Guild Wars 2

PLS ANET PLS don’t make us hold the staff with both hands like revenants and thieves do, it’s soooo unaesthetic!

1-handed staff-holding master race thank you

The picture they revealed looks like she is about to swing it upwards and let fly the vines of war!

No. Druid will hold the staff…

This would make no sense. A two-handed weapon in one hand?

Could just be in casting animation. But let’s not be conservative in our conclusions from stylized art and go all in with the wild assumptions.

Justine.6351:

Could just be in casting animation. But let’s not be conservative in our conclusions from stylized art and go all in with the wild assumptions.

we already seen the video of the Druid in action from HoT trailer. so no point arguing this now. This been known for months now.

https://youtu.be/IOUk2y0K2m8?t=2m38s

Also Druid Staff uses Rifle animation and still wield like a caster staff.

Knighthonor.4061:

https://youtu.be/IOUk2y0K2m8?t=2m38s

Also Druid Staff uses Rifle animation and still wield like a caster staff.

Holds in one hand while idle, check
Two handed while casting, check
Not a rifle animation, check

Wondrouswall.7169:

No. Druid will hold the staff…

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With NO Hands!!! :o Pet carrying staff confirmed.

I would stop my griping for at least twelve minutes if there was a skill where you throw the staff, your pet runs over, fetches it, runs back to you and trips everything between the landing point and you.

Justine.6351:

Knighthonor.4061:

https://youtu.be/IOUk2y0K2m8?t=2m38s

Also Druid Staff uses Rifle animation and still wield like a caster staff.

Holds in one hand while idle, check
Two handed while casting, check
Not a rifle animation, check

as for me it looked exacly like charged shots animation from rifles (a little slowed down blunderbuss? anyone?) and tbh it looks a little bit unnaturaly when he gest so “smoothly” from “recoil” to “idle” :P

dankid.9321:

This would make no sense. A two-handed weapon in one hand?

You mean like Necro, Ele or Mesmer auto attack on staff? Yeah, makes no sense.

Druid MELEE staff master race is REAL!!!
We already have LB for pewpew, i need a reliable melee weapon to cast the vines of destruction.

I can see it, we melee staff rangers leaving a highway of mordrem corpses (or player corpers in WvW) on our way…

Nah i’m going to be disappointed…

anduriell.6280:

Druid MELEE staff master race is REAL!!!
We already have LB for pewpew, i need a reliable melee weapon to cast the vines of destruction.

I can see it, we melee staff rangers leaving a highway of mordrem corpses (or player corpers in WvW) on our way…

Nah i’m going to be disappointed…

we already have gs for that purpose :P
and really – you want THIRD melee staff in this expac? :P

But think how good it would feel to smack a thief or dd elem in the face with a large stick.

For effect they could let out a muffled scream…

I actually want a long range staff that just like ele, guard, necro and mesmer, aren’t penalized by using it in melee range.
For me that is the main problem of LB, its damage is only good at long range, if you get at melee range LB is nearly useless.

Lord Trejgon.2809:

anduriell.6280:

Druid MELEE staff master race is REAL!!!
We already have LB for pewpew, i need a reliable melee weapon to cast the vines of destruction.

I can see it, we melee staff rangers leaving a highway of mordrem corpses (or player corpers in WvW) on our way…

Nah i’m going to be disappointed…

we already have gs for that purpose :P
and really – you want THIRD melee staff in this expac? :P

We have too many ranged staffs already in game (necro, ele, guardian…) and YES PLEASE i mean YES BIRNG THE MELEE STAFF to the ranger.
We have too many ranged weapons aready: axe, longbow, shortbow.
Melee weapons we only have 2: Greatsword and Sword. And sword is deeply broken so actually we have only one weapon that fills that niche and it’s not even DPS oriented (not power not condi).

I’d like the staff to be manly melee to compensate the amount of ranged options we have.

The problem with ranged two handed weapons is that they are really slow in AA. I hope we don’t have another axe main hand. Although something like the guardian speed wise would be nice also.

anduriell.6280:

Druid MELEE staff master race is REAL!!!
We already have LB for pewpew, i need a reliable melee weapon to cast the vines of destruction.

I can see it, we melee staff rangers leaving a highway of mordrem corpses (or player corpers in WvW) on our way…

Nah i’m going to be disappointed…

Yassss! i’m really hoping for a mid-range melee weapon, sort of like d/d ele 600 or so range with some casting animations. really, really hoping for this!

Belzebu.3912:

…For me that is the main problem of LB, its damage is only good at long range, if you get at melee range LB is nearly useless.

The AA having 23% less damage at ranges closer than 500 as opposed to greater than 1000 makes it nearly useless?

In PvE, yes it does.
In PvP it won’t make much difference since you end using LB for its utilities and RF.

Belzebu.3912:

In PvE, yes it does.
In PvP it won’t make much difference since you end using LB for its utilities and RF.

For PvE, those that are using the AA in Melee range, other than to fill in time between weapon swaps after QD RF have no clue and are beyond saving, but other than that, its perfectly fine to use in melee and the best damage set we have when paired with S/A.