Can we get some more melee looking Staves?

[Sifu.9745]

99% of staves in this game looks like wizard's staves. There are only 2 or 3 exceptions. That's kind of weird, because we have two professions that use staff as a melee weapon: Revenant and Daredevil. Can we get more staff skins that looks like a melee staff (something like Daredevil's base staff skin) or at least looks more like a spear?

[Donari.5237]

Seconded! My daredevil is plenty happy with his metal clad bo stick but variations would be nice. They can be fancy, have interesting end pieces, they just need to be symmetric (ie both ends the same or maybe a bashing end and a slashing end) and have end pieces that look like something you'd use to bash or cut without worrying about breaking your pretty arcane focus.

[Infusion.7149]

You might want to use https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_staves to see if anything fits your liking.

Currently using Dominator staff on my revenant , but I considered using Shiny Staff and Bo Staff as well. There's a few which don't have the symmetry you seek which appear more as though they were fit for polearms or scythes.

[Fueki.4753]

There Are plenty of Staves that look decent for hitting people.Adamant Guard Staffthe Charr Legion StavesBoCandy Cane StaffDaredeveil's StaffDarkspear

And that's just a few, but there definitely are more than three staves that look fine for hitting people.There even are Staves that look like Spears, in case Warrior gets a two-handed landspear elite specialization with with End of Dragons.

[Doggie.3184]

Dreamwalker Scythe is my current favorite so I can be MTSC Thief but I wish when they'd make melee staves like such they'd at least rotate it on Thief/Revenant with certain animations so you actually swing the bladed part properly instead of sideways like the Thief 1 does.

[Sylvyn.4750]

This one is kinda cool, a polearm with a long blade on one end and spike on the other, but yeah, there are only a few that look like a polearm compared to all the other wizardly ones: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Lightward%27s_Battlestaff.jpg

[Yung Reezy.8479]

Seconded !!

[The Greyhawk.9107]

There are a lot more melee skinned staves than you think, OP. Somewhere between ten and fifteen different skins. That said I myself am not against adding a few more good ones.

[Game of Bones.8975]

My favorite staff for smacking people around is Lightward's Battlestaff.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Berserker%27s_Lightward%27s_Battlestaff

[The Greyhawk.9107]

@"Game of Bones.8975" said:My favorite staff for smacking people around is Lightward's Battlestaff.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Berserker%27s_Lightward%27s_Battlestaff

Took me years to get that one....

[Redfeather.6401]

I use the Dominator Skin on my daredevil and Revenant.

[Yggranya.5201]

I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

[Justine.6351]

@"Game of Bones.8975" said:My favorite staff for smacking people around is Lightward's Battlestaff.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Berserker%27s_Lightward%27s_Battlestaff

My favorite on rev.Before I acquired that skin I loved the guild pillar too. Very brutal looking weapon with that chain on it.The dominator staff from bl keys is aggressive looking too.

[The Greyhawk.9107]

@Yggranya.5201 said:I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

Pole-arms tend to be asymmetrical.

[Antycypator.9874]

Nobody mentioned Forged Staff — great for fire-themed character (it also has a Fire effect). Still one of my favorite staffs skins.

[Astralporing.1957]

@Antycypator.9874 said:Nobody mentioned Forged Staff — great for fire-themed character (it also has a Fire effect). Still one of my favorite staffs skins.My DD is using that one, and it indeed looks great - not only as a skin, but with DD animations as well.

A staff skin does not need to be symmetrical to be good for melee.

[Game of Bones.8975]

Every once in a while I would forget and be swatting monsters with the bushy end of Nevermore. You have never seen ravens so angry in your life.

[Yggranya.5201]

@The Greyhawk.9107 said:

@Yggranya.5201 said:I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

Pole-arms tend to be asymmetrical.

Yeah. Obviously a staff isn't the same as a spear or halberd.

[The Greyhawk.9107]

@Yggranya.5201 said:

@The Greyhawk.9107 said:

@Yggranya.5201 said:I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

Pole-arms tend to be asymmetrical.

Yeah. Obviously a staff isn't the same as a spear or halberd.

But a melee style staff effectively is.

[Astralporing.1957]

@Yggranya.5201 said:

@The Greyhawk.9107 said:

@Yggranya.5201 said:I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

Pole-arms tend to be asymmetrical.

Yeah. Obviously a staff isn't the same as a spear or halberd.DD animations work equally fine with both.

[Yggranya.5201]

@Astralporing.1957 said:

@Yggranya.5201 said:

@The Greyhawk.9107 said:

@Yggranya.5201 said:I don't even care much what they look like as long as they are symmetrical. Why most designers of weapons/armors for games love asymmetry so much is beyond me.

Pole-arms tend to be asymmetrical.

Yeah. Obviously a staff isn't the same as a spear or halberd.DD animations work equally fine with both.

It's actually pretty dumb to swing them like they were symmetrical considering the random, bloated tip on one end and nothing/a smaller version on the other. Works? Yeah, works in the sense that you can kill a massive dragon as an Asura by stabbing it really hard multiple times.

[Gombie.3860]

More polearms would be nice. My favourite weapon for my thief is the lightward battlestaff. Makes you feel like something out of a Kung Fu movie. Love to see more Asian style polearms/spears.

[munz.6513]

Finally found this topic, just created thief trying out Daredevil, as soon as i get Daredevil master all point, i found out the way they holding stick, kind like kids holding a broom stick, using 2 hand, 1st time playing staff class, it would be more cool if Anet re-animation so call ? holding stick while running or standing just using 1 hard holding 🙂