Okey, i really like how my mesmer kind of took the power of the greatsword to channel it’s inner magic or whatever and would really like to see this applied for another weapon.
Imagine if we wielded hammers kind of like a rifle. A tiny bit inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YuyBZ_zMU but just ignore the melee part. This is just a concept, i have no idea for what kind of attacks a hammer would have.
I also however really think we need another main handed long range weapon so the gun is also on my wish list.
However if i would design a new weapon from ground up it would definitely be a familiar. I think i saw it in another thread. It would be like when we equip a staff we don’t shoot from the staff, the bolt comes from our hands. It would kind of be like that, just that we shoot 2 shots, one from the familiar that’s like flying around being all cute and one from the hand. Again a tiny bit inspired by LoL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Gs1D2rUIM
Another idea i also saw in another thread was the concept of a deck of cards. I immediately thought of Lady Luck from FFX-2 but watched a couple of videos and kinda can see a dagger doing that type of thing. Like standing from afar summoning dagger illusions. Kinda like GS2 but without the illusion-summon as a auto-attack. And just look at the way Paine is charging up her skills, but like imagine it with illusions of daggers, could be a copy of Elementalist Scepter Earth 2 or something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBr1seyJwE
Maybe a D/D combo could be all concentrated on the gambling concept. D1 Throw an illusionary dagger (+something, i like the split idea). D2.1 Summon a clone at the target location. D2.2 change position with random illusion. D3 copy of Thief D/P3. D4 Summon a random Phantasm (But with some extra effect like 1.5X as effective or something). D5.1 copy of EleEarthS2, first bring up an illusion of daggers swirling around you (and your illusions just so you don’t get spotted too easily as well as giving an extra mechanic to the game) giving you some kind of defensive (stability?) and/or offensive (aoe dmg?) bonus, this effect can’t be too good tho since it affects your illusions as well. D5.2 You and your illusions with the effect on throws the illusionary daggers at your target damaging everything in it’s way, ofc D5.2 would look like this http://youtu.be/VZH-1NA8fKc?t=3m20s all your illusions simultaneously doing it.
So, D1 Just a plain auto-attack, maybe with some added feature such as the split thing. D2.1 Being able to chose where to put our clones wherever we would like to is something new and interesting and D2.2 could work as a blink or with the randomness of it just kitten you up, i can see strategies of shatter, D2.1 then D2.2 being used as an extra blink and i have no problem with a little extra mobility for the Mesmer. D3 is just for some extra mobility for when the enemy gets too close. D4 is just to add to the gambling aspect and concept of it all, since we already have the phantasmal rogue i see no need to add another one, however, since there is a risk with just having a random phantasm show up i would like to add some sort of bonus to it. D5.1 is just plainly because it will look cool, and in combination with D2 and the ability to sort of have better control over your clones i can see D5.2 being a killer combo before shattering.
Haha, once i started the ideas just came flying. The only skill i’m a bit unsure of is D3, maybe add some sort of Dice-bomb? Like in the engineer bomb kit that you either have one large or press D3 mid-air to create 3 smaller ones. Could kind of connect to D1 with the split thing. I don’t know, these are just ideas.
