Guild Wars 2

I was thinking, that if we follow normal “logic”, as if that can be applied to a game, a torch should be a “good” mainhand weapon.

Imagine yourself holding a torch, imagine yourself walking in a dark place. Do you hold your weapon first, and torch only for light source? Or the torch first, to illuminate, and the weapon ready for strike? most would agree to the latter.

The torch dont need high weapon/skill damage, however it should have crazy good condition damage.
Make torch mainhand, give it a three step attack with the following motions:

Skill 1
“Stab” – stab the foe with a fiery tip, causing severe burns (1 1/4th sec burn – high damage)
“embers” – fling embers in the face of your foe, causing temporarily blindness (2 sec?)
“Spit Fire” – blow a jet of flames at your foe, causing severe burns and fear (2 sec burn, high damage – 1sec fear)

Skill 2 and 3 would be the current 4 & 5…. Current 4 & 5 if you go torch torch would be;

Offhand:
4 – “Warmth” – Nearby allies are filled with hope and courage. 600 AOE, Might(10), Regeneration. 20 second buff time
5 – “Eruption” – Call upon the power of mother nature, creating a massive volcanic eruption. AOE huge size (barrage LB#5 size), massive damage, burning (2 sec – massive damage), fear (1 1/2 sec) – 90 second cooldown, 900 casting range.

What you think?

Numbers are purely creative, and only intended to illustrate the desired power of the boons/conditions.

Having burning, blind, and fear on a mainhand chain would be way too OP

You wouldn’t switch your weapon to your offhand, you would simply hold your offhand with the torch in front of you. Other than that, your skill suggestions would make torch MH too OP.

its OP due to conditions, but the damage is low. I dont want it to be powerful, just mighty annoying unless you got no condition removal.