Guild Wars 2

Mesmers are the class of illusion magic. They are well known for chaos. Their color scheme is pink and purple.

Lyssa is the human goddess of beauty, water, and illusion. She is also considered to be related to chaos. They are often depicted in the color pink and/or purple.

Lyssa is in actuality two beings, named Lyss and Ilya

There exist two exotic guns named Lyss and Ilya – direct reference to Lyss and Ilya the goddesses, who are considered one entity as Lyssa.

Lyssa, in turn, shares close similarities to mesmers.

…..So why aren’t mesmers dual pistol wielders?

Thing is, even if you get 2 pistols, you can’t fire them both at once like thief unload, because the weapon skills for mesmer main hand and off hand are separate. It’s uncool.

Because the devs haven’t gotten around to coding all weapons on all classes yet.

Because not everyone should be able to do everything with a weapon. Why can’t Thiefs dual swords? Why can’t Guards? Why can’t a Mesmer use a Dagger? Cuz it would take away the unique part of weapons.

It’s also pretty much a design win that thiefs change their 3 depending on main and offhand. Unique.

There was never an announcement that the current weapons will become aviable for other classes and hands. There are just new weapons under contruction.

Xyonon.3987:

Because not everyone should be able to do everything with a weapon. Why can’t Thiefs dual swords? Why can’t Guards? Why can’t a Mesmer use a Dagger? Cuz it would take away the unique part of weapons.

It’s also pretty much a design win that thiefs change their 3 depending on main and offhand. Unique.

There was never an announcement that the current weapons will become aviable for other classes and hands. There are just new weapons under contruction.

On another site, i think mmochampion.com or something, they mentioned that eventually every profession will have acces to all weapons… Somehow :P

Alissah.9281:

On another site, i think mmochampion.com or something, they mentioned that eventually every profession will have acces to all weapons… Somehow :P

Link the source.

oh man can you imagine how bad-a a mesmer with look dual wielding Lyss and Ilya O_O

UrMom.4205:

oh man can you imagine how bad-a a mesmer with look dual wielding Lyss and Ilya O_O

I don’t think that would be worse than a thief with a shield and a scepter O.o

I could imagine a thief with a scepter in the same way that I could imagine a warrior with a staff. They would not be magic based. A sap like weapon for the thief and a “monk” flavored melee staff weapon.

~4:30 “Grow and expand the core gameplay… new weapons along with taking weapons that already exist and add them to new professions.” Summarized from an interview of Colin. At 6:30, he reiterates that old weapons are more likely to be added to other professions than new weapons being added to the game. So duel pistol mesmer seems possible. I personally want another mele option like a dagger.

Random fact, polearms are programmed into the game but not available.
http://www.gw2db.com/items/weapons/polearms

I can already imagine it now….thieves with rifles @ 1500 range…and stealth.

Xyonon.3987:

Because not everyone should be able to do everything with a weapon. Why can’t Thiefs dual swords? Why can’t Guards? Why can’t a Mesmer use a Dagger? Cuz it would take away the unique part of weapons.

It’s also pretty much a design win that thiefs change their 3 depending on main and offhand. Unique.

There was never an announcement that the current weapons will become aviable for other classes and hands. There are just new weapons under contruction.

That’s not my point. They specifically made a weapon set of dual pistols that has ‘mesmer’ written all over it in pink butterfly – covered handwriting. But Mesmers cannot dual-wield pistols.

It just wouldn’t feel complete to have one and not the other.

Well, Sunrise and Twilight look as if they’d look the best when you dual-wield them. Yet you can’t.

That’s not exactly a valid argument, to be honest. I’d love to wield Bifrost + Celestial Ascended 1H Sword for a more colourful Gandalf-style combat, but I can’t.

I don’t see any class theme suggesting that we’d DW pistols. There happens to be two pistols which are pink and see-through.

The explanation being actually that all Phantasm-weapons exist as player-craftable ones. The Phantasm dual wields pistols, and a dev had some spare time and wanted to create a pair of them to go with the dual-faced goddess. A bit lame actually because they ultimately look the same.

Anyhow the point is that it’s based on Phantasm-weaponry, just like the see through axe and the shield.

If they had ‘mesmer swords’ named Lyss and Ilya I’d never bring this up. We can dual wield swords. But I just skimmed the gallery and the only mesmery sword I found is the whisperblade – which is still solid and not phantasm in design.

There’s actually 3 pistols that are pink and see-through. The two are the Lyss and Ilya, and the third is the Chaos gun. Chaos gun however, is only available through the rarity of Mystic Forge, and acts as a precursor.

Chaos Gun dropped for me 2 days ago. Sold it 1 hour later.

Xavi.6591:

Chaos Gun dropped for me 2 days ago. Sold it 1 hour later.

/jelly