It might be my personal opinion that rifle is a better option but I am not pushing my preferences like its fact. I’ve spent the majority of my time telling you that what you think is going on is not really going on. I already know the actual elite weapon is up in the air but I am not going around claiming that coincidences are forms of proof and judging people’s credibility by their moods.
Secondly, do you expect me to think you’de care what I have to say? Everyone who has argued for staff has used so much confirmation bias and are so desperate to roleplay Ryu Hayabusa that they’ve convinced themselves that melee staff is more or less confirmed. So they continue to hype the hell out of it based off of tiny samples and possibilities thinking they are absolute in their logic. The hype feeds off itself.
Now if I were to question you about your proof, you’de reply by saying something along the lines that it’s mere existence is proof enough. You guys have done it before. The fact is a single picture, model and an existing possibility based off a tiny sample size does not mean that melee staff is the imminent result. It doesn’t even prove its more of a possibility than any other weapon. Its just an idea, a concept, just like that fan made rifle idea.
I’ve done this too many times, Gray. Melee staff has no foundation because it is entirely fan driven with confirmation bias as it’s fuel. You intentionally leave out things that would harm your speculations. For example, that thief with that staff in that picture could also be a rev since red and black is also part of their original concept art. Compare the color scheme of the rev concept art with thief concept arts and you get one picture with black and white and just a LITTLE red. What if… that picture was meant as an idea for rev’s staff spec? That possibility is there because the color scheme matches like how the possibility of thief getting staff is there because elite spec weapons are not entirely exclusive.
And if it were true, your whole collection of “proof” and speculation would get blown out of the water. Again its a possibility but it goes to show how fragile your “proof” is. Just understand that I took the same path of logic staffers have, just not so much hype.
You keep talking about confirmation bias however you are completely overlooking very glaring points that show this is not the Revenant based on your own bias against the staff.
1.) With the last beta weekend all of the 5 spec lines had been done and that picture was not included.
2.) Revenant wears heavy armor, not medium armor. The pic clearly shows medium armor.
3.) Revenant wears a blindfold. The picture clearly shows eyes with every other part of the face covered which is the opposite of a blindfold.
4.) Herald was revealed and the elite gets a shield which completely destroys the speculation that elites will not get the same weapon.
Unless you can come up with evidence beyond the colour scheme is similar to the revenant you really don’t have much to stand on so stop telling us about a confirmation bias when the evidence supports it being for the thief rather than the revenant. Also you would need to come up with why there is no blindfold which is included in the character creation as the equipment choice and just about every picture except for the herald concept art.
Not everyone that is saying staff is saying it because they want it or want to be ninja. They are saying it because the evidence supports it so far. They already have prepurchases of the xpac which means they are moving forward so it is very unlikely they will change gears from what we have seen in the data mine because of forum posts. They are past the point of no return and have to move forward and changing from what they have would be moving backwards. In fact the ninja wannabes are asking for OH sword so they can dual wield katana. Furthermore, a 1200 range weapon isn’t the only thing the thief is lacking either. Unlike other melee classes thief lacks a 2-handed melee weapon. The profession also lacks stability, invulnerability and knockbacks.
Addendum: I am neither team rifle nor team staff, I was actually hoping for a focus OH to give more of a Shadow Mage thing for the thief but evidence points towards staff.
