Guild Wars 2

Hi there! I just realised that all the official wallpapers released for the professions are similar to what we can see ingame. Except for the mesmer since it is shown carrying a fan. And the idea came to me, that so many complain about mesmer weapons being useless (I agree with most of them) and some also want newly added weapons (most popular is pistol so far)… so why not fans?

You could carry one in both hands, they could have medium range like necromancer axe, and each swing (button1) could send purplish looking waves (small scaled effect like gs skill5?) and we could have the same preset of skills, like skill2 as a burst, rapid swing of magical purple awesomeness. 3 for a clone next to you, few meters away and you can swap places with it, 4 for Illusionary Dancer which could work similarly to Hounds of Balthazar, jumping from one place to another and dealing aoe damage in a smaller area, the animation could be similar to the thief dagger/dagger skill3 (which looks very cool ofc.); and skill 5 for pulling your enemy towards you while teleporting to a place where s/he stood before, creating a skill bar which fits the mesmer playstyle and present skills, while giving us something new, which perfectly fits the concept.
For those who wonder, what I’m talking about, the picture is below.

Anyway this just popped out of me, let me know what you guys think, I’d like to hear your opinion!

i like this idea , all classes new new weapon sets and more viable builds for PVE/PVP

Mortal Kombat!!

(I knew Kitana was a Mesmer)

Couldn’t agree more with this. Fan would be so awesome cakes as a weapon I would prolly end up using it even if it was subpar. Would love it as a focus skin too, Sword/Focus would look so juicy….say using a traveler’s ceremonial sabre skin with a fan.

Also the skill ideas sound pretty cool, would certainly open more opportunities for close range mobile play.

10/10 would agree again ^_-

Kisarachan @ Underworld

although I think it will never happen.. great idea….

+1 for Fans

That’d be soooo smexxy.

This is an awesome idea. I love it.

Yes please. I’d love for my Mesmer to have both a main-hand and off-hand fan.

Fan would be awesome

Seems to be a bit too niche to make an appearance as an actual weapon. Perhaps as a skin for focus.

Fantastic idea. Love the skill suggestions, sounds like a lot of graceful fun, espec the clone skill #3.

That would be awesome as a new weapon or a focus skin. I wonder if they have it in the works.

In Guild Wars: Factions there are already fan foci.. So I’m very hopeful that they’ll include the skin come Cantha.

The focus is the “fan” in this game. I know I haven’t seen a focus with a fan model yet either.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Quansong's_Focus here’s an example of a fan focus in GW1

I don’t care what it is but I think only mesmers should get a weapon because at the moment we have the least number of skills (only like 89 I believe and everyone else has 93+) and two of our weapons are almost completely obsolete. Some utilities are awful but all classes have some bad utilities.

I kept looking for fans on vendors in beta
Vote +1 for fan here.

I know you’ll hate me but… Focus is intended, graphically, to be a fan sometimes.

Yea, we already have fans available “as for gameplay”, I don’t know about graphics.
Anyway, mesmer need another melee weapon, they have only sword as a melee weapon and it’s really boring ^^

The “fan as a focus skin” is understandable and is more probable than getting an entirely new weapon. But:
In a future expansion, giving us new skills is almost obligatory… cause only if new maps are added (including races, classes etc.) that’s not much of an expansion, only content expansion.
GW2 as far as I know does not wish to increase lvl cap, therefoe giving us skill is only possible via new weapons and/or utilities.
And as noted above, mesmers have weapons which are completely useless. We have either short ranged melee weapons, or long ranged condition stacking or cookie cutting gs. No medium range. We are therefore degenerate versions of warriors and elementalist/necros. The foretold uniqueness of our class is not present. We have our mechanics, but with the constant “fixing” it looses it’s value.
And the concept came from the single idea that these pictures, these walpapers which should depict our classes as they are is ONLY inaccurate about mesmers. Taking into account all the trouble our class went through, for me it was a deep cut. Seems unfair.

