Guild Wars 2

I was doing the math, we are in desperate need of a new mainhand weapon. WIth the likelyhood of us getting shield in HOT so close, that will leave us in the curious position of having 5 offhands for two mainhands, and that simply is not good. Thus I present to you my thoughts on a mainhand pistol, for power/lockdown builds.

1st skill
Unload, a volley fire skill we can use while moving does high damage with the final shot in the volley inflicting cripple.

2nd Skill,
Duelist’s shot
Inflicts a 1st daze and does medium damage. On a 5-8 second cooldown.

3rd Skill
Duelists agility.
Range 15, teleports us 15 behind the target leaving a clone in our original position. Makes us face the target. This skill is essentially a blink that moves us behind our target and orientates us to shoot at their exposed back. 15-20s cooldown.

I welcome your comments on your thoughts, if you have ideas or what not do share, I am sure we can all agree we desperately are in need of some other mainhand to add to build diversity. The Scepter hegemony cannot last…

Zarathustra.1458:

I was doing the math, we are in desperate need of a new mainhand weapon.

This is true, and anyone that plays mesmer knows it. Unfortunately, the Anet devs don’t play mesmer, and didn’t get the memo. We’re getting shield with HoT, and nothing’s going to change that at this point. Chalk it up to some combination of gross incompetence and willful ignorance.

Well think about it: the shield doesn’t necessarily mean off hand weapon. Maybe Mesmer use it their main hand leaving the offhand open to say a pistol, Bang! You’re a Riot police officer.

Ariete.6509:

Well think about it: the shield doesn’t necessarily mean off hand weapon. Maybe Mesmer use it their main hand leaving the offhand open to say a pistol, Bang! You’re a Riot police officer.

Lawl. That is too funny. I think that we will get a new main hand. I know people are screaming for a mainhand pistol, buttt Axe anyone?

Ariete.6509:

…Bang! You’re a Riot police officer.

I like the idea of this.

Ariete.6509:

Well think about it: the shield doesn’t necessarily mean off hand weapon. Maybe Mesmer use it their main hand leaving the offhand open to say a pistol, Bang! You’re a Riot police officer.

This would be cool…except we saw mesmer using shield as the offhand in the teaser video.

I was being funny but not joking, there’s footage of a Mesmer wielding a shield…
Still who knows, maybe the balance is to give every profession 5 weapon skills, be it as a two-handed weapon or two new main+off.

Never expect balanced numbers of skills here. You’ll probably be disappointed.
At this point, I’m holding out that the new skills and trait line aren’t chock-full o’ suck.

Advent.6193:

Never expect balanced numbers of skills here. You’ll probably be disappointed.
At this point, I’m holding out that the new skills and trait line aren’t chock-full o’ suck.

Precisely this. We’ve already seen how good they are at designing new stuff for mesmer in the new grandmaster traits. I’m just hoping to avoid a repeat of that.

Fay.2357:

Advent.6193:

Never expect balanced numbers of skills here. You’ll probably be disappointed.
At this point, I’m holding out that the new skills and trait line aren’t chock-full o’ suck.

Precisely this. We’ve already seen how good they are at designing new stuff for mesmer in the new grandmaster traits. I’m just hoping to avoid a repeat of that.

To be fair, Power Block was an amazing trait until Anet nerfed it to the ground the very next day, LOL xD.

OreoWolf.9564:

Fay.2357:

Advent.6193:

Never expect balanced numbers of skills here. You’ll probably be disappointed.
At this point, I’m holding out that the new skills and trait line aren’t chock-full o’ suck.

Precisely this. We’ve already seen how good they are at designing new stuff for mesmer in the new grandmaster traits. I’m just hoping to avoid a repeat of that.

To be fair, Power Block was an amazing trait until Anet nerfed it to the ground the very next day, LOL xD.

Don’t remind me, the very day of this nerf, I uninstalled the game for a year and half after posting that anet could take their changes and shove them up their collective jacksies…