Guild Wars 2

I believe we need to be able to main hand the pistol. I love the offhand pistol and use it with a sword/pistol combo but it would synergies better with a ranged weapon. I do not like the scepter so with the sword it stays.
The problem i’m having is sword/focus synergies so well and that Iwarden is a beast if you can set it up properly. But i cant seem to part with the Iduelist and trick shot as they are so versatile and project very well.
So what we need is a Main hand Pistol to help fill out the 1 handed main weapons we can use.

So what abilities do you all think the main hand pistol should have? And more importantly do you think we will ever get it?

I currently am playing with a Sword/Pistol and Staff setup but I would love a MH Pistol that shoots magic pink bullets lol. For one thing the look would just be really cool, but I’d also like another MH ranged weapon other than Scepter, and hopefully one that does more damage and doesn’t take as long to setup.

I would love to see the pistol as a main hand if it could be worked in a way that is logical. TBH though, when I first heard about the mesmer and the fact there would be pistols in the game, I had a nergasm because the thought of wielding two pistols or a sword and a pistol seemed so awesome to me.

Even though I am content with the sword/pistol set up, it is human nature to want more. I wouldn’t mind if the scepter was replaced with the pistol but it had the same skills. The confusion skill could even be renamed suppressive fire and the tooltip could read “unloads the pistol in a barrage of bullets causing confusion”

It’s not that I want more skills, I just want the image of my mesmer wielding two pistols.

That being said, I don’t support the idea of transmutation stones making a weapon look like a different one (with all thekittenpirate leather I get in instances though, I kinda wish I could do that for armor -_-). Being able to tell what weapon a person has out at a glance is far too useful/integral to the overall balance of the game.

I agree I hate the scepter and melee with sword is just suicidal. We need another ranged mainhand weapon for the love of god. Other classes have so much more variety. Warriors can use everything.

I hate that the only mainhand ranged we have is a condition build weapon and scepter overwrites my phantasms, makes me very angry

I would like it implemented as a distinct power based ranged mainhand. Sceptre clones don’t overwrite phantasms from my testing (unless you mean the one from your 2), and it is ok for it’s purposes.

1 – basic auto attack (900 range?)
2 – clone generator (maybe a shot that generates a clone at the target on hit + applies cripple) The other 2’s all have some aspect of movement, maybe it could also trigger 3s swiftness?
3 – damage burst (charged shot?)

It does overwrite my Phantasms. It always overwrites the 3rd one. Which is krap. I have 3 phantasm abilities on my tool bar I want to keep 3 phantasms up not have a cheap clone overwrite it.

clones do not overwrite phantasms.

Didn’t we already have two or three seperate threads on Main Hand Pistol already, one even on the first page…?

murasamune.2756:

clones do not overwrite phantasms.

Yes they do.

A clone will replace a clone, unless no other clones are present, in which case it replaces a Phantasm.

i agree, the mesmer seems to be suffering from a poor variety of main hand weapons.
there are only two main hands, the scepter which is heavily based off confusion and clone utilization, the other being the sword which requires the mesmer to get in melee range which is very impractical unless specifically traited.

i really hoped the mesmer would have a MH pistol, and i still am hoping for it.

MH pistol for fill one of the biggest weak spot of Mesmers, A O E. Thanks in advance anet

I’m not sure if the servers would be able to withstand the sudden influx of white haired characters in red jackets if this ever happened.

It would certainly be cool, I do like the sword however but it simply isn’t viable to charge in with 18k hp and 1400 toughness sometimes.

Kelesti.2458:

murasamune.2756:

clones do not overwrite phantasms.

Yes they do.

A clone will replace a clone, unless no other clones are present, in which case it replaces a Phantasm.

Basically what he is saying in a illustrated way is as follows:

You have 3 Phantasms and you activate a Clone generating ability, it will destroy the oldest phantasm. That is the only case a Clone will overwrite a Phantasm. [That I am aware of.]

Well this is a bandwagon I can get on, if for no other reason to say that I support this as a future weapon. Rifles too, when it comes time to expand weapon availability per expansions and what not. —and great axes.

Main hand pistol… Make it happen pls.

Please, we beg of you!

Only 3 prof’s in the game use pistols, and of them 2 can use them on their main hands.

Though hammers are restricted to 2 profs, maces as well. Sword seems to be the most prolific. Daggers is 3 as well, but all three of them can main hand them.

Anyway, dual pistol mesmers. Do want.

i believe too.
we need main hand pistol.
we need second 1hand ranged weapon.

Please? I will repay you with my body if you made this happen Anet.

I want to strut through the world, blasting people away with purple bullets.

Please, based god, please.

Anything to get rid of the sceptre.

Gotta love the 2edgy4u gamers now adays that aren’t satisfied unless they can use atleast two guns at once.