Guild Wars 2

Last week i had serious problems picking a class to play, but i decided to try Engineer, after looking up the Predator rifle on youtube, it did look to be a good pick.

But i realized its not my style of class. And it uses the weapon more like a shotgun, besides i got my friend playing who wants to be an Engineer, so i looked up the classes and realized, trough Warrior doas use the rifle a bit like a sniper rifle (exspecially with a aim timing fury skill-Kill shot) ,
but thats not the same as a Medium armor wearing Thief (assasin) that is precise, deathly and lethal. And also mobile and acrobatic. Exacly what i wanted.

I understand that there are many who say, “yes but this is not assasin, its thief”.
Whitch is interesting, since when i moan abaut not having an assasin class (yet) they say we wont have one, since Thief is there to make up for it….so i am a bit confused.

At any rate i think giving thief a rifle would be an excellent idea.
Why?

Bow is a more all araund aoe weapon for medium range ( its hard to hit on long range wit aoe placement skills). Its more a tricster range with the bouncing “auto attack”

Pistols is a decent pick, its even long range, but with all the crying araund to nerf the pistols, i think a “nerf” to make it medium range would be decent, and leave the rifle for long range dd. (many wont understand with this, just ignore the nerf part then.)
Must add also its more of a mobile weapon, then rifle would be.

So owerall i the rifle would be a ine addition to the class, with its sniping theme, that would fit the class and its style.
Any thouts ideas, opinions?

Exuse my bad english…

I’d love it. I’d also like to see torch offhand.

how would you stealth… with a torch?

Wizardauz.3761:

how would you stealth… with a torch?

The same way Mesmers do it with the torch offhand skill that stealths them lol..

Wizardauz.3761:

how would you stealth… with a torch?

Torch would have no stealth skills inherent to the off hand, instead focusing on applying burning.

Rifle would be fun, and I wouldn’t say no, but I don’t see it happening. We already have a 2 handed ranged weapon, and we already have pistols for direct damage at range. A rifle would be redundant.

What I’d really like is to have an offhand sword to give us more of an in your face option with some counterattack abilities.

If you want to play a sniper try out a Warrior with a Rifle, their skill set with it resembles a sniper quite well.

Thats what the ranger class is for guys…..

its not fair on other classes if this actually makes it

Sniper Rifle would be pretty cool.

Webley.1295:

Thats what the ranger class is for guys…..

its not fair on other classes if this actually makes it

Err no. Ranger is for people who like to play Pokemon and let their pet do 50% of their damage, or people who like to auto attack things to death. Just kidding rangers, sorry they destroyed you in beta.

Also, we already have ranged options. It’s just that P/P is a little underpowered currently so not many play it.

Maybe we should just give Body Shot a 450in knockback

Longbow > Rifle.
Assuming the Longbow ever gets reworked in such a way that the projectiles are not slow as hell.
This game lacks a raw DPS bow option (despite the obvious Ranger fail attempt) and I personally think a silent bow is more thief friendly than a loud, obnoxious rifle. But, knowing that such a rework will probably never grace us… I guess I’m on board for a Rifle.

Whell yes, Warriors are the ONLY option right now, for those who want to play rifles, in the original way, and not as a shotgun freak.
But since its plate i refuse to play 1. Besides, its designed to be melee first of all, and i dont like to play a class only for 1 weapon…..Is the design this terrible on classes?

If you want to play an aspect of a class you are forced to play 1 class with 1 weapon?
Instead of equipping it to a class you alredy like?

What about a Crossbow? I know it will a new weapon to the game, but I think that it fits much better for long range Thief than a loud rifle.
Or wrist-Xbows can be also an option (I would like that much more than the pistols for the Thief).

imagine wvwvw like a noob bf3 server..

campers..campers everywhere..
btw with a max 1200range. maybe..but still u have shortbow..

“imagine wvwvw like a noob bf3 server..

campers..campers everywhere..
btw with a max 1200range. maybe..but still u have shortbow.."

Yes, and you can 2 shot anyone in this game? From half a map?

Its abaut the theme, and notfully abaut the mechanic of the sniping.
Besides…..since only 2 class can use rifle why campers everwhere……you barely even see engineers anywhere…

DD

I would love this, I can’t even frigging get to an Engineer at times in sPvP.

i also noticed torch from thief bandits npc, i think its ok for us to have it also hehhe

dagger torch, flame shield weeeee

Well thats the thing about sniper rifles, u hear the bang but u can’t see where the bullet came from. Ive played a warrior so i know how loud it can get but to offset that the thief riflr can hav high dmg shots with long cast times from 1200 range, just like in real life where a sniper waits for the exact moment thats just right to shoot.