Guild Wars 2

No need to panic. Ranger gets staff, Guardian is maybe getting LB, Necromancer is getting GS, and it is relatively likely that thieves will get a rifle. So each of these professions will have access to 5 brand new skills.

That’s why I think there is still hope. If Anet cares about profession equality (and I believe they do, to some extend), they should logically add one mh and one oh weapon. Since Colin said one more weapon per profession, we would likely be getting mh and oh shields. Fingers crossed.

Sorel.4870:

No need to panic. Ranger gets staff, Guardian is maybe getting LB, Necromancer is getting GS, and it is relatively likely that thieves will get a rifle. So each of these professions will have access to 5 brand new skills.

That’s why I think there is still hope. If Anet cares about profession equality (and I believe they do, to some extend), they should logically add one mh and one oh weapon. Since Colin said one more weapon per profession, we would likely be getting mh and oh shields. Fingers crossed.

Dual shields that would be like..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo

I’m sitting on a semi-completed Flameseeker Prophecies. Maybe if we start getting specialization information out soon I’ll complete it.

Sorel.4870:

No need to panic. Ranger gets staff, Guardian is maybe getting LB, Necromancer is getting GS, and it is relatively likely that thieves will get a rifle. So each of these professions will have access to 5 brand new skills.

That’s why I think there is still hope. If Anet cares about profession equality (and I believe they do, to some extend), they should logically add one mh and one oh weapon. Since Colin said one more weapon per profession, we would likely be getting mh and oh shields. Fingers crossed.

Just a thought I had but i’m not sure if it’s viable. But no one have said that Shield is an only Off Hand weapon. What if it get to be a Two handed weapon so we all can try to be Captain Mesmerica and if we don’t like that, then put in an main handed weapon and keep the last two skills on the shield.

But I think that is mostly wishful thinking.

Hey, we shoot lasers out of our greatswords … it could happen :-p

I sincerely doubt the “something extra” is a cometely new mechanic to how weapons work, especially with off-hand shield becoming dual wieldable.

One idea that I can see happening is that when wielding a shield it gives us access to exclusive abilities/utilities.

I think we are all hoping that this information is released soon so we can see what we have to deal with.

It’s kinda like waiting for a cpu. You just know you’re going to rock games with it, but when the doorbell rings and you jump up to open it you find a burning bag of cr*p..

I for one have VERY low expectations that ANET will do the Mesmer any kind of justice.