Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow gw2 players. I had a question and based on feedback from this post and reply I really hope anet sees it and gives it some thought before release.

The short question is…..would you rather have only one weapon equipped and be able to change between the legends as is normally like now? Or link weapon sets to a legend? That way the “legend swap” also acts as a weapon swap as well.

I do realize 2 legends have yet to be revealed. However in my 3 years of playing this game I have learned it is very very important to have both a ranged and melee weapon. There are way to many fights, and boss instances in the story where melee simply won’t work on every fight. If we enter this fight in melee our only options are tin away to swap to hammer, or if in personal story quit, get range, and have to do the whole thing over again. I think this class will be the most useless class in the game if it can not participate in each battle fairly like the other classes.

I had this same idea in another thread. We should be allowed to equip 1 weapon set per legend and have it swap with the legend. If someone doesn’t want to swap weapons, then equip the same weapon set on both legends.

I would link weapons to legends. While some legends may work better with some weapons than others let me choose the setup for each legen (which it looks like you can do with skills?) and if I want another weapon hop to a different legend.

Menadena.7482:

I would link weapons to legends. While some legends may work better with some weapons than others let me choose the setup for each legen (which it looks like you can do with skills?) and if I want another weapon hop to a different legend.

This ^.

The current lack of weapon swap means the rev has a real problem going from melee to ranged.

Having the legends effect weapon skills could greatly reduce that problem and add a bit more quality to the class.

i’d like it if we had a utility skill that we could switch in for legend skills that would either give us a melee or ranged weapon based on the legend. a special jalis melee hammer skill set, some sort of ranged druid-ish staff for ventari etc.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

Menadena.7482:

I would link weapons to legends. While some legends may work better with some weapons than others let me choose the setup for each legen (which it looks like you can do with skills?) and if I want another weapon hop to a different legend.

This ^.

The current lack of weapon swap means the rev has a real problem going from melee to ranged.

Having the legends effect weapon skills could greatly reduce that problem and add a bit more quality to the class.

Unless we want to roll only ventari and staff to live and spend 10 minutes on each enemy of course

The weapon linked to the legend makes the most sense to me, though since it seems pretty obvious they are going to have more utility skills to choose from for each legend, I think having one that swaps in a opposite option (ranged/melee) would be a good way to give a little versatility to each of the legends, so if someone wants to solely focus on Jalis, they can do that at both ranged and melee.

I like that idea. Having a weapon tied to a legend makes a lot of sense. As others have pointed out the Revenant really needs a way to switch between melee and ranged while in combat.

Another option might be to have each legend change the weapon skills of each weapon. For example under dwarf legend the hammer might be a melee weapon whereas under the centaur legend the hammer might be a ranged weapon. (While this idea might prove interesting, the OP’s idea of having a weapon set tied to each legend might be simpler to implement.)

How about something like this:
1. Each Legend has a single weapon linked to it (e.g. Jalis+Hammer, Mallyx+Mace, Ventari+Staff) .
2. Each weapon has a melee mode and a ranged mode.
3. Each weapon has a default mode (e.g. Hammer defaults to ranged control, Mace defaults to ranged condi, Staff defaults to ranged support).
4. When channeling the appropriate Legend, the weapon changes mode (e.g. Jalis+Hammer becomes melee control, Mallyx+Mace becomes melee condi, Ventari+Staff becomes melee support).
5. Some weapons (e.g. OH Axe) might not be linked to a Legend, so they have the same set of skills all the time.

Rev can still only equip one weapon set at a time, but the weapon skills change from melee/ranged with Legend swap (assuming you channel the appropriate Legend).

Might be easier to implement overall, and does not require a new set of 5 skills for every single weapon+legend combination.

Being able to use the hammer for melee control (seriously needs some Taunt options), or the mace as a scepter replacement might be interesting.