New type of weapon

[Brodix.5214]

mabye is stupid question, but i need to know, why in Guild Wars 2 we dont have Greataxe? we have : sword - greatsword , staff - scepter , pistol - rifle and why spear is only underwater?

[Gibson.4036]

Which professions would you see using great axe? And what function would it serve that the other weapons don’t?

[Brodix.5214]

I dont think about it, to by honest iam not game creator or something just asking, for me is cool to use greataxe. If you asking about function for great axe, dps ? or on thief heal ? for example i was very suprise when i start playing GW2 greatsword on mesmer is range weapon.

[Gibson.4036]

11 minutes ago, Brodix.5214 said:

I dont think about it, to by honest iam not game creator or something just asking, for me is cool to use greataxe. If you asking about function for great axe, dps ? or on thief heal ? 

Yeah, greataxe would be nice purely for cosmetic fantasy.

The way GW2 is designed, though, with our first five skills tied to weapons, they’re tied into game design. So a new weapon type also needs a niche to fill.

In addition, so far ArenaNet adds new weapons to professions by designing a new elite spec for that profession. If they stick with that, not only would great axe need a niche, there’d need to be a whole new version of thief, say, that uses it.

You’ll find posts in the profession forums where people lay out thoughts on new specs, and one of the first things they do is identify the new weapon it will provide.

Thief just got scepter as their heal-ish weapon for Specter. Though it’s got a single target, barrier focus. So maybe a more AoE heal spec with great axe? 
 

A slow, high damage, bruiser thief spec might fit great axe better, but it’s hard for me to see that as thief.

20 minutes ago, Brodix.5214 said:

for example i was very suprise when i start playing GW2 greatsword on mesmer is range weapon.

Yeah, I think that was ANet having fun designing against expectation.

[Brodix.5214]

For me more Weapon, more builds is just more fun because of more way to play like you like. For example power vitruosso have Two builds, why other specs don't have it? I love GS, on virtuosso is my favorite builds. 

[Mungrul.9358]

Unfortunately, due to the way the game's designed, making a new weapon at this point in its life would take an enormous amount of work.

You'd need to decide the professions it would work for as a baseline, whether an elite spec unlocks it, what traits should affect it, what animations it would have (and most weapons, while not necessarily having unique animations per profession, certainly have animations unique to themselves), and 5 skills per profession you give it to, as well as the various burst skills it would need to be given on Warrior.

 

Interestingly, in the case of great axes in particular, there is at least one skin for Hammer that makes it look like a great axe.

So that's your best option really 😄

[Brodix.5214]

How sad. i hope steam lanuch  goona help to open doors to improvement game in various aspects for example, new types of weapons 🙂

[kharmin.7683]

Not sure why anyone would have such an expectation just because the game was made available on Steam.

[Brodix.5214]

i just want to by optimistic.

[Ashen.2907]

1 hour ago, kharmin.7683 said:

Not sure why anyone would have such an expectation just because the game was made available on Steam.

There is a difference between an expectation and a hope.

[Ashen.2907]

I would love to see polearms added, even if they primarily used current spear and trident skins.

[Randulf.7614]

I would also love to see underwater weapons utilised as land weapons.

To answer the op though, weapons aren’t always used as traditionally expected. They’re often used to channel skills and magic rather than just straight fighting. Given we have a large range of melee options to cover traditional swinging attacks or as chandlers, I’m not sure how greataxe would improve on it.

Im not against new weapons, but they need to achieve something that the existing options could not be adapted to do. We’ve already seen the staff act as a traditional wizard tool and as a fighting stave. I’m not sure a greataxe could fulfil a purpose a great sword or one handed axe could not. I think it’s more likely to see greataxe skins for the greatsword in the same way scythes became skins for the staff.

[Diak Atoli.2085]

18 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said:

I would also love to see underwater weapons utilised as land weapons.

To answer the op though, weapons aren’t always used as traditionally expected. They’re often used to channel skills and magic rather than just straight fighting. Given we have a large range of melee options to cover traditional swinging attacks or as chandlers, I’m not sure how greataxe would improve on it.

Im not against new weapons, but they need to achieve something that the existing options could not be adapted to do. We’ve already seen the staff act as a traditional wizard tool and as a fighting stave. I’m not sure a greataxe could fulfil a purpose a great sword or one handed axe could not. I think it’s more likely to see greataxe skins for the greatsword in the same way scythes became skins for the staff.

Bouncing off your last point, doesn't the Exordium legendary greatsword turn into a greataxe for some animations?

[Randulf.7614]

31 minutes ago, Diak Atoli.2085 said:

Bouncing off your last point, doesn't the Exordium legendary greatsword turn into a greataxe for some animations?

Not a clue. Cool if it does

[PinkTacoLover.7603]

We need a whip >.</~~~ಥ_ಥ

[Mungrul.9358]

1 hour ago, Diak Atoli.2085 said:

Bouncing off your last point, doesn't the Exordium legendary greatsword turn into a greataxe for some animations?

Ranger's closer, Swoop, does. It's a little fast to catch, but it looks like a great axe:

 

[Freya.9075]

6 minutes ago, PinkTacoLover.7603 said:

We need a whip >.</~~~ಥ_ಥ

We have a few options for it. 
 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Merciless_Focus_Skin

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chain-Whip_Sword_Skin

 

maybe some more too, but these are the ones I remember 

[Doggie.3184]

My dream is still for all land weapons to also be useable in water the same way with just their animations tweaked, and all underwater weapons to be useable on land. If I can kill Super Mutants in Fallout with a Harpoon Gun on land then it's not too outlandish for a magical fantasy world. And a lot of spears are too awesome looking to be water only.

Edited August 31, 2022 by Doggie.3184

[Xanadrine.4352]

I think i would rather swing a greataxe than a hammer. greataxe would be a lot of cleave damage and a bit faster, i can see a warrior using it even a guardian and rev, ele, and to me a greataxe would be great on an untamed, better thematically than a hammer.

[sokeenoppa.5384]

New weapons would be a welcome addition tbh. I would say 3 new weapons, that way you could split the new weapons in a way that every class gets a new weapon but not same weapon for every class.

 

I do understand that the amount of skins anet has to make for new weapons is huge tho, thats alot of work.

[PzTnT.7198]

I could see them adding a couple of new weapons with some expansion and make them exclusive to whatever elite specs are added with that expansion. That would after all be a similar amount of work as designing an existing weapon with all new skills etc.