What weapon(s) would like to see added to the Mesmer next elite(s) ?

[agrippastrilemma.8741]

2 hours ago, Flow.2947 said:

There is no mention of focus MH yet and it is also not considered in the poll.
Blinds + blasts + daze all aoe 900 range.

 

I would like it simply because you would be able to use the Fan skin in both hands but it will not happen

Edited November 12, 2022 by agrippastrilemma.8741

[Oberon.2035]

Hammer. I'm done shattering illusions, I want to shatter my enemies. It would also be cool to have a full heal spec for once, maybe with warhorn

[phokus.8934]

On 11/12/2022 at 7:39 AM, Flow.2947 said:

There is no mention of focus MH yet and it is also not considered in the poll.
Blinds + blasts + daze all aoe 900 range.

 

Because off-hand weapons aren't main-hands.

[Mik.3401]

Anyone voting hammer has absolutely no idea of the Mesmer lore

[draxynnic.3719]

1 hour ago, Mik.3401 said:

Anyone voting hammer has absolutely no idea of the Mesmer lore

Mesmers can take the 'brute force the enemy with magic' angle. It's obviously not what they're known for, but there's no reason there can't be an elite specialisation that focuses on this.

[Val.7826]

At start I thought a bow would fit in an interesting way, but in my imagination that would be too similar to Renegade.

Now I have 2 preferences, one is MH Pistol, that I feel it could be possibly redundant with Virtuoso mechanics, but OH Pistol feels kinda out of place on mesmer by now, I mean, it's cool, but, dunno, i think she deserves a mate.

My second option is the Hammer, because I think Mesmer needs more melee options. Sword is cool yeah, and Mirage's Axe too, but a 2H weapon could fill more this sense of lack of melee options.

[Mik.3401]

On 11/19/2022 at 11:44 AM, draxynnic.3719 said:

Mesmers can take the 'brute force the enemy with magic' angle. It's obviously not what they're known for, but there's no reason there can't be an elite specialisation that focuses on this.

I just cannot picture noble rich pricks gathering in a high entry club wanting to run around with two handed hammer. It’s like filthy.

[Eekasqueak.7850]

1 hour ago, Mik.3401 said:

I just cannot picture noble rich pricks gathering in a high entry club wanting to run around with two handed hammer. It’s like filthy.

I can totally see it and actually know a game that had its noble character use a hammer as his main weapon. 

[draxynnic.3719]

1 hour ago, Mik.3401 said:

I just cannot picture noble rich pricks gathering in a high entry club wanting to run around with two handed hammer. It’s like filthy.

Polo? Croquet? And in the late medieval period, hammer-headed polearms were typically aristocratic weapons. GW2 does take the typical fantasy game approach of making hammer heads unrealistically oversized, but the hammer from the Gallant set is reasonably close to a bec de corbin.

And that's without raising the fact that while, yes, mesmer magic is popular among human nobility, you don't need to be aristocratic to be a mesmer.

[Varis.5467]

On 11/19/2022 at 11:02 PM, Val.7826 said:

At start I thought a bow would fit in an interesting way, but in my imagination that would be too similar to Renegade.

Now I have 2 preferences, one is MH Pistol, that I feel it could be possibly redundant with Virtuoso mechanics, but OH Pistol feels kinda out of place on mesmer by now, I mean, it's cool, but, dunno, i think she deserves a mate.

My second option is the Hammer, because I think Mesmer needs more melee options. Sword is cool yeah, and Mirage's Axe too, but a 2H weapon could fill more this sense of lack of melee options.

The pistol as a non-projectile range weapon could be nice. Firing the gun and inflicting wunds across space seems fitting for the mesmer. It better offer some survivability however; dagger main hand is virtually useless outside of pve because of it. 

[Val.7826]

15 hours ago, Mik.3401 said:

I just cannot picture noble rich pricks gathering in a high entry club wanting to run around with two handed hammer. It’s like filthy.

 According to Wikia: "Mesmers are masters of deception and misdirection."

So just imagine an estimable noble rich guy with an eloquent gab approaching you, he is so kind and magnetic, you low your guard and suddenly he PULLS OUT A GIANT HAMMER AND PULVERIZE YOUR KNEES.

Deception and misdirection

Edited November 21, 2022 by Val.7826

[draxynnic.3719]

17 minutes ago, Val.7826 said:

 According to Wikia: "Mesmers are masters of deception and misdirection."

So just imagine an estimable noble rich guy with an eloquent gab approaching you, he is so kind and magnetic, you low your guard and suddenly he PULLS OUT A GIANT HAMMER AND PULVERIZE YOUR KNEES.

Deception and misdirection

What's more, the hammer just isn't shown when stowed. Instead, there's a special animation where the weapon pops in and out of existence when drawn, stowed, swapped to, and swapped from. Some of the attacks might even involve desummoning the hammer, and then resummoning it to attack again from an unexpected angle that would otherwise be impossible to strike from so quickly after the previous strike.

[Val.7826]

2 hours ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

What's more, the hammer just isn't shown when stowed. Instead, there's a special animation where the weapon pops in and out of existence when drawn, stowed, swapped to, and swapped from. Some of the attacks might even involve desummoning the hammer, and then resummoning it to attack again from an unexpected angle that would otherwise be impossible to strike from so quickly after the previous strike.

Aaaaaah that would be awsome 🤤

[Mik.3401]

16 hours ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

Polo? Croquet? And in the late medieval period, hammer-headed polearms were typically aristocratic weapons. GW2 does take the typical fantasy game approach of making hammer heads unrealistically oversized, but the hammer from the Gallant set is reasonably close to a bec de corbin.

And that's without raising the fact that while, yes, mesmer magic is popular among human nobility, you don't need to be aristocratic to be a mesmer.

If that was done the way you mentioned then maybe, but as you said GW2 went for more cartoonish hammers. They already look strange on eles ngl. Well - we’ll see

[iNaddict.8021]

pistol Mh lets goo 🙂

[Kulvar.1239]

On 11/21/2022 at 3:39 PM, draxynnic.3719 said:

What's more, the hammer just isn't shown when stowed. Instead, there's a special animation where the weapon pops in and out of existence when drawn, stowed, swapped to, and swapped from. Some of the attacks might even involve desummoning the hammer, and then resummoning it to attack again from an unexpected angle that would otherwise be impossible to strike from so quickly after the previous strike.

Reading you, I imagine a pink version of Revenant big hammer summon (the 5th skill) and the whirl of hammers from Jalis.

[draxynnic.3719]

6 hours ago, Kulvar.1239 said:

Reading you, I imagine a pink version of Revenant big hammer summon (the 5th skill) and the whirl of hammers from Jalis.

Well, to be fair, rev hammer could almost be a mesmer weapon. Just replace the leap in skill 3 by sending out a phantasm to do a hammer smash on the target location!

...I was thinking of something a little more melee-oriented, though.😛

[Kulvar.1239]

14 minutes ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

Well, to be fair, rev hammer could almost be a mesmer weapon. Just replace the leap in skill 3 by sending out a phantasm to do a hammer smash on the target location!

...I was thinking of something a little more melee-oriented, though.😛

Mesmer lack melee so I agree with you. Could still have some mid range skills though, but not for the #1 AA chain.