Guild Wars 2

In GW2 warriors have many weapons that they have the option of utilizing to defeat there opponents. The warriors key functionality is based on weapon skills. Whether it is to defend themselves, or lock the enemy down or even set up for a damage burst. With that in mind warriors are severely lacking in utility skills/boons, a reasonable Elite skill and profession skills. Other classes have the ability to setup traps/poisons/bombs/swap to new kits/Swap to new elemental ability’s/summon spirits/Summon Guardians/Add another HP bar/Go invisible/summon Clones…….. And the list just goes on and on putting the warrior at the bottom of the food chain in pvp situations.

I propose the Warrior’s get what they should have had to begin with. If warriors are to be a balanced class and to be the masters of weaponry. (Don’t buff there utilitys or elite skills or even change anything) Simply add a “Weapon harness” to the Warriors F2.

Example:

F2 [Weapon Harness 15 (or 20 second Cooldown)] The Warrior swaps to another 2 sets of Weapon’s.

Functionality: The Weapon Harness functions exactly the same way as swapping weapons. Accept when you use the Weapon Harness profession skill you are simply swapping to two new weapon set combinations. You can not switch back to your other weapon set combination until the 15-20 Second cool-down. Using “Weapon Harness” also places a 5 second Cool-down on “weapon swap”. This ability can be utilized while “in” or “out” of combat.

This feature will allow the warrior to change his weapons according to the class who is attacking him. Henceforth allowing him to fight on equal grounds with whatever class dares to challenge the warrior. In turn this will give the warrior more balance and diversity in Pvp.

I always fantasized about three weapons for the warrior, but you have to realize it would be so ridiculously OP (Not to even mention 4 weapons), EVEN on a high CD.

First off, on a high CD (to have it balanced) you essentially get “stuck” with those other weapons for the duration of the CD, meaning you can’t REALLY adapt as much to the situation because of the higher cool down. What if another player just joined the fight? Or the staff necro you just engaged is surprisingly a power necro not a condition necro?

Also, it would allow for crazy set ups. (Leg specialist, sword autoattack → f1 → swap to mace (15s cd back to sword, 5s to GS) stunlock with mace 3 & 5 (or shield 4), mace F1 → swap to GS → 100b

or axe with eviscerate etc etc. (or hammer for more cc, or LB for more immobilize)

The thing is, most (if not all) of the warriors weapons are balanced to work around and with ONE more weapon, therefore allowing the warrior to have another weapon handy (or TWO) would be game breaking, IMO. It’s like giving eles 5s attunement swaps, or allowing thieves to use their skills without spending initiative.

(I do think there is a lot to do with warrior class specific skills, (imho there should be another one, and give adrenaline more value) but giving us another weapon is not the way to go.)

I suppose. I just figure with the right tweaks it could be beneficial. I mean I see how your talking about utilizing multiple different skills in coherence. However as I said a 15 second Cooldown to use the Weapon Harness also will put a 5 second CD on your Weapon Swap. So using weapon Harness also acts as weapon swapping (do to the weapon swap going on CD). Accept the difference is every 15 seconds you can change your build to attune to other classes.
I suppose the only way to know for sure is to put the mechanic to the test and do tweaks.

I mean… I’m getting tired of finding my weapon’s in my bags and clicking on them to change builds. And as warrior being the class that can use the most weapons and benefits mostly from weapon ability’s. Lets just say I’am constantly switching up my weapons. Especially in WvW situations. All these Darn weapons in my bag’s instead of equiped and ready to be used at the pound of a button.