Guild Wars 2

Not…exactly. Pistols and Blunderbusses are more of situational/support weapons for the WH, since they’re harder to use, take a lot of aiming and forethought to deploy, and are extremely noisy, to which may screw up a more silent operation. Witch Hunters are cunning, but their range is maleable.

Main hand sword would be way better, for a sword is a trusty weapon to cut zombies, vampires, werewolves and such, alike. A WH skills would be more based on going in for a kill after wearing down his opponent, with traps, and maybe a offhand pistol with a relatively spammable attack on it’s #4. But a mainhand pistol makes the WH a weak CQC fighter, which he CANNOT be under any circumstances, since most of his enemies will meet him in such grounds and are not enemies to be stopped just with peashots.

Old but bumping.

Hum…i would be against mainhand pistol, instead, i would rework axe for better range option. Pistol would be a great offhand, together with torch for a Witch Hunter concept, warhammer style.

Most “Witch” hunters are actually supernatural hunters, they’re normally dedicated to hunt most of the “dark” creatures, like witches, werewolves, vampires and such. As such, they keep an array of equipment for every situation. A pistol would be a great offhand to trust when in a pinch, and the best mainhand for such spec would be the trusty and always good, Sword.