mesmer (RotV)
80 Necromancer (IRNY), 80 Guardian (IRNY)
GW2: it’s like DAoC, but for the WoW crowd.
80 Necromancer (IRNY), 80 Guardian (IRNY)
GW2: it’s like DAoC, but for the WoW crowd.
Sword is good for pve, (and decent in pvp with certain builds) but it gets old fast.
Mesmer could really use maybe a dagger mainhand or something to give us another melee option.
I agree. Another meele weapon would be awesome!
sword is super good! But another style of meele would be cooler! =D