Guild Wars 2

Since warriors is going to be a boon-hate class, why not make Mace be a protection-hate weapon?

Mace is designed to penetrate the plated armor. To make mace a protection-hate weapon for warriors will make sense.

Mace has a role as defensive weapon, not offensive. applying weakness on auto attack, albeit slow and sometimes suspect to land consistently, having a block, a daze, and a stun make it a nice option for a warrior in WvW or some hotjoin to provide damage mitigation through weakness and smart use of your stuns, as well as a nice complement someone running a burst build alongside you by hurting their endurance regen and providing stuns/getting someone to pop their stun breaks.

I use mace/shield and hammer a lot in WvW when I’m running ikittenman. More in line with what mace’s auto attack already does would be something that maybe removed might or fury, give it a more obvious potential for mitigation or something. I am an idiot and could be way off.

runeblade.7514:

Since warriors is going to be a boon-hate class, why not make Mace be a protection-hate weapon?

Mace is designed to penetrate the plated armor. To make mace a protection-hate weapon for warriors will make sense.

I like this perspective.

Rather than the linear borning (get X amount more damage for X amount of boons) I feel this would actually make the cache of weapons warrior gets more viable for the situation. Currently that’s already the case but minorly.

You use Mace as a defensive weapon, making foes do less damage to you. But introducing your idea would give it another use, to help break down the towers of a highly armored target.

Perhaps, as a protection hate weapon, it could also apply vulnerability to anyone with protection on all its attacks with the burst doing higher damage against such foes. As a weapon, it’d still be primarily defensive as none of this increases the damage of the weapon to a large degree but it does help our team who are also attacking your same target.

Eh…just an idea though…but in the same vein, and if you were ‘modifying’ boon-hate, how would you do the other weapons?

Mace = protection hate
Hammer = stability/defiant hate? Would be cool if, when striking foes with defiant/stability, you gain stacks of frenzy to attack even faster. Just a thought

The Mace is what I consider to be a technical fighter’s weapon. Adding some kind of Boon Hate would fit the theme of the weapon.

Leo G.4501:

runeblade.7514:

Since warriors is going to be a boon-hate class, why not make Mace be a protection-hate weapon?

Mace is designed to penetrate the plated armor. To make mace a protection-hate weapon for warriors will make sense.

I like this perspective.

Rather than the linear borning (get X amount more damage for X amount of boons) I feel this would actually make the cache of weapons warrior gets more viable for the situation. Currently that’s already the case but minorly.

You use Mace as a defensive weapon, making foes do less damage to you. But introducing your idea would give it another use, to help break down the towers of a highly armored target.

Perhaps, as a protection hate weapon, it could also apply vulnerability to anyone with protection on all its attacks with the burst doing higher damage against such foes. As a weapon, it’d still be primarily defensive as none of this increases the damage of the weapon to a large degree but it does help our team who are also attacking your same target.

Eh…just an idea though…but in the same vein, and if you were ‘modifying’ boon-hate, how would you do the other weapons?

Mace = protection hate
Hammer = stability/defiant hate? Would be cool if, when striking foes with defiant/stability, you gain stacks of frenzy to attack even faster. Just a thought

Sword: Vigor-Hate

Axe and Greatsword remains untouched as a pure offensive weapon.

I like this idea, leave the axe and gs the way they are but include certain forms of boon hate on mace/sword and hammer. Would make for some new and interesting builds and it would be a reason for me to take my mace and hammer out of the closet.

Just hate on protection would be fine by me. Expecting any class to just use “raw force” to power through a 33% damage reduction is laughable. That’s exactly what protection is to protect AGAINST.