The main problem is that Anet COULD do so many wonderful things with this game, but the arising problems from the beggining plagued their work (gold sellers, tp, wv3 lag, botting etc).
Even if these issues are not competely solved they should start focusing on creating a gaming experience which is unique and ground breaking. We have dodge, which is a very simple mechanic yet changes the whole game, for the better.
Addig new weapons and reforging some original (and failed) ideas about classes need to take place in order to maintain a satisfied player base.
And funnily, ‘fans’ would not require the creation of new animations or graphics, just resizing and using older animations. Not much of a work if we look at the big picture. But would satisfy thousands.

Anyway, that’s my opinion.

Fan Focus would be awesome, but I’m on the fence if I’d trade my Arah mini-whip for it.

zallesz.1650:

The “fan as a focus skin” is understandable and is more probable than getting an entirely new weapon. But:
In a future expansion, giving us new skills is almost obligatory… cause only if new maps are added (including races, classes etc.) that’s not much of an expansion, only content expansion.
GW2 as far as I know does not wish to increase lvl cap, therefoe giving us skill is only possible via new weapons and/or utilities.
And as noted above, mesmers have weapons which are completely useless. We have either short ranged melee weapons, or long ranged condition stacking or cookie cutting gs. No medium range. We are therefore degenerate versions of warriors and elementalist/necros. The foretold uniqueness of our class is not present. We have our mechanics, but with the constant “fixing” it looses it’s value.
And the concept came from the single idea that these pictures, these walpapers which should depict our classes as they are is ONLY inaccurate about mesmers. Taking into account all the trouble our class went through, for me it was a deep cut. Seems unfair.

The main problem is that Anet COULD do so many wonderful things with this game, but the arising problems from the beggining plagued their work (gold sellers, tp, wv3 lag, botting etc).
Even if these issues are not competely solved they should start focusing on creating a gaming experience which is unique and ground breaking. We have dodge, which is a very simple mechanic yet changes the whole game, for the better.
Addig new weapons and reforging some original (and failed) ideas about classes need to take place in order to maintain a satisfied player base.
And funnily, ‘fans’ would not require the creation of new animations or graphics, just resizing and using older animations. Not much of a work if we look at the big picture. But would satisfy thousands.

Anyway, that’s my opinion.

I think you are wrong on some points, while “mesmer need some love” is definitely true, infact we have the most heavy bugs on our class that are even creating some problems with some builds, like retailation not working on phantasms, off-hand weapons are quite ok.

Maybe TORCH is not perfect (but I’ve heared people using it), FOCUS is widely used, even if iWarden is bugged (yea, this is what is keeping me away from focus) and it’s not moving after each complete “attack”. Sword and Pistols are widely used. Staff is a LONG range weapon, Greatsword too, while Scepter is not heavily used because is maybe the less powerful weapon (yea, has a parry on main hand, but can be used for tanking maybe? 2 Parries, we are the only class which can do this), and I think is a medium-range weapon because it has short ranges (900).

So, we actually have a medium range weapon, the problem for me is that we have only “long range” as a full range, maybe they inteded this as a gameplay feature (if you play melee, you have to play medium range too), could be, and this isn’t so bad if you think about it because Mesmer is the king of “strange builds” being itself a strange class.
If this is not a gameplay feature, we are definitely missing another melee weapon (AXE!!! PLEASE!!! I know you will give us a dagger anyway :P) and another medium range weapon (maybe pistol?). Both as main hands obviusly.

The other problem, is that mesmer are strong, because it’s a new type of class that do not exists in other games. People don’t know how to play vs Mesmers because they can’t attack the correct one, even if clones HAVE ONLY MAIN HAND WEAPON (and this is the biggest bug, you can play only two handed weapons in pvp because of this! Except shatter build obviusly :P )

I don’t think we are so OP as they describe us, but because people feel us as being an OP class, what happens is that ANet requires to work on this feeling (they are the biggest part) and fix it.

That’s all for now, if you can read it :